Magic Book
- By Anastacia Sholik
- Published 12/14/2006
- Effects
- Unrated
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Insert on the upper part a texture that demonstrates the soil and the sand.
Create a mask from this layer: Layer – Add Layer Mask – Hide all. Next step includes selecting a brush (Brush Tool) of white color, setting the brush's Hardness on 0% and painting the picture's borders to display the sand on the pictured zone.
Make the texture more intensive: Filter – Sharpen – Sharpen and change the layer's type on Screen. Minimize the Opacity till 80%.
Copy two times the layer containing the frame (ctrl+j). One copy must be grouped out with the floor's layer (ctrl+g), and the second one – with the book's one. The lowest layer must be distorted with the command Free Transform and Distort. The shadow falling on the book must repeat the same shapes that the book has. It's possible to do that with Polygonal Lasso Tool and the commands Free Transform and Distort.
Blur out both layers with the same meaning: Filter – Blur – Gaussian Blur. Change the type of these layers on Soft Light.
Decolorize the glass's layer: Image – Adjustments – Desaturate (shift+ctrl+u). Next choose the Brush Tool on a new layer above the glass's to paint some of its parts as if it was a mosaic.
Change the layer's type on Soft Light.
Using the Gradient Tool, dark out the picture's corners (on a new layer, upper than the rest of them).
Change the layer's type on Saturation.
Merge down all the layers now: Layer – Merge Visible (shift+ctrl+e). Then apply the Rectangular Marquee Tool to mark out the right book's part. Then copy it (ctrl+c) and insert it on a new layer (ctrl+v). Blur out the layer horizontally: Filter – Blur – Motion Blur.
Change the layer's type on Color Burn and combine it with the basic layer (ctrl+e). Choose the Brush Tool on a new layer and draw the burs (it's not necessary for them to be of the same sizes).
Create a mask from this layer: Layer – Add Layer Mask – Hide all. Next step includes selecting a brush (Brush Tool) of white color, setting the brush's Hardness on 0% and painting the picture's borders to display the sand on the pictured zone.
Make the texture more intensive: Filter – Sharpen – Sharpen and change the layer's type on Screen. Minimize the Opacity till 80%.
Copy two times the layer containing the frame (ctrl+j). One copy must be grouped out with the floor's layer (ctrl+g), and the second one – with the book's one. The lowest layer must be distorted with the command Free Transform and Distort. The shadow falling on the book must repeat the same shapes that the book has. It's possible to do that with Polygonal Lasso Tool and the commands Free Transform and Distort.
Blur out both layers with the same meaning: Filter – Blur – Gaussian Blur. Change the type of these layers on Soft Light.
Decolorize the glass's layer: Image – Adjustments – Desaturate (shift+ctrl+u). Next choose the Brush Tool on a new layer above the glass's to paint some of its parts as if it was a mosaic.
Change the layer's type on Soft Light.
Using the Gradient Tool, dark out the picture's corners (on a new layer, upper than the rest of them).
Change the layer's type on Saturation.
Merge down all the layers now: Layer – Merge Visible (shift+ctrl+e). Then apply the Rectangular Marquee Tool to mark out the right book's part. Then copy it (ctrl+c) and insert it on a new layer (ctrl+v). Blur out the layer horizontally: Filter – Blur – Motion Blur.
Change the layer's type on Color Burn and combine it with the basic layer (ctrl+e). Choose the Brush Tool on a new layer and draw the burs (it's not necessary for them to be of the same sizes).
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