BEST: Create Vector Low Poly Effect with Photoshop CC!

[@akshayraghunath9022]

It took you 7 an a half Hour ??!!!! Just saw your computer time at the beginning and the end of the video. Respect bro

[@tutvid]

I may have taken a break while recording, too. I can't quite remember, haha Thanks, though!

[@jeffalenko]

tried this and almost took me 7 hours! with almost 700+ shapes but the results are worth it! Thanks for this awesome tutorial!!

[@tutvid]

+Yvon Bianco Alenko Wow! Impressive! That's serious dedication right there. Thanks for sticking around and leaving a comment!

[@19ozzie83]

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!!!

[@scshah001]

lol, I clicked his thinking it would be a 1-2 min video.....

[@tutvid]

+Chirag Shah 😬

[@scshah001]

+tutvid lol. glad it wasn't.

[@reignsryder8505]

+Chirag Shah lol I'm hip same here, I didnt know till i read this comment

[@raghunandan8162]

You sir, stand above most of the other youtubers trying to teach us lowlifes PhotoShop n stuff.

[@tutvid]

I'm right there with the rest of the lowlifes, too 😂 #lowLife4Life

[@wilderprintco]

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. :)

[@tutvid]

Amazing! So glad you enjoyed it!

[@ChristopherDGagne]

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.

[@tutvid]

+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!

[@ParashuramVhaval]

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. :)

[@EshaKarim]

Man! Kudos to your patience!

[@tutvid]

+ঈশা করিম (Esha Karim) Thank you!

[@iamavrojyoti]

Holding CMD/CTRL and then clicking on it with selection tool was new to me..Thanks :D 20:58

[@tutvid]

+Mr.A7 Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for the kind words!

[@soarux1054]

Amazing you did this at 2am... bravo mate. Thanks for the tutorial

[@tutvid]

Thanks, bro! I awake at all hours working to make this channel better :D

[@GabrielAguiarProd]

Really enjoyed the end result. Nice tut man ;)

[@meiravichvichy4987]

Thank you for putting time and effort to make this video, very much appreciated.

[@tutvid]

+Meira Vich Thanks, Meira!

[@dstarj1]

You are super patient. love all your tut's. Thank you.

[@tutvid]

Thanks for the kind words, David! Glad you enjoy!

[@transientcc1690]

Well spoken and easy to follow. Keep it up.

[@tutvid]

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@littleripper312]

Omg, I didn't realize they were done by hand like that.

[@blaineconners2987]

Great Video. Appreciate the time taken. Want to try this.

[@upzdesign9247]

respect the patience :) great tutorial!!!

[@tutvid]

+Pál Urbán Haha. Glad you enjoyed and thanks!

[@chidambershindhe-jo9ze]

One of the Awesome tutorial 👌☺ Thank you

[@tutvid]

+chidamber shindhe Thank you!

[@tapansaraph]

Just use the polygon lasso and average blur filter. It's much easier that way

[@akshayrajput3875]

Can you explain??..... @nikonerds instagram .....or you can explain here

[@tapansaraph]

@@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.

[@emilydevlin6731]

If you watch the video by FX ray it explains how to use it

[@moretimeproductions]

Man, you`re crazy, in a good way that is! Thank you so much for your awesome work with the tutorials and that courses over at your site. Much love!

[@kasunchamara2209]

this is very cool tutorial tutvid. thanks

[@tutvid]

Thank you, Kasun! 🍻

[@menakhaled8665]

Tried it and the result is BEAUTIFUL even though i had a lot of mistakes lol! Thank you

[@tutvid]

+Mena Khaled Glad it worked out for you! Thanks for commenting!

[@Morawka1]

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.

[@suspectpigeon9717]

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?

[@360MIX]

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...

[@tutvid]

+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!

[@Nobody-yd9ng]

After we have drawn all the triangles can we seect all the layers and go filter>blur>average and color them all in with just one click?

[@3xcelsi0r10]

Dude this is rediculous awesome!

[@tutvid]

Thanks, Roy!

[@Camilo-wp9fn]

Excellent.!! Thanks for this and all your education.. You're the best.!!

[@tutvid]

+Steven Thanks, Steven! 🍻

[@MrSnowy665]

Great tutorial, posting my (some what) successful attempt to Twitter!

[@tutvid]

+MrSnowy665 What's your handle? I'd love to check it out!

[@MrSnowy665]

+tutvid @snowy665 I just tweeted you

[@EvOLVIEd813]

I like how the title says "BEST"..... not because it's misleading but because it's true

[@tutvid]

+EvOLVIEd813 Had to make it jump out somehow. :D Does that mean it's click-bait-ish? Haha

[@RedDirtAlleyPhotography]

Awesome tut! Thank you!

