How to Do Twilight Effects on Photoshop

Although an unknown number of hours may have gone into the creative design and planning for the effects in the “Twilight” saga movies, posters and accompanying materials, you can spend far less time doing them yourself with Adobe Photoshop. In the Photoshop image editing software, you can render regular photos into the stuff of blood and vampires, taking a cue from your favorite characters and parts of the stories. Photoshop’s wide range of tools, colors and palettes really give you something to sink your designing teeth into.

Instructions

1. Edward Face

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     Turn a friend or family member into an undead, bloodless vampire by opening Photoshop, clicking the “File” menu and selecting “Open.” Browse to the picture of someone’s face to use and double-click the image.
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     Click the “Lasso” tool on the Tools pane. Draw an outline around just the face or, additionally, exposed neck and shoulders. Blinking dotted lines surround the selection.
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     Click the “Image” menu. Select “Adjustments.” Click “Color Balance” from the fly-out menu. Slide the “Yellow” bar all the way over to the “Blue” side. Slide the “Cyan” bar all the way over to the “Cyan” side away from the “Red” side. Uncheck the “Preserve Luminosity” box. Click “OK” for a dull-skinned, pale creature.

   Twilight Apple

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     Add the familiar hand-held apple symbolizing the “Twilight” series to one of your Photoshop images by opening Photoshop, clicking the “File” menu and selecting “Open.” Browse to the picture of an apple and double-click the image.
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     Click the “Lasso” tool on the Tools pane. Draw an outline around the apple. Right-click inside the blinking lines and select “Layer via Cut.”
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     Right-click the Background layer on the Layers palette on the right side of the screen. Select “Delete Layer.” Click “Yes.” The background disappears and you’re left with just a cutout of the apple. You can now use this to copy and paste into a black background, as an avatar or to add to another image.

   Vampire Blood Streaks

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     Give any image a bloody makeover by opening Photoshop, clicking the “File” menu and selecting “Open.” Browse to the picture a person or object to add streaks of blood to and double-click the image.
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     Double-click the “Color Picker” at the bottom of the Tools pane. Choose a vibrant “fresh” blood red or a darker, thicker red color and click “OK.”
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     Click the paintbrush icon on the Tools pane. Click the second drop-down arrow on the toolbar at the top of the screen. Select the fuzzy dot brush head on the top line. Slide the “Size” bar to “2.” Hover the cursor over the image. Adjust the “Size” slider if the paintbrush tip is too small or large, which will depend on your original image size. Click and drag the cursor to add droplets, streaks or big splashes of blood to the picture.