Turn a Statue into Gold in Photoshop CC
In this tutorial I will show you how to take an image of a stone statue and turn it into gold. This is done mostly with the Photoshop mixer brush tool. The picture I worked with in the tutorial was a gray-scale image of a Chinese stone warrior, however, this method should work well for most plain stone statues.
I start out the tutorial with a 1 minute summary "fly-by" so you can quickly determine what the tutorial is about and how the effect is applied.
This video was made for instructional and educational purposes. In it I teach people how to use Adobe Photoshop to make interesting designs. No copyrighted materials were used in this video.
Image attribution:
Warrior by leonardobc
http://www.freeimages.com/photo/1129578
Chinese Landscape Vera & Jean-Christophe
https://www.flickr.com/photos/magical...
Music attribution:
"Chanter" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
**Summary**
Here is a quick 1 minute summary of the process to let you know what is involved
Start with Original Image
Crop it out of the background
Make a temporary green background
Add a color overlay layer style
Add a satin layer style
Apply the Unsharp Mask Filter
Paint the headdress with mixer brush
Paint the head and neck
Paint the left arm
Paint right arm and rest of torso
Paint area below the waist
Fixed bleed through areas
Overall touch-ups with airbrush
Levels adjustments
Removed background and cleaned up layer panel
Added background and
Blurred warrior edges to blend in better with background
This is the final image If you are interested in a detailed tutorial on how to make it, continue watching