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Software Used: Photoshop 5.5 (Mac users replace Ctrl with Command.)
...continued from Part One
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1.) Open this image in Photoshop. (You may right click to save this one.)
2.) Go to image > Canvas Size and increase the width to 600 pixels. Click the middle left square for the anchor so that the canvas expands to the right.
3.) Zoom in and select a few pixels along the right edge of where the photo ends.
4.) Choose Layer > New > Layer via Copy (or press the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-J)
5.) Choose Edit > Free Transform (or press the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-T)
6.) Press the right arrow key a few times to move the selection over to where the white edge begins.
7.) Click on the right handle on the transform border and drag it all the way to the right edge of the document to stretch these pixels. Double click inside the free transform boundary to apply the transformation.
8.) What you have should now look pretty close to this (shown 50%):
9.) Add a new layer.
10.) Use the steps you learned in part one to fill this layer with an alternating pattern of 50% gray and white stripes, two pixels high.
11.) Set the blend mode of this layer to Soft Light.
When the layer is set to Soft Light, the stripes create a line screen effect allowing the image below to show through.
12.) Now we want to erase the stripe effect from the left side of the photo. We'll do this with a layer mask.
13.) Make sure you stripe layer is active, then choose Layer > Add Layer Mask > Reveal All. Notice the layer mask is added to the layer palette and is filled with white. White reveals and black hides portions of the layer.
14.) Click on the layer mask thumbnail in the palette to make it active.
15.) Use the gradient tool set for a black to white gradient and drag from the left side to where the edge of the original photo was.
16.) You will still see some lines covering the butterfly portion of the photo. We'll paint these out directly on the layer mask.
17.) With black as the foreground color, select a large soft brush and set the brush opacity to about 50.
18.) From left to right, swipe across the center of the butterfly a couple of times to erase some of the lines in this area. Mine is cropped, but you can see the important part of the finished image here:
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Some images from Nova Development's Art Explosion 600,000.
