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Cyborg Girl Fantasy Art and Blending Effects in Photoshop

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I was playing around with goldtassel’s Two Phased Bob hair the other day, and thought it would look good on a cyborg character. This was perfect because I have also been wanting to try out the Pix – Synx skin for the longest time.

I decided to go for a simple Daz Studio scene that just focused on the character and hair. After rendering all my light layers in Iray and putting everything together in Photoshop, I got the more colorful image on the left (below).

Comparison of a colorful cyborg girl sci-fi fantasy image with an unsaturated version of the same picture.
Left – More colorful cyborg girl fantasy art from my usual Photoshop post-work process. Right – Unsaturated version of the cyborg girl image achieved with an adjustment layer and blending effects in Photoshop.

Creating an Un-Saturated Image

Photoshop screenshot of adding in a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and converting my cyborg girl image into a gray-scale picture.
I add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and set the Saturation value to -100.

The initial image seemed a bit too colorful, so I wanted to see how the image would look in gray-scale (unsaturated). To do this, I add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer in Photoshop (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation), after my completed image. I set the Saturation value to -100.

After adding my adjustment layer, I get the cyborg girl gray-scale image below. Unfortunately, it looks a bit drab without any color at all.

Cyborg girl fantasy art image after adding my adjustment layer with saturation value set to -100.
Gray-scale cyborg girl fantasy art image.

Using Photoshop Blending Mode to Get More Color

Photoshop screenshot of the layers' tab with the blending mode drop-down menu highlighted.
We can change our layer blending mode by going to the drop-down menu at the top of our layer’s tab.

To get some interesting effects, I started playing around with different blending modes for my Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. We can change our layer blending mode by going to the drop-down menu at the top of our layer’s tab (see right). When I set the blending mode to Darken, I get the cool effect below.

Resulting cyborg girl fantasy image when blending mode is set to Darken.
Cyborg girl sci-fi fantasy image with blending mode set to “Darken” for our Hue/Saturation adjustment layer.

If I set blending mode to Lighten, I get a different color effect.

Resulting cyborg girl fantasy image when blending mode is set to Lighten.
Cyborg girl sci-fi fantasy image with blending mode set to “Lighten” for our Hue/Saturation adjustment layer.

Final Cyborg Girl Image

I finally settled on the Lighter Color blending mode, which is mainly unsaturated with strong blue highlights. After some further sharpening and contrast adjustment, I get my final image.

This was a fun exercise to see the different Photoshop blending mode effects. However, note that the results will be highly dependent on the colors of the original image.

Final cyborg girl fantasy image when blending mode is set to Lighter Color.
Cyborg girl sci-fi fantasy image with blending mode set to “Lighter Color” for our Hue/Saturation adjustment layer.

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