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Pin-up Effect

 

Using a mixture of filters and blending modes, Corey takes a stock photo and transforms it into an old, classic 1950’s pin-up poster.

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

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51 Comments

  1. Gary Spedding said on — August 15, 2008 @ 11:47 am

    WOW! Is there anything you cannot do in Photoshop? Amazing.

  2. Josh said on — August 15, 2008 @ 3:48 pm

    This was amazing !

    It gave me jsut the look I wanted
    for a design project I was doing for someone.

    Photoshop GOD !

  3. rosie said on — August 15, 2008 @ 4:23 pm

    bloody brilliant!

  4. Anoop said on — August 15, 2008 @ 11:38 pm

    Could someone please tell me what will be the equivalent of alt+ctrl+tilda key if I want to do the same thing through the menu?
    My keyboard is not english, so to press the tilda key, i have to press one other key which ultimately doesn’t work to give that effect that Corey is talking about. Hence I have to go by the menu. In future, it will help if it is mentioned what is the equivalent of the shortcut keys in the menu.

  5. Corey Barker said on — August 16, 2008 @ 11:33 am

    You can also Ctrl-Click right on the RGB Channel in the channels panel.

  6. Nicolas said on — August 16, 2008 @ 12:37 pm

    Awesome Tutorial! I always wanted to do that ^^

  7. mitzs said on — August 16, 2008 @ 2:42 pm

    Great tutorial Corey.

  8. jmfisher said on — August 16, 2008 @ 10:49 pm

    Great to see this one again! I’d caught it a long time back on youtube and then when I finally actually bought photoshop it was removed for some reason. After searching far and wide I was able to find a spanish language tutorial using the exact technique and did my best to translate, but its a relief to finally have Corey’s original english version.

  9. zen said on — August 18, 2008 @ 8:45 am

    thts great

  10. Stomper said on — August 18, 2008 @ 9:47 am

    Thanks brother man

  11. Márcio Guerra said on — August 18, 2008 @ 6:21 pm

    Hi! Great one… Another one…
    For those who don’t have the til (or tilda, in portuguese is “til”) key, I found a solution that helps a lot, even to those that don’t know or have the brackets as a first keystroke in the keyboard. Change the operating system (OS), in this case Windows, to english mode, in the bar at the bottom, near the date and so, instead of your mother language, then, even though you can’t see which simbol has the key in it, you can always press the one that Corey says, like “the havie one next to the number one”, besides that, someone already explained how to select the luminosity, by pressing cmmd or ctrl and the RGB channel!
    Well… Bye, and once again, nice tutorial…

    Márcio Guerra

  12. Celeste said on — August 19, 2008 @ 10:29 am

    Bravo Cory! Can’t wait to try that effect on my images.

  13. Marty Klunk said on — August 20, 2008 @ 8:57 pm

    I have been looking for a tutorial like this for a year. Thanks so much for this.

  14. vu said on — August 22, 2008 @ 6:15 pm

    I can;t find another word to describe your talent but creative you are,

  15. Mikka said on — August 24, 2008 @ 5:24 am

    Nice tutorial but I can only see the beginning of it! After Corey explained how to smooth out the hair with the smudge tool the video changes and instead a comercial fot the magazine “Layers” starts. Please please I really wanna see the end of the turorial, how can a see the rest?

    /Mikka

  16. cvision said on — August 24, 2008 @ 4:54 pm

    Another Kick ass tutorial by the one and only Cory Barker.

  17. Shari said on — August 25, 2008 @ 9:16 am

    I’m sorry…what am I missing? I’m on a mac and command-option-tilde does nothing for me. I’ve tried this on two macs. I’ve tried it with a shift even (since you need a shift key to make a ~ sign). I can’t find a menu command and Photoshop help doesn’t mention it.

    command option 1, 2 or 3 does something….although I’m not sure what’s getting selected, but it’s different for each one. Can anyone help me with this?

    BTW, love this tutorial (and this site!) Thanks!

  18. Peter R said on — August 25, 2008 @ 11:02 am

    Thanks for all tips the last two years
    Its GREAT!!!!

  19. Peter R said on — August 25, 2008 @ 11:07 am

    Thanks for all tips the last years. Its GREAT!!!

