I prefer to post non-basic one because I think it will be nice as a starting page. I just played around with the blog templates and want to see how it will become. So, full article with some images will show the true display and performance, I hope. I promise to post the basic one. Okay, here is the first tutorial.
I’ll show you the power of selection features in Adobe Photoshop (we’ll say it Ps to the rest). As we know that there are so much selection tools in Ps and one of them is channel. Channel will work together with masking then make everything possible. Picture below is the result of that.
Looked weird? Yeah, but it simply easy to manipulate like the above one. I’ll give the source files you can download from the links below:
I’ll show you the power of selection features in Adobe Photoshop (we’ll say it Ps to the rest). As we know that there are so much selection tools in Ps and one of them is channel. Channel will work together with masking then make everything possible. Picture below is the result of that.
Looked weird? Yeah, but it simply easy to manipulate like the above one. I’ll give the source files you can download from the links below:
Put the downloaded files in one directory, not a must, but it will make your life easier, just keep it simple. Open those ones in Ps, I’ll show you how to do it in many ways on later basic tutorial. I assume you already know about this piece of cake. Now we have two files opened in Ps.
Focus on the Kid; we will remove his annoying background. But before that we have to change the Background layer to be a normal layer. This action can be done on layer palette, push F7 button on your keyboard repeatedly to notice where the magnificent palette is. Have you found it? There is a little cute thumbnail on the palette with same picture like the big picture we have on canvas and a ‘Background’ text on the right. Double click on that thumbnail and a nice dialog box will ask you to give the layer a new name, you can ignore it or give the new one. Click ‘OK’. Now the layer becomes a normal layer so you can give it transparent color or useful masking. Put one new transparent layer below and give it a flat color like Red (255,0,0) or Green (0,255,0), use Paint Bucket tool to do this or use another faster method.
Open the ‘Select’ menu from the menu toolbar and click on the ‘Color Range…’ the almost wonderful selection tool. What? Almost? Why? Ehm, you will know after this one.
In the Color Range dialog box you will notice the kid will be black and white — grayscale precisely. The bright or near white is the selection, the dark and near black one is the unselected area. We want to remove the background; hence we have to make the kid become black. Click on the background area of the picture until you find the good composition of black and white like the picture below, the brighter the background the easier your work later. While you make the white one, keep the kid as dark as possible. Do not hesitate to use Fuzziness slider; it is your friend to expand the selection. Can’t make only black and white directly without those annoying grayscale? Yeah, not so wonderful, we have to clean it by brush and blah blah blah and yadda yadda yadda. Click ‘OK’.
Make sure ‘Layer 0’ is activated then press ‘Add layer mask’ button. The Kid become red; it tells us that the masking color is inverted.
With the mask is active, pres Ctrl+I to invert the color.
Activate Channel Palette and turn on the visibility of ‘Layer 0 Mask’, and vice versa; turn off the RGB Channel. Canvas shows us black, white, and grayscale colors.
The following two steps are optional but if you do it, you will have easier work to do next;
Go to Image – Adjustment – Brightness/Contrast. Set the contrast slider to a higher number to make darkest color become black. Click ‘OK’.
Activate ‘Level’ tools (Ctrl+L); feel free to set the three sliders (black, gray, and white) on upper window to find best result, but don’t move too much. Click ‘OK’.
Use Burn Tool (R) to darken the dark area till it’s color become black; choose ‘Shadows’ color in the ‘Range’ drop-down menu.
Use Dodge Tool (R) to brighten the kid till it’s color become white; choose ‘Highlights’ color in the ‘Range’ drop-down menu.
To remove his chair you can use Brush Tools (B) with black color on that masking channel.
It should be looked like this picture:
You can smooth the jaggy edges with Gaussian Blur Filter applied to masking layer, just put the small number, 0.5 to 2.0 would be appropriate.
Move ‘Layer 1’ from the Kid to the Jar canvas by using Move Tool (V). Transform (Ctrl+T) it to fit in the jar.
We don’t need the Kid’s layer mask, so we can delete it and make a new one; just move the masking layer to the trash can in the right-bottom corner of palette, and click on 'Apply'.
Deactivate the Kids’ layer
Activate the Jar’s layer, go to Channel palette and click on the thumbnail or its name one by one to find the most contrast grayscale image. In this picture we found it on Red channel. Click on ‘Load channel as selection’ button.
