PHOTOSHOP CS4 DOWN & DIRTY TRICKS- P7

PHOTOSHOP CS4 DOWN & DIRTY TRICKS- P7: These chapter intros are all named after either song titles, movies, orTV shows, and this chapter is named after the song “Miracle Photo,”by a band called Ruth (which is an all-guy band, which is whatmakes the name cool, right? Because if it was an all-guy band andthey named it Mike, it would sound totally uncool, unless of course,no one in the band was named Mike, which would then make thename cool again.
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PHOTOSHOP CS4 DOWN & DIRTY TRICKS- P7 STEP 15: Press-and-hold the Command (PC: Ctrl) key, go to the Layers panel, and click on all the layers (except the Background layer) to select them. Then, Control-click (PC: Right-click) on one of those selected layers, and from the contextual menu that appears, choose Convert to Smart Object (as shown here), to convert all four layers into one Smart Object layer (you’ll understand why we did this in just a moment). STEP 16: Bring up Free Transform again, for this layer you just created. Control- click (PC: Right-click) inside the Free Transform bounding box and, from the contextual menu that appears, choose Warp (as shown here).166 Chapter Chapter 5 Reflection EffectsSTEP 17: Go up to the Options Bar and,from the Warp pop-up menu, chooseArc Lower (as shown up top here), thenset the Bend amount to –30. This bendsthe thumbnails into a curve.STEP 18: Adding this warping to yourphotos tends to make them look a bitstretched, so go back into Free Transformagain. Grab the center point on the rightside and drag inward (as shown here) toremove some of the stretching. Now dothe same thing to the left side, then lockin your side shrinking. Continued Reflection Effects Chapter 5 167 STEP 19: Create a new blank layer. Get the Elliptical Marquee tool (press Shift-M until you have it), click-and-drag a huge oval-shaped selection that rough- ly matches the roundness of your curved video wall, and position it so it overlaps your reflection a little bit (as shown here). Click on your Foreground color swatch and choose a blue color in the Color Picker, then fill your oval-shaped selec- tion with this color by pressing Option- Delete (PC: Alt-Backspace). Deselect by pressing Command-D (PC: Ctrl-D). STEP 20: Now, use the Elliptical Marquee tool to draw a smaller oval selection inside your blue oval. Press D, then X to set your Foreground color to white, and fill that oval with white (as shown here), then deselect.168 Chapter Chapter 5 Reflection Effects STEP 21: Go under the Filter menu, under Blur, and choose Gaussian Blur. When the dialog appears, enter 250 pixels to greatly soften the edge of your blue-and-white oval, and make it look like a soft spotlight (as seen here). STEP 22: Now, open the photo of the product you want to showcase (in our case, it’s an Apple MacBook Pro laptop. You can download this photo from the book’s downloads page). If you choose to use this one, I put the laptop on its own layer, so all you have to do is get the Move tool, click-and-drag it onto the blurred soft spotlight in your main docu- ment, and position it like you see here. Then, get the Magic Wand tool (press Shift-W until you have it), and click once inside the blank white screen on the laptop to put a selection around it.©ISTOCKPHOTO/SERGEY RUSAKOV Continued Reflection Effects Chapter 5 169 STEP 23: Open the photo you want to appear inside your computer screen (after all, you can’t leave that blank white screen there, right?). Press Command-A (PC: Ctrl-A) to select the entire photo, then press Command-C (PC: Ctrl-C) to Copy this photo into memory. Now, switch to your video wall document, go under the Edit menu, and choose Paste Into to paste the photo in your computer’s memory into your selected area inside the computer screen (as seen here). If your image is too large to fit in the screen, bring up Free Transform, then press-and-hold the Shift key, grab a corner point, and drag inward (as SCOTT KELBY shown here) to shrink it down to size (while still staying masked inside the laptop’s screen). STEP 24: Now, let’s add a drop shadow directly under the laptop. In the Layers panel, click on the layer with your laptop image on it (it should be the second layer from the top). Choose Drop Shadow from the Add a Layer Style icon’s pop-up menu at the bottom of the Layers panel. When the Layer Style dialog comes up, set the Angle to 90°, so the shadow appears directly below the laptop (as seen here). The shadow looks a little too dark, so lower the Opacity to around 55%. Then set the Distance to 28, and to soften it, increase the Size amount to 24. Click OK to apply the drop shadow to the laptop.170 Chapter Chapter 5 Reflection EffectsSTEP 25: Next, let’s add some textbelow the product (I used the samefont that Apple uses, Myriad Pro, whichcomes installed with Photoshop CS4),so grab the Horizontal Type tool (T),click below the laptop, and type away.Okay, now the look is complete, butwe haven’t put those Smart Object lay-ers to use yet, and that’s where it getsreally fun. Here’s how: since you usedSmart Objects, you can just build anothercontact sheet (use a different set of 64 ...