| |
|
|
For this tutorial you need to have 2 photo's at your disposal. One of a person that won't be too hard to cut out and one of a place where you will stick that person. This isn't a tutorial on extracting an image from a layer so you may want to do a tutorial on that before you try this one.
|
|
|
|
|
1
a. For my photos I chose a picture of a friend of mine getting a hawk and a picture of my desk (it's where the magic happens).
b. Start with the image of the person. Use whatever means you want to erase the background. I used Filter>Extract... on a copy of my background layer then used that as the shape for a layer mask on my original layer and cleaned it up from there. Just using the lasso tool and the eraser will work too. It doesn't have to be beautiful. As you can see I've got a lot of rough spots on mine.
|
|
|
2
a. After you cut the shape out drop it into the other photo. Do this by clicking and dragging from one file to another or copy and pasting.
|
|
|
3
a. After you drop the image in hold Ctrl and click on the layer with the person on it to load its selection. Then hit Ctrl + C to copy the image.
b. Next click on the Channels Tab in the Layers Palette to get to the Channels Palette.
c. Click on the New Channel Button in the bottom right corner
d. Click on the new channel, your screen should turn black. Then hit Ctrl + V to paste. The image should look like this:
|
|
4
a. Click on the flyout menu in the top right corner and select Duplicate Channel from the menu that comes up.
b. Fill out the box that comes up like this:
c. When you hit ok a new file will open, save this somewhere. It doesn't matter where you save it, but remember where you do it, you have to navigate to it later. Then go back to your other file.
d. Now go back to the layers pallete. Make a copy of your background layer by hitting Ctrl + J and position it above your Person Layer in the layers pallete.
|
|
|
5
a. Go to Filter>Distort>Displace...
b. Use these options then hit ok, a navigation box will come up. Navigate to the Map.psd you saved earlier.
|
|
|
Your image should now look something like this. |
|
|
6
a. Hold Ctrl and click on the person layer. Then go to Select>Inverse. Then hit backspace to delete the area outside the distortion you just made.
b. If you do it right it should look like this. If you don't understand what just happened look at the difference between the image above and this image.
c. Hit Ctrl + D to deselect.
|
|
|
7
a. Apply this layer style to the image.
b. Go to Image>Adjustments>Color Balance... or hit Ctrl + B
Move the Magenta/Green Slider to 20
c. Thats it enjoy.
-This tutorial could potentially be pretty confusing if you've never worked with displacement maps or extraction or similar techniques. Don't hesitate to ask questions on the Forum or Contact Me
|
|
|
