Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to carve a face into a mountain.
I provided this photo of a mountain that you download, so you can follow
along. Its link is located in the video description or project files. Open a photo of a face that
you'd like to use. Choose one that's lit mainly from one side, so it casts shadows on the
face. To automatically adjust it's Brightness and Contrast, you could either press Ctrl
or Cmd + Shift + L to invoke "Auto Tone" or press Ctrl + Alt + L on Windows or Cmd + Option
+ L on a Mac to invoke "Auto Levels". Try both to see which one looks best to you. Remember,
to undo your last step, press Ctrl or Cmd + Z. If your photo is in color, press Ctrl
or Cmd + Shift + U to desaturate it. We need to make a selection around the face, so we
can use it to cut it out from its background. There are many ways to make selections, but
for this example, I'll use the Magnetic Lasso Tool.
I generally like to use a relatively low Width, low Contrast and high Frequency.
The Width is the size of the area that Photoshop
looks at to find edges. The Contrast amount determines how much of a difference there
must be in color or brightness value between the subject and its background for Photoshop
to consider something is an edge. The Frequency is the amount of anchor points Photoshop lays
down along the edge. Start anywhere on the face and carefully drag your Tool over the
edge. The hair edges don't have to be perfect.
If anchor points get added in the wrong spot,
press the Delete key to remove them
and then continue along the edge. When you reach the first anchor point,
you'll see a small ring. If your left-click on your mouse or pen, it'll
close the path and instantly make the path into a selection.
Press Ctrl or Cmd +J to cut the face from its background and copy it to its own layer.
To move it into the mountain document, press "v" to open your Move Tool and drag into onto the tab of the mountain.
Without releasing your cursor, drag it down onto the image and release.
To resize, position and angle it, press Ctrl or Cmd +T to open your Transform Tool.
The shadows on this face are pointing in the right direction, however, if the shadows on your subject
are pointing in the opposite direction from the shadows on the mountain,
go to Edit, Transform and Flip Horizontal.
To resize it, 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.
To reposition it, go to the inside of the Transform and drag it to approximately this area.
To angle it, go to a corner and when you see a curved, double-arrow, rotate it to an angle you like.
Continue to make adjustments and then, press Enter or Return.
Click off the eyeball next to the layer to temporarily hide it
and click the thumbnail of the mountain to make it active.
We're to make the mountain into a displacement map to make the face follow the contours of the mountain.
To do this, click the icon at the upper, right of the Layers panel and click "Duplicate Layer".
Click "New" and type in "Displacement".
Then, click OK or press Enter or Return.
Displacement maps look best when they're slightly blurred,
so go to Filter, Blur and Gaussian Blur. Blur it 1 pixel and click OK.
Go to File and Save As.
Save it to your Desktop as a .psd file and click Save.
If you see this warning, click OK.
Then, close the Displacement file.
Make a copy of the Background by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J.
Change its Blend Mode to Soft Light.
Drag the copy to the top of the Layers panel and click off its eyeball to temporarily hide
it. Make the face visible and active.
Go to Filter, Distort and Displace.
Displace it 10 pixels, "Stretch To Fit" and "Repeat Edge Pixels". Then, click OK.
Click the Displacement file and click "Open".
The face is now wrapping itself around the contours of the mountain
based on its luminance values. Make a copy of the face.
Hide the copy and make the original active.
Change its Blend Mode to "Overlay" and reduce its opacity to 40%.
Make the face copy visible and active.
Change its blend mode to "Multiply"
and double-click its thumbnail to open its Layer Style window.
Click "Color Overlay". Click the color box
and type in 3C361D. Then, click OK.
Change the Blend Mode to "Color Dodge".
Click "Drop Shadow".
Make the Distance 90 to 95 pixels.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
Thanks for watching!