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Step
1: Open
two photos you want to collage
together-- in this case it's
a photo I took at my friends'
wedding and one I found of
a crystal ball. Once you've
got the images open, use the
Move tool to drag and drop
one photo into the other |
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Step
2: The photo of Steve and
Darla is slightly bigger than
I want. Simply pressing Ctrl+T
(or Command+T) brings up the
Free Transform tool, so I
can size it down a bit to
better match the crystal ball… |
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Step
3: I'll
use Photoshop's Spherize filter
to give the image a slightly,
well, spherized look. Simply
select the part of the image
you want to spherize and then
select Spherize from the Filter
menu (Filter> Distort>Spherize). |
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Step
4: Since the base image has
a sepia-like tone, I'm also
going to colorize the image
of Steve and Darla to match
it. To do this, simply open
the Hue/Saturation palette
by pressing Crtl+U (or Command+U)
and check the Colorize box.
Then adjust the Hue and Saturation
sliders until the photos match. |
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Step
5: To blend the photos toStep
6: Then, once the Layer Mask
is added, grab a nice, soft-edge
airbrush, make sure that Stylus
ressure is checked and start
painting on the mask! Painting
with black asks the image
and painting with white reveals
it. The pressure sensitivity
of the Wacom Pen allows me
to blend with great subtlety
and delicate control. The
best part is that because
we're working on the mask,
not the actual image, we can
work and re-work the image
until we get exactly the look
we want… gether, I'll first
add a layer mask by clicking
on the layer mask icon in
the Layers palette… |
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Step
7: Cool... my friends' magic
moment sealed forever in a
crystal ball! |
