The Best Way to Create a Drip Effect in Photoshop

hey guys you're watching danske the place to be to develop your creative skills in this tutorial we're going to learn how to create an awesome drip effect in Photoshop righty-o so in our Photoshop and I've opened up an image of our subject that we're going to be applying our drip effect to and for this tutorial we're going to be focusing on the lips so if we right click on the background layer and select duplicate layer now we'll switch this off so we have the background image the original just if we need to reference it or in case anything goes wrong and we'll just double click this layer and call this subject the first thing we're going to do is go to filter and down to liquify and if we zoom in nice and close we're going to start with the option at the top which is the liquify brush and you can adjust the brush size using the left and right square brackets on the keyboard or you've got the properties over here on the right and we're just going to left-click and drag down you want to drag as straight as possible so we don't want to do anything like this and vary the brush sizes as well so we've got some drips starting to form here and the one in the center is a little bit more pronounced something like this maybe this one comes down a bit more so we'll make it feel as random as possible how much you've done something like this we can then increase that brush size using the same tool and we can just nudge this back so it's a little bit straighter so you really can use this to the extreme and just move this around and liquify it until you get the exact shape so something like this is good and we're then going to select the bloat tool and you might need to experiment with a few different sizes of brush here so have edit and step backwards ready to go it's a shortcut worth learning and we're just going to left-click for about half a second maybe bring that brush up down so we're just focusing on the bottom and now we're going to select the one up above it which is pucker so bloat blows it outwards and pucker makes it go in so we're just going to left-click not very long just a few seconds and you can see I'm just single left clicking now because if I left click and hold this tool is very powerful and it will work very quickly so we've kind of got a bit of a drip forming and we'll switch back to the liquify tool and we'll just start to adjust the position here so I'm just left clicking and dragging so you can really effectively shape the actual shape of this exactly how you'd like it it's just a case of trial and error trying a few different brush sizes and I'm just left clicking with the pucker tool now and then just shaping that with the liquify tool and you can see we can actually shape everything about this and if you're not happy with something it's definitely worth using that a step backwards option up here if you kind of shape it a little bit too much it will remove it altogether and you'll need to start again but I think something like this is looking pretty good you kind of cool spend as much time as you like here then we'll click OK so this is where we were and this is our drip effect applied and of course it has distorted around the skin as well so that's no good so if we right click on our background layer that is hidden and select duplicate layer and click OK we can turn this on and turn on our subject and we're going to add a layer mask to a subject so the drip effect here is cool this kind of distortion of the background with this darker area it just isn't cool so we want to get rid of that so we'll add a layer mask to our subject and the layer mask is white at the moment and we'll go to image adjustments and invert so effectively it completely hides that layer and then if we select white as our foreground color the brush tool and one of photoshop's soft round pressure brushes then we'll just adjust the brush size we can then brush back in now remember when working with masks white adds to the mask and black removes from it let's just brush over all this you can see everything from our original subject layer now coming through and that's using white and now we can change the foreground color to black and we can brush over the areas we don't want and it will remove these from the mask so we can now brush over all of this around the edge that we don't want if you do brush too much by mistake just swap the foreground color to white brush it back in and then swap back to black and you can press X on the keyboard to quickly swap those colors around so this is a much less destructive way of working than something like the eraser tool and learning masks is definitely definitely worth it just because it gives you that flexibility as well and if you want to disable your mask temporarily just hold shift and left-click on it and you'll be able to see it what your image looks like without the mask applied cool so we've got the drip effect starting to come into play now we're going to add a few more things to make this a little bit more realistic you've got these highlights here on the lips we want to add some of that to a drip effect so we're going to add a new layer from the bottom of the layers panel pick white as our foreground color and we're going to use our brush tool again now this next bit you can do if you're using a mouse that's fine but if you have access to a graphics tablet that allows control of pen pressure something like I'm using is a Wacom Intuos Pro graphics tablet is linked in the video description but it just allows you to control things like pen pressure and we can go to window brush settings at the top and that's the wrong panel no it's not it's the right panel brush settings no it was the wrong panel there we go so brush settings is the one you want and we've got all these different options down the left if we click shape dynamics and size jitter which varies the size of the brush we can adjust the control to pen pressure so now the harder I press down on the tablet the larger the brush will be if I press really gently it'll be really soft so what we're going to do now on our new lab we've created with white as our foreground color with the brush tool we're just going to gently brush in highlight so it's going to left-click and drag something like this now what I'm doing is I'm just trying this lots of times and then quickly going edit step backwards using that same shortcut just so I get the right curve that looks pretty good I'm happy with that one and we could then drop the opacity of this down a little bit and I could even add a new layer with a slightly smaller brush and just press down a little bit more firmly to accentuate that highlight and then drop that a pasty down a little bit so you can see we've just added a highlight over here and we could do the same again over here as well we could even just duplicate the highlight we've created but let's not be lazy let's go and create another one so I'm just gonna try and get this right so I'm just brushing and then undoing with every failed attempt and there we go so we've added that highlight as well and something else we might want to add if I just group all of these layers together and call these highlights something else we might want to add is a new layer and we're going to add some shadows as well so we use black that's our foreground color with that soft feather brush and we're just going to very carefully brush in some of the shadows in a few key places so of course it depends on the image where your lights are coming from but just to kind of demonstrate this technique I thought it'd be good to kind of show some shadows as well just so we've got highlights and shadows and I'm doing this very very carefully using a brush tool and we could try some different blending modes we could go for multiply it doesn't really do too much but if we start dropping that opacity down you might want to try some different blend modes depending on your image and the colors that you've got in your image it might blend slightly differently but we'll call that shadows so you can see it's a very very subtle difference but it just helps out a little bit of realism to the image and you can make them more pronounced if you want or you could bring them over so slightly away just kind of justing the position using the mouse but there we go we've gone from our original image to adding our trip effect adding in some highlights and then a few subtle shadows as well and we're done and there we go that's how to create an awesome drip effect in Photoshop as always guys please feel free to leave any questions or comments down below like this video if you enjoyed it take care and I'll see you next time [Music]

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Id: 2_AjrAOEFFM

Length: 10min 49sec (649 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 11 2018