Portrait urban texture effectThis is another tutorial that I adapted from psdvault I loved it!
Step 1 PortraitUsing the green screen and lighting in the studio take the best front facing portrait of yourself or a friend. I do not want celebrities for this one.
Move the image from the camera to your folder on your U:/ drive for future use. Please be sure to delete the photos you take off of the camera cards when you are done! Step 2 Open photoshopCreate a new document sized 8.5 X 11 inches with black background. Load the portrait image into Photoshop and cut out the “model” part, paste it onto our document. Adjust the size to fit our canvas:
Smooth out the skin a bit, by applying the following Surface Blur setting: 
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My Appologies |
Find the rest of the assignment (written instructions) here.
You can use the grunge brushset you download as eraser, remove the red (mask) past of the human layer:
| high_res_paint_strokes.zip |
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| downtown-vancouver-by-charles-nadeau-.jpg |
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| welcome.jpg |
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You can copy your own photos from the internet if you wish.