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How To Give Photograph An Antique Look

 

This simple tutorial is an alternative method (from many others available on the Internet) for making a photograph look aged. Suitable for Photoshop beginners.

Let us start off with a normal full-color photograph. I am using the "Young Teenage Girl" from ShutterStock.com.

Select the photo layer, go to Filter > Noise > Dust and Scratches. Set the Radius to 2 and Threshold 0.

Duplicate the photo layer. Select duplicated photo layer, go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Set Radius to 4.

Make a Layer Mask on the duplicated layer. On the mask, create a Radial Gradient as shown in the screenshot below.

Download "Vintage Background" from ShutterStock.com. Resize it to cover the photograph nicely. Go to Image > Adjustments > Desaturate.

Set the Blend Mode of vintage background to Soft Light.

Download "Grunge Background" from ShutterStock.com.

Resize it to cover the photograph nicely. Go to Image > Adjustments > Desaturate.

Set the Blend Mode of grunge background to Multiply. Go to Image > Adjustments > Brightness and Contrast. Set the Brightness to 50.

Create a Levels Adjustment Layer. Set the values to 15, 1.48, 255.

Create a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer. Check on Colorize. Set the Hue to 38, Saturation to 22 and Lightness to 0. And that is all! I have you find this tutorial useful for your future works. Cheers.

 

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Couple in Wine Glass

 

Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we're going to look at a classic Photoshop effect for wedding photography, placing the wedding couple inside a wine glass. This is a very easy Photoshop effect to create, requiring nothing more than a few basic tools, a layer mask, and a few minutes worth of effort. We'll be finishing off the effect with a slightly more advanced blending option, but "more advanced" definitely doesn't mean "more difficult", as we'll see.

If you're not into wedding photography, you can use this Photoshop technique to place images inside any glass object, like a bottle or even an hour glass, and it also works great for placing images inside bubbles which is always a fun thing to do. Any recent version of Photoshop will work just fine.

Here's the two images I'll be using in this Photoshop effects tutorial:

Let's get started!

Step 1: Drag A Selection Around The Couple With The Elliptical Marquee Tool

We're going to start things off by working on the photo of the wedding couple. Select the Elliptical Marquee Tool from Photoshop's Tools palette. By default, it's hiding behind the Rectangular Marquee Tool, so you'll need to click on the Rectangular Marquee Tool icon and hold your mouse down for a second or two, then select the Elliptical Marquee Tool from the fly out menu that appears:

Then, with the Elliptical Marquee Tool selected, drag out an elliptical selection around the wedding couple. If you need to reposition your selection as you drag, simply hold down the Spacebar on your keyboard and then move your mouse around to reposition it. Release the Spacebar to continue dragging out the selection:

Step 2: Feather The Selection

Next, we're going to "feather" the selection, which is Photoshop-speak for making the selection edges softer. To do that, with the selection still active, go up to the Select menu at the top of the screen and choose Feather. When the dialog box appears, enter a Feather Radius value of about 15-20 pixels. I'm going to set mine to 20 pixels:

Click OK to exit out of the dialog box.

Step 3: Drag The Selection Into The Wine Glass Photo

Now that we have our selection around the wedding couple and we've softened the selection edges, we need to drag the selection into the photo of the wine glass. For that, we need the Move Tool, so select it from the Tools palette or press Von your keyboard for the shortcut:

Then, with both images open in their own separate document windows, simply click with the Move Tool inside the photo of the wedding couple and drag the selection into the photo of the wine glass:

Don't worry if some of your edges around the couple look like they're cut off, as mine do at the top and on the right. We'll be fixing that in a moment with our layer mask. Also notice how the edges appear nice and soft (except of course for the areas that appear cut off), and that's thanks to the feather we applied to the selection.

Once you've dragged the wedding couple into the other photo, you don't need to have their original image open on your screen anymore, so you can close out of it if you wish.

