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MDNA Effect
Welcome to NowPhotoshop Tutorial
This time you will learn how to get the Madonna New Album MDNA effect.
This is a NowPhotoshop request made by a lot of people via youtube and facebook.
After a lot of hard work, my sister and I figured out a way to get the effect.
By the way my sister has her own channel.
She is a fashion designer student, and in the channel you can see videos on fashion art and fashion sketches...
In the bottom right of this channel you can find the list of my favorites channels.
You may find my personal channel on short films and video minute and my sister's, channel on fashion drawings and art...
To start whit this tutorial you will need a texture that place for you in the channels blog (see link in the video description)
This texture I created will help us get the right effect.
Basically the effect is like being behind a shower glass door or something.
in real life the singer was behind a glass wall, but we're gonna find the way to make it real here in photoshop.
Now this texture MUST be saved as a photoshop file.
This is very important. The texture is in the blog for you to download...
obviously the texture will download as a jpg image BUT you MUST save it as .PSD or photoshop file in order to work.
So open the texture image and then go to menu, file, save as: and change the format to photoshop. This is very important...
It must be in .psd then you save it in a place you can find it later on.
let's get back to our image...
First copy the image by dragging the background image to the new layer icon.
Then go to menu filter, distort, glass...
Here the texture is already apply, and this is using the texture I show you earlier...
As I said the texture must be in .psd and the way to add it is by clicking on this little display you see here...
Then you add the texture, then again, it must be in .psd or photoshop file in order to work
Im also leaving this image I using for the tutorial in the blog, see link in the video description.
Now I will talk to you about the options you can tweak in this filter... Also use a very high resolution image for this effect.
The scaling is basically the size of the texture repeating on the image, so in order to avoid...
an horizontal line across the image, scale the texture in a 100% so only straight vertical lines shows.
make sure the scale option is on INVERT this is very important!!!
Now the smoothness is obviously how hard we want those creases to be, of course we're looking for a clear division...
An the distortion is of course how many times the image gets repeat or distort thru out the creases or panels
So you can see the effect is very similar to the MDNA album cover...
This effect also keeps the 3D quality to the image when repeating the distortion.
Keep tweaking and playing with the image, I recommend you add a mask to the layer and show a little bit of the eyes...
by erasing on the mask using a black brush color. That way we can help recognize the person behind the distortion...
next thing you can create a new layer and apply a gradient in a tornasol color.
soft light, right click on the layer and show blending options, blend the layer by dragging half of the black vector...
to the white side by holding Alt or OPTION key in your keyboard, while dragging...
Also you can add a black and white adjustment layer in soft light option... and that is it!!!! hope you like it!!