[@tutvid]

+Red Dirt Alley Thanks, RDA!

[@facbook12]

Gorgeous, thanks my brother

[@tutvid]

+Corozan Silver Thanks for the kind words!

[@jaroslavserbus2331]

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!

[@Tonicwine999]

What an epic tutorial!

[@tutvid]

+Tonicwine999 Thanks, Tonic! I'm trying to make the most epic ones out there!

[@Tonicwine999]

You are and always have

[@MohammedElShinawy]

that's so cool ... thanks man

[@tutvid]

Thanks, man!

[@KelseaSparkles]

Best tutorial ever

[@tutvid]

+KelseaSparkles Thank you so much!

[@SpyderBlackOfficial]

Thanks man I been looking for this

[@tutvid]

+Sukhi Rai Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@009Tibette]

Thanks for that video, I done my first one , and its took 4 hours

[@yassuoigai2053]

Excellent! Thank you very much!

[@tutvid]

Yassuo Igai, Thank you so much! 🍻

[@yassuoigai2053]

You're welcome, Tutvid! Let me show you my drawings? yassuo-igai.deviantart.com/gallery/ Thank you!

[@yassuoigai2053]

Tutvid, Thank you!

[@mohamadalahmad4620]

really awesome vid, thank you so much bro

[@tutvid]

+Mohamad Alahmad Thanks, Mohamad!

[@mohamadalahmad4620]

you are welcome my friend

[@alexd4946]

This helped me a bunch! Thank you!

[@tutvid]

+Alex Dale Thanks, Alex! Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@michaelxu9340]

Great video, thanks

[@CSFAV]

Omg this is so cool!! Thank you for making this!!!

[@tutvid]

+CSFAV Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@elitemediaproduction9773]

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 :)

[@tutvid]

+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!

[@elitemediaproduction9773]

+tutvid thanks for the info! You can see on my Facebooc account my new Lowpoly profile 😂😂😂😂👍🏻😂👍🏻👍🏻

[@LeoneBeats]

wow bro, this is real dedication, liked and subscribed. Thanks for the tutorial

[@tutvid]

Thanks, man! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@TheLeelahari]

Great Tutorial.. Thanks ...

[@tutvid]

Thank you so much!

[@TheMrFloozies]

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!

[@tutvid]

+TheMrFloozies I'll definitely consider doing that! It's a tough effect to pull off effectively!

[@TheMrFloozies]

+tutvid if anyone can do it, I know you can :D

[@patrik7058]

If I save this project as photoshop EPS, would I be able to open it and scale it without loss of resolution in Adobe Illustrator?

[@dashah5709]

Yes

This was awesome. Thank you!

[@tutvid]

Glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks! 👌

[@SkeletonHammoudeh]

We could also do just the face or maybe just the skin, and leave the hair and clothes, it would look incredible too!! and also maybe save much time

[@tutvid]

+Skeleton Hammoudeh Absolutely! You have all the options you'd ever want at your disposal. 👍

[@nxmaradona]

Really amazing bro, really.

[@tutvid]

+Mino Arcopinto Thanks, Mino! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@nxmaradona]

+tutvid yeah and BOOM! :D

[@joannaiwanica8396]

OMG i learn so much of your video thank! u xx

[@tutvid]

Thank you, Joanna! 🍻

[@SugengRiyadiAcc]

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.

[@tutvid]

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!

[@NaveedAhmad-qo1lt]

AMAZING!

[@tutvid]

Thank you, Naveed!

[@thomsonpalayoor]

nice attempt

[@tutvid]

+Thomson Paul Thanks

[@meowgirl182]

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.

[@tutvid]

+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

[@scshah001]

would using the tool "average color" work as well during the coloring process?

[@tutvid]

+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!

[@scruffyget]

Brilliant

[@tutvid]

+scruffyget Thanks!

[@harleenkaur5514]

it is the best

[@MrLeSa95]

You should make tutorial on cartoon effect

[@KatyRinconekatyrin]

i need it!!

[@VengoRegis]

Great thanks

[@tutvid]

+Vengo Regis Thank you, Vengo!

[@erickroav]

thank dude

[@tutvid]

+erickroav Thanks for watching!

[@tomtothem3117]

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.

[@tutvid]

+Thomas Mecher I have not used Photoshop 5.0+ for over a decade and a half. I honestly don't remember what the Pen settings are in that version 😐

[@NavilRodrigues]

Artistic 🙏

[@tutvid]

Thank you very much 😃

[@jasonli4598]

Love the tutorial，but how to select all of the shape in a very quick in 21:45?

[@chapitaaa]

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 !!