Step 4: Resize and Reposition The Wedding Couple With Photoshop's Free Transform Command

We need to move the wedding couple into position in front of the wine glass and we'll most likely need to resize them as well (I certainly need to with my image), and we can do both of these things using Photoshop's Free Transformcommand. Press Ctrl+T (Win) / Command+T (Mac) on your keyboard to bring up the Free Transform box and handles around them. To move the couple into position, simply click anywhere inside the Free Transform box and drag them into their new location with your mouse.

The only spot you can't click on is that little target icon in the center of the Free Transform box. When I say "can't", what I mean is, you can certainly click on it if you like, but if you do, you'll move the target instead of moving the image. So if your goal is to move the image, not the little target icon, click anywhere except for on that target icon. To resize the couple, hold down Shift+Alt (Win) / Shift+Option (Mac) and drag any of the corner handles. Holding down Shift constrains the proportions of the image as you drag, and holding down Alt/Option tells Photoshop to resize from the center of the Free Transform box (technically, it tells Photoshop to resize the image around that little target icon, which is why you didn't want to move it):

Press Enter (Win) / Return (Mac) when you're happy with the size and location of the couple to accept the transformation.

Step 5: Add A Layer Mask To The Wedding Couple Layer

If we look in Photoshop's Layers palette, we can see that we now have two layers. The wine glass image is on the bottom "Background" layer, and the wedding couple is on "Layer 1" above it. With "Layer 1" selected (the currently selected layer is highlighted in blue), click on the Layer Mask icon at the bottom of the Layers palette:

You'll see a layer mask thumbnail appear to the right of the layer preview thumbnail.

Step 6: Paint With Black Around The Edges Of The Wedding Couple

Now that we have our layer mask, we're going to use it to blend the wedding couple in better with the wine glass, and we'll do that by painting with black and a soft-edged brush around the edges of the wedding couple image. For that, we need Photoshop's Brush Tool so select it from the Tools palette. You can also press B to select it with the keyboard shortcut:

We also need black as our Foreground color. If black isn't currently your Foreground color, simply press D on your keyboard, which will set white as your Foreground color and black as your Background color, and then press X to swap them. Then with a medium-size, soft-edged brush, simply paint along the edges of the wedding couple image to reveal the edges of the wine glass underneath them, and continue painting until the image of the couple is completely contained inside the glass. To resize your brush, use the left and right bracket keys on your keyboard. Pressing the left bracket key makes the brush smaller and pressing the right bracket key makes it larger. To soften the edges of the brush, hold down the Shift key and press the left bracket key a few times (holding Shift and pressing the right bracket key makes the brush edges harder):

If you make a mistake as you're painting, either press Ctrl+Z (Win) / Command+Z (Mac) to undo it or press X on your keyboard to set your Foreground color to white, paint over your mistake, then press X again to set your Foreground color back to black and continue painting around the edges.

When you're done, your image should look something like this:

Step 7: Use The "Blend If" Sliders To Bring Back Some Glass Highlights

The only thing left to do at this point is to bring back some of the highlights in the glass. We can do that easily using Photoshop's Blend If sliders. Click on the Layer Styles icon at the bottom of the Layers palette, then choose Blending Options at the top of the list that appears:

This brings up Photoshop's "Layer Style" dialog box set to the "Blending Options" in the middle column. The "Blend If" sliders are at the bottom. You'll see two black-to-white gradient bars. We want the bar at the very bottom. Click on the white slider at the bottom right of the gradient bar and begin dragging it towards the left. As you drag, you'll notice any white highlights and light reflections in the glass beginning to re-appear. Problem is, they have very harsh, jagged edges. To soften them, as soon as the highlights begin to reappear, release your mouse button, hold down your Alt (Win) /Option (Mac) key, and then click back on the slider and continue dragging it towards the left. By holding down Alt/Option, you split the slider in half and you'll now be dragging only the left half of it. The area in between the two halves becomes a transition area between the wedding couple image and the glass highlights, giving us nice, soft edges to the highlights. The greater the distance between the two halves, the greater the transition area and the softer the edges of the highlights:

You'll probably need to play with the slider halves a bit, moving each one left and right until you're happy with the results. When you're done, click OK in the top right corner of the Layer Style dialog box to exit out of it, and you're done!

