Harlquin Masks

• Download this image to complete this tutorial or use any black and white image.

1. Open up the image of the man.  Use the lasso tool with feather =0  to encircle the face and select the face area, without the hair or neck.

Change the lasso option to subtract from current select and encircle the eyes sockets and mouth hole.

2. Click control J to copy current selection to a new layer. Turn the background layer off.

3. Click Image=> Adjust=> Levels. Set the levels by sliding the black carrot up and the white carrot down. I used settings of 17, 1, 74.

4. Click Edit=>Stroke. set the Stroke to

• width= 1 pixel
• color = black
• location = Center

 
5. Click Edit=>Transform=>Rotate. Set the angle of rotation to -12.

16. Control click the face layer. Add a new layer. Set the new layer to multiply. Hit your d key followed by your x key and use the paint bucket  to fill the selection with white on the new layer. Set this layer to multiply.

6. Select your burn tool. Select the 46 spatter brush to use with your burn tool, range= highlights, set at 8% exposure. Use very short strokes starting at half a brush stroke into the canvas and moving straight out. Follow the guides in the image on the right, moving right over the eye sockets and halfway into the cheek.

Change your burn tool brush to a 9 soft brush. Run this brush around the base of the nose corners, under the center of the nose on the face and continue down below the mouth. Use this brush to insert a laugh line on the cheek.

7. Click Filter=> blur=> Gaussian Blur. Set the Gaussian blur to 3.0. Click Select=> Deselect. Click Layer=> merge visible.

8. Right click on Layer 1 and select blending options. Check Drop shadow. Set the following

• mode= multiply, black
• opacity = 22%
• angle = -90
• distance = 17 pixels
• Spread = 0
• Size = 5 px
• Contour = linear

9. Check inner shadow. Set the following:

• mode= multiply black
• opacity = 75%
• angle = -90
• Distance = 5 px
• choke = 0
• size = 5
• contour = linear

10. Right click on layer1 and select duplicate. Click Edit=> Transform=> Flip Horizontal. /Use your move tool to move the mask down and to the right so that the two masks are oriented as in the image on the right. Link the two layers together and center the image in the top half of the canvas..

11. Click on the background layer. Click Layer=> New=> Layer. Call the layer background color.

12. Select the foreground color as white and background color as Blue hex #333399. Select your gradient tool set to a radial gradient. Draw a gradient from the center of the two masks to the lower corner.

Decorate the masks for whatever you are using them for.