Freakish Zombie in 11 Steps!
Yo! Before we begin, I want our super-sensitive visitors to understand that this blog contains graphic materials. By this I mean Blood, Bruises, Veins and our co-worker Fred
. You've been warned.
So, to start things off we'll use a picture of Fred
that I took without his permission. You can probably tell by the look on his face.
*Let it be known that this photo was taken with a sick Sony 2MP Camera that iMarc Founder Nils Menten keeps locked up in a glass case next to his Ferrari keys. It's so vintage.
Next we'll darken the photo and boost the contrast a bit. Once we're happy with the tones, we'll use the Photoshop burn tool
and burn around the eyes to give them a little bit more "scare". Next, we'll color Fred's eyes in white. This makes it easier to edit later on...
So now we're going to use the burn tool some more, but this time on his shirt and finger tips. This way it will look like our Zombie doesn't shower. Damn dirty zombie.
Let's burn some more! This time focussing on his face, fingertips and his jacket. All Zombies wear jackets, so I dont want to hear it folks...
*Fred
is wearing a pale green pilot jacket from iMarc's famous "Fashionably Fall" Collection.
Moving on, we're now going to make a new layer that contains a copy of Fred
's face and hand. We then go into image > adjust > variations and give this layer a blue overtone. Finally, we'll boost up the contrast, slightly desaturate it, then set the layer's opacity to 46%. Don't use 45%, as the difference is WORLDS apart....I mean it's huge, folks. egh...Our zombie should now look more pale. OH, I almost forgot. I overlayed the spider veins from some lady's leg onto his cheek bone. Next!
So now things will get a bit bloody. Using a mixture of the multiply and overlay "blending modes" (layers panel), we'll add some blood strips leaking from our Zombie's mouth. mmmmm, yum. The leak shapes were made using the polygon lasso tool (sick tool), and then filled with 2 versions of red on each of the layers specified above.
Now we'll work on those eyes, and attempt to give that handsome arm some disgusting veins. The eyes were stolen from a pigeon and then placed over Fred's white eyes, which were very easy to select from since we made them white in step 2. Oh and the arm veins...the arm veins were overlayed from another photo which i will not show you here because I'm 100% positive that you dont want to see it. Trust me.
....so now - Let's add more blood! Using the same marching order from the previous step, we'll make Fred
's pigeon eyes bleed a bit. Almost done!
a little closer...
Now that we have a semi-finished zombie, let's duplicate the image in photoshop, and inset the photo repeatedly on the monitor in the background. This way people will look at your photo and instantly be blown away at the paranormal multi-dimensionally abstract effect that you've created. I'm talking seriously mind-blowing here.
To finish things off I'm going to overlay the photo with a red "spotlight" type gradient using the "multiply" blending mode on your layers palette. We're done!
Now just set your new zombie photo into a polaroid and show your loved one's what you saw in Vegas!
Until next time,
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Comments
Why you gotta bag on Vegas?
I am impressed, make me a zombie next!!! haha
Looks like Fred after a few 10 bottles of wine.....
Looks SCARY! i'm going to try at home tonight...maybe on a pic of my boyfriend...
Ha, something should be done about the building outside the window. Can't there be a dark mysterious castle on a hilltop or something?
nice tutorial. maybe mess with fred's teeth a little bit. they look too bright to be zombie teeth. muh. braaains.
Too freakin funny
WOW! thats awsome! g/w
Nice effect. Would be even better if more professional photo was used to start with. Slouching in a chair at the desk doesn't look too zombie-like.
Nice but you Must try a little hard next time
I wouldn't have used the burn tool, but would just have used levels/curves/HS adjustment layers and colour overlays. But that just goes to show how you can take lots of different approaches in Photoshop. I would also have made the eyes into yellowish rotting balls without pupils, but i guess that's a matter of preference :) Pity about the scene outside the window, as someone already remarked. Some ominous dark clouds would be nice.
I love the second image in the monitor screen. It gives it the cool efect.
I love computers!
Sweet!
WoWWWWWWWW gaaf
Great stuff!
If you would hava ads here I would click it as an award.
Excellent blood effect! I could almost taste it! Could you show us how to make maggots drip out of eyesockets next? In your spare time, of course.