Activate again the RGB channel and go to palette Layers.
Activate the Kid’s layer and turn on its visibility.
Click on ‘Add layer mask’, it should be looked like this now:
Pretty easy, huh? Like a charm! Now you can clean some little weird in front of the Kid’s pants and legs. Use Brush Tool (B) with lower opacity on layer mask to brush the green of the jar out.
You can add color fill adjustment layer with clipping mask on the Kid layer to make him a little green.
On the Result file you can discover how to make the whole background by using Gradient color.
The result file can be downloaded here:
Focus on the Kid; we will remove his annoying background. But before that we have to change the Background layer to be a normal layer. This action can be done on layer palette, push F7 button on your keyboard repeatedly to notice where the magnificent palette is. Have you found it? There is a little cute thumbnail on the palette with same picture like the big picture we have on canvas and a ‘Background’ text on the right. Double click on that thumbnail and a nice dialog box will ask you to give the layer a new name, you can ignore it or give the new one. Click ‘OK’. Now the layer becomes a normal layer so you can give it transparent color or useful masking. Put one new transparent layer below and give it a flat color like Red (255,0,0) or Green (0,255,0), use Paint Bucket tool to do this or use another faster method.
Open the ‘Select’ menu from the menu toolbar and click on the ‘Color Range…’ the almost wonderful selection tool. What? Almost? Why? Ehm, you will know after this one.
In the Color Range dialog box you will notice the kid will be black and white — grayscale precisely. The bright or near white is the selection, the dark and near black one is the unselected area. We want to remove the background; hence we have to make the kid become black. Click on the background area of the picture until you find the good composition of black and white like the picture below, the brighter the background the easier your work later. While you make the white one, keep the kid as dark as possible. Do not hesitate to use Fuzziness slider; it is your friend to expand the selection. Can’t make only black and white directly without those annoying grayscale? Yeah, not so wonderful, we have to clean it by brush and blah blah blah and yadda yadda yadda. Click ‘OK’.
Make sure ‘Layer 0’ is activated then press ‘Add layer mask’ button. The Kid become red; it tells us that the masking color is inverted.
With the mask is active, pres Ctrl+I to invert the color.
Activate Channel Palette and turn on the visibility of ‘Layer 0 Mask’, and vice versa; turn off the RGB Channel. Canvas shows us black, white, and grayscale colors.
The following two steps are optional but if you do it, you will have easier work to do next;
Go to Image – Adjustment – Brightness/Contrast. Set the contrast slider to a higher number to make darkest color become black. Click ‘OK’.
Activate ‘Level’ tools (Ctrl+L); feel free to set the three sliders (black, gray, and white) on upper window to find best result, but don’t move too much. Click ‘OK’.
Use Burn Tool (R) to darken the dark area till it’s color become black; choose ‘Shadows’ color in the ‘Range’ drop-down menu.
Use Dodge Tool (R) to brighten the kid till it’s color become white; choose ‘Highlights’ color in the ‘Range’ drop-down menu.
To remove his chair you can use Brush Tools (B) with black color on that masking channel.
It should be looked like this picture:
You can smooth the jaggy edges with Gaussian Blur Filter applied to masking layer, just put the small number, 0.5 to 2.0 would be appropriate.
Move ‘Layer 1’ from the Kid to the Jar canvas by using Move Tool (V). Transform (Ctrl+T) it to fit in the jar.
We don’t need the Kid’s layer mask, so we can delete it and make a new one; just move the masking layer to the trash can in the right-bottom corner of palette, and click on 'Apply'.
Deactivate the Kids’ layer
Activate the Jar’s layer, go to Channel palette and click on the thumbnail or its name one by one to find the most contrast grayscale image. In this picture we found it on Red channel. Click on ‘Load channel as selection’ button.
Activate again the RGB channel and go to palette Layers.
Activate the Kid’s layer and turn on its visibility.
Click on ‘Add layer mask’, it should be looked like this now:
Pretty easy, huh? Like a charm! Now you can clean some little weird in front of the Kid’s pants and legs. Use Brush Tool (B) with lower opacity on layer mask to brush the green of the jar out.
You can add color fill adjustment layer with clipping mask on the Kid layer to make him a little green.
On the Result file you can discover how to make the whole background by using Gradient color.
The result file can be downloaded here:
Note:
The copyright of source files are belong to the respected photographers.
If you find the origin please do not hesitate to give the link to me.
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