Add a Splash to Your Photos Using Photoshop

Learn how to create a fast and fun splash effect to your favorite photos in just 35 minutes. In this quick lesson, you'll learn how to extract objects, color match and blend effects, and other special finishing effects for adding realistic splash effects to your images.

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Corey Barker

Release Date: 2015-10-19

Lessons

Introduction

Corey welcomes viewers to the course and talks about what he will be teaching.

Duration: 0 mins 46 seconds

Extracting Main Subject

First we must extract the main subject from its original background. Here we will use a combination of channels and Refine Edge.

Duration: 10 mins 8 seconds

Extracting Splash Elements

Here we will use similar channel extraction methods to pull the splash design elements from their backgrounds.

Duration: 4 mins 1 seconds

Matching Color

Learn a nifty little trick to match the color of the splash elements to a small part of the main subject.

Duration: 4 mins 34 seconds

Adding Splash Elements 1

Now we will start to combine and blend the splash elements to the subject in a new document.

Duration: 8 mins 6 seconds

Adding Splash Elements 2

Here we will continue to add other splash elements and other blending effects.

Duration: 4 mins 7 seconds

Extract Arm and Finish Up!

Now we will finish it up by pulling the arm forward above the splash and then adding some subtle shadow effects.

Duration: 6 mins 10 seconds