MattyB @mattyb has posted a few discussions giving detailed descriptions of how he achieved some of his shot, so with some interest in how I achieved my most recent photo, I thought I'd give a go at explaining the "how to's". First let me explain that I have Paint Shop Pro X2 and not Photoshop, so some of the terms I use here may differ in whatever program you are using. Here is my photo titled Love, Love Me Blue:
This shot is actually a marriage of 2 photos. Here are the steps I used ( if you know any tricks to make this easier please let me know ):
1. I opened both of these images into Paint Shop:
2. I selected the 1st shot (the sky), duplicated the layer and set the blend mode to multiply
3. I then selected the 2nd shot (the heart), I duplicated the layer and set blend mode to screen, I duplicated the layer again (also at screen mode), I then toggled the visibility of the original background layer OFF
3. Next I selected my freehand selection tool set at point to point mode and carefully cut out the back ground (take your time on this step)- your cut out background will look like a grey and white checkerboard.
4. Once you have the back ground completely removed from the picture you need to select the whole image- in Paint Shop this is under the Selections tab
5. The next step is to copy the image (if you are using PSP you will find this under the Edit tab)
6. Then return to the image of the sky
7. Under the Edit tab select "paste as new layer"- the image of the heart should appear on top of the image of the sky.
8. Select your pick tool and move the image of the heart to your desired location
9. Select your freehand selection tool ( for this part I used freehand instead of point to point and I set the feathering at around 6- but do whatever you find works best for you)
10. Carefully draw a little heart inside of the big heart- once you have a heart that you are happy with place your cursor inside of the selected heart and move to somewhere in the sky (this will give you a new layer called a floating layer)
11. Make sure the floating heart layer is selected on the layers palette and then use your pick tool to resize, move, or angle your little heart in the sky.
12. On your layers palette reselect the original heart image and repeat the previous 3 steps until you have an image that you are happy with
13. merge all layers (merge-flatten)
14. Save as...
15. Smile because you have just created a REALLY cool image :D
I hope this tutorial is helpful to you, and like I said before if you know a way that makes any of these steps easier please let me know. I'm sorry if some of the terminology doesn't make sense in your program, but hey I can only tell ya what I know. If you use this tutorial please let me know, I'd love to see what you come up with!!
1. Take a photo of a cube
2. Open this in photoshop
3. Choose another photo that will be the wrap for the cube
4. Open this also in the photoshop
5. draw a square using the lasso tool
6. fill the lasso with black
7. then make another 2 more squares and fill them again with colour black.
8. Now, select one of the black squares with Select > Load Selection, after that go to the background layer with the background photo copy it using Ctrl+C.
9. Then go to the photo of the cube and paste copied part image into it using Ctrl+V
10, put this part of image on the one of cube sides. Use Edit > Transform > Distort to transform this image.
11. Go back to the canvas with background photo; select another one black square to copy second part of image in the same way.
12. go back to the cube again and paste this part image into it. Use Edit > Transform > Distort to create second part of the skin for the cube:
13. one last time and copy the last one part of the future skin of the cube.
14. Merge three of these sides in one layer and change layer mode to Multiply.
@rebcastillo77 YESSSS. I'm glad someone followed my lead and I'm happy it was you Rebecca because you always have beautiful pictures. Thanks for sharing with us. I tried doing a 'cool' picture tonight with some thumbtacks but it was a failure. Maybe another day this week when I have some time. @ddantic You also have amazing pictures. We can all learn something from both of you!! Thanks guys.
1. Open Image
2. Crop image into a square
3. Duplicate the background layer twice
4. Name first copy Vertical and name the second copy horizontal
5. Press D to reset foreground and background colours to default
6. Click on original background layer and Alt backspace to fill with black.
7. Turn top layer off (for now) click on the eyeball icon to do that
8. Turn on the grid (crtl ‘)
9. Crtl k to open preferences - set color to custom, styles to lines, gridline every 25 cm? and subdivisions to 4
10. Select horizontal strips layer
11 Select marquee too (press M key)
12. Drag out horizontal strips (use shift key to select multple strips)
13. Add a layer mask
14. Turn vertical strips layer on (click eyeball)
15. Select vertical strips layer
16. Add a layer mask
17. Ctrl ‘ to turn off grid
18. Hold ctrl key and click directly on the horizontal strips thumbnail
19. Hold down shift ctrl alt and click on the vertical strips thumbnail.
20. Deselect every other square selection using the marquee tool (hold down alt key)
21. Copy selections to a new layer (ctrl J)
22. With the new layer selected go to layer menu at top of screen and choose create clipping mask (or ctrl alt g)
23. Repeat steps 18 and 19
24. Deselect every other square selection using the marquee tool. (if you started on the first square last time then start on the second square this time.
25. Click on vertical strips layer and ctrl j to copy
26. Ctrl alt g to create a clipping mask
27. Add layer style to layer 2 choose outer glow, multiply/ 60%/9px
28 copy layer style and select layer 1 and paste layer style.
