This tutorial volition chop-chop verbalise over close the workflow of turning photograph into anime vogue background using Photoshop.
Original Photo
This is the master copy photograph I took amongst my photographic telly camera phone, Nokia808.
Scene Layers
Before painting, it is ever meliorate to seperate objects inward the scene into dissimilar layers. Doing this volition brand the icon procedure easier. Layers are also of import for parallax animation. Apply the layer mask when everything are final.
Notice how nosotros also completely take the heaven every bit nosotros going to pigment them later.
Sky Colour
After separating all objects into layers together with removing unwanted elements, add together inward the heaven colour. Sky color volition country us the fourth dimension of the day, together with laid the overall ambient color together with mood. Use a soft circular border or slope tool to pigment the sky.
Color Grading
After setting the colours of sky, nosotros tin adapt the photograph to tally the heaven color. Animation unremarkably convey to a greater extent than saturated colors. For instance shadow are to a greater extent than blue, Sun are to a greater extent than reddish together with yellow. But since my photograph are already quite night together with tally the background quite good (I think? I am colorblind together with then I can't truly tell), together with then I only did a modest boost on saturation (CTRL-U).
This distance edifice is a flake blue-ish for a warm sunset, together with then I adapt its hue to tally the heaven colour.
Painting Over Photo
Painting over photograph is truly to a greater extent than unproblematic than most people would convey thought. We only demand to color alternative (ALT inward brush mode) from the photograph together with pigment over it. Keep on doing this, until nosotros got that painterly experience for the artwork. In generall, nosotros desire to take photograph compression artifact together with dissonance from the photo.
Sometimes photograph are blur together with nosotros tin repaint surely details . In this example, I am redrawing the window lines into the artwork.
We mightiness desire to take some unwanted objects inward the photograph every bit well. Do this past times icon or using the clone postage tool.
Painting Cloud
Cloud is meliorate repaint from scratch to scope the artwork a to a greater extent than icon feel. Since, I had mask the edifice earlier, together with then it is easier for me to pigment the clouds behind the building.
Quick pace to pigment clouds:
- Add a novel layer, purpose circular brush to pigment the cast of cloud.
- Lock together with save layer transparency, shade the cloud.
- Use smudge tool to smudge the shading
- Scale downwards brush tip together with hold icon the cloud to add together inward smaller detail.
- Add inward modest clouds to a greater extent than or less the bigger clouds.
Painting Trees
Another expanse that I figure that is meliorate to repaint from scratch are trees. Painting it into a unproblematic ii to 3 shades are skillful plenty for a 2D anime background.
Quick pace to pigment trees:
- Use "Oil Pastel Large" to pigment the tree cast / contour.
- Scale downwards brush tip to refine the cast further.
- Lock together with save layer transparency, shade the tree.
- Furhter shading, nosotros tin purpose smudge tool for this pace every bit well. But recollect to repaint the details every bit smudge tool volition unremarkably blur the painting.
Add inward Extra Elements
Aside from what is inward the master copy photo, nosotros tin inward some extra objects to the artwork. We volition demand to pigment over these objects too.
Painting Highlight together with Bright Area
Add some other layer together with laid it to whatever additive blend means such every bit "Screen" or "Add". Then, foremost icon on expanse that is receiving together with casting light.
Sometime, nosotros volition desire to add together inward the "Shadow" layer amongst multiply blend means to pigment the shadow.
Painting the Atmospheric Effect
Adding atmospheric consequence similar haze, flog or glow is the easiest means to add together value to our artwork. Paint the glowing expanse amongst a soft airbrush inward a additive blend means layer.
Before together with After
This is the in conclusion resultant of the pigment over, "
KL Sentral Station".
The to a greater extent than nosotros practice, the to a greater extent than it volition await painterly. So hold on painting!
Reference
DeviantArt KL Sentral Station