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#8 - Creating Fake Photographs
| What's with this photograph? Basically its a fake!
The picture of a man and a woman was taken in the bar. The
scene behind was taken in a well-known town in the UK, named
Knaresborough.
The idea of this tutorial is to join at least two
separate photographs together without using any selection
masks at all! Confused? Don't be... we will be using Layer
Masks with different sized paintbrushes.
Although it is a good idea to experiment with different
photographs when making fake pictures, please remember to
be careful - don't go upsetting somebody or breaking any
copyright laws. |
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On a picture with people, Press CTRL+T to activate the Transform
command and resize the layer entitled "Layer 1". When you have
finished press the Enter key to accept the new settings.
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On the background picture, Press CTRL+T to activate the Transform
command and resize the layer entitled "Layer 1". When you have
finished press the Enter key to accept the new settings.
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With both images open in Photoshop, first activate the document
with the people on it. Press the V key to activate the Move
tool and then drag the photograph onto the background image.
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Click on the Add Layer Mask icon on the Layers palette (first
icon on the left). Press the B key to activate the paintbrush
and choose a brush size of your choice, and press D to return
the colour palette back to its default settings.
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From now on, treat your paintbrush as an eraser, and paint
over the areas you want to remove. As with the normal eraser
tool, you will see your background image come through. The main
difference by using the Layer Mask against the erasers is that
when you make a mistake you only have to press X to change the
foreground colour to the background colour. This will now bring
the original image from Layer 1 back.
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When you have finished removing all that needs removing, choose
the Remove Layer Mask from the Layers menu. When the dialogue
box appears click on either Apply (to keep the mask you have
just created) or Discard (to remove the mask altogether).
You can have a lot of fun by superimposing elements from one
photograph onto another, or even scanned images from newspaper,
magazines etc.
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