Smokey Eye by Marcela Bolivar
In this Photoshop tutorial, follow along as Marcela Bolivar assembles this fantastical, shattering image. Marcela is a master of applying textures and shadows, and this is your chance to glean how she achieves even the most intricate details of this piece. Resources are provided so that you can construct this piece also.
This tutorial contains both a written and video component.
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Very interesting tutorial.First how she use calculation and channel for exraction. Then lightning process.Colour mix and all those glass peaces with very amazing result. I have been Marcela Bolivar shop and tryed to buy these glass peaces. There was none. We got some but no licence.I have been looking for those big stones at the end of tut. but not find.( glass I have from RAW Exhange) Does somebody know where to buy those?.
Thanks for great tuorials on this site.
Hi Mirja, the glass pieces were included in the download.
this is wonderful, thank you for inspiring
Can you tell me how to get “The Recources Required” thank you
Wow! Thank you Marcela Bolivar for taking the time to make such an explicitly detailed tutorial! Can’t wait to employ some of these techniques. A wonderful piece of art by the way!!!
Loved the tutorial, Marcela is really talented. But can someone point me to the psd mentioned in the text and in the video please?
We usually do not make PSD’s available for download. However, this tutorial does provide downloads to all the elements needed to follow along.
I understand, but I’m reading the tutorial and watching the video and cannot find a link for download.
If you look at the beginning of the written tutorial you’ll see a sub-header called “resources”. Below that are links to the elements that Marcela uses in this tutorial.
Haha yes indeed, there are links for the Girl, Smoke, Textures, Glass, but no psd 😉
The Glass pieces have a grey background…that does not go away (tried Screen etc) it seems they had a transparent background when shown here?
I just used select and color range to take the grey color away
I got lost with the ‘clipping’ and ‘clip group’ portion of the tutorial. Is there a tutorial to teach one about those things? Anyway, I just veered off at that point and did it the best way I could, with mixed results. I’ve submitted my piece to you. Thanks for the lessons! There’s so much good information here! 🙂
OMG! That one is beyond my abilities and my Elements which doesn’t have everything Photoshop does. I still submitted my own version of it. I am loving these challanges.
This was quite a challenge! I didn’t have time to go through it all properly but I’ve uploaded my version anyway. Learned such a lot, thanks for the inspiration and very informative tutorial.
It would be really awesome if we had the capability to comment on peoples work. 🙂
I have to say that i really had fun making this image. I learned a lot with adjustment layers. I didn’t make it in time to join the challenge but i uploaded it here and I am also adding it to FB.
Hi,im not sure why but my Smokey Eye Project I did when I uploaded it I thought it would be in all the other peoples work but I have uploaded it twice and it is still not there,would you please know why..Thankyou
Tracey, I received your artwork and it is now displayed in the gallery. Since I have chosen to moderate entries there is sometimes a delay of a day or two before I get entries approved. Great work by the way!