Tutorial 1

Step1: Drag the ruler to make a vertical and horizontal to draw a marquee. Using the elliptical marquee tool, draw it on the centre of the screen where the line was created earlier. Then


Filter – Blur – Gaussian Blur to make a camera focus.
Drag the starfish picture into the file that you are working on. Then, click ctrl T to adjust the picture into desired size and position. In order to make the same copy of the starfish, just click Alt and click and drag the picture.


Again, use the Gaussian Blur to show the focus on each starfish. It can be seen that smallest and at the most back has the highest blur effect. This is to show the effect of as if the starfish is dropping from the sky.

As for the most front starfish, you want to show the effect of dropping in very high speed. Therefore, need to make a duplicate of the original layer. On the duplicate layer, you have to add radial blur effect. Then drag the layer below the original layer.


Then select the original layer and click on Add Layer Mask so that we can show which part we want to show in focus. Make sure white is your foreground colour and black is your background colour and hit delete or backspace feel entire mask with black. Then, choose a paint brush tool and simply click in the centre of the starfish picture and you can see that there is a perfect focus at the centre of the starfish.


In order to make a TV image look real attach to the side of building, first, go to marquee tool and select the rectangular marquee tool and select all the blue area in the TV picture.


Then, make sure background colour is white and click control and delete which will appear as below.


Filter – sketch – Halftone pattern.


Choose line pattern type and you can adjust how big you want the line to be. Then press OK.


To make the picture to appear, select overlay. Which will show as the next picture.


After click the overlay.


Click on the most right arrow in the layer box and click on flatten image to make the background layer and layer one combine.


Simply drag the Tv image into the file, then drag the tv layer right on top of the background. Next, resize the image to fit on the building.


click control key and you can see that allow you to pull and bend the picture around to fit the exact sized you want it to be.


Then click besides the layer twice where you will see there is layer style window appear. Click on drop shadow and simply click on the picture and drag slightly to show a shadow effect.


Since the building has shadow, we have to make sure that the shadow drop on the TV image as well to make it real. Make the TV image layer invisible and create new layer and click on lasso tool. Press the Alt key and click and let go keeping the Alt key hold down at the part where you wanted to show shadow. Once you finish, the simply press Ctrl backspace and the background colour appear.

Finally, turn on the visibility of layer 1 (the TV image), Then hold down the Ctrl key and click on layer 1 and make sure layer two (with the shadow effect) is selected. Then use the opacity and reduce it so that it look like a shadow of the building drop on the TV image.

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