Tree Me the Great and Powerful

by NickD10 in Circuits > Art

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Tree Me the Great and Powerful

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A quick tut on how I made a graffiti tree phantom in photoshop.

Materials :

Camera and photoshop (or photo-editing software)

Step 1: Reference Photo

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I took a pic of me with a white poster board below for reflecting light and a green poster board behind me for easy editing.

1: import to photo-editor.

Step 2 :Clean Plate Reference

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1:I took another reference as a clean plate background and imported in as the background plate.

Step 3: Cropping

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1:Crop the photo with the crop tool.

Step 4: Layers

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1:I unlocked the layer and proceeded to cut out my face pic with on a separate layer,then copied and pasted onto my background layer.

2: Changed the opacity around and mostly down.

Step 5: Brushes and Merging

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1: I took the smudge, sharpen, and dodge brushes to clean up the effects. Finally merging all layers and saving as a jpeg.

Hope you enjoyed my instructable. :)