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Howdy and welcome to the first ever Tutorial Tuesday on the infiniTuts YouTube Channel.
Today I am going to teach you How to Place a Logo or Graphic on to a T-Shirt in a picture
that has already been taken.
Because this is the first ever Tutorial Tuesday, I decided to take a picture of a model,
and have him pose with a blank T-Shirt on.
And if you are thinking to yourself, "What? That doesn't look like a model!"
Well you are right because its just a picture of me.
But I'm wearing a T-Shirt so we can get started putting something on it.
The first step is to grab your logo or image, and drag it on in to your picture.
I'm using the standard YouTube logo, and to resize it to the shirt, simply hold down "Control
+T" or "Command + T" on a Mac, and you will be able
to re-size it any which way you want.
Now in order to keep it from getting distorted like this if you accidentally drag it out
the wrong way,
make sure to hold down the shift key so that the resizing dimensions stay consistent.
Just place it right on in the shirt where you want it,
and because my shoulders are not perfectly straight,
we need to curve this image so it goes in line with the torso...
just a tad there,
and press enter when you are done.
Move it up, and now we are good.
Okay, now we have the logo in the right place, but it doesn't look quite realistic.
It looks like it is in front of the T-Shirt, rather than actually being on the T-Shirt.
So, the first step to make it look more realistic is to go to the Blending Mode.
It automatically defaults to normal, but where we are going to want to have it, is at multiply.
Multiply allows the shadows to come through the YouTube logo.
Now, you can stop here and have it looking pretty good, but if you want to take it to
the next level,
you have to attach it to the curvature of the torso.
To do that, we are going to use Photoshop's liquify feature.
To get there, go to the Filter drop down menu, and select Liquify.
Now the Liquify window will open up, and we can get started.
Lets zoom on in here to the logo real quick, kinda make it the same size of what we have
in the real picture.
Now, make sure you have the Forward Warp Tool selected.
The settings here have to be in the right place.
If your brush size is too big, or your pressure is too strong,
it won't look good and it will turn your image into something you don't want.
SO, what we are going to have is a low pressure, and a smaller brush size.
Lets go about 60.
The first thing we are going to want to do, is to attach it to the curvature of the chest
here.
You can see how there is a little shadow here, indicating the curvature on the shirt.
What we are going to want to do, is to go right through where the shadow is with the
forward Warp Tool.
Bam! Right through the "Y" and the "o".
We will have a little indent right where that curve is.
We are also going to want to bend in this "Y" here.
It is flat here, which makes it look a tad unrealistic.
Have it come in just a tad... get it more into the curvature of the chest here.
Now, we want it to get in line with the curvature of the other side of the torso.
Let's bring the brush size up a little. I am using the bracket keys to change it without
having to go up to the Brush Size option.
Scrunch in the logo a little bit.
As you can see, there is a lot of little ripples there, so we can make the brush size real
small,
to kind of make look like it is attaching to those ripples.
Go with a brush size of "20".
Right where those ripples are, right above the "e",
even with the "e", middle of the "e",
just go real little....
scrunch it in...
scrunch it in...
scrunch it in... a little bigger...
and scrunch it in...
This ripple goes into the "e" and the "b".
Go up in size. And we will press it one more time.
Go all the way through the "b"... it kind of gets the ripple there, in those letters.
Bring the corner down just a tad more, like we did on the other side.
That should be good, just hit okay,
and we will see how it does attaching to the body and the shirt.
Oh, that is looking a lot better now, it attaches to the ripple in the chest on this side.
The corners are brought in a little bit...
It has the ripples on the side here that it goes in with,
and the "b" and "e" have the ripple and the bump in the shirt.
Let's zoom this baby back out, and make one more change.
Lower the opacity a little bit, just to make it look like it fades in with the shirt,
and it is not such an abrupt color.
In just a few easy steps, we were able to make the logo look like it was being in front
of the shirt,
to actually having it on the shirt.
And having it aline with the shadows and wrinkles on the shirt.
So, that is how to place your graphic on to a T-Shirt.
Thumbs up for my modeling pose!
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Thanks for watching! And I will see you then.