Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
I'm going to show you how to create your own corporeal Patronus as seen in the Harry Potter movies.
I thought it would be a fun challenge to figure
out the easiest, most effective way to recreate
them and then show you how to do it.
In the lore of Harry Potter, a Patronus is
basically a guardian which acts as a shield
between you and evil spirits know as Dementors.
For your convenience, I provided a Photoshop document that you can download, so you can follow along.
Its link is in my video's description below
the video or in my project files.
It contains two layers: a forest background and a stag.
Feel free to use your own background or your
own animal if you'd like.
Click the Adjustment Layer icon and click "Invert".
To restrict the adjustment layer to affect
just the animal,
we need to clip it or restrict to the animal layer.
To do this, click the Clipping mask icon or press Ctrl + Alt + G on Windows or Cmd + Option + G on a Mac.
You can also go to Layer and "Create Clipping Mask".
Click the Adjustment Layer icon again, click,
"Black & White" and clip it.
Next, we'll convert the inverted, black and
white animal into a Smart Object,
so we can continue to modify it non-destructively.
To do this, Shift-click the animal layer to
make it and the two adjustment layers active
and click the icon at the upper, right corner
of the Layers panel.
Click "Convert to Smart Object".
Make a copy of it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd
+ J. Name the copy, "Outer Glow".
Hide the copy and make the original active.
Before we continue, check your foreground
and background colors.
If they’re not black and white respectively,
press “D” on your keyboard.
Go to Filter and Filter Gallery.
Open the "Stylize" folder and click "Glowing Edges".
Make the Edge Width: 2, the Edge Brightness:
10 and the Smoothness: 15.
Change the Blend Mode to "Color Dodge".
Double-click an empty area of the layer to
open its Layer Style window.
Let's drag it over, so we can see our animal.
Click "Outer Glow".
The Blend Mode is "Vivid Light", the Opacity
is 50% and the color is white.
The Technique is "Softer", the Spread is 0%
and the Size is 40 pixels.
The Contour is Linear and the Range is 50%.
Click “Color Overlay” and the color box.
In the hexadecimal field, type in 0096FF.
The Blend Mode is Soft Light and the Opacity
is 60%.
Click “Inner Glow”.
The color is white, the Blend Mode is “Color
Dodge” and the opacity is 60%.
The size is 50 pixels and the Range is 50%
Make the copy visible and active.
Reduce the Fill to 0%.
This hides the image, but it'll retain the
full visibility of any effects we add to it.
Double-click an empty area of the layer to
open its Layer Style window.
Click "Outer Glow" and the color box.
In the hexadecimal field, type in 00A8FF.
Change the Blend Mode to "Color Dodge" and
the Opacity to 30%.
Increase the Size to 250 pixels and make the
Range: 30%.
Make a copy of the layer.
I'll name it "Twinkles".
Double-click "Outer Glow" to open it in the
Layer Style window.
Change its Blend Mode to "Dissolve" and reduce
its opacity to 4%.
Let's group our Patronus layers into a folder.
To do this, Shift-click the bottom animal
layer to make all of our animal layers active
and press Ctrl or Cmd + G. I'll name the folder,
"Stag", but you can name it whatever you like.
Next, we'll add an ethereal mist around our Patronus.
Open the "Swirling Smoke" file I provided.
To place it onto our other document, press Ctrl or Cmd + A to select it and Ctrl or Cmd + C to copy it.
Open your Patronus document and press Ctrl
or Cmd + v to paste it onto the document.
Change the Blend Mode to "Screen".
We'll blend the smoke more into our image
by double-clicking he thumbnail of the smoke
to open our Layer Style window.
We'll use "Blend If" to blend the smoke.
Basically, "Blend If" uses luminosity to blend
layers together.
"This Layer" is our smoke layer and the "Underlaying Layer " comprises all the layers below our smoke layer.
When we drag the left slider of "This Layer" to the right, it cuts off the darkest pixels of the smoke,
however, to transition the blending, Alt click or Option-click the middle of the triangular icon.
This splits it in two.
Drag the right half of the icon to the right,
which creates a smooth transition.
Next, we'll add vapor trails using the smoke
brush set I provided.
Its link is also in my video's description
of project files.
If you're not sure how to install brushes,
watch my tutorial showing how to do this.
Once its installed, open your Brush Tool and
Brush Picker.
Click the gear icon and click "Import Brushes".
Navigate to where to the Brushes folder and
click " Free Smoke Photoshop Brushes 15".
Then, click "Load".
Scroll to the bottom of the Brush Picker to
see the smoke brushes.
Open the folder and scroll down it to see
all the brushes you can use within this folder.
I'll click this one.
All the brushes in this set are 2500 pixels in size.
To reduce its size, press Enter or Return
and then press the left bracket key on your
keyboard a number of times.
Press "x" to invert your foreground and background colors.
White should be your foreground color.
Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer
and press Ctrl or Cmd + G to place it into a folder.
Name the folder, "Vapor Trails".
Change the Blend Mode to "Overlay" and make
the empty layer active.
If the brush isn't angled to your image in
the way you'd like it to be, press the "r"
key on your keyboard and rotate your canvas.
Press "B" to open your brush tool.
Left click once to stamp the brush onto your image.
To see your canvas right side up, open your
Navigator window.
If you don't see it, go to Window and Navigator.
I'll undo the brush by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + z.
To rotate your canvas back to normal, press "r" again and press
and hold the Shift key as you rotate it until it snaps in place.
I'll click here for the brush.
If you want to warp the vapor trail, open your Transform Tool and click the "Warp Transform" icon.
Drag the lines and points until you like its
shape.
Then, click the check-mark at the top.
Continue to add vapor trails as separate layers
within the “Vapor Trails” folder.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
Thanks for watching!
