Modern Da Vinci - part 1

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Tutorial goal:
Turn your portrait into a sepia painting, in the style of Leonardo Da Vinci. You need to do a bit of brush work to get the right effect.

author:

hilleke

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step 1

This is what we are aiming for. To create the style of a Da Vinci portrait in sepia colors.
Don't try to make a copy, just try to capture the mood.

step 2

First of all, we need an old background.
The background I found on www.sxc.hu needed a bit of changing.
I copied the background, selected two colors of the Da Vinci background, and then used the gradient tool with radial gradient.
Then set to blending mode "multiply" on 64%.
Make a new layer. Copy the background and change the saturation.
layer>new adjustment layer>saturation
Set to -25
Erase the edges so the center is light and the borders are dark.

step 3

The perfect background.

step 4

Remove the background from the portrait and paste it on the new background.

step 5

Copy the layer of the girl.
layer 2 copy
Select two colors from the Da Vinci portrait. Put the darkest color in the foreground box and the lightest color in the background box.
filter>sketch>graphic pen
In step 7 we will lower the opacity of this layer to 35%.

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