Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2016 16:31:58 GMT
It is time for a fresh Creative Effects Challenge folks.
Over the past month or so I have been experimenting with photo composites, and I thought this week we could try and blend to photos together to create something surreal. This is a fairly simple tutorial, but there are many creative possibilities.
In this example I simply used a portrait of our daughter and merged her face with that of a cat. You could merge different animals together, create new machines, put two different buildings into one to create a new kind of architecture, or try and create some interesting juxtapositions. The possibilities are literally endless. I really want to try and bring out your creative side with this challenge, so have a go and show us what you can come up with!
Step 1
Open your starter image and then open the image you are blending into the starter image. In order to have each photo on it's own layer drag your second image from the Photo Bin onto your starter image. In order to place your second image correctly where you need it to be, reduce the layer opacity down to 50% or even less, depending on your image. To resize, and position it, press Ctrl+T, which will enable you to grab the image, move it around and resize until you are happy. Commit this change to the layer by clicking the green check mark or simply hitting Enter on your keyboard. Then turn the opacity back to 100%, add a Layer Mask and with the Layer Mask selected invert the mask by pressing Ctrl+I to invert.
Step 2
Select a soft round brush (press B on your keyboard to access the Brush tool), set the Foreground and Background colour chips to their default of Black&White by hitting D on your keyboard. Ensure you still have selected the Layer Mask begin to brush/paint your second photo into your starter image. If you have gone too far, just press X on your keyboard to change the default colours around and paint over the area you need to correct. In order to blend the effect properly at the edges reduce the brush opacity downwards.
And that's it my friends, as I said above, you can then do a lot more to your photos; convert it to Black&White, apply different effects, etc, etc. In my case I first tried a Black&White conversion, but wasn't too happy with the effect, so I ended up using a LR preset once I was done in PSE.
I look forward to seeing your smash ups!
Over the past month or so I have been experimenting with photo composites, and I thought this week we could try and blend to photos together to create something surreal. This is a fairly simple tutorial, but there are many creative possibilities.
In this example I simply used a portrait of our daughter and merged her face with that of a cat. You could merge different animals together, create new machines, put two different buildings into one to create a new kind of architecture, or try and create some interesting juxtapositions. The possibilities are literally endless. I really want to try and bring out your creative side with this challenge, so have a go and show us what you can come up with!
Step 1
Open your starter image and then open the image you are blending into the starter image. In order to have each photo on it's own layer drag your second image from the Photo Bin onto your starter image. In order to place your second image correctly where you need it to be, reduce the layer opacity down to 50% or even less, depending on your image. To resize, and position it, press Ctrl+T, which will enable you to grab the image, move it around and resize until you are happy. Commit this change to the layer by clicking the green check mark or simply hitting Enter on your keyboard. Then turn the opacity back to 100%, add a Layer Mask and with the Layer Mask selected invert the mask by pressing Ctrl+I to invert.
Step 2
Select a soft round brush (press B on your keyboard to access the Brush tool), set the Foreground and Background colour chips to their default of Black&White by hitting D on your keyboard. Ensure you still have selected the Layer Mask begin to brush/paint your second photo into your starter image. If you have gone too far, just press X on your keyboard to change the default colours around and paint over the area you need to correct. In order to blend the effect properly at the edges reduce the brush opacity downwards.
And that's it my friends, as I said above, you can then do a lot more to your photos; convert it to Black&White, apply different effects, etc, etc. In my case I first tried a Black&White conversion, but wasn't too happy with the effect, so I ended up using a LR preset once I was done in PSE.
I look forward to seeing your smash ups!
