Tuesday, April 8, 2008

3D Photo

Open up a photo in photoshop, make a new layer, then select the "rectangular marquee tool" and draw a rectangle over your photo fill it with the color white, with the rectangle still selected goto "select > modify > contract" and contract by 15-20 pixels, then hit the delete key. Goto "edit > transform > perspective" transform the photo frame like the image below.

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Select the "magic wand tool" and select the inner part of the photo frame.

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Select your background layer while it is selected then press "ctrl + c" then "ctrl + v". Hide your background layer ensuring your photo frame layer is on top of the of the bit you just copied and pasted. You should have something like this.

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Set your opacity on your photo frame layer to 50% to make it easier to do the next step. Unhide your background layer and cut out the other half of the image that will be jumping out of the picture. I've also cut out the shadow to save me making my own.

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Once selected goto "select > inverse" and hit the delete key. Now move this layer on top of your photo frame. layer you should have something like this.

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Now its just a case of creating a new background to finish the image. Here's mine

3D Photo Tutorial: Final Result

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Creating Realistic 3D Flag

This tutorial will show you how you can use displacement maps for placing many kinds of design onto many different surfaces. I'm going to map a 2d flag image using a photograph of some crumpled silk to create a realistic 3D flag;

Creating Realistic 3D Flag Tutorial: Final Result

Step 1: Open your fabric and your flag image in photoshop. Apply gaussian blur to your fabric photograph (Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur) and experiment with the radius to hide the detail of the fabric and keeping only the folds.

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Step 2: Save your fabric to a PSD file (File > Save as). I saved mine as silk.psd

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Step 3: Starts working on your flag photo. Apply the displacement map filter to your flag with your blurred fabric photo, so mine is the silk.psd file. (Filter > Distort > Displace)

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and I get this..

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Step 4: Go back to your fabric photograph and select all area in your fabric photo with your marquee tool or simply by using ctrl+a, copy (ctrl+c), paste it (ctrl+v) on your flag image and change the layer mode to "Hard Light".

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That's it..and, here's my final image;

Creating Realistic 3D Flag Tutorial: Final Result

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