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Creating Realistic Blood in Photoshop

Author: Matt Wegrzyn Author's URL: www.newtutorials.com More by this author

Open the picture that you would like to use for this tutorial.

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Open your layers palette from Window > Layers and create a second layer. Now take your Lasso tool and make a circular outline of where you want the blood to be as displayed on the image.

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Fill the area selected with the lasso in a dark red color and select the layer as Color Burn on your layers palette. Deselect the selected area if you haven't done so yet.

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Now head over to your Tool bar and pick the smudge tool. Be sure the brush size for it is rather small.

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With the smudge tool, smudge the blood down until it looks closer to being realistic.

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Select the Burn tool, located to the right of the smudge tool on your Tool bar.

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With the burn tool, deepen the blood wound by making it darker on the critical spots which should be the middle. Take a look at my image to see how I did it.

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Finally, go to Filter > Texture > Texturize. Once the box opens up, select Burlap for your Texture. Scale it to 200%. Give it a Relief of 2 or 3. Now press OK and you are done!

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Take a look at the final product. Not bad huh?

Creating Realistic Blood in Photoshop
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