Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to create the look
of a panel in the powerful, neo-noir, graphic novel, "Sin City".
Create a new document by pressing Ctrl + N on Windows or Cmd + N on a Mac.
Make its Width: 1550 pixels, its Height: 870 pixels
and its Resolution: 150 pixels per inch. Then, click OK.
Open a photo of someone that you’d like to use for this project. I downloaded this one from Shutterstock.
To place it into your other document, press Ctrl or Cmd + A to select it all and Ctrl
or Cmd + C to copy it. Open your first document and press Ctrl or Cmd + V to paste your photo onto it..
To adjust its size, open your Transform Tool by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + T. To see the
Transform's entire bounding box, press Ctrl or Cmd + 0. Go to a corner and press and hold
Shift as you drag it in or out. If you need to reposition it, just go inside the Transform
and drag your photo. Then, press Enter or Return.
To fit it back onto your canvas, press Ctrl or Cmd + 0.
Merge the two layers by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + E. We'll convert our image into a Smart Object,
so we can modify it non-destructively. Click the icon at the upper-right of the Layers
panel and click "Convert to Smart Object".
Go to Image, Adjustments and "Threshold".
The Threshold Level defaults to 128. I'll use this amount.
Next, we'll brush black around our subject.
Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer. Open your Pencil Tool and Pencil Picker.
We'll take care of the size in a moment. Make sure its Hardness and Opacity are 100%.
To make your brush bigger or smaller, press the right or left Bracket key on your keyboard
and make sure your CapsLock key is NOT on. Brush around your subject and fill in areas
on you subject that may be distracting. Feel free to leave white around some edges to help
define boundaries of the head and body. You can always change it later if you want.
Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer.
We'll fill the empty layer with 50% gray.
To do this, press Shift + the F5 key at the top of your keyboard to open the Fill window.
Click 50% gray and click OK.
Go to Filter, Noise and "Add Noise".
Make the Amount: 400%, Gaussian and Monochromatic. Then, click OK.
Go to Filter, Blur and Motion Blur.
Make the Angle: 70 degrees and the Distance: 2000 pixels. Then, press Enter or Return.
We'll increase the Motion Blur by pressing Ctrl or Cmd +F, four more times.
Change its Blend Mode to Vivid Light.
Click the Adjustment Layer icon and click "Levels".
To restrict the Adjustment layer to affect only the 1 layer beneath it, we need to make it into a Clipping Mask.
To do this, either click the Clipping Mask icon or press Ctrl +Alt + G on Windows or Cmd + Option + G on a Mac.
Drag the Shadow Input level to the right until there's just enough rain on the face.
Drag the Highlight Input level to the left until there's just enough rain on the black areas of your image.
Next, we'll add a talk bubble.
Open your Custom Shape Tool.
Choose "Shape" and make the "Fill": white.
Make the Stroke: 8 pixels and black.
Open your Shape thumbnails and open your list of Shape presets.
Click "Talk Bubbles".
When you see this message, it's just asking us if we want to either replace the current thumbnails
with the Talk Bubble thumbnails or we want to add them under the current thumbnails.
I'll click OK to replace them.
I'll choose this one. Click the gear icon at the top and tick "Define Proportions" and check "From Center".
Drag the shape out to any size you like.
To hide the Paths, press Ctrl or Cmd + H.
To reposition it, press "v" to open your Move Tool... and move it.
Open your Horizontal Type Tool
and pick a comic font. Im using Komika Display Regular" and "Bold". If you'd like to use them,
I provided their links in my video's description or project files.
I'll make the size 43 points and Sharp.
Choose "Center Alignment" and black for the color.
Click on the talk bubble and type out your text.
To adjust the space between your lines of text, highlight both lines and go to Window and Character.
The Character panel will open. Drag the "Leading"icon to the left or right.
Then, you can close the panel.
To adjust the space between two characters, click between them
and press and hold Alt or Option as you press the left or right arrow key on your keyboard.
I'd like to make the second line Bold. I'll highlight it and click the Bold font.
To reposition your text on the bubble, open your Move Tool and simply drag your text.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!