Tutorial: Creative backgrounds using PS

roygoh · 17th July 2003

Hi,

I would like to share my recent work in creating studio-like backgrounds in PS from ordinary photos.

1. This is the photo I started with. It is a closeup of a rose I took a few weeks back. The photo is not all that interesting to look at:

2. I took the photo and performed the following steps on it in PS:
- removed the water drops using the healing brush
- adjusted the levels to increase contrast
- applied slight Gaussian blurring
- added canvas texture effect
And here's the result:

3. Here I have a photo of a sweet baby girl. however, the background is uninteresting.

4. So I went on to replace the background with the rose background that I have created above. The steps are:
- open both pictures in PS
- rotate the backgound picture 90 degrees CCW.
- copy the picture of the baby onto a second layer on top of the rose background
- carefully erase the original backgournd on the second layer to reveal the rose background underneath. For more details on the background removal, refer to these threads:

http://forums.clubsnap.org/showthrea...threadid=30307
http://forums.clubsnap.org/showthrea...threadid=34979

- after removing the original background, apply softening to the top layer, as well as spot light effect on the background.

So, here's the final result:

Thanks for viewing. Your comments are all welcomed!

- Roy

17th July 2003	#1
roygoh Moderator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Northwest Posts: 5,042	Tutorial: Creative backgrounds using PS Hi, I would like to share my recent work in creating studio-like backgrounds in PS from ordinary photos. 1. This is the photo I started with. It is a closeup of a rose I took a few weeks back. The photo is not all that interesting to look at: 2. I took the photo and performed the following steps on it in PS: - removed the water drops using the healing brush - adjusted the levels to increase contrast - applied slight Gaussian blurring - added canvas texture effect And here's the result: 3. Here I have a photo of a sweet baby girl. however, the background is uninteresting. 4. So I went on to replace the background with the rose background that I have created above. The steps are: - open both pictures in PS - rotate the backgound picture 90 degrees CCW. - copy the picture of the baby onto a second layer on top of the rose background - carefully erase the original backgournd on the second layer to reveal the rose background underneath. For more details on the background removal, refer to these threads: http://forums.clubsnap.org/showthrea...threadid=30307 http://forums.clubsnap.org/showthrea...threadid=34979 - after removing the original background, apply softening to the top layer, as well as spot light effect on the background. So, here's the final result: Thanks for viewing. Your comments are all welcomed! - Roy __________________ As complexity rises, precise statements lose meaning and meaningful statements lose precision. Last edited by roygoh; 16th August 2003 at 09:07 AM.