Cracked Skin Tutorial

This tutorial is not the best way to get that Cracked Skin like in most of other PSD Tutorial I found in the net, but I think it is quite help for beginner to apply this on your next work. I will show you how to create a cracked skin Manipulation, the simplest one.

First of all, open our project image and immediately duplicate the background layer by Right-clicking the background layer and selecting Duplicate Layer or as I told you several times before, simply press Ctrl + J to do that..




Crop away the part you don't want to manipulate. Don't forget to name this Layer, mine is anger people. Set your Background color to whatever you like :p



Hello.. We need a cracked texture around here.. OK.. this is a sample.




Now set this texture to Hard Light at about to 50-70% opacity and erase all part you don't need, still with the texture layer selected, press Ctrl + Click on the anger people layer to load the selection, inverse it by clicking Ctrl + Shift + I , then hit delete. That will erase the part of texture layer. This step can be done by masking tips or something, do whatever you like, go nuts! Done?!?!



Again, erase away the parts that you don't need or that look bad, like mouth, nose, eyes, etc.

Duplicate this and set it to Soft Light



And you’re done!

My final result...




Sorry you found the tutorial difficult, all the feedback I have received so far has been very positive.

I am sorry to say that, but if you are not comfortable with `opening` files in photoshop then maybe you should really go back to basics before attempting a tutorial such as this, especially one that deals with alpha channels and masking.

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