How To Create Your Own Fashion Portraits, Without Having To Draw A Thing!
In this tutorial I show you how to create your own fashion portraits with stunning dress clipart using The Hello Lovely Fashion Creator. Before you know it you will be making your own fashion portraits in just a few clicks!
HOW TO CREATE A LADY:
STEP 1
In Adobe Photoshop, go to FILE – OPEN, navigate to the HELLO LOVELY folder and open up the file titled GIRLS.
STEP 2
Select which girl_.psd you’d like to create and click OPEN. It’s a large file, so depending on your computer it may take a minute to open.
STEP 3
Once open, navigate to your LAYERS panel, it will be your new best friend. If your LAYERS pallet isn’t open, go to WINDOW and make sure LAYERS is checked.
STEP 4
The bottom layer is called BODY, click on the > to make the layer expand. There you will find the EYE COLOUR and SKIN COLOUR folders. Open to select which colour you’d like to choose by clicking on square box on the left hand side to make the eyeball appear.
STEP 5
Near the top is HAIR STYLES folder, click on the > to expand, select a hair style, click > to pick the colour of your selected style.
NOTE:
Turn on and off layers by clicking on the eyeball in the layers pallet. It is best to only have one colour option turned on in each category.
HOW TO CREATE A GOWN:
STEP 1
Now that your lovely lady is ready to get dressed, open up the SKIRTS folder by clicking on the >
STEP 2
Pick the style of skirt you’d like by turning on or off the eyeball and open >.
STEP 3
There you will find SPARKLE OPTIONS and SKIRT COLOURS, open > each folder and click the eyeball on and off to select each option.
STEP 4
Next, select the TOPS folder. Just like the SKIRTS folder you will find SPARKLE OPTIONS and TOP COLOURS, open > each folder and click the eyeball on and off to select each option.
And now you have a beautiful dress, great job!
HOW TO ACCESSORIZE:
STEP 1
Now for accessories! Open up the JEWELERY, PURSES or HIGH HEELS folders by clicking on the > and pick the style of accessories you’d like by turning on or off the eyeball and open >. JEWELERY
NOTE:
GIRL_1.psd will have left and right ear options for earrings. It is handy to be able to select individual ears depending on the hairstyle. HIGH HEELS NOTE: There are heels for long and short skirts, the reason for this is to eliminate overlap. Now you have a lovely lady is ready, now to save!
HOW TO SAVE AS PNG:
STEP 1
Go to FILE – SAVE AS – (name your file) – select PNG from the FORMAT drop down menu and you’re done! (Saving as a PNG file will allow you to put your lady on any back drop, because it has a transparent background.)
HOW USE PATTERNS:
STEP 1
In Adobe Photoshop, go to FILE – OPEN, navigate to the HELLO LOVELY folder and open up the file titled PATTERNS and choose a pattern jpg.
STEP 2
Go to EDIT – DEFINE PATTERN, name it and click OK.
STEP 3
Create a new file by going to FILE – NEW. Make you new file the dimensions you want and click OK.
STEP 4
Now that you have your new file, fill it with the pattern. Go to LAYER – NEW LAYER FILL – PATTERN. Click OK and adjust the SCALE % to the scale you wish.
HOW USE THE BACKGROUNDS:
Just 1 STEP
Once you have created a Lady, set of Heels or Purse as PNG les, you can simply open up background in Photoshop and and place you PNG file on top, arrange, add text and any other details.
Happy designing!! xo
