Right......2 tutorials, as requested
Carrie Underwood.
We will be creating this blend:
Before you start, you need to install this pattern set onto photoshop:
s33.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2K2EL7DOOJUAG0FHV19OCAB0LETo install it once downloaded, go to "my computer-HDD(C:)-program files-adobe-photoshop-presets-patterns" Then move the file from it's zip folder to that folder and the patterns are ready to use.
1. Blend your pictures together, merge the layer and sharpen the whole image once.
2. Duplicate the layer and set the duplicate to screen at 70% opacity.
3. Duplicate the base layer again, drag it to the top, desaturate it and set it to overlay.
4. Duplicate the desaturated layer and set it to 50% opacity.
5. On your layers pallette, at the bottom of it, there's a row of buttons you can press, click the first one and a list of options will come up, click pattern overlay. A box will come up. Set the opacity to 15% and where it has a picture of a pattern, click the down arrow next to it, then the patterns in that set will appear, and there's a little arrow on the right side of them. Click that and then select DesignSpice_LinePatterns from the list. The first pattern will appear as your selected one, and just leave that cause that's the one we're using. Then click OK and the pattern part is done.
6. Make a new layer and fill it all in white. Then select the selection tool option and along the top of your screen where it says feather, change the number from 0 to 20. Then on your blend, use the selection tool like you're selecting something and when you let go you'll have a dottec circle (make sure it's not too big though, try and do it as small as possible- but if it's too small it won't work, a pop-up box will come up saying, so just play about until you can get a small size that's not too small to work). The, pressing the delete key on your keyboard, delete away the white that is covering the main parts of the blend. Leave some white at the sides and a small amount at the top and bottom to get that borderless, fading away look.
7. Add your text, and add a stroke of 1 pixel to it for the text border.
8. merge all the layers and add a stroke of 1 pixel. Where it says "outside" on the stroke options box you'll need to click that and set it to "inside".
And that's it, if anyone doesn't understand something, then don't hesitate to ask......if you're using photoshop that is. Do not ask me questions about pSP cause I really don't know. All I know is that you can't do a stroke on PSP.
2nd tutorial coming up.....
*EDIT*
For tutorial 2, we'll be making this blend:
1. Crop all of your pictures to the size you want them and sharpen them all once.
2. On all the images, duplicate the layer and set the duplicates to screen at 50% opacity. Merge the layers afterwards.
3. Open a new file a lot bigger than you want the sig to be, and using the selection tool, drag it across the page and down a bit to make a rectangle selection and fill it in with a color you want part of the stripy background to be. Then drag the selection(dotted rectangle) down under the filled in rectangle(leaving no gaps between rectangles) and fill it in with a second color. Repeat that all the way down the image using the 2 colors you've already used. You can use more, but 2 looks good.
4. Go to "image-rotate canvas-arbitrary" and set the angle to 45 degrees and click ok.
5. Then copy the image and paste it into a new file, the size you want the sig to be.
6. Paste all of your images of your chosen subject onto the stripy background and arrange them to how you like them. The duplicate each picture layer once and desaturate all the duplicates. Drag them down so they're underneath the original layers.
7. Set a stroke on all of the layers expect the stripy background one.
8. Then add your text and put a stroke on that.
9. Merge the layers and add a stroke set to "inside" for your border.
(Read tutorial 1 for more info on putting on a stroke)