Filed under Photoshop Tutorials - Head Nerd @ November 20th, 2005
| Creating a ghost face |
| Open a photo at your choice. I will open the photo of the girl I used in a previous tutorial. |
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| Hit CTRL+SHIFT+U to desaturate the image or go to Image> Adjustments>Desaturate. |
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| Now, hit Ctrl+L (Mac: Command+L) to adjust the levels; I used as input levels 116/0.10/194 as in the example. |
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| Now use the paintbrush tool to cover the neck and the hair that can be still visible. Here is my result: |
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| Now duplicate the layer, add a Blur>Gaussian blur of 3-4 (depends on the image resolution). Now put your duplicate layer on Hard Mix mode. Here it is: |
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