I think mine turned out okay....
www.djsolange.com/zombie2.jpg
Nice! Reminds me of the instructions on the back of those halloween face paint kits that go thru the process step by step. Can you post a tutorial on how to make somebody look 30 pounds lighter? Thanks!
rawr! thanks for the step by step! zombie's rawwwwwwwwwk.
that is so cool! you should post one about a celebrity!
Awesome Blossom i am gonna need to make some zombies....
yo! all the way dude...
definitely gonna try to turn myself into smth that beautiful as well!
itd be cool for a more in depth step by step... for noobies :D
ezt a SZART
My first attempt. Doesn't look as great as Fred but tried the best I could in the little time I had to work on it. I tried the blood but soon realized I sucked at it.
hey.....i dont think i have a burn tool.....im lost :-\
Click and hold on your Dodge tool to get your Burn tool in Photoshop.
Thanks for the tutorial! Just had a go at a shot of me and my friend. The eyes and blood were difficult to get right, but I improvised and added some layer pattern overlays to the skin for the 'cracked' effect.. check it out!
Looks great man, nice work! :)
I *think* that if you click my name you will get a goodie... I donate this to you guys because you already have diggcred to demo T-Shirt Stencils. All I want is credit for the design, and a personal use disclaimer. Thanks.
Ok, Fixed and works
hát eléggé ratyi!
[color=blue]Looks great man[/color]
Really really great tutor!
Nice work! I'm stunned!
Having fun at the workfloor over there, ic :) Crazy tutorial, and I like it!
hahahahha...I like it!!!
All that work for such a small difference between before and after!
he looks kinda cute dont yah all think?
nifty. i would've added some shading around the beard to give fred a gaunter appearance. gotta have gaunt. ;)
hO yea!; i very interesting effects. And very easy to do.
am so going to try that lol, it looks amazing !! =]]
i dont get it.. my burn tool doesn't create the same effects as yours.. ):
very good
Ok, im going to be the freak here and ask the stupid question. I love the frame/edges you wrapped around undead fred! Where did you get them / what tool did you use / did you make it from scratch / or what was the process? (Btw, Fred looks great too!)
as if i didn't look enough, like the living dead already, i took your guide and applied the basics to a pic using paint shop pro (i'm a rebel)
great effects.
Fantastic....ZOMBIE-MAKING 101- How to turn friends-loved ones and enemies into a zombie....Very easy-to-follow steps....Thanks!!
That is friggen sweet!! now if only i had photo shop...
Totally awsome!!!!!! I really dig this special effect shit
I thought he was convincing in the first frame without all that extra effort......
BRRRRRRR..... UG-LY
omg i cant stop scrolling up and down! you guys are amazing!!! i wish the tutorial was more detailed...so i could understand/follow it :P
Very nice! that's a rly good milestone for a great picture =)
Quite interesting info to read. Your site was really useful for me but are u planning more updates?
That's great! But yeah, I wish the tutorial was more detaile as well - I've got very little experience with photoshop and wasn't able to get the same effects. Couldn't even find anything called a polygon lasso tool. :P
Where do you get the cool polaroid from? xxx
Wow! I made me and my cousin into zombies (he doesnt know yet). I couldnt figure out how to do some of the things w/ the layers, but i made up for it by using some other tools. I couldnt make the blood look as real as you did though. Oh, and how do u paste other pix into it (eg. eye, veins) Nicely done!!
Holy crap. That's the best tutorial I've ever seen for making a zombie! I am going to try this one. This is an amazing outcome. :] Very, very good work! :]
scery
thats uber rad. but i cant do it haha no matter how many times ive tried. can u make me one?
Cheers for that my Daughters going to be a zombie girl at Halloween so have picked up some pointers,Im a dab hand at kids make up anyway..but was searching for a more real effect your page..Thanks.
Could you post the polaroid frame alone, edge grit and tape-slightly-over-the-photograph and all? It really "makes" the picture.
Thanks!
