In this tutorial, we’ll manipulate a photo with abstract elements to make it more interesting and active.
Materials Needed:
- Stock Photo of your choice. I have used iStock: Female &
Funky Swirls. - Cloud Brushes: JavierZhX
- Photoshop Action: Manicho.
- Sinedots 2
The Final Image
You can see the original full sized piece here. This tutorial is based off my original work shown in the full size image.Step 1: Plan Ahead

I have also chosen to use the two main colours that were already on the stock photo—Greyscale (black/white/grey) & Blue. You may also want to add tones/ contrast at the very end but we will get to that soon enough.
Step 2: The Swirls

The reason as to why I’ve told you to keep the swirls on different layers is because we will be editing them a bit, and you wouldnt be able to do that if they are all merged flat layers.

As you can see I have removed parts from her arm and stomach.
When you remove parts of the swirl you can use either or both of these tools: Eraser Tool with a Soft Brush and/ or the Polygonal Laso Tool. The Pen tool can be used to draw selections or masks too if you feel comfortable with it. I used the Eraser Tool for the stomach area and the hand, while I used the Polygonal Laso Tool for the arm.

As you can see I have removed parts from her arm and hand.
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Step 3: Adding Some Colour

Caution: Always Save a .PSD file of all the Layers !
Save your work regulary and keep all layers. Saving more than one copy with Save As… can’t hurt if you want to try different variations of your document.
This is just a base—the swirls and colour will look more refined later on.
Once you have drawn a few lines (if they are not close it’s ok to put them on the same layer but if they are close together put them on seperate layers. This makes editing easier.) use the Smudge Tool. Point the corners out making them fade around corners.
After you have smudged all the brush strokes, set those layers to Hard Light blending mode.

You can repeat this process for any other colors you may want to add, just be careful you don’t combine so many colors that nothing fits together.
Step 4: The Diagonal Lines

All you have to do is click (outside the art) hold down Shift on your keyboard and click again over the other side of the art (while holding shift you will see it the tool works in nice angles) make a straight line down a few pixels click again then work your way back up to where you first clicked. It’s a diagonal line! Fill it in (with the paint bucket) once you’ve closed it off.
Create a few more stripes in various sizes and color.

Now to make them blend more, merge the stripes. Duplicate (CRTL+J) the stripes and hide them (click on the eye next to one of the stripe layers). Set the new stripes layer to: Colour Burn. Now this will look a bit heavy on the eyes so get your Eraser Tool and set it to a really big size( “]” key) and remove 50% of the stripes in the middle like the image below:

If you want more intensity in colour if you haven’t got a lot then duplicate the original stripe lines and go to Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur and set it to about 20 and layer setting to
Keep an original stripe layer at all times while doing this. Once you’ve done all the stripes you can now add the stripe “lines” this is done by using the original stripe layer—select all the stripe layers (CTRL + Click the layer witht he original stripes). Go to Select -> Modify -> Contract, a small box will pop up, by the size of your image it will depend if you want nice small 1px lines put in 1. I will be using this setting (1 for 1 pixel lines). Once you click “OK” it will contract it for you, press delete on your keyboard.


You can also duplicate the bigger lines to add to random areas, for example her right arm is facing slightly away from the angle I chose so I will add a little bit of the big stripes next/ near to it. Also her knee is facing downwards so I added a little bit there too.
Step 5: The Blue Gradient Lines
This Requires the Pen Tool. I am only using this to increase the intesity of the blue colours in the swirls.When I use this tool I use the settings shown in the image below.


Step 6: The Clouds

One more thing.
Keep the clouds at the angle you have chosen otherwise it might not fit in. Also remember whenever your doing a graphic with brushes, stocks, actions etc check with the artist for terms of use etc.Step 7: Tones & Sinedots
I used a program called Sinedots II plugin for Photoshop to get the white lines across the model. You just download it, open it up in the filters menu and click random til you get a nice one that will fit in with the image. Duplicate it and blur it to 3.0.Really, it’s that simple.
If you’re clever with Illustrator, you can probably create them using that software as well.
For the Tones, I like using “Photoshop Actions” or “Photo Filters”. Some are great, some aren’t so great. Here are some examples:


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