[@tutvid]

+Nicolas Chapero Haha. Thanks, Nicolas! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ilikethepixies]

hey, thanks! useful!

[@tutvid]

Thank you! 👌

[@vennyliu3849]

For the colorizing part, is there any way I could set a shortcut or something so you don't have to select and color every single piece?

[@jimbomccracken8812]

Create an Action that fills the triangle with the effect average Color

[@tutvid]

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.

[@grendor11221]

can u please show the settings of brush for lo poly and other things because lines of my triangle while drawing is not thick it is blur

[@TomCelar]

I was thinking why it does not look very well, you "need" to use the average blur filter to get the color, not pick a random one within the shape :)

[@OrenUrbach]

+Tomáš Celar Yeah but how do you apply it to vector shapes?

[@MrTastyNooDlez]

Don't think you can, I tried and it says the shape layer needs to be Rasterised

[@vijaykohli1999]

bro its original method of polygon art

[@warrenchen1596]

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.

[@mayrey1]

Awesome

[@tutvid]

+Rey23 Thank you!

[@icaenuitm9554]

great tutorial!!! Bro..keep it up. may i know the music for this video?

[@tutvid]

Thank you! I can't remember the track of music. It was some EDM track from AudioJungle though, I think.

[@axas_axas]

Can u please share the link of the model image? Good Tut

[@tutvid]

+Diogo “FlasH” Bernardo She is a client of mine, I can't post the image for direct download. Sorry about that.

[@mxfuster]

Never thought I would be this early...

[@tutvid]

+Aristocles A great philosopher like you is never late to a party.

[@shubhamdhoot3999]

can this be done in cs6 too ?

[@alikhalil1082]

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!

[@tutvid]

Hmmm... that's a good question. I would guess it's some kind of "wireframe" or geometric shape effect.

[@ak-loz]

How did you create that intro!? It's really nice

[@tutvid]

+Poohbi e It's made in After Effects. Animated masks and transformations to give it a parallax and 3D effect. Thank you!

[@winstonzhang3111]

how long did this actually take you?

[@dRiv-cb7ih]

Just curious what mouse do you use?

[@tutvid]

+Danny Rivera Right now I have an older Logitech performance mouse MX that I use. It works well!

[@maridiaz6676]

increible no entiedo lo dices, pero se ve facil lo intentare

[@tutvid]

+Mari Diaz Thank you!

[@grantwayner4002]

Just wondering, how long did this take you?

[@tutvid]

Probably about 1hour 45minutes.

[@zeinajabbar2644]

هل من مساعده ما اسم هذه الدرؤس لاني لا اجيد اللغه الانكليزيه كثيرا

[@LeonPeric]

Where did you find this model photo? can you share it? thank you :)

[@trig763]

+Leon Peric if Celine Dion had a daughter in college

[@scshah001]

I was wondering, how would you apply this effect to text?

[@tutvid]

+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!

[@scshah001]

+tutvid Woah. thanks for taking the time to reply to all my comments.

[@jessex5779]

its an awesome tutortial but i cant get rid of the shape lines :'(

[@LEONEL12]

When I go to fill in the triangles and use the eye drop tool it won't select the color just stays white :/

[@teddythalmann1534]

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)

[@AndreGarciaJr]

good shit

[@tutvid]

Thanks, Andre 👌

[@lowbudgetgamer7505]

can i do these in photoshop cs4?

[@tutvid]

You should be able to without a problem!

[@jadejr8322]

Will It work with Photoshop CS6?

[@tutvid]

Yes. It will work with CS6.

[@jadejr8322]

tutvid Thankyou!

[@iulianungureanu1151]

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...

[@tutvid]

+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.

[@Ben_R4mZ]

That takes FOREVER!

[@tutvid]

+Ben Ramsey (Benramz) I'm convinced it's an effect for those who have forever to spare. 😂

[@austin-kp6de]

Good, but the background looks kinda weird, I still like it though.

[@simmyjer]

help my triangles dont snap together :/

[@stanisawgolinski3244]

i used Illustrotor to do this effect. Its way easier.

[@tutvid]

+Stanisław Goliński Illustrator is the bomb. This one was about how to do everything in Photoshop. :D

[@CombatArmsAUG]

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?

[@tutvid]

+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!

[@CombatArmsAUG]

+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)

[@deanaalves1167]

why are my triangles so light...? you can barely see them

[@tutvid]

+Deana Alves The stroke weight of the lines needs to be bigger (set to a higher number) in the toolbar up at the top of the screen. Hope that helps!

[@bwamiki]

how did you make that intro for the low poly effect ( the second one ) can you do a tutorial

[@virgiliotagliaferri8068]

Shtroke!