I DONT GET "THE BLOOD"... PLEASE TALK MORE OVER ABOUT THAT... especially on the shaping of "leak" and the blending or reds...
pls.send it to my email jessiesali@yahoo.com and enter PHOTOEDIT as a subject..
thanks, jessie
does someone wanna make me one? from my picsss? AIM:emergency123x MSN:deejayatthedisco@hotmail.com
kthnx :]
wow this is amazing dude. im having trouble with the eyes. do you think you could help me out more with them? email me at mjevans_56@yahoo.com
thats what i came up with [=
Hey Great Work! Do You Think You Can Make Me AZombie Pic Like That Please You Do Awesome Work Id Like a Zombie Pic Of This Pic..Thanks So Much
awesome effect! I will try it own my own someday!
omg is crazy i will start doing it
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kis mi ass zombie
dude, i tried to do your steps and i dont really understand, it would really mean alot if u could make a zombie pic for me, you do such a good job, i tried before looking at this and it came out like crap lol, but if u could get back at me on my myspace, www.myspace.com/goffinizzle, or AIM- goffinizzle, thanks man
heres the pic http://www.bolt.com/goffinizzle/photo/1/2936019
it would be so sick if you would, later
Crazyyyy!!!
Nice! I'm thinking those arms veins don't look like they came from an arm and I'm pretty sure I know where they did come from! LOL.
more fun tutorials please, i luv em muchly! xxx
looks great but you lost me at "Using a mixture of the multiply and overlay "blending modes" (layers panel)," ..i am a rookie and dont have a clue what to do now ..
I guess i went on my own and tried a few things .Here is what i got...
sorry the html doesnt work here i guess..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/nikkiec/uuuklghtr7a599-1.jpg
This is the original
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i27/Rufieo/1344680760_l.jpg
grrr After
Got it Brason - Nice work!!!
What type of hpoto editor did u use for this? ... if u can can u email me back at dbdiablo52@aim.com b/c id like to make one
Cool mate, used it as a basis then added some stuff of my own. Cheers!
Very nice work!
Hi there!
Can anybody tell me where I can get the polaroid from? Either as a (hi-res) picture (preferred ;-) or as a tutorial.
Seeing as i'm a huge lover of zombies - i'm trying to create my own 'zombie' look and came across this - i must say it's bloody brilliant! Well done :D
Sorry about the double post - got my url wrong
It's me again…
I just wanted to know if that polaroid (with that dirty sticky tape) is also made by you or if it is from a tutorial or something similar. I ask that, because I saw exactly that polaroid at the german community site studivz.de (the picture of a user's profile page).
Thats some pretty tight stuff you got there I dont have photoshop and was wondering if there was any sited online that i might be able to zombify myself I have no other way to do it as I do like how you do yours maybe you could use mine as an example lol
Mike
Thats freaking awesome! i tried doing it without photoshop its hard! lol well not hard just frustrating. Im using photo impression. Anyway good work =D
Nice one! i looked at this a while ago and began making my own. Unfortunatley some of the family thought me turning them into a zombie was mean... i mean whats so wrong with bleeding from the eyes and mouth and evil eyes and mouldy skin anyway? i thought it was an improvement in the case of my sister...
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i there you look so mean
man you look so mean and you are silly
Nice tutorial...
This is what we do... so anyone looking for a Zombie Makeover, please feel free to take a look at:
www.zombiemakeover.com
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ooooooo scary !!!!! this is 1 weird guy!!!!!! lol rofl
that is the most reatarded thing i have ever seen in my whole life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Nicely done!! You could have went into a little more detail though, I had to wing it out on the skin tones, and how did you do thosee awesome viens on his arms!? :)
oopsie!! nevermind, I skimmed over the vien part. Blah! ;)
The sixth one is the best!!! That is just my thinking!
very nice tutorial, requires some basic knowledge of photoshop to use, but it ends up looking awesome... used it as inspiration for this pic: http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/381/zombiemattfinalzn1.jpg
yeah i cant get photoshop so i was wondering if you could make me one??? with one of these pictures. http://i17.tinypic.com/4ktm8mh.jpg http://i11.tinypic.com/6309f7b.jpg http://i17.tinypic.com/4za8vhz.jpg http://i13.tinypic.com/62opmwp.jpg I would really appreciate it. here is my myspace. myspace.com/alliexv617
NICE
but would be nice if you said how you get to certain things
PEACE
MEOW!
how do u colour in the eyes???? without it looking crap
Looks good Photo(2,4,5,6,7) What I see all day
ha ha j'ai rien compris mais c'est très réussi ^^
awesome plzzz make me one with my pictures plzzzzzz
Damn you and your funny tutorial! I now have Pepsi sprayed all over my laptop!
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Haha, excellent work. I'm a beast.