Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
I'm going to show you a quick and effective way to transform your face into a steel etching
on paper currency including your name.
This is an update of tutorials I've done years ago on much earlier versions of Photoshop.
I've included a Photoshop template that you download.
It includes this base image and a channel that we'll use to place our face onto the money.
I've also included a link to the font that we'll use for our name.
Both files are located in my video's description or project files.
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Open a photo of a face that you'd like to use for this project.
I downloaded this one from Shutterstock.
To ensure that your results will look similar to mine, let's crop our subject to a specific height and resolution.
Open your Crop Tool and click the "Clear" button to clear out the amounts for the width, height and resolution.
In the Height field, type in 1000 pixels and for its resolution, type in 150 for its pixels per inch.
Leave the Width empty.
The amount will be filled in automatically once we crop our image.
Just make sure there's at least this much room on either side of the face if not more.
Drag each side in or out until you like how the face is cropped.
Then, press Enter or Return twice.
We'll make a copy of it, so we always have the original subject intact.
Press Ctrl or Cmd + J. Desaturate all its color by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + Shift + U.
To automatically adjust its contrast, go to Image and Auto Contrast.
To bring out details in the darkest tones, go back to Image, Adjustments and "Shadows/Highlights".
Make the Shadows amount: 20%.
Then, click OK or press Enter or Return.
Open your Move Tool by pressing "v" on your keyboard.
Next, we'll make a pattern to create the look of a steel engraving.
Create a new document and make the width and the height 1500 pixels each and the resolution:
150 pixels per inch.
Open the Background Contents list and click "Custom".
Click the box and type into the hexadecimal field: 80 three times to give us a 50% gray tone.
Then, click OK and "Create".
Go to Filter,
Sketch
and Halftone Pattern
Make the Type: Line, the Size: 1 and the Contrast: 50.
Go back to Filter, Distort and Wave.
Make the Number of Generators: 1, the Wavelength: 159 and 160, the Amplitude: 20 and 48 and the Scale: 100%.
The Type is "Sine" and "Repeat Edge Pixels".
Make a copy of it.
We'll invert it by presing Ctrl or Cmd + Shift + I.
Go to Edit, Transform and "Rotate 90 degrees Clockwise".
Open back your subject and drag it onto the tab of the pattern.
Without releasing your mouse or pen, press and hold the Shift key as you drag it down and release.
Holding Shift kept your subject centered over the pattern.
Unlock the background and drag your subject below it.
Make the top layer active and change its Blend Mode to "Overlay".
Make the other pattern active and change its Blend Mode to "Overlay", as well.
Make the bottom layer active and Shift-click the top layer to make all the layers active.
Click the icon at the upper, right and click "Convert to Smart Object".
Doin this allows us to affect the look of our steel engraving non-destructively.
Drag it onto the tab of the money template and without releasing your mouse or pen, drag
it down and release.
Change its Blend Mode to Linear Burn.
Open the Channels panel.
If you don't see it, go to Window and Channels.
Ctrl-click or Cmd-click the "Inner Frame" thumbnail to make a selection of its shape.
Open back the Layers panel and click the Layer mask icon to make alayer mask of the selecttion
next to the face.
To reposition the face inside the shape, click the chain-link icon to unlink the face with the layer mask.
Doing this allows us to resize and reposition either of them independently of the other.
Make the face active and reposition it.
Next, we'll adjust its gamma levels, which basically adjusts the relative bright and
dark value of the mid tones.
Click the Adjustment Layer icon and click "Exposure".
We want the exposure to affect just our subject and not the money base, but since adjustment
layers affect all the layers below them in the Layers panel, we'll need to clip it to the subject.
To do this click the clipping mask icon or go to Layer and "Create Clipping Mask".
While each of the three sliders do affect the overall tones of an image, each one has
a greater influence over specific tonal ranges.
The Exposure slider has a greater effect on the lighter tones of an image, while the Offset
affects darker tones more.
The Gamma slider has greatest effect over the mid tone range of your images.
Since I want to lighten the mid tones of my image, I'll type into the Gamma Correction: 2.46.
Lastly, we'll add the name.
Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer.
Open your Horizontal Type Tool and click the foreground color.
When the Color Picker opens click the darkest color of the bill to pick up that color.
This will be the color of the name.
After you install the font I provided, type in "Legal Tender" and click it.
Make the size 13 points, the aliasing: Sharp and center alignment.
Press "z" on your keyboard to open the Zoom Tool and drag it over the ribbon under the
face to zoom into it.
Press "T" to open back your Type Tool and click on the ribbon.
Type out the name and open back your Move Tool.
Press Ctrl or Cmd + T to open the Transform Tool.
At the top, click the "Warp Transform" icon.
Open the list of warp presets and click "Arc".
For the Bend, type in: 17.
Center the name over the ribbon and click Enter or Return.
To fit your entire image back onto the screen, press Ctrl or Cmd + 0.
This Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
Thanks for watching!