PHOTOSHOP CS4 DOWN & DIRTY TRICKS- P3

PHOTOSHOP CS4 DOWN & DIRTY TRICKS- P3: These chapter intros are all named after either song titles, movies, orTV shows, and this chapter is named after the song “Miracle Photo,”by a band called Ruth (which is an all-guy band, which is whatmakes the name cool, right? Because if it was an all-guy band andthey named it Mike, it would sound totally uncool, unless of course,no one in the band was named Mike, which would then make thename cool again.
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PHOTOSHOP CS4 DOWN & DIRTY TRICKS- P3 chapter 2 in g to a Ph ot o Ad di ng Te xt ure an d Ag Boston Thek was chosen as the Image of tographer Laura eye when a photo by pho op Professionals (NAPP, This technique caught my ional Association of Photosh tfolio website for the Nat the Week on the member’s por applied a paper texture to trip to Venice, Italy, and then a vacation photo from her folks who wanted to know for short). She had taken I heard from a number of historical, archival look, and the image, which gave it this here’s how it’s done: how this was done. Well, STEP ONE: First, open the photo you want to apply the effect to. As luck would have it, my family had taken a vacation trip to Venice, too, so I al- ready had a source image to use (and you can download this same source SCOTT KELBY image from the book’s downloads SCOTT page, listed in the book’s intro). ©ISTOCKPHOTO/PETER ZELEI STEP TWO: You’ll need a paper tex- ture image, like the one shown here. (You can download this same texture image from the book’s downloads page, too, courtesy of our friends at iStockphoto.com.) STEP THREE: Get the Move tool (V) and drag-and-drop this paper texture image over on top of your photo. (Note: If you press-and-hold the Shift key while you drag-and-drop, it will center the paper texture image over your photo, as you see here.) If you’re using Photoshop CS4’s tabbed windows feature, it’s a bit clunkier. You’ll click-and-drag the paper texture image itself up to the tab for your photo document and just pause there a moment. The photo document will appear, and you’ll drag your cursor down to the center of your photo area, then release the mouse button, and your image will appear (I told you it was clunky and this is the main reason why I don’t use the tabbed windows feature).46 Chapter Chapter 2 Studio Effects EffeSTEP FOUR: Chances are, your papertexture isn’t going to be a perfect fitover your photo (look at the imageback in Step Three, and you can seea gap on the left and right sides be-cause the image isn’t wide enough),so you’re going to have to stretch itto fit. Of course, you could just go toFree Transform and stretch the sides(after all, it’s just a background texture,right?), but it’s just as easy to use CS4’sContent-Aware Scale feature (whichhelps to keep the “stretched” lookto a minimum). So, go under the Editmenu and choose Content-Aware Scale(as shown here). This brings up scalingpoints around the edges of your image.Just grab the right-center point anddrag to the right to stretch your tex-ture to fill that gap. Now, do the samething on the left side (you could do thetop and bottom if it needed it, too), andonce your full image area is completelycovered, press the Return (PC: Enter)key to lock in your transformation.STEP FIVE: You’re going to use a layerblend mode to blend this paper textureinto the photo on the layer beneath it.Of course, the question is which layerblend mode will look best? Here’s howto find out: Make sure you have theMove tool, then press Shift-+ (the plussign on your keyboard), and each timeyou press that, it will change your layerto the next blend mode in the menu.So in just a few seconds, you’ll be ableto run through all the blend modesand choose the one that looks best toyou. In this case, after running throughthem all, I thought the Multiply modelooked best, so I stopped there on mysecond time through. Continued Studio Effects Chapter 2 47 STEP SIX: The downside of using the Multiply layer blend mode is that it makes the image look much darker. One way to minimize the darkening is to lower the Opacity of this layer to around 50% (as shown here), which not only lightens the effect of Multiply, but also lowers the intensity of the tex- ture, which I think in this case is a good thing. Note: When going through your layer blend modes, there are a few modes that will be the “most likely” ones you choose. They are: Multiply, Screen, Overlay, and Soft Light. You won’t always choose those, because depending on the photo, you might go with something else, but my bet is that 99% of the time it’ll be one of those four blend modes. STEP SEVE ...