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Hi, this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV
For those of you who enjoy the macabre, I'm going to show you how to add a name to this nameless,
long-forgotten, grave site, headstone.
i provided this grave stone for you to download, so you can follow along.
Its link is located in the video's description or project files.
This document is 1280 by 720 pixels with a
resolution of a hundred and fifty pixels per inch.
Open your horizontal type tool
and choose a font.
I'm using Old Style 1.
If you'd like to use it, I provided that link, as well.
For the top line, I'm using a size of 40 points...
smooth...
center alignment...
and black for the color.
Type out your text.
If you'd like some lines to be larger or smaller,
highlight those lines
and type in a different point size.
Click on your Move tool to center your text over the gravestone.
Go to Layer...
Rasterize... and Type.
Change the blend mode to Multiply
and the Fill...
to 50%.
Reducing the Fill's opacity makes the text more transparent without reducing
the opacity of the Effects that we'll be adding to the text.
Double-click on a thumbnail
to open the Layer Style window.
Click, Inner Shadow.
Make the Blend Mode
Color Burn
and the Opacity, 15%.
Uncheck Global Light
and make the angle 138 degrees.
Make the Distance
4 pixels
and the Size, Zero
Click Drop Shadow
and make the Blend Mode, Soft Light.
Click on the color box
and pick, White
Make the Opacity 100%...
the Distance...
3 pixels
and the Size 3 pixels.
Then, click Okay.
Since the headstone is a bit angled in perspective
the text needs to be angled, as well.
We can do this with the Vanishing Point feature, but in this case, it's just
simpler to use to transform tool.
Press Control + T, to open it.
Go to bottom left of the transform
and press and hold
Control on a PC
or Command on a Mac.
and drag it a little closer to the left corner.
Go to the bottom right of the transform press control or command and drag it
to a position that brings the bottom of the transform
parallel to the bottom of the inside box of the headstone.
Go to the top left of the transform
and drag it to a position
that makes the entire transform be in the the same perspective
as the entire headstone.
Then, press Enter or Return.
Next, we'll transform it from day to night
and strike it with a sliver of moonlight.
Make a composite snapshot of your existing image
by pressing Control + Shift + Alt + E on a PC
or Cmd + Shift + Option + E on a Mac.
We'll name it, "Composite".
Let's zoom out to see more room around the image.
Press "Z" to open your Zoom tool
and press and hold Alt or Opt
as you click down to zoom out.
Click on your Quickmask button
and open your Brush tool.
Make the size 400 pixels
the Hardness, zero
and the opacity 100%.
Press F5
to open your Brush window
and uncheck all the features except, Smoothing
Press F5 again to close the window.
Brush in a diagonal line across the center of your image.
To fit it back on your screen,
press Ctrl or Cmd + 0.
Next, we'll remove the quickmask that's above the headstone.
Reduce your brush size to 10 pixels.
Then, press Enter or Return.
Invert the foreground and background colors by pressing "x" on your keyboard.
Click down on the top left corner of the headstone.
Then, go to the top right corner
and press and hold
Shift
as you click down once.
This removes a straight soft line from your quick mask.
Make your brush size a little larger by pressing on the right bracket key on
your keyboard.
Now, brush out the rest of your quickmask on the top.
Let's make the bottom of the quickmask a bit transparent.
Reduce the opacity to 60%.
and make the brush size 250 pixels
Now, brush across the bottom of your document once.
Press "Q" to change the quickmask into a selection.
Click on Adjustment layer button
and choose Color Lookup.
This was introduced in CS6.
If you're working on an earlier version of Photoshop,
I'll show you in a minute
another way to achieve similar results.
Notice the Adjustment layer's Layer Mask includes the shape of the selection.
Open "Load 3D LUT"
and choose "Moonlight 3DL".
The reason we're getting a streak of light is because the layer mask is
revealing the composite layer under it.
Now, I'll show you how to achieve similar results
without using Color Lookup.
Before we clicked on Color Lookup
we had an active selection that we made from the quickmask.
Save the selection by going to, Select
and Save Selection.
Then, click OK.
click on the thumbnail of the composite layer to make it active.
Press Ctrl or Cmd to make a copy of it
and then hide the copy.
Make the original composite layer active
and click on the adjustment layer button.
Choose, Levels
and make the output white level
130
To adjust the color cast,
click on the adjustment layer button again.
and this time
choose Hue Saturation.
check Colorize
and make a Hue
220
and the Saturation, 70.
Reduce the Opacity to 50%.
Make the composite copy visible and active.
Open the Channels panel
and Ctrl-click
or Cmd-click on Alpha 1
to make the channel into a selection
Open back up your Layers panel and click on the layer mask button
to make a layer mask of the selection
next to the active layer.
Invert the layer mask by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + I.
Have fun placing your own text on a small granite, gravestone that looks like it's
been lit by a full moon
filtered through trees. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV...
Thanks for watching!