Today, we're going to take this dollar bill
and convert it into a pile of money in Photoshop.
We're going to use a little-known script.
It is going to allow us to take one
instance of a pattern and fill it randomly across our canvas.
This is a really powerful technique
that will help you develop really interesting bills.
Also, make sure that you stick around
until the end of the tutorial, because I'm going to show you a powerful
technique to make this effect more realistic.
All right. Let's jump right into the tutorial.
The first step is to extract the dollar bill from the background,
all you need to do is go into the Select menu and choose Subject.
This will use artificial intelligence
known as Adobe Sensei to make a selection out of the main subject in your layer.
If the machine learning technology misses an area,
like the bottom part of the bill, you can easily add to it by selecting
the Quick Selection Tool and clicking and dragging over the areas that it missed.
Next, you can click on the Layer Mask icon
to create a Layer Mask and hide the background.
You could also select the Brush Tool
and paint with black on areas that shouldn't be selected.
If I zoom in, you'll see the shadow
on the dollar bill here, so I'll hide it by painting with black.
I'll click, hold Shift and click again
and Photoshop will draw a line in between those two points
and I'll continue doing that around the bill.
When you're done, you can refine your mask
edge, select the Layer Mask thumbnail, then click on Selected Mask
from the Properties panel and I'll quickly smooth out the edges
by clicking-and-dragging the Smooth, slider it to the right and I'll make
the edges sharper by dragging the Contrast slider to the right as well.
And I'll press OK.
next I'll select the Rectangular Marquee Tool
and I'll make a selection
that is just a little larger than the dollar bill.
Make sure that the Layer Thumbnail is selected, not the Layer Mask,
so the white outline,
the focus needs to be on the Layers Thumbnail.
then go into Edit,
Define Pattern,
and you can name it whatever you like, I'll name it "Dollar Bill"
and I'll press OK.
What I'll do now is create a new layer and disable this original layer.
I can now bring up the Fill dialog box by holding Shift and backspace on windows.
That's Shift Delete on the Mac and in the film dialog box.
Make sure that other contents you select pattern.
Then in the custom pattern Option select
the dollar bill pattern that you just created.
It will be at the very bottom. Here it is.
You can select it and make sure that you have the script Option active and select
Random Fill from the dropdown and Press OK.
This will bring up the Random Fill dialog box
and from here we need to make a few adjustments.
First, we'll look at Color Randomness and Brightness Randomness.
What these settings allow you to do is
to apply a random color effect and random brightness to the image.
We really don't want to do that.
So in this case, I'm just going to drag this all the way to the left
so that there is no color randomness.
And for the brightness randomness,
make that .02,
so that the bills have a slight difference between them.
Also, make sure that you check the Rotate Pattern box
so that the dollar bills rotate randomly.
Then for Density, I'm going to increase that all the way to 10 pixels just so
that we can fill the page with dollar bills.
And for the minimum scale factor in the maximum scale factor,
I'm just going to set it to 1, so that the dollar bills that Photoshop generates
are the same size as the original.
Then I'll Press OK;
and Photoshop will fill my canvas with those dollar bills
and that's not all.
Let me show you the power tip that is going to help us make this effect look more realistic.
First, create a new layer and bring up
the fill dialog box again by holding Shift and backspace on windows.
That's Shift Delete on the Mac
and simply Press OK.
That will bring up the Random Fill window.
And from here we can make a couple of adjustments.
And what I'm going to do now is change the minimum scale factor
and the maximum scale factor
to .25
that the dollar bills will be 25% of their original size.
And I'm also going to reduce the Density
to 9 pixels so that they don't fill the entire canvas.
As you can see, there's going to be some gaps and I'll press OK.
You won't be able to see that transparency checkerboard because this layer is enabled.
But if I disable it, you can see that there
what I can do now is
double-click to the side of the layer to bring up the Layer Style window
and click on the Drop Shadow option.
You can use whatever settings you like
I'll just leave the settings that I have here for now and I'll press OK
so that I can add a shadow to those dollar bills.
I can now create another layer and simply repeat the process one more time.
Shift Backspace to bring up the Fill window.
Simply press OK.
And Photoshop will remember all your previous settings in this window.
So once you Press OK Photoshop will fill
the layer with another set of random dollar bills.
Now I can copy the previous layer style by simply hovering over it,
holding Alt on Windows, Option on the Mac
and dropping it into the new layer on top.
And that will apply that same shadow effect to the dollar bills
affecting the layer below,
creating the illusion of depth.
You can now repeat the same process
several more times until you fill the canvas and you get this result.
And by the way, I should mention this now
you really can't edit currency inside of Photoshop.
The reason that I was able to do this is
because I'm using a crumbled up dollar bill, it's of low quality
with a lot of JPEG artifacts.
And my output is of a very low quality.
You can't even read the serial number on the dollar bills.
So that's one of the reasons that I was able to do all of this.
But I'm curious to know let me know how
you plan on using this technique.
If you've use it before; let me know how you use it.
Also, if you decide to try out this technique,
feel free to share it on Instagram with the hashtag #PTCVIDS.
I would love to see what you came up with.
My name is Jesus Ramirez.
Thank you so much for watching.
I'll talk to you again in the next Photoshop tutorial.