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Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to create this cinematic,deep space, stargate from scratch.Create a new document by going to File and New. Make the Width: 1550 pixels, the Height: 870 pixels and the Resolution: 150 pixels per inch. TheMode is RGB and 8 bits per channel. Then, click OK or press Enter or Return. If your foreground and background colors aren't black and white respectively, press "D" on your keyboard.We'll fill the canvas with black by pressing Alt + Delete on Windows or Option + Delete on a Mac. Make a copy of your Background by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J. We'll place thecopy into a folder by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + G. Click the thumbnail of "Layer 1" to makeit active. Click the foreground color, which opens the Color Picker. In the Brightnessfield, type in 15. This will make the foreground color a very dark, grey. Then, click OK. Go to Filter, Render and Clouds. We're going to stretch the clouds horizontally. To dothis, open your Transform Tool by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + T. At the top, you'll see the percentages of the Transform's Width and Height.Go to the Width and type in 300. Then, press Enter or Return. Since the clouds have a Width of 300%, they're extending beyond both sidesof your document. To crop them off, press Ctrl or Cmd + A to select the width and heightof your document and go to Image and Crop. To deselect it, press Ctrl or Cmd + D. Go to Filter, Pixelate and Mezzotint. Choose "Medium Strokes" and click OK. Go back to Filter, Blur and Radial Blur. Slide the Amount all the way to the right. Make the Blur Method:Zoom and the Quality: Best. Then, click OK.Repeat the Filter by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + F and then, repeat it one more time. Next, we'll frame it to the same aspect ratio ofa wide-screen, movie. Go to View and make sure Rulers and Snap are checked. If theyaren't just click on them. Open your Crop Tool and for the Width, type in 2.66 and the Height: 1. This is the aspect ratio of the original, Cinemascope movies. Go to the ruler at the top and drag down a guide line to the top of the cropped area. It'll snap to itbecause we have "Snap" checked. If you don't see the guide line, press Ctrl or Cmd + H.Drag another guide line to the bottom of the cropped area. Zoom out of your document bypressing Ctrl or Cmd and the minus key on your keyboard. Open your Rectangular Marquee Tool and drag a selection from the top, left corner to the lower, right corner of the document's guide lines. Make the folder active and click the Layer mask icon to make a layer mask ofthe selection next to the folder. The white area of the layer mask will reveal the insideof each layer within the folder. To see your document at 100%, press Ctrl or Cmd + 1. To hide the guide lines, press Ctrl or Cmd + H. Make the clouds layer active. We'll invert it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + I. Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer. Open your Elliptical Marquee Tool, and go to the center of your image. Press and hold Alt or Optionas you drag out an ellipse approximately this size and shape. Go to Select, Modify and Feather.Feather it 100 pixels and clock OK. Invert the selection by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + Shift + I. We'll make the foreground color completely black by pressing "D" on your keyboard torevert it to its default color. Fill the selection with black by pressing Alt or Option + Delete.Then, deselect it. Reduce its opacity to 80%.Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer.Invert your foreground and background colors by pressing "x" on your keyboard or by clicking this icon. Open your Brush Tool and open your Brush Picker. Make your brush size: 600 pixelsand the Hardness: 0%. Its Opacity and Flow are both 100%. Hover your cursor over the center and left-click once. Click the Adjustment Layer icon and click "Gradient". Open the Gradient Picker and open your list of gradient presets.I'll choose "Color Harmonies 2", however,feel free to experiment with other presets.When you see this window, click OK to replace the current gradients with the gradients from the preset you just chose. I'll click this one. Make the Style: Radial and I'll drag the Scale all the way to the right. This zooms into the center of the gradient. The higher the Scale amount, the more it zooms in. Play with this amount to get the colors you want. You can always change it later. Change its Blend Mode to "Color". Next, we'll add stars. Make the center, white glow activeand click the New Layer icon to make a new layer above it. We'll fill the empty layerwith black and since black is the background color, press Ctrl or Cmd + Delete. Change the Blend Mode to "Screen" and go to Filter, Noise and Add Noise. Make the Amount: 30%,Gaussian and Monochromatic. Go back to Filter, Blur and Gaussian Blur. Make the Radius: point 5 pixels and click OK. Open Levels by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + L. For Input Shadows, type in 75 and for Input Highlights, type in 160.Then, click OK. Next, we'll add subtle, motion trails to the stars to make them appear to be enveloped by the star gate. Let's renamethe star layer, "Stars" and reduce its opacity to 70%. Press Enter or Return and make a copyof the stars. Make its opacity: 100%. Go to Filter, Blur and Radial Blur. Make the Amount: 5,Zoom and Best. Then, click OK. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!
Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.I'm going to show you how to transform the material of a statue or other object. This effect works best on objects that are made from one material.Open a photo you'd like to use. If you'd like to use this image, its link is located in the video's description of project files. The first step is to makea selection around the subject, so we can ultimately cut and copy it to its own layer.There are many ways to make selections and covered them in most of of tutorials. Forthis example, I'll use the Quick Selection Tool. If you're using this tool as well, dragyour cursor over your subject to make a selection around its shape. To remove areas of the selection,press and hold Alt on Windows or Option on a Mac as you drag over those areas. When you're done, press "Q" to make it into a quick mask. If you notice areas that you want tocorrect or finesse, you can use your Pencil Tool. To decrease the size of your pencil,press the left bracket key on your keyboard.Then draw over those areas. When you're done,press "Q" to revert it back into a selection. Press Ctrl or Cmd + J to cut and copy thesubject onto its own layer. Remove all its color by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + Shift + U.Make a copy of the layer and hide it by clicking off the eyeball next to it. Click the thumbnail of the middle layer to make it active. We'll use this layer to create a displacement map,which will warp the new material to conform itself to the contours of your subject. Makea new layer below it by Ctrl-clicking or Cmd-clicking on the New Layer icon. We'll fill it with white. First, check to see if your foreground and background colors are black and white, respectively.If they aren't, press "D" on your keyboard. Since white is your background color,press Ctrl or Cmd + Delete to fill the empty layer with the background color.Make Layer 1 active and go to Filter, Noise and Median. I'll make the Radius: 5 pixels,however, if you're using a different photo, you may want to adjust this amount dependingon your photo's size and resolution. Use an amount that removes the fine details, butretains the sharpness of the subject's general shadows and mid-tones. Since displacementmaps work best when their slightly blurred, go to Filter, Blur and Gaussian Blur. I'll blur it 2 pixels, but again, you may want to adjust this amount. Merge these 2 layers by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + E. Click the icon at the upper, right of the Layers paneland click "Duplicate Layer". Click "New" and type in "Displacement". Then, click OK or press enter or Return. Go to File and "Save As". Save it to your Desktop as a PSD file. Then, click "Save".If you see this window, click OK. Click the tab of your original file to open it. Since we duplicated and saved this layer, we can trash it from the Layers panel.Make the top layer visible and active.Open a texture you'd like to use to wrap around your subject. If you'd like to use the one I'm using, I provided its link, as well. Youcan find many textures at www.cgtextures.com. To get it into your other document, press"v" to open your Move Tool and drag it up onto your subject's tab. Without releasingyour mouse or pen, press and hold Shift as you drag it down onto your image and release.Pressing Shift kept the texture centered over your subject. To resize your texture, openthe Transform Tool by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + T. To see the Transform's entire boundingbox, press Ctrl or Cmd + 0. Go to a corner and when you see a diagonal, double-arrow,press and hold Alt or Option + Shift as you drag it in or out. Then, press Enter or Return.We need to crop the texture in order for it to be sized correctly to the displacementmap. To do this, press Ctrl or Cmd + A to select your document and go to Image and Crop.To deselect it, press Ctrl or Cmd + D. To fit your document back onto your canvas, press Ctrl or Cmd + 0. Go to Filter, Distort and Displace. I'll displace the Horizontal and Vertical Scales: 40 pixels each,"Stretch to Fit" and "Repeat Edge Pixels". Click "Displacement" and click "Open". The texture immediately warped based on the tonal values of the displacement map that you saved earlier. Ctrl-click or Cmd-click on the thumbnail of your subjectto make a selection of its shape. Your texture should still be active. Click the Layer Maskicon to make a layer mask of the selection next to the texture. Click the texture tomake it active again and change its Blend Mode to Overlay. To adjust its brightness and contrast, click the Adjustment Layer icon and click, "Levels". Click the Clipping Mask iconto clip or restrict the adjustment layer to effect just the one layer beneath it inthe layers panel, which in this case, is the wood texture. Slide the input black level to the right, until the darkest areas of your texture look good to you. I like 70 for the amount.Then, slide the Input mid-tones to the right until you're happy with its medium tones.I'll use .60 for the amount. Keep in mind, because each texture has its own characteristics,play with Levels until you're happy with its look. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.Thanks for watching!
