Creative Effects Challenge No. 7 –Creating silhouette effect
Aug 2, 2015 23:09:30 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2015 23:09:30 GMT
As some of you will have noticed, I missed posting our bi-weekly creative effects challenge yesterday!
Sorry about that everyone, I do have good reasons (basement development), but let’s not dwell on that.
A day late, but nonetheless, here is your creative effects challenge.
This time around let’s learn how to fake a silhouette.
I started with this photo of a giraffe, which I took last year.
This is what the final photo will look like, so let’s get started.
Step 1
Open your photo in PSE and select the Magnetic Lasso Tool (L on your keyboard). Click onto your subject’s edge to place your starting point and then move slowly along the edges to trace your subject’s shape until you reach your starting point on which you click to complete the selection. Note that you can add more anchoring points as you go along by clicking your mouse button as you go.
Step 2
You should now see some “marching ants” all around your subject. Now add a new layer by pressing the New Layer button or go to Layer>New>Layer. Now go to Edit>Fill Selection and from the drop down menu in the box that pops up select Black. You should now have your black silhouette on the new layer.
Step 3
Now in order to change your background of your subject there are a few different ways you could achieve this. I placed a new layer between my background layer and the silhouette layer and then selected the Brush Tool (B on your keyboard) and then clicked on the Foreground Colour button to select a nice deep orange and paint away. Play around a little with the colour until you find one that is pleasing to you.
Step 4
You can stop there, but I added a gradient on top of my painted background layer. I used a linear gradient and again, you can play around with those settings to get something you like.
So, short and sweet, but hopefully you will have some fun with this challenge.
Sorry about that everyone, I do have good reasons (basement development), but let’s not dwell on that.
A day late, but nonetheless, here is your creative effects challenge.
This time around let’s learn how to fake a silhouette.
I started with this photo of a giraffe, which I took last year.
This is what the final photo will look like, so let’s get started.
Step 1
Open your photo in PSE and select the Magnetic Lasso Tool (L on your keyboard). Click onto your subject’s edge to place your starting point and then move slowly along the edges to trace your subject’s shape until you reach your starting point on which you click to complete the selection. Note that you can add more anchoring points as you go along by clicking your mouse button as you go.
Step 2
You should now see some “marching ants” all around your subject. Now add a new layer by pressing the New Layer button or go to Layer>New>Layer. Now go to Edit>Fill Selection and from the drop down menu in the box that pops up select Black. You should now have your black silhouette on the new layer.
Step 3
Now in order to change your background of your subject there are a few different ways you could achieve this. I placed a new layer between my background layer and the silhouette layer and then selected the Brush Tool (B on your keyboard) and then clicked on the Foreground Colour button to select a nice deep orange and paint away. Play around a little with the colour until you find one that is pleasing to you.
Step 4
You can stop there, but I added a gradient on top of my painted background layer. I used a linear gradient and again, you can play around with those settings to get something you like.
So, short and sweet, but hopefully you will have some fun with this challenge.
