Rabu, 11 November 2009

Photoshop Tutorials: Wedding Couple in Wine Glass

In this Adobe Photoshop 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:
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Photoshop Tutorials: The wedding couple.
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Photoshop Tutorials: The wine glass.

And here's the final result we'll be working towards:
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Photoshop Tutorials: The final result.

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:

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Photoshop Tutorials: Select the Elliptical Marquee Tool.

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:

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Photoshop Tutorials: Drag out an elliptical selection around the wedding couple.
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:

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Photoshop Tutorials: Add a feather of about 15-20 pixels to the selection to soften the edges.

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 V on your keyboard for the shortcut:

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Photoshop Tutorials: Select the Move Tool.

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:

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Photoshop Tutorials: Click inside the photo of the wedding couple and drag them 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.

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