  20. Russell said on — August 29, 2008 @ 8:37 pm

    This is the most amazing thing I have ever seen!

    I’m still new to photoshop, so would you mind helping me? I’m a little confused on how you did this part..

    How did you “load that selection” (layer 1) “and create a new layer on top of that one? and fill that selection with white?”

  21. Ady said on — September 5, 2008 @ 3:01 pm

    Amazing ! Very nice ! Good job

  22. Frunced said on — September 7, 2008 @ 2:26 am

    yeah, i have no idea what the hell he’s doing, how do you load a selection, how did he fill it with white??????? I can’t follow this

  23. Mi said on — September 8, 2008 @ 3:13 am

    Omg, thank you -so- much for this!!! I desperately needed it because I edit my own photos and recently had a pinup shoot…….

    Thanksthanksthanks… :P

  24. Learn PhotoShop said on — September 9, 2008 @ 2:57 pm

    Learning how to transform a photo into a pin-up girl effect is the coolest tutorial I’ve seen in PhotoShop yet.

    Thanks.

  25. applesomething said on — September 23, 2008 @ 3:24 pm

    This is what I’ve been wanting to do. This and only this. I wonder how long it took to figure this out.

  26. Celina said on — September 25, 2008 @ 10:33 pm

    hi! im really interested in this tutorial, i just have one question what is the luminosity step…?

    “option command and the wavy line” i tried searching on what is this and i dont understand…

    so please, maybe someone can explain!!

  27. Matt said on — September 26, 2008 @ 6:42 am

    I really feel like I should be paying you for these high-quality tutorials… thank you very much!

  28. mayr said on — October 1, 2008 @ 3:05 pm

    Wow. Thanks. It’s wonderful to see a pro at work. I’ve got to get those keyboard moves down too. Love it. Thank you so much.

  29. Charline said on — October 2, 2008 @ 3:37 pm

    This is a wonderful tutorial. I have used it on numerous photographs and also used it as a black and white. They make great gifts when framed. Thanks a bunch. YOU ROCK!

    Baton Rouge, Louisiana

  30. Hannah M said on — October 2, 2008 @ 8:30 pm

    This is wonderful! You’re truly amazing.

  31. Mary said on — October 5, 2008 @ 5:10 pm

    Very good, but I use PC, not mac so i get lost when he does the selection on the overlay layer :(

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  33. brandon said on — October 11, 2008 @ 11:14 am

    “How did you “load that selection” (layer 1) “and create a new layer on top of that one? and fill that selection with white?”

    I did not understand this part either. Maybe Corey will read the comments one day a expand on this tricky part of the video.

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  40. Krissa said on — October 18, 2008 @ 7:39 pm

    I found out the “fill with white” problem after fiddeling around for some time. And you can either press Shift+F5 (on a pc) or go to Edit+Fill(use:White) :)
    Hope this helps !

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  42. Sid Pratt said on — October 27, 2008 @ 12:35 pm

    Cool!

  43. keggers said on — October 27, 2008 @ 3:20 pm

    This tutorial saved my butt (and an iffy image) from a total disaster. Thanks!

  44. David Whiting said on — October 28, 2008 @ 10:58 pm

    You say on this tutorial around halfway. ‘Im going to fill this with white’. How do you do that? Is there a quick key for it?

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  46. Lara said on — November 9, 2008 @ 10:01 pm

    Russell and Frunced:

    I don’t know the short cut but to load the selection go to the select menu and at the bottom it says load selection. A dialogue box will come up. Click ok. Next, click the new layer icon in the layers palette. If you don’t know what that is go to layer>new layer. Select the fill tool (under the gradient tool) and white from the swatches and click over the image. If you don’t know what the fill tool looks like go to edit>fill and select white. Click ctrl+d to deselect. i hope this helped!

    By the way, i really enjoyed this tutorial. I have tried making a similar effect but nothing has turned out this polished. Thanks!

  47. Olivia said on — November 18, 2008 @ 4:42 pm

    OMG you rule! This was brilliant :D

  48. jefferson ferreira said on — November 19, 2008 @ 7:15 am

    Muito bom o Tutorial.
    valeu….

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    Superb!

    The tilde key for the WINDOWS is Shift + ~ but on photoshop for me it worked as Alt Gr + Shift + ~

    Hope this helps

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