Here, after bringing back some of the highlights in the glass with the Blend If sliders, is my final "wedding couple in the wine glass" result:

Custom Shapes As Text Frames In Photoshop

 

Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop Basics tutorial, we'll learn how to create some interesting text layouts using custom shapes as text frames! In other words, we'll be drawing a shape using one of the custom shapes that ship with Photoshop, but rather than filling the shape with color as we normally would, we'll fill it with text!

Here's an example of the effect we'll be learning to create. The background image (without the text) is available from the Fotolia image library. Of course, you can use a different image if you prefer, or simply create a new Photoshop document with a white background to use as you follow along:

Step 1: Select The Custom Shape Tool

Select Photoshop's Custom Shape Tool from the Tools panel. By default, it's hiding behind the Rectangle Tool, so click on the Rectangle Tool's icon and hold your mouse button down for a second or two until a fly-out menu appears showing a list of the other tools available in that spot, then select the Custom Shape Tool from the list:

Step 2: Choose A Shape

With the Custom Shape Tool selected, click on the shape preview thumbnail in the Options Bar along the top of the screen:

This opens Photoshop's Shape Picker, which displays small thumbnails of all the custom shapes we can choose from. To select a shape, just click on its thumbnail. I'm going to choose the heart shape. Once you've chosen a shape, press Enter (Win) / Return (Mac) to close out of the Shape Picker:

Step 3: Select The "Paths" Option

Near the far left of the Options Bar is a row of three icons, each one representing a different type of shape we can draw. Photoshop gives us a choice of drawing normal shapes, paths, or pixel-based shapes. To use a shape as a container for our text, we want to draw a path, which is essentially an outline of the shape. We'll be placing our text inside the outline. Click on the middle of the three icons to select the Paths option:

Step 4: Draw Your Shape

With the Paths option selected in the Options Bar, click inside your document and drag out your shape. You'll see your shape appearing as a thin outline as you drag. You can hold down your Shift key as you drag to force the shape to keep its original appearance while you're drawing it. If you need to reposition the shape as you're drawing it, hold down your spacebar, drag the shape to where you need it in the document, then release your spacebar and continue dragging. Here, I've drawn my heart shape in the top right section of the image:

Step 5: Reshape, Rotate Or Move The Path (Optional)

If you need to reshape or rotate the path (the shape outline), or move it to a different spot, the easiest way to do it is by going up to the Edit menu in the Menu Bar along the top of the screen and choosing Free Transform Path. You could also press Ctrl+T (Win) / Command+T (Mac) to quickly select the same command with the keyboard shortcut:

the handles (the small squares) around the bounding box and drag them. To resize the shape, hold down your Shift key and drag any of the four corner handles. To rotate it, move your cursor anywhere outside the bounding box, then click and drag with your mouse. Finally, to move the shape, click anywhere inside the bounding box and drag.

I'm going to rotate my heart shape a little so the curve down the left side flows better with the layout of the flowers:

Press Enter (Win) / Return (Mac) when you're done to accept the changes and exit out of the Free Transform Path command:

Step 6: Select The Type Tool

Now that we have our path, we're ready to add our text! Select the Type Tool from the Tools panel:

Step 7: Choose Your Font

Select the font you want to use for your text in the Options Bar. For my design, I'll use Palatino Italic set to 12 pt:

To choose a color for my text, I'll click on the color swatch in the Options Bar:

This opens Photoshop's Color Picker. I'll choose a dark green from the Color Picker to match the color from the flowers in my image. Once you've chosen a color, click OK to close out of the Color Picker:

Step 8: Open The Paragraph Panel

Click on the Character / Paragraph panel toggle icon to the right of the color swatch in the Options Bar:

This opens Photoshop's Character and Paragraph panels which are hidden by default. Select the Paragraph panel by clicking on its name tab at the top of the panel group:

Step 9: Choose The "Justify Centered" Option

With the Paragraph panel now open, click on the Justify Centered option to select it. This will make it easier for the text we're about to add to fill the entire width of the shape. When you're done, click again on the toggle icon in the Options Bar to hide the Character and Paragraph panels since we no longer need them:

