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Did you ever see a sunrise or a flower field so beautiful you'd want to hold it forever? Turn it into a fabric and create your own dress? Thanks to photoshop it's possible... You can use any background you want, but I prefer a nature photo. A photo with clouds, the sea, flowers,...

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avatar hilleke
hilleke

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step 1

Look for a photo of a landscape (I used one I took in the Blue Mountains in Australia) and a photo of a girl with a fancy dress.
Now we are going to use the landscape to decorate the dress.


step 2

Place the girl in the middle of the landscape.


step 3

Copy the background photo.
(duplicate layer>background copy)
Copy the background photo a second time.
(>background copy 2)
Place it above the layer with the girl.
Copy the layer with the girl and place it above "background copy 2".
(layer 1 copy)
Erase the background from "layer 1 copy".


step 4

Move the "background copy 2" with the move tool. Make sure the background copy is still overlapping the whole dress, but it has to be lower than the background layer and also more to the left or the right.


step 5

Click on "layer 1 copy" in the layer window.
Use the magnetic lasso tool to outline the dress.


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comments on this tutorial:

Alexandar26 [lvl 12] [vp 1000] [vote medals 46]:
avatar Alexandar26Really beautyfull image. Thanx for sharing with us
(211 days ago)
freejay [lvl 30] [vp 1000] [vote medals 195]:
avatar freejayNot sure who would use this.........not one of your better tuts.
(211 days ago)
imbcg [lvl 2] [vp 0] [vote medals 0]:
no avatar nice!
(205 days ago)
mom22seans [lvl 9] [vp 236] [vote medals 33]:
avatar mom22seansBeautiful! Very creative & much more interesting than the original image.
(197 days ago)
srmn [lvl 1] [vp 0] [vote medals 0]:
no avatarIt's photography, remember your copsitional elements... This probably would have looked a lot better
had you put her at least in the rule of 1/3s.. >.>
(176 days ago)
srmn [lvl 1] [vp 0] [vote medals 0]:
no avatarOh, the render is choppy and the low opacity makers her look like a ghost.. >.>
(176 days ago)
golden_cross [lvl 6] [vp 270] [vote medals 1]:
avatar golden_crossi guess lacking of shadows for the dress details makes it too flat.
(170 days ago)
Unique5565 [lvl 1] [vp 0] [vote medals 0]:
no avatarThis is cool.. I'm surely going to try this as I have some photographs that need a change of
clothing and color. I'm sure the unsuspecting subjects weren't aware they were going to have thier
photographs taken and didn't dress for the occasion.. LOL.. .. as for the lacking of shadow well
hey.. when yoru standing out on the top of a huge cliff would you be casting a shadow? I don't think
so.. but could use some more contrast and color to brighten the details up mmm like the painted
canyons .. Way Cool.
(111 days ago)
Unique5565 [lvl 1] [vp 0] [vote medals 0]:
no avatarWhat i would like to know is how the heak do i copy and paste one image on top of the other.. Yes
i'm very new at APS and i have to say that PSPX is much easier in my opinion but not as cool as APS
(111 days ago)
Unique5565 [lvl 1] [vp 0] [vote medals 0]:
no avatarWhat i would like to know is how the heak do i copy and paste one image on top of the other.. Yes
i'm very new at APS and i have to say that PSPX is much easier in my opinion but not as cool as APS
(111 days ago)




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