I most say this probably is the best tutorial on low poly I have every seen. Thank you for truly giving clear and concise instructions. If you had to choose between doing this in PS or AI which would you choose. I have the entire CC suite. I love AI more when it comes to vectors simply for the scaling and manipulation. It seems more fine tuned without the risk of pixelation. In terms of creation and execution which would you prefer. Thanks again!!!
I've done many many drawings in low poly and i find that it's much more efficient to do it in illustrator. Select the pen tool (p), 3 clicks to make a triangle, V click to deselect and repeat. To fill the triangle, you select the triangle with the black arrow (v) and then use the eyedrop tool (i) and click in the middle of the triangle. It gets rid of the border color automatically and fill the triangle.
+Christopher D. Gagné Illustrator definitely rocks! I wanted to do a tutorial on using only Photoshop for people who are more comfortable with Photoshop. If I were to do this for a client, I would use Illustrator for sure. Thanks, man!
Thanks so much for this tutorial. About halfway through I was just thinking why on earth did I start this! Took about 4 hours but the end result was so worth it. :)
I was using some other method to do low poly effect in photoshop, but your method is best as smart objects allow to edit effect at any time. Thanks for sharing "Awesome" trick. :)
Great tutorial, Another quicker way is to make a macro after selecting the 3 point triangle that will Average the color and fill it in automatically.. this will save you so much time...
+360mix Definitely faster, but you loose the path structure and scaleability of the finished product. I was looking to get something as close to Illustrator as can be done in Photoshop. The Average Blur technique is a good one, it's just a bitmap effect :D Thanks for posting the tip!
@@akshayrajput3875 Instead of using the pen tool and filling color using the color picker, I prefer using the selection tool to select a triangle (lasso) and then use the average blur in the selected area. However, the image formed is of lower quality if the OG image is low rez.
great vid man! could you maybe do a video on how to create a racking effect on a picture to blur the background and emphasize on an object in the foreground? that would be really cool!
Would you recommend using the blur tool or the colour picking method? I'm assuming the blue method is faster but is there much of a difference aside from that?
Any reason why the color picker tool coloring method is preferred over an averaged blur filter? Seem's like you could colorize in 1/4 of the time and get the same results. Some might even say you'd get more accurate colors too since your averaging the entire area of the triangle instead of a single point. Plus averaged blur can be automated with hotkeys.
Hi...I have a question more offtopic with this theme and this is how do you get such sharp images even if you zoomed to 500%? is this possible to get such a high resolution picture with a canon 5D Mark II? and what would be the setup for that? this would help me a lot. Thank you for your support and for your tutorials :)
+Theodor Giripescu The key is a full frame camera and good lenses. This image was taken back in 2011 with a 5D MK II so that's right on point. Add a studio strobe head and shoot at f5.0 aperture or better and never let your shutter drop below the focal length of your lens (i.e. 200mm = 1/200th of second shutter) you'll get some sharp results. Use a tripod if all else fails. Nothing can compensate for having the full frame DSLR and a GOOD lens. Great question!
Great TUT, "Best" just isn't enough. I know this may sound a bit of a perfectionist here, but it's kind of hard to ignore the missing half of his left shoulder. However, I think the amount of conceptual content and learning tips can tell my designer eyes to Fuck off. Greetings from Argentina, keep this awesomeness !!
Hi guys, can I highlight the frame of chosen layer in the picture? In other words, if it is hard to locate the layer in the picture, how can I find it? It would be great if there will be possible to frame it by thicker red line..? Cheers!
Thanks for tutorial. I made a lowpoly picture about 1184 layers and want to create timelapse animation of every single shape of it. How to create animation with those thousands of frames? Is there any way to do it better/faster? Thanks.
You can open the Timeline panel by going Window>Timeline and choose to build a Frame timeline and create a new frame for each layer. Tedious, but effective. You could also export each layer as an individual layer by selecting them all in the Layers panel and choosing the Export option and Photoshop will export each layer as an individual layer. Either import them into After Effects, or Premiere Pro and drag them all onto a timeline in either of those applications. You can set exactly how long an image displays on your timeline in the preferences. This will allow you to simply drag all 1000+ images on the timeline and have them all automatically line up and be set to whatever time you think works for your timelapse and everything will be set just like that in a moment. Hope that helps!
Thanks for the cool tutorial. I've made my triangles and I can select them.. but I cant actually see where they are without applying a stroke ... so therefor I cant really see where to use my color picker to select the color. Could someone please give me some advice.. ? Thanks.
+Christine Smith If you're using the direct selection tool, there should be a very thin path line that appears. If not, I say apply a stroke, then select the color you need and then get rid of the stroke. A little tedious, but it would get the job done. :D
Like Jimbo said in his comment. Use the paths you draw to load selections and go Filter>Blur>Average to fill with an average color of that area. Creating an action would speed it up a lot.
the technique is there but it's a very very slow process. there's a better way to do it with making triangles and make those triangles check for it's average color area and it will easily color itself, some tweak is needed too but it never hurt to save a lot of time instead of coloring it one by one. I also see some quads (not triangle) that's why some shape looks so weird and out of place.
+Chirag Shah The Average blur would work if we loaded the shapes as selections and worked directly on the pixel layer (in this case, the reference image.) You can't apply an Average blur to a vector/path-based shape. The reason I didn't do the effect that way is because the final effect would not be vector or path-based. You can definitely load the shapes as a selection and use the Average blur (using the hotkey Cmd/Ctrl + F can save a load of time!) if you don't care about preserving the paths, the Average blur is a great way to go! Thanks for the comment, man!
Hey, I'm using PS 5.1 and I can't get my pen tool to do the line thing. I could set it to line, but that's not what I'm looking for, right? I select the pen tool (P), set it to shape, I can set the fill to nothing but then there's no option to set a stroke value. Is it my version of PS or am I missing something? Thanks for your help.
+Chirag Shah For text, I would apply a Filter>Render>Clouds effect to the text and trace triangles over the text and then colorize it once you have those triangles. Great question!
anyone knows what the name of the effect for the 'lines' before coloring only? like only make shapes without filling in anything, if you know please reply with the effect name or a URL, Thanks!
Why you didn't used the easyer way? With Poligonal Lasso tool and Average blur... You hit ctrl+f and you fill it more easyer. This way takes very much time...
+Iulian Ungureanu Because this way preserves the paths so you can scale it up or down. Poly Lasso + Average blur is fast, but I wanted to build a vector(path)-based effect in Photoshop, not just a bitmap low poly portrait. You're correct though, Poly Lasso + Average Blur is faster.
make sure you have the little box checked in the middle-top of your window that says "sample current layer and below" (might not be the accurate translation, i am not using the english version of photoshop)
Is it just me, or is anyone else unable to hear the audio in any of these videos? I get audio in every video except for tutvid ones. I have no idea why. Any solutions?
+CombatArmsAUG I've had a couple people telling me this. I think there is something that my Screen recorder is doing when it exports the audio. I'm tweaking a few things hoping it gets better. Could you post you system specs here? I'm trying to figure out why this is happening? I'm so sorry! I'm working to make it better!
+tutvid Sure! Thanks for replying, much appreciated. I'm able to receive the audio just fine on my Mac so I was eventually able to watch this tutorial (it was great, by the way). Windows 7 Nvidia GeForce 750 GTX Realtek HD Audio Quad Core Haswell i5 (All drivers up to date)