 

Step 10: Add Your Text

At this point, all that's left to do is add our text. Move the Type Tool's cursor anywhere inside the shape. You'll see adotted ellipse appear around the cursor icon, which is Photoshop's way of telling us that we're about to add our text inside the path:

Click anywhere inside the shape and begin typing your text. As you type, you'll see that the text is constrained to the area inside the path:

Continue adding more text until you've filled the shape area:

Step 11: Click On The Checkmark To Accept Your Text

When you're done adding your text, click on the checkmark in the Options Bar to accept it and exit out of Photoshop's text editing mode:

The text has now been added and fills the shape area nicely, but we can still see the path outline around it:

To hide the path outline, simply click on a different layer in the Layers panel. In my case, my document only contains two layers - the Type layer that holds my text (which is currently selected) and the Background layer below it that holds my background image, so I'll click on the Background layer to select it:

And with that, we're done! The text I added may not win me any literary awards, but we've now seen how easy it is to use Photoshop's custom shapes as containers for text:

Easy Soft Focus And Glow Effect In Photoshop

 

Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll look at how to quickly and easily add a soft focus and glow effect to a photo, which also happens to do a nice job of boosting the image's contrast and color saturation. I've been using this technique with my photos for years and it's still just as popular today. Whether you're a wedding photographer, nature photographer or you simply enjoy taking photos of family and friends, give this effect a try and see if it doesn't make your images look a bit more magical.

Here's the photo I'll be working with in this tutorial:

Let's get started!

Step 1: Duplicate The Background Layer

With our image newly opened in Photoshop, we can see if we look in our Layers palette that we currently have one layer which is the Background layer. The Background layer is the layer that contains our original image:

Step 2: Change The Blend Mode Of "Layer 1" To "Overlay"

With "Layer 1" selected in the Layers palette (the currently selected layer is highlighted in blue), go up to the Blend Mode option in the top left corner of the Layers palette. It's the drop-down box that's currently set to "Normal". Click on the down-pointing arrow and select the Overlay blend mode from the list:

The Overlay blend mode is part of the Contrast group of blend modes because it boosts image contrast, and it also tends to boost color saturation as well. If we look at our image now after changing the blend mode to Overlay, we can see that sure enough, the contrast and color saturation have both been increased dramatically:

Step 3: Apply The "Gaussian Blur" Filter

Believe it or not, we're almost done! We can now add our soft focus / glow effect to the photo. With "Layer 1" still selected, go up to the Filter menu at the top of the screen, choose Blur, and then choose Gaussian Blur. This brings up Photoshop's Gaussian Blur dialog box.

At the bottom of the dialog box, you'll see a slider bar which controls the Radius value. The higher you set the Radius value, the more blurring you'll apply to the layer. Drag the slider towards the right until the Radius value is somewhere around 8 pixels. You may want to set the value a bit higher if you're using a high resolution image. The best thing to do is to keep an eye on your image in the document window as your drag the slider to see what effect it's having. Make sure you have the Preview option checked in the top right corner of the dialog box. If you set the Radius value too high, the soft focus effect will be too subtle, so try to stick with lower Radius values:

When you're happy with the effect, click OK to exit out of the dialog box, and you're done! Here's my photo after applying the Gaussian Blur:

Step 4: Lower The Opacity Of "Layer 1" (Optional)

If you find that the effect appears too strong, try lowering the Opacity of "Layer 1". You'll find the Opacity option in the top right corner of the Layers palette directly across from the Blend Mode option. Here I'm lowering the opacity to around 60%:

The soft focus effect now appears less intense:

Step 5: Change The Blend Mode To "Soft Light" (Optional)

Another easy way to reduce the intensity of the effect is to change the blend mode of "Layer 1" from "Overlay" to Soft Light:

The Soft Light blend mode is also part of the Contrast group of blend modes, but its effect is much more subtle than what the Overlay blend mode gives us:

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And there we have it! That's how easy it is to add a soft focus and glow effect to an image with Photoshop!