Friday, 31 January 2014

How to create a person looking through cracked glass on Photo Shop.

 1. Select your chosen image of a person and of cracked glass.
 2. Place the glass over the picture and change the mode of the layer to screen.
 3. Now use the Polygonal lasso tool to make an even bigger crack into the glass so that the persons face is visible.
 4. Press Alt and create a new layer mask for the cracked glass layer.
 5. Drag on a grey coloured photograph to fit the size of the picture.
 6. Change the opacity of this grey photograph to about 45%.
Then press Alt and drag the layer mask into the layer for the grey photograph.
 7. Go to > add layer style > Bevel and emboss.
Select > chisel hard.
Your final image should now look like this.

Wednesday, 29 January 2014

How to create a reflection of a skyline in Photo Shop.

 1. Go to canvas size> width 100 percent > height 200 percent and press on the top arrow.
 2. go to View and tick Rulers and Snap.
3. Go to the top ruler and drag down to the bottom of the image and it will snap into place.
 4. Go the Rectangular tool and drag from the top left corner to the bottom right corner.
 5. Press Ctrl T and when you see the arrow at the top drag it down so that the reflection covers the bottom half of the picture.
 6. Go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur.
 7. Make the angle 90 degrees and the distance 35.
 8. Go to Smudge tool and use a medium sized brush with a hardness of 0. Make sure the mode is set to Normal and the strength is 10%.
Then brush over the reflection so that it gives it natural regularities.
 9. Create a new layer. Then go to Filter > Noise > add noise.
Make the amount 100% and tick the box for gaussian and monochromatic.
 10. Go to Filter> Blur > Motion Blur.
Make the angle 0 and the distance 50.
 11. Press Ctrl L to open the Levels window.
Make the inputs 147 1.53 and 219.
 12. Press Ctrl T to open the transform tool. Then go to Edit > Transform > Perspective.
Go to the bottom corner and drag out. Then go to a top corner and drag in.
 13. Go to Filter > Blur > Guassian Blur. Make the radius 2.0 pixels.
 14. Change the blend mode to soft light and the opacity to 35%.
Now you should have a skyline with a reflection.

Saturday, 25 January 2014

How to create a cracked face on Photo Shop.

 1. Select your image and a cracked looking background. Drag the background onto the photograph and make it fit on.
 2. Lower to opacity of the cracked background to about 50%.
 3. Change the normal mode into multiply.
 4. Create a layer mask onto the cracked background.
 5. Use the paint tool to go over any areas which you do not want the cracks to be on.
 6. Change the levels of the background so that the cracks look darker and there is some shadow on the persons face.
7. Your final image should look like this.

Friday, 24 January 2014

How to change the shape of someones nose on Photo Shop.

 1. Firstly select > lasso tool and outline the nose.
 2. Select > Modify > feather.
 3. press ctrl J to make a separate layer for the nose.
 4. Press ctrl T to select the nose area.
 5. Make the nose bigger or smaller.

6. Your final image should have a bigger or smaller nose.

How to change a background on Photo Shop.

 1. First select the image that you want to change the background. Select the background that you would like to change it to. Drag the selected background onto the photograph.
 2. Fit your background on top of the photograph then right click on the original photograph and select > duplicate layer.
3.Then go to the original photograph right click > delete.
 4. Select > quick selection tool and select the background of the photograph.
 5. Go to History > select inverse.
 6. Select > inverse.
 7. Once the background changes go to Select > deselect so that you can be able to save your image.
8. Once completed the final image should look like this.

Wednesday, 22 January 2014

How to create a Cartoon on Photo Shop.

 1. Select a new layer and use to pen tool to trace over the hair.
 2. Right click > select. Then fill in the hair with a colour.
3. Select a new layer and use the pen tool to go over the skin then right click and select. Fill in the colour that you want the skin to be.
Do this for the clothes of the person as well.
 4. Use the pen tool so trace over the eye brows. Then select and fill in with a colour.
 5. Select another layer. Do the same for the eye lashes and eyes.
6. Fill in a colour for the background.
7. You should now have a cartoon version of your picture.