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Step
1 – Prepare
the background
The
idea for this tutorial came from a forum. Somebody was asking about
chocolate effect. I haven’t found many tutorials while
searching the internet so I have decided to write one myself. If you
have another method to obtain chocolate or ideas to improve my
tutorial please leave me a message. Ok , let’s start!
Open
a new psd file 500/500 pixels. Go to Flickr
and download
this photo
.
Step
2 – Turn
the photo into a black and white
Because
I want to transform this girl into a chocolate figurine I need to
transform the photo into a black and white image. So go to Image –
Adjustments – Desaturate or simply use SHIFT+CTRL+U. Call this
layer Desaturate
Layer
and hide the initial layer.
Now
we have this image
Step
3 – Remove
the left part of the image
Because
I want to use only the face of the girl I will draw with Pen Tool a
shape . Call this layer Hair
Layer.
Set the color of the shape to #a0a0a0. Now press CTRL and click the
Thumbnail of the Hair Layer and than go to Desaturate layer and press
delete.
Step
3 – Hide
Some Face Features
Now
it is time to work with Desaturate Layer and hide or change some
features of the face. Go to the View – Zoom in the image .
With
the Dodge Tool lighten the dark areas of the mouth, eyes. The idea is
to make the lips, eyes, ears, eyebrows the same color as the skin.
Start
with the mouth and easily dodge the lips area. Than with the Blur
Tool cover the same mouth area, opacity 15 %.
Now
we have to reshape the mouth with Dodge Tool.
Use
Spot Healing Brush Tool to hide the deep part of the nose.
Use
the Dodge Tool to lighten the eye area like in the image.
Use
the Clone Stamp Tool to hide the eyebrow and the eyelashes.
Step
4 – Let’s
add some color
Gray
is not quait the chocolate color so let’s fix that aspect.
Create
a new rectangle with the Rectangle Tool, color #482808. Call this
layer Chocolate
Face.
This layer is placed above Desaturated Layer and below Hair Layer.
Change the Blending Mode of this layer from Normal to Linear
Light 100% opacity. Your
image should now look like this:
As
a tip you can adjust the Desaturated Layer with Dodge Tool after
you’ve added this Chocolate Face layer…that way you can
see the effect better.
Step
5 – Color the Hair of the Figurine
I
will now change the color of the Hair Layer. So go to Blending
Options of the Hair Layer and do the following settings:
Inner
Glow :
color # 3c0c00
– be careful to choose the exact color because it was so hard
for me to choose the right color for this chocolate effect.
Color
Overlay: color
# 8d4d09
Your
image should now look like this:
Step
6 – Detail the Hair of the Figurine
I
will now use the Pen Tool to create a shape like in the image below.
Choose the color for this shape to # 965611 . Go to the Blending
Options of this layer and select Inner Glow(choose the color of the
glow # 4a1b04)
with the settings shown below.
Now
duplicate this layer four times and adjust the shape of each of them
to fit the image like in the image shown before. Use for that the
Convert Point Tool and the Move Tool.
Step
7 – Work with the Hair Shapes
I
will now select all the above shapes and choose merge layers. Call
this new layer Hair
Shapes. Now
with the Rectangular Marquee Tool select the part of the shapes that
exceed the image. Press SHIFT to make multiple selections than delete
the selected part:
Step
8 – Add extra color effect to the hair
The
hard part with this tutorial is the color part…the fact that
we’ve use a desaturated image and a vector shape with no
gradient what so ever make this color difference betwwen the two
parts. I will try to fix that. So create a new layer and press CTRL
and click the Thumbnail of the Hair Layer. You will see that a
selection of this layer was made. Now simply take the Paint Bucket
Tool and in the new layer fill the selection with color #
171717.
Go to Filter – Render – Fibers and make the following
settings; make sure that the background color is #
242323
and the foreground color is # 171717.
Set
the Blending Mode of this layer to Soft Light 100%.
Step
9 – Add Chocolate Effect
You
can leave the chocolate as it is or you can add another effect that
will give depth and light to our figurine. For that I have used one
of photoshop effects - Plastic Wrap.
For
that I have create a new layer. Call this layer Chocolate Image. Now
Go to Image – Apply Image.
The
result is a new image that contains all the visible layers in one
image. It is like a printscreen of the image or like a jpg image of
your file.
Ok,
now go to Filter – Artistic -Plastic Wrap and make the
following settings:
You
can of course at any time change the settings if you find a better
way to make this chocolate effect.
The
result should look like that:
If
you want a darker color it is enough to duplicate this layer and
change the blending mode of this new layer from Normal to Multiply
70%. I did just that and look the result:
Step
10 – Add Further Details
As
you can see in the image below I have added two shapes to the initial
image with the Pen Tool. Choose the color for this shapes #6a3523.
For the vertical shape I have added an extra effect Gradient Overlay
with the settings presented below:
Step
11 – Create Broken Chocolate Effect
The
image looks to flat for me so I wanted to create a chocolate with
broken edges.
I
will use the Pen Tool to create 4 shapes like in the image below. I
have used this colors, red and green to see the shapes better; I will
change the colors in the next step. The red shapes are above green
shapes. I will first create the green shapes and than create the red
shapes above the green shapes. In the images below you can find also
the names of the each layer for this shapes.
Step
12 – Refine the Broken Edges
Now
it is time to change the colors of the shapes from the step 11. The
idea is to make the red shapes WHITE and the green shapes become
#562814. It is important to have the white layers above and the other
2 layers (green) below. Select the Top Chocolate Layer and the Bottom
Chocolate Layer and merge them. Use the Burn Tool with the settings
below to give shape to the broken edges.
Step
13 – Add Your Name Engraved on the Chocolate
Ok
this is the last step of this nice tutorial. Simple choose the Pen
Tool and be careful to have Paths option selected.
Draw
a simple shape with Pen Tool like in the picture below. With the
Horizontal Type Tool write your text by clicking the path shape. Now
you must write the text with black color. Duplicate this text layer
and change the color to white. Move this white text layer 1px down
and 1px right. Change the Blending mode of white layer to Soft Light.
Now the last thing you have to do is to change the opacity of black
text from 100% to 60%. You can see a more detailed tutorial
about engraving effect in this tutorial
I
really hope you have enjoyed this chocolate...This is the final
result! Please leave a comment and maybe share this tutorial!
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