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Negative Film

There are numerous tricks and techniques people use when making an image of this nature, but I am going to show how I created this image using only the very basic tools.

Using the Polygonal Lasso (P) tool, Rounded Rectangle (U) custom shape tool and the Rectangular Marquee (M) tool to make a strip of 35mm film.

The first thing I needed to do was to assemble the basic structure of the figure. Taking or even deleting segments one by one. Make sure to always follow the curves and contours of the original film like the image below taken from Kodak Gold 200 film in order to help keep the familiar recognizable shape.

Starting with creating the base film, the camera feed holes and the black edges. I will reveal the all Photoshop method here. Open a new document with a white background. Mine is 1700×900 at 70ppi.

Create a new layer and rename it Film. Choose the Rectangular Marquee (M). For now I just want to lay down the basic structure of the figure by pressing the D key to reset the foreground and background colors to black and white, then press Alt-Backspace to fill the selection with black.




Guys... Ofcourse we need the area where the photos will be placed somewhere. 2×3 aspect is good to be a standard frame format for a 35mm camera, isn't. Set the Rectangular Marquee (M) tool and mark the Fixed Aspect Ratio box and set the ratio to 3 Wide and 2 High. Go ahead and drag out the first opening.





By continuing to activate the selection, move your rectangle to the right (to the left by Beyonce, not me... lol) and remove all remaining frames. While holding down the Shift key, drag the selection horizontally or you can move it easily by using the arrow keys on your keyboard. Slow down, dood... :) Don't forget to press Ctrl+D to deselect.




Pick the Rounded Rectangle (U). If you have difficult to see the area of your workflow, you'll gonna like this one... Zoom in on the top left corner of your film by pressing Ctrl-+. Now you might happy enough with the positioning of it.





Click on the Paths tab in the layers palette and click the Convert Path to Selection icon at the bottom of the palette then click back to the Layers tab... or you can simply follow what the image said to you below...




Finish the top of the film, proceed the step until you done with the bottom.





Press the T key to grab the text tool from the Tools bar, set the foreground color to #ddde9e.
Finished??? Double click on the layer name and rename it Top Numbers.





Again, add a new layer below the Top Numbers and name the layer Stripe. Change the Style of your Rectangular Marquee (M) tool back to Normal (unfixed). Create a single stripe like this...





Press Ctrl+D to Deselect, then see carefully what the inset below said to you... (Creating Clipping Mask section).





Turn the opacity of the Stripe layer down to 35%. Back to the Top Numbers layer, duplicate it by pressing Ctrl+J and don't forget to name it Bottom Numbers.







Move fast to the next level. You can add something you like, barcode for example... Anything! Put the Kodak type and Gold type or anything you like.. whatever.. and I don't care about that, lol.

Now we are ready to insert our photos and we need them to be imported beneath the Film layer.
Click and drag the image into your Film by considering that the Move (V) tool selected.





Press Ctrl+T to invoke the Free Transform tool whenever your photo will be too large initially to fit inside. Add more photos as desired exactly the same way.

And voila! Our Negative Film is complete!!!

Creating Mmmotion in Photoshop

Few days ago, I received a request for a tutorial how to get a Mmmotion trick on an image with Photoshop... so I figured what if I write that tuto now...

After seeing some of the source I met on internet, most of the tuto is explained with a complicated ways, too lengthy and less focused, instead I say I'm very good at these things, it's just, I think it's good if it become an alternative among many tutorial with similar subject. Hopefully this is useful to you all ...

For starters, there are several perspectives that you can take when setting a moving object. For example the following racing car pic taken from www.slurpy.org/s/t5bzh2/nascar/arizonaautoracing




Try to be a little realistic ... looks roughly like if you are traveling with a speed of 150 mph or something. Consider how things would look like if you're really just pick up the car as an object and quiet roads or trees as a backdrop or as a focal point image.

Let's focus on the car, its background would be like a blurry side.. lol. So... how to get that?!?!?! The simple easy way to figure out for me, by cropping the object we want out from the photograph. Use the Polygonal Lasso (L) tool or anything that you liked the most. Here I use the Pen (P) tool.






Choose your Cloning (S) tool and set the opacity to around 75%. Start with caution in egdes you clone so you have less exposed (cleared) area with some fuzzy edges.





Cut your car image into a new layer so the background will remain in place. See the following image for details... Watch out the Palette Layers guys..!!!





The final step is to choose the form of a car that we cut and use the blur to organize such moves. Make sure the direction of blur is consistent with the direction the car was excessive and unnecessary in this case... your car is not running with the speed of light, haha..!




Final Result...

Or... if you want your image become more dramatic or something, play around with some color... This effect isn't excessive and you'll get a Mmmmotion pic that quite realistic! There you go guys!!!






Other samples



before



after

ps : taken from 5 different images :p

Gothic Wedding Invitation

Hi there again and again... Guys, with a little tweaking, I think this could be used for a lot more than wedding invitations, goth, dark, bright, spring, summer.. whatever!

OK... Like usual... Open a new document in Photoshop. I don’t do too much girly stuff, so I thought this might be a good time to pander a bit to the ladies. First thing first... Creating some texture, I'm gonna use a rough-edged brush at a low opacity to create it.

Hit the Brush tool (B key) and from the Brush Picker choose the Chalk 60 Pixels brush (which is one of Photoshop’s default brushes). Set your foreground color to whatever you want. Mine is #695d00.



Create a new layer called Dark Yellow in your Layers palette after the brush setup and color chosen, set your brush Opacity to 17% in the Brush Options bar at the top of Photoshop and paint roughly over the canvas as shown below.

Repeat this process several times. Replacing the brush pressure to give some texture and depth in the background until you are satisfied with the results. Let your creativity be your guide, remember we'll put the text there, so try to give a contrast color on the text..

Add a Layer Mask by clicking the Add Layer Mask icon at the bottom of the Layers Palette. Restore your brush Opacity to 100%, then select GrungeBorders Brush.


Drop the Brush Opacity down to 20% or until you feel just right.


Create a new layer above the layer dark yellow, give the name of Grunge. Replace the brush color to white (by pressing the D or X key if they have not become a default). Choose one of the brushes that we downloaded with 100% Opacity.


Next we'll try to be -let's say- a lil' bit creative by adding photos. Here's the photograph I've downloaded for you...

Image source: http://www.candles.org/media_images.html

Hold down the Alt key and clicking-and-dragging the mask from one layer to the other so that we can copy the mask that we had created.


Click the lock icon located between the Layer Thumbnail and Layer Mask in the Photo layer. This will enable us to move our pictures without damaging the mask that we make.

Put your photo on the left side half of the paper invitations or whatever you want how good, then use the GrungeBorders Brush on Layer Mask.


Once more... I wanna add a little old manuscript in the above photo and diluting it so that there is impressed scribbles on paper.

Image source: http://www.spamula.net/blog/2006/11/

Change the Blend Mode to Soft Light, then press Shift + Ctrl + I to make a negative movie script.


So far.. everything's just fine, right? Use this DecoStrip Brush to bring your invitation a lil' bit more attractive or something :)





Font used here is Champagne Font, and Blair Md ITC TT Medium Font.. or you an explore it for more with Belphebe Font.. It's all up to you guys :) Thanks for reading, and ladies, I hope you enjoyed yourselves. Here's the final result.



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