Open your image
Change the name of this layer to whatever fits your picture. (I choose statue)
Create a layer that will serve as the background for the image.
Choose Layer/New Fill Layer/Solid Color.
Set the Color None, the Mode to Normal, and the Opacity to 100%.
rename this layer as Gray Fill - type in 220 for the red, green, and blue values. Since all of the numbers are the same, this will create a neutral gray.
Next, let’s drag this layer below the statue.
The next step is to create a frame.
To make sure that the new layer is on top of the layer stack
select the Statue layer.
choose Layer/New/Layer.
Color is set to None, the Mode to Normal, and the Opacity to 100%.
call this the Frame layer.
We can now use the Rectangular Marquee tool to create a selection.
set the style to Fixed Ratio, the Width to 1.5, and the Height to 1.0.
All we have to do now is draw a rectangular selection.
fill this selection with white by choosing Edit/Fill.
set the color to white.
draw a smaller rectangular selection inside our white rectangle. We may need to move it around a bit to get it placed correctly. Hitting the delete key now removes the white, and our frame has been created.
We will not need this selection anymore, so we can get rid of it by clicking anywhere outside of the selection.
We need to do some transforming on this Frame layer in order to get the frame to appear to be lying down. Now, there are a number of ways that we could transform this layer. Let’s try this: choose Edit/Transform/Distort. Hitting the Enter key will complete the transformation.
Now comes the only challenging part of the entire workflow: selecting the statue and the frame.
To make the selecting easier, let’s zoom in to the 100% view by pressing Control+Alt+0
Use the Magnetic Lasso tool. To make your selection.
When the selection has been completed you can zoom back out
invert the selection by choosing Select/Inverse.
soften the edges of the selection by clicking Edit in Quick Mask Modeand choose Filter/Blur/Gaussian Blur.
A radius of about two or three pixels ought to do the job.
Come out of Quick Mask Mode by clicking Edit in Standard Mode.
remove everything from the image except the statue and the framed photo.
Select the statue layer and hit the delete key.
get rid of the selection by choosing Select/Deselect.
select the Frame layer and add a mask by choosing Layer/Layer Mask/Reveal All.
choose the Brush tool and click on the Brush pull down menu and adjust the Master Diameter and the Hardness.
Set Opacity and Flow to 100% and the Mode to Normal.
zoom in to the 100% view to better see the area on which we need to work.
set the foreground color to black and click on the mask to make sure that it is selected. Last, we just paint out the border.
zoom out to our original view by pressing Control+O
add a drop shadow to make everything look more realistic.
@laceyjogautreau thanks for checking it out- I hope you find it easy to use!
@ddantic and @roth Thank you both for contributing to this thread- we all have something to learn right?
@mattyb Thanks Matty!! I love this site for so many reasons, the biggest reason being that everyone is so willing to share tips and tricks :D I just want to let you know that I really appreciate your wonderfully sweet and kind comments.
I am totally at a loss when it comes to Photoshop.. I don't understand layers, nor masks..I seem to not be able to learn from the tutorials, because I learn by being shown.. I would love to try to create images like these but am so new to photography and editing that I fear it will not happen for me..
@carolynnhyde Everyone starts out feeling the same way. Just play around with one thing at a time until you have that one thing down, and then try something new. Remember that there is always the undo button :D
@carolynnhyde some tutorials are on youtube, so you could watch it being done and pause whenever you like, Its really not hard to do if you take it one step at a time. I could not do these if it were not for my notes and tutorials....at least not yet, I am just new at this.
@rebcastillo77 ...... ahhhhhh i thought u used photo shop lol i just told someone this image :
was done in a similar way to yours but using a diff program , i lied :( oppsies i used the same program as u :) i swear by psp x2 (although im hoping x3 will be even better lol ) ive been using the same technique as you for a few years now and it always gives a good effect :)
anyhow this was done in a very similar way but i didnt write a step by step , bad me :( lol
@roth I'm getting hung up on steps 19-20. Nothing happens when I do #19, thus I can't see to select the squares in #20 since teh grid has been turned off.
Can you explain what I'm missing?
Thanks so much for your tutorial!
Edited: Figured it out thanks to Google!
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Step by Step procedure on how to do this one.
1. Take a photo of a cube
2. Open this in photoshop
3. Choose another photo that will be the wrap for the cube
4. Open this also in the photoshop
5. draw a square using the lasso tool
6. fill the lasso with black
7. then make another 2 more squares and fill them again with colour black.
8. Now, select one of the black squares with Select > Load Selection, after that go to the background layer with the background photo copy it using Ctrl+C.
9. Then go to the photo of the cube and paste copied part image into it using Ctrl+V
10, put this part of image on the one of cube sides. Use Edit > Transform > Distort to transform this image.
11. Go back to the canvas with background photo; select another one black square to copy second part of image in the same way.
12. go back to the cube again and paste this part image into it. Use Edit > Transform > Distort to create second part of the skin for the cube:
13. one last time and copy the last one part of the future skin of the cube.
