Hi.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
I'm going to show you how to create the look of vintage matchbook covers from photos.
Open a photo you'd like to use for this project.
I downloaded this one from Shutterstock.
I provided a Photoshop template that I included in my video's description or project files.
It includes 3 images: a wood background, a matchbook, and scratches that we'll use later.
When you click the link, you'll initially see just one image, however, when you download
and open the template in Photoshop, you'll see all three layers.
In addition, I provided two shapes in the Channels panel: a shape of the entire matchbook
and a shape for the cover art.
We'll use them later, as well.
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Open your photo.
the first step is to crop it to a specific size and resolution.
Open your Crop Tool and open the crop presets.
Click the "width, height, and resolution".
For its width, type in 1742 "px" for pixels, for its height, type in 1262 px, and for its
resolution, type in 150.
Drag the crop's bounding box as well as the image itself to crop your photo.
Make sure you leave room for your text.
Then, press Enter or Return or click the checkmark at the top.
To zoom into it, press Ctrl or Cmd and the plus key on your keyboard a few times or you
can fill it with your canvas by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + 0.
Open the Horizontal Type Tool and your list of fonts.
Pick a font that suits your photo.
For now, I'll make its size approximately 100 points, but feel free to make it any size
you like.
We'll can adjust its size after we type our text.
Make the aliasing "Smooth" and I'll make its alignment centered.
Click the color box to open the Color Picker and pick a color you like for your text.
If you want to use a color in your photo, just click on it.
Click on your document and type out your text.
To reposition it, place your cursor next to it and drag it.
If you want to add a layer style effect such as a stroke or drop shadow, double-click an
empty area of your text layer to open the Layers Style window.
I'd like to add a white stroke or border.
If the color box isn't the color you want, click the box, and pick your color.
I'll make the stroke's size 4 pixels, the Position: Outside, the Blend Mode: Normal,
and the Opacity: 100%.
If you want to add a second line of text, click below the top text and type out your
new line.
To make it smaller, highlight that line and place your cursor over the text icon.
When your cursor changes into a scrubby slider, drag it to the left.
Continue to finesse it until you like its position and size.
If you want to copy the layer styles, open your Move Tool, and place your cursor over
the "fx" icon.
Press and hold Alt or Option as you drag a copy of it to the other text layer.
To center both lines, Shift-click the inactive text layer to make it active as well.
Press Ctrl or Cmd +A to select the entire document and click the "Align Vertical Centers"
icon.
Deselect it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + D.
We'll convert our image into a Smart Object so we can modify it non-destructively as well
as replace the photo and the text at any time if we want to.
Shift-click the photo to make all the layers active and click the icon at the upper right.
Click "Convert to Smart Object".
Go to Filter, Pixelate, and Color Halftone.
If the Maximum Radius isn't 4 pixels, just type it in.
Keep the screen angles at their default amounts.
Go to Filter, Blur, and Gaussian Blur.
Blur it 1 pixel.
Convert it into a Smart Object.
We'll place it onto the matchbook by dragging it onto the tab of the template.
Without releasing our mouse or pen, press and hold the Shift key and drag it down.
Pressing Shift kept our color halftone image centered.
We'll resize it, but before we do, open your Channels panel.
If you don't see it, go to Window and Channels.
Ctrl or Cmd-click the thumbnail of the "cover art shape" to make a selection of it.
Open back the Layers panel and click the Layer Mask icon to make a layer mask of the selection.
We ll resize it but before we do, click the chain-link between the halftone layer and
the layer mask to unlink them.
This allows us to resize and reposition either of them independently of the other.
Make the halftone layer active and open the Transform Tool by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + T.
Go to the top right corner and drag it in to just outside the top of the inside shape.
Drag the halftone image until the top, right corner of the Transform's bounding box is
just outside the corner of the inside shape.
Go to the opposite corner of the Transform's bounding box and drag it in.
Finesse its position and press Enter or Return.
Change its Blend Mode to Multiply.
Make the Scratches layer visible and active.
Open the Channels panel and Ctrl or Cmd-click the thumbnail of the matchbook shape to select
it.
Open back the Layers panel and click the Layer Mask icon to make a layer mask of the selection.
Make the scratch layer active and change its Blend Mode to Screen.
Lastly, we'll angle our matchbook over the background.
Click between the halftone image and its layer mask to link them together.
We'll place all the layers that comprise our matchbook into a folder.
To do this, Shift-click the matchbook to make all these layers active and press Ctrl or
Cmd + G. Open your Transform Tool, go to a corner, and rotate your matchbook to an angle
you like.
Then, press Enter or Return.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
Thanks for watching!