Sin City Style Photoshop Tutorial

omg awesome my brother loves this movie i never go to see it but i want to and i love the style

Its missing one major thing/piece of advice.

Any photo you use has to have a strong light source.

very good work, with ps. and good producing skills 5*

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um, I have an issue. whenever I go to fix the levels, it rips out all of the facial details and fuzzes it. I used the same number for the levels that you did, and its a big picture too. so what can I do to get over this?

im just curious, but would these steps work in Jasc's PaintShopPro as well? i may actually use it for something like this, i love Sin City...

Thats awsome! When I'm finished getting moved in, I wanna use this and put it as my door ID

this effect looks wonderful!!
i' ve been a couple hours trying to do this... not as good as the one in the example, but well.

Hey there,
this is a great tutorial, really easy to understand and so easy to do
thanks for posting it,

Wow Sin City=Great movie.....and so is this tutorial....

Hey. I tired using this tutorial and I think there might be some steps missing?? I dunno. Im still sort of photoshop retarded. I think its a lot of fun and this is a really cool tutorial. I'd love to be able to figure it out and use it!!

SCORE! The Sin City look is just about the most awesome thing I've ever seen, and I've been amazed ever since I saw the movie. Thanks dude *bows*

This was the most fun tutorial I've found in along time.

Wow, thanks for this tutorial! I myself have been playing with the same stuff you used to get this, but somehow could not get it right..thanks

it's not the same as in the movies - i believe it looks like what was used in the actual comics, but I'm no expert there... if you want something more like the movies you might need to recolor some parts or use the effect only on parts of the image. this tutorial is not the only way of doing things, it's just one way to get a nice effect, the rest is up to you.

This Tut is flipping awesome!!!

awesome tutorial !!!! i made my desktop and then after i did i was browsing around saw ur tutorial, looked at your tutorial and i was woah! we do it alike! except i didn't try to make it sin city like i thought that was funny well anyways very cool tutorial :)

Nice one, i like it, am thinking of using it when i make my avater. But one question, jsut beeing looking at the trailers etc and this isn't the same effect as them. Am i missing something? The best i can think of is that your only suposed to use this effect on their clothes and do the write gray scale?

I've had so much fun with this. Thanks for sharing. :3

I love Sin City and this tutorial is very good...
Thanks

This is just a totally cool tute; well thought out,

I faved this because I loved it so much. Thank you again for making this! I had so much fun!!!! Couldn't get the rain to work correctly at first, so I lessed the opaqueicity(sp?!?) when I was doing the overlay of gray, and lessened the amount of noise...then It came out great. ^_^ I also had to tweak the katana a bit, but after a bit of work that came out great too! I love you ^_^

I wanted to say, thank you for making this tutorial! I loved it! It helped me get through my first experience with photoshop, and I actually made an ID using this tutorial (and may I say I love how it turned out!

thank you for this amazing tutorial!!!
i appriciate that

great tutorial. absolute lifesaver

Really well done tut. Even as a Photoshop noob I was able to follow along, thanks. Faved.

really good tutorial! Thank u very many! ^_^

OMG thank you!
Sin City is one of my all time favorites
This tutorial is really easy to follow
THANKS!

Awesome im gonna try it.

like it, gonna try something with a picof my car...

thanks a lot for this, hombre!! great one

awesome! Good to see a tutorial other than the usual "how to colour manga girls' hair". Keep bringing the funking stuff!

Groovy! What font is that by the way?

Thank you!!!!!! I was looking for this effect!

Well I hated Sin City, but I did like it visually. Great tutorial

The Noise Amount is not 400%.. it is zoom-ed on 400% but the amount is only 12,5%

^^

Ive always wanted to do try it. Thanks!

Very nice tutorial!

need to try this .... NOW >.< ^^ great job

Pretty good tut. I would have just gone with the cutout from the start though and not even bothered with the levels.

extremely cool, thanx!

thank you very much for making this tutorial. I can make good use of this.

something that seemed so hard now has become extremely easy.
thanks for sharing :)

this is what I've been looking for! :D I can make that pic now! I'm off teh hookzor! woohoo! ty very much for this tutorial :D

Awesome!

Thanks, this tut is really cool! The pic I made came out awesome ^_^

Haha, sweet. I'm definitely going to give this a shot. (:

woah hey i'm going to have to try this, i've been trying to figure a way to make photos look as though they were comics. very awesome

Now that is an amazing tutorial for this effect. :) Thanks for posting it!

Amazing, this gives me a ton of ideas

very nice work!!!

Yay! I'm going to try this sometime.
Thanks for the tutorial!

i liked this a lot!! i'll give it a try..
really simple and very effective

Gonna have a go at this.

had problems with the rain as well; eventually i used a third layer of rain, skewed it even less and added a gradient to compensate for some of the darker parts of the picture.
guess the original image wasn't that good to begin with.

Great tutorial. That rain trick sure is nifty.

Anyone knows what font is used for the caption?

great tute, thanks a lot!

I love this technique!!

can´t seem to get the rain like the example either... anyone got a response?

a few things. Whenever Im doing the rain, one i motion blur, it becomes transparent on its own. Then when i try to skew it, it says "could not transform because The Initial Bounding rectangle was empty." whats that mean and how do i fix?

thats pritty cool.. Now just to add colour to sertin places

I do not know how to add the black background color without breaking all the image :(
Could you help me?

Still haven't figured out where the lasso tool is to make the bubble. Very new to Photoshop.

Hi.. I don't succeeded in rain part...
Can you show me an example of your levels values ?

Mine looked well until i merged the layers and it threw in a bunch of extra rain. Not sure what happened there.

I'm going to try tonight mine, great tutorials btw, been watching the site for the last 3 days, and finally decided to become a member of this community.

not a bad result. Mine came out a bit dark though

Hey THX it really works!
Cool to learn some new tricks.

the rain comes out too dark for me, what settings did you use?

Cool tutorial... Thanks!

This is awesome. Thanks for the easy to follow guide.

One question: The rain is tough. On mine and the ones posted here it looks like we are getting a lot more rain droplets than in the example. I've tried changing the resolution on the image from my original 2048x3072 down to 1700x1200, 900x600, etc. Nothing I do seems to reduce the amount of rain produced. However, if I use your sample image it comes out looking just fine. I think it might be due to the behavior of the "Vivid Light" setting. My images tend not to be stark black/white contrasts. Could this be why?

Thanks for any advice, I would love to nail down the effect.

Nice job guys

Awesome tutorial buddy. Thanks much!

Hey,

Thanks for the tutorial - I found the hardest part getting the rain looking like you did. I ended up by adjusting the levels of the final jpg image to make it all look a little more inky.

I recommend using an image that has a lighter background than your head otherwise it just won't look as good. Oh, and the font is called Comic (who would have thought!)

Thanks for the tutorial!

nice i thirst thought of the movie but this is nice to

By the way, the Threshold effect does the EXACT same thing much mor easily.

This article looks like a noir comic book, but it doesn't really look like the Sin City movie...

I swear, I misread the title and thought I was about to learn how to use Photoshop to create "Sim City"-style graphics, complete with little boxy houses and a rampaging, lego-like Godzilla. D'oh!

It is a very simple effect but good to know nonetheless.

The Real trick, is doing this in Video, NOT frame by Frame :-D

Very Simple, yet produces awesome effects.

Aww I thought it read "Sim City".

This is nice

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Thanks a ton for the tutorial! Very easy to follow!