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Through the Shades
I own the intellectual copyright for the written tutorial. What you make is yours, but please do not take my tutorial. Share only my link. This tutorial is intended for a beginner to learn how to make a picture looking through shades or blinds. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me. To do this tutorial you will also need Photoshop CS - CS3. You may download a free trial at Adobe. Remember to save as a .psd file often!
1. Open a photo of your choice. Image > Duplicate. Close the original. 2. Resize the image. Image > Size. Make the longest size no bigger than 400 pixels. 3. Choose the Polygonal Lasso Tool
4. Carefully select around the background of the image. To select: Left-click all along the edge of the background. When you get to the beginning, look carefully and the cursor will have a circle when you hover over the beginning. When you get that circle, right-click to close the selection.
5. Choose the Paint Bucket Tool. Set the foreground to black.
6. Layer > New > Layer
7. With the paint bucket, fill the selection with black.
8. Right-click on the top layer and choose Merge Down
9. Select > Deselect
10. In the Layer Palette, click on the Channels Tab
11. Click on the black triangle menu and choose New Channel.
12. Your picture probably turned black. Change the foreground color to white. And fill the ALPHA 1 channel with white. This means: Be sure the alpha 1 channel is the one that is highlighted, before you fill!
13. Filter > Noise > Add Noise. Choose Gaussian, monochromatic, 25%
14. Filter > Sketch > Halftone Pattern. Size = 8, contrast = 0, pattern type = line
15. Your picture probably has some red lines on it now. Click on the eyes of all the layers to make all the layers show.
16. Click on the Layers Tab
17. Layer > New > Layer
18. Selection > Load Selection. Set Channel = Alpha 1
19. Fill the selection with black color
20. Select > Deselect 21. Save this as a JPEG. File > Save As
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