Building Transparency in Photoshop

Learn a new trick to give designs and illustrations more depth and volume … transparency!

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Making the Skull

• Duplicating the skull and applying a Levels adjustment
• Converting to a Smart Object
• Using the Apply Median filter

2. Adding the Refraction

• Using Image Warp
• Using the Smudge tool
• Masking both of the refraction layers

3. Finishing It Off

• Adding the Hard Light layer
• Adding shadows to get the final result