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In this tutorial we will see a very easy way to create an artistic photo manipulation using scattered letters, a face, and a gradient. The final outcome of this image will create a horrifying woman face with mysterious cruelty in her eyes and throwing some sort of cursed letters towards you.

Let us start with the following image. The image has a thirst for blood in her eyes which are clearly visible through her red eyes.

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Start a new document about 800X900px and make the background black.Grab your gradient tool first

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Start a new layer and drag your gradient on the screen until you get something similar to this

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Open your picture of the girl and put it in the middle of your document.

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Duplicate your face layer so you have a backup and hide one of them. On the layer you did not hide hit ctrl+U on your keyboard to bring up your hue/saturation tool and use these settings:

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Now she should look purple like this

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Now use your level tool to darken her a bit by hitting ctrl+L on your keyboard and use these settings.

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Now on to the letters.

Create a new layer above all the rest and add the letters A-Z on your canvas using separate layers for each one, I know this sounds time consuming but its not bad. Randomly place them but keep them close together. I am going to use the font called “viking”.

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Now for each letter go through and use your transform tool (ctrl+t) on each letter and spin them all so they look more random.

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Now choose one of your letters to add these blending options to

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Now right click on the letter you added them to and pick “copy layer style”

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Then highlight all of your other letter layers together, right click them and click “paste layer style”

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Now they should all look the same, similar to this

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Now merge all those layers together and then copy the new layer a few times and move it over her face

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Now duplicate a few more of them and make them smaller and also cover her face

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Next duplicate a few more and place them around her face on the canvas.

Here is what I have

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Now drag the picture of the face above all the layers and set its blending mode to pin light

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After you do that there will be black area around the face so take a large soft eraser brush and erase to get rid of the black. I am using a 65px brush.

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After that I have something like this

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Hope you all will enjoy the tutorial.

Credit: Time2Photoshop.com