Blog #2: Advanced Tutorial Zombification

For this blog, I decided to do an advanced level tutorital. I was a little nervous at first, but it proved to be a lot of fun. I used the Zombification tutorial (http://effects.worth1000.com/tutorials/163328/zombification) on NBA player Blake Griffin.

I started by selecting his skin, and changing the brightness/contrast and hue (green) to make it grimmer looking. I then added a gradient overlay to add the grainy effect to the skin. I then selected the eyes, feathered them for fading, then changed the hue to red.

Continuing with the eyes, I used a blood spot over one eye (multiply), and faded it in. I then used the brush tool to make one eye white. Pretty scary so far! I then overlaid two different mouths from halloween masks and faded them in with multiply.

No zombie is complete without missing limbs! I took off Blake's arm, and then overlaid a cut off arm and faded it in with multiply and the smuge tool.

For the final touches, I added a slice across his neck (smuge tool to fade), and a cut on his head (multiply and lasso tools). All my final touches were not in the tutorial, but I used what I had learned to apply them to the image.

Overall, I felt this was difficult, and tested my photoshop abilities and knowledge. I feel I created a very cool image that goes from happy basketball player to scary, killer zombie.

Thanks,

Marc