#pstut

Ah! Textures! Lovely magical tools which can transform your simple picture to a masterpiece. OK! Masterpieces might be too much but... 

Hey! You can’t deny the fact they add an ‘oomph’ factor. So how exactly do we use them? where to start? and how? questions & questions.When I started my PS journey, I wished ...only if I can have some help ...some guidance, something to start with.Thanks to all those generous souls who share their expertise..I got better with time.

I use PS CS 5 … but I am hopeful this might be little help in any editing applications.

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There are 2 basic ways, you can use a texture

1.Texture on picture

2 Picture on texture

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And next comes two important tools ...

Eraser 

Blend modes

we will stick to eraser & First picture for starters. Will explore blend modes later .

What did I do here? Simply picked eraser( a soft one) with 0% hardness selected the texture layer and erased unnecessary bits. 

Wait! But what about buildings I can see behind picture of Helly?

Here is the tip.

Add a blank canvas at bottom and fill it it black ( This can be first step too) > select the picture of Helly  > Pick eraser >  remove the Background

Add basic adjustments like colour, Contrast ,brightness, or filters of your choice and text! - Play around with opacity of layers & You must be done.

Now for the second - Picture on texture. 

Just erased the Background from Pic  ( That’s it ..) And add adjustments. 

Voila! Its done! Happy Learning!

Love

Sure!

There are multiple ways to remove the background and I’ve found you some tutorials.

If the background is not too busy the quick selection tool is probably your best bet. Here is a video tutorial for that. (that also explains refine edge - it’s called select and mask in later PS versions - which is good for hair)

If there is a lot going on in the background or you are trying to cut a screencap (that are mostly dark and low on contrast), I would say go with the pen tool. That gets explained at the beginning of this tutorial.

If you have patience and a steady hand you can also just paint around your subject (though I would only recommend that if you’re making something small like icons)

Then of course if it’s a photoshoot of someone fairly famous it could be that someone already did the work for you. For instance (going by your tumblr) these are the search result for “Bill Skarsgard png” on Deviantart :)

The PSD (x)

Here’s a graphic tutorial on how to make this type of graphics.

You’ll need

Photoshop

Splatter brushes that you can get here

Patience

First, open a picture file>open and extract the background and put it onto a white background. If you don’t use a white background you might not get the effect. we have not tried it with a different coloured background yet. 

Now create a new layer. On the new layer, you’re going to use the splatter brush in white all over one side of your picture. Change the settings of your brush (windows>brush) if you want. Changing the settings of your brush is totally optional. Using the splatter brush, make one side of your picture to look something like this. Your brush colour should be set to white.  It should look something like this now.

Next, duplicate the layer of your extracted picture. So far, this should be your layers

Go to filter>liquify  on the base layer. You’re going to liquify the bottom layer; layer 0 in my case and not the duplicated layer. Distort the image as much as you want on the side where you have put the splatter brushes. I’ve distorted Taylor until she looks like this.

On your distorted mask, go to layer> layer mask>hide all. On that layer, use a WHITE splatter brush, preferably a different brush from before and click on random places on the left, in this case, side of the picture.

And yay! You’re done. 

Side note: You can edit your brush settings if you want them to look more random. These are my usual shape dynamics settings but you could add the scattering effect if you want the brushes to be more random.

It's been a while since I made that so I'll try to replicate it as best as I can (:

Grab your picture and resize it so the width is 245px. Crop it, colour it, do whatever you would normally do if you were editing a picture, and then flatten the image. I'll be using this picture:

Now, import the video clip that you'll be making your gif from and crop it so it's a square. Mine will be 130px by 130px. Next, make a new doc that's twice as big as your gif. Mine will be 260px by 260px. Using the ellipse tool, hold down the shift key and draw a circle that fills the entire document. Hold down the space key if you need to move the shape around.

Go back to your gif and colour it/edit it until you're satisfied with it. Now, go to edit > image canvas and enter the dimensions of your picture. 

Because my gif will be placed in the bottom right hand corner, I'm going to stretch the canvas upward and to the left. 

Your gif should look like this:

Go back to your picture, press control+A and then copy it. Go back to your gif and paste the picture. Now, in the layers panel, drag the picture to the very bottom.

Go to the circle that you've drawn and drag the shape onto your gif. Place the circle so it matches up with the corners of your gif (it should snap into place automatically)

Now, hold down the control button and click on the circle layer. You should get marching ants going around the rounded corner of the gif that you want to show.

With that part selected, click on the first frame of the gif and the corresponding layer and hit the quick mask icon (the one that's a circle within a rectangle at the bottom on the layers panel)

Now do that for every frame! To make it a little quicker, you can hold down the control key and click the layer mask (the black and white icon on the layer) and it'll select the exact same shape so you don't have to scroll up and select the circle every time. Make sure you mask the colouring layers as well or else the gif colouring will be applied to the picture as well. When you're done, it should look like this:

If you want to add the border that I have around my gif, take the elliptical marquee tool and draw a circle that's a little bit smaller than the original circle and move the selection so it's just a little bit inside the gif like this:

Select the shape layer (the circle), rasterize it (right click > rasterize layer) and hit delete. You should be left with a border like this:

Set that layer to soft light and you're done! This is my final product: