Kamis, 25 Juni 2009

Create Photo Strips Effect


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Photoshop Effects: The original image.

And here's the same image after turning it into interweaving strips. Notice how the vertical and horizontal strips seem to alternate between going above and below each other (which is where the "interweaving" part comes from):

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Step 1: Crop The Image Into A Square

The first thing we need to do for this effect is crop the image into a square, although technically you could leave the image as a 4x6 or whatever size it happens to be, but the effect tends to look best as a square, so let's crop it. We'll use Photoshop's Crop Tool for this, so select it from the Tools palette:

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Photoshop Effects: Select the Crop Tool.

You could also press the letter C to quickly select it with the keyboard shortcut. Then, with the Crop Tool selected, hold down your Shift key and drag a selection around the person's face. Holding Shift tells Photoshop to constrain the selection to a perfect square:

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Photoshop Effects: Hold down "Shift" and drag a square selection around the person's face.

Press Enter (Win) / Return (Mac) when you're done dragging out the selection, and Photoshop goes ahead and crops the image into a square:

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Photoshop Effects: The image is now cropped into a square.

Step 2: Duplicate The Background Layer Twice

The next thing we're going to do is create a couple of copies of our image. If we look in the Layers palette, we can see that we currently have one layer which is named Background and it contains our original image (or at least, what's left of our original image now that we've cropped it). We need to duplicate the Background layer a couple of times, so use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+J (Win) / Command+J (Mac) to duplicate it once and then use the same keyboard shortcut again to create a second copy. You should see three layers now in your Layers palette. Double-click directly on the name of the layer on top and rename it "Vertical Strips", then double-click directly on the name of the layer below it and rename it "Horizontal Strips":

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Photoshop Effects: Press "Ctrl+J" (Win) / "Command+J" (Mac) to create two copies of the Background layer, then rename the top one "Vertical strips" and the bottom one "Horizontal strips".

Step 3: Fill The Background Layer With Black

Press D on your keyboard to reset Photoshop's Foreground and Background colors to their defaults of black as the Foreground color and white as the Background color (yours may already be set the default colors). Then click on the original Background layer (the bottom layer) in the Layers palette to select it. We're going to fill it with black, and with black now as our Foreground color, we can use the keyboard shortcut Alt+Backspace (Win) / Option+Delete (Mac) which fills the currently selected layer with the current Foreground color (black). Nothing will seem to have happened to the image, since the two layers above the Background layer are blocking it from view, but if we look in the Layers palette, we can see that the Background layer's thumbnail is now filled with black, telling us that the layer itself is filled with black:

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Photoshop Effects: Select the Background layer in the Layers palette and press "Alt+Backspace" (Win) / "Option+Delete" (Mac) to fill it with black.

Step 4: Turn The Top Layer Off For Now

We're going to create our horizontal strips first, but the "Vertical Strips" layer on top is going to block our view so we need to temporarily turn it off. To do that, click on the layer visibility icon (the "eyeball" icon) to the left of the "Vertical Strips" layer in the Layers palette. You won't see anything happen to the image itself since the "Vertical Strips" and "Horizontal Strips" layers are identical at the moment, but when you click the eyeball icon, the eyeball will disappear, letting you know that the layer is now hidden:

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Photoshop Effects: Click on the "eyeball" icon to the left of the "Vertical Strips" layer in the Layers palette to temporarily turn the layer off.

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