14. Merge three of these sides in one layer and change layer mode to Multiply.
@ddantic You also have amazing pictures. We can all learn something from both of you!! Thanks guys.
Interweaving Photo strips Effect
1. Open Image
2. Crop image into a square
3. Duplicate the background layer twice
4. Name first copy Vertical and name the second copy horizontal
5. Press D to reset foreground and background colours to default
6. Click on original background layer and Alt backspace to fill with black.
7. Turn top layer off (for now) click on the eyeball icon to do that
8. Turn on the grid (crtl ‘)
9. Crtl k to open preferences - set color to custom, styles to lines, gridline every 25 cm? and subdivisions to 4
10. Select horizontal strips layer
11 Select marquee too (press M key)
12. Drag out horizontal strips (use shift key to select multple strips)
13. Add a layer mask
14. Turn vertical strips layer on (click eyeball)
15. Select vertical strips layer
16. Add a layer mask
17. Ctrl ‘ to turn off grid
18. Hold ctrl key and click directly on the horizontal strips thumbnail
19. Hold down shift ctrl alt and click on the vertical strips thumbnail.
20. Deselect every other square selection using the marquee tool (hold down alt key)
21. Copy selections to a new layer (ctrl J)
22. With the new layer selected go to layer menu at top of screen and choose create clipping mask (or ctrl alt g)
23. Repeat steps 18 and 19
24. Deselect every other square selection using the marquee tool. (if you started on the first square last time then start on the second square this time.
25. Click on vertical strips layer and ctrl j to copy
26. Ctrl alt g to create a clipping mask
27. Add layer style to layer 2 choose outer glow, multiply/ 60%/9px
28 copy layer style and select layer 1 and paste layer style.
Out of Bounds Tutorial
Open your image
Change the name of this layer to whatever fits your picture. (I choose statue)
Create a layer that will serve as the background for the image.
Choose Layer/New Fill Layer/Solid Color.
Set the Color None, the Mode to Normal, and the Opacity to 100%.
rename this layer as Gray Fill - type in 220 for the red, green, and blue values. Since all of the numbers are the same, this will create a neutral gray.
Next, let’s drag this layer below the statue.
The next step is to create a frame.
To make sure that the new layer is on top of the layer stack
select the Statue layer.
choose Layer/New/Layer.
Color is set to None, the Mode to Normal, and the Opacity to 100%.
call this the Frame layer.
We can now use the Rectangular Marquee tool to create a selection.
set the style to Fixed Ratio, the Width to 1.5, and the Height to 1.0.
All we have to do now is draw a rectangular selection.
fill this selection with white by choosing Edit/Fill.
set the color to white.
draw a smaller rectangular selection inside our white rectangle. We may need to move it around a bit to get it placed correctly. Hitting the delete key now removes the white, and our frame has been created.
We will not need this selection anymore, so we can get rid of it by clicking anywhere outside of the selection.
We need to do some transforming on this Frame layer in order to get the frame to appear to be lying down. Now, there are a number of ways that we could transform this layer. Let’s try this: choose Edit/Transform/Distort. Hitting the Enter key will complete the transformation.
Now comes the only challenging part of the entire workflow: selecting the statue and the frame.
To make the selecting easier, let’s zoom in to the 100% view by pressing Control+Alt+0
Use the Magnetic Lasso tool. To make your selection.
When the selection has been completed you can zoom back out
invert the selection by choosing Select/Inverse.
soften the edges of the selection by clicking Edit in Quick Mask Modeand choose Filter/Blur/Gaussian Blur.
A radius of about two or three pixels ought to do the job.
Come out of Quick Mask Mode by clicking Edit in Standard Mode.
remove everything from the image except the statue and the framed photo.
Select the statue layer and hit the delete key.
get rid of the selection by choosing Select/Deselect.
select the Frame layer and add a mask by choosing Layer/Layer Mask/Reveal All.
choose the Brush tool and click on the Brush pull down menu and adjust the Master Diameter and the Hardness.
Set Opacity and Flow to 100% and the Mode to Normal.
zoom in to the 100% view to better see the area on which we need to work.
set the foreground color to black and click on the mask to make sure that it is selected. Last, we just paint out the border.
zoom out to our original view by pressing Control+O
add a drop shadow to make everything look more realistic.
@ddantic and @roth Thank you both for contributing to this thread- we all have something to learn right?
@mattyb Thanks Matty!! I love this site for so many reasons, the biggest reason being that everyone is so willing to share tips and tricks :D I just want to let you know that I really appreciate your wonderfully sweet and kind comments.
The how to is in between the two out of bounds tutorials :)
was done in a similar way to yours but using a diff program , i lied :( oppsies i used the same program as u :) i swear by psp x2 (although im hoping x3 will be even better lol ) ive been using the same technique as you for a few years now and it always gives a good effect :)
anyhow this was done in a very similar way but i didnt write a step by step , bad me :( lol
Can you explain what I'm missing?
Thanks so much for your tutorial!
Edited: Figured it out thanks to Google!