Dan Mumford, a freelance Illustrator from London, works within the pop culture and music scene creating everything from album covers, branding and screenprints. He will start sketching on an iPad pro in Illustrator Draw (link), and then bring his illustrations into Illustrator and Photoshop CC to polish them off.
Photoshop tutorial showing you how to create and apply bokeh overlays in Photoshop.
In this tutorial you will learn to:
00:55 – Place images.
01:48 – Create Bokeh with the Field Blur filter.
02:45 – Apply overlays using Blending Modes.
03:15 – Use Levels to adjust Blending Modes.
04:00 – Use Layer Masks to hide the Bokeh effect.
06:10 – Distort images to create better Bokeh overlays.
07:30 – Composite overlays onto a photo.
09:45 – Create a sun flare.
12:08 – Use Selective Color to apply a color tone.
12:50 – Sharpen eyes with the Sharpen tool.
14:20 – Apply noise using the Lens Blur filter.
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we’ve invited French illustrator Maite Franchi to create one illustration per day, combining techniques in Illustrator and Photoshop CC. Maite works for international brands like the Huffington Post, Sony, Vanity Fair and the Wall Street Journal.Her colorful and iconic illustrations are published in print and digital, and sometimes animated!