Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
I'm going to show you how to create the retro look of a video glitch portrait
on a CRT green, monochrome monitor.
Open a sharp, close-up photo of someone that you'd like to use for this project.
I downloaded this one from Shutterstock.
The first step is to separate your subject from its background by making a selection
around your subject.
There are many ways to do this, but for this example, I'll use the Quick Selection Tool.
If you're using this tool, as well, drag it over your subject to select it.
If you need to remove areas of the selection outside your subject, press and hold Alt or
Option as you drag over those areas.
I did an in-depth tutorial on the Quick Selection Tool, so if you'd like to watch it, I provided
its link in my video's description below.
Once your subject is selected, click the Layer Mask icon to make a layer mask next to it.
Make a new layer below it, by Ctrl-clicking or Cmd-clicking the New Layer icon.
We'll fill the empty layer will a dark green color.
Click your foreground color and in the Color Picker's hexadecimal field, type in: 001D0D.
Then, click OK or press Enter or Return.
Our foreground color is now the color we just typed in.
To fill the empty layer with the foreground color, press Alt or Option + Delete.
Next, we'll colorize our subject.
Make your subject active and click the Adjustment Layer icon.
Click, "Hue / Saturation".
We want to restrict the adjustment layer to affect only our subject and not the dark green layer.
To do this, we need to clip the adjustment layer to our subject.
Either click the Clipping Mask icon or press Ctrl + Alt + G on Windows or Cmd + Option + G on a Mac.
Check "Colorize".
The Hue is 147, the Saturation is 25 and the Lightness is 0.
Next, we'll convert our image into a Smart Object, so we can modify it nondestructively.
To do this, Shift-click the bottom layer to make all the layer active and click the icon
at the upper, right corner of the Layers panel.
Click "Convert to Smart object.
Next, we'll crop our image to a specific size and resolution to ensure that your final effect
will look similar to mine.
Open your Crop Tool.
In the Width field, type in 1920 px for pixels and in the Height field, type in 1080 px.
For its Resolution, type in 150 pixels per inch.
The effect will look best when your subject's face is filling most of the document, so go
to a corner and drag it in until your subject's face is filling most of the Crop's bounding box.
To reposition it, just drag it.
Then, press Enter or Return.
To fit your image back onto the canvas, press Ctrl or Cmd + 0.
We'll make 4 copies of it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J four times.
Name the top layer, "Wave 3, the second layer, "Wave 2" and the third layer, "Wave 1".
Name the next layer, "Pointilize" and the bottom layer, "Base".
Scroll to the top and make the top layer active.
We'll make a new layer above it, by clicking the New Layer icon.
Name it, "Scan Lines".
We'll fill it the empty layer with 50% grey.
To do this, open your Fill window by pressing Shift + the F5 key at the top of your keyboard.
In the fly-out list, pick "50% grey and click OK or press Enter or Return.
Presently, our foreground color is dark green.
We want to make it black, while keeping our background color white.
The quickest way to do this is to press the "D" key on your keyboard to make your foreground
and background colors black and white, respectively.
Go to Filter and Filter Gallery.
In the "Sketch" folder, click, "Halftone Pattern".
The Pattern Type is "Line", the Size is 2 and the Contrast is 50.
Then, click OK.
Convert it to a Smart Object and change its Blend Mode to "Overlay".
Our scan lines are a little too sharp, so to soften them, go to Filter, Blur and Gaussian Blur.
Blur it 1 pixel and click OK.
Let's collapse the Smart filter to save space in the Layers panel.
Make "Wave 2" active and hide "Wave 3".
Go to Filter, Distort and Wave.
The Number of Generators is 2, the Wavelength is 193 and 445, the Amplitude is 1 and 256
and the Scale is 100%.
The Type is "Sine" and the Undefined Areas is "Repeat Edge Pixels".
Then, click OK.
Keep in mind, because it's a Smart Filter, we can change or adjust its settings at any time.
Make the Wave filter active and open your "Rectangular Marquee Tool".
Make sure the "Add to Selection" icon is active.
To give us more room for the next step, let's zoom out of our document.
Press Ctrl or Cmd and the minus key on your keyboard.
Drag your tool over your subject to create rectangular selections of various widths.
We'll fill the selections with black and since black is our foreground color, press Alt or Option + Delete.
Notice our Wave filter's layer mask filled with black over the selected areas.
Think of layer masks as stencils.
The white areas reveal the image associated with it, while the black areas hides those
areas, revealing the layer under it.
Deselect it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + D. Reduce the opacity to 30%.
Let's collapse the Smart filter to save space.
Make "Wave 3" visible and active.
Go back to Filter, Distort and Wave.
Make the Number of Generators: 1, the Wavelength: 1 and 17 and the Amplitude: 1 and 114.
Then, click OK.
As before, drag your Rectangular Marquee Tool over sections of your image.
Click the Layer Mask icon to make a layer mask of the selections.
Click the chain-link to unlink the layer and the layer mask.
Doing this allows us to move or resize either of them independantly of the other.
Click the layer to make it active and press "v" to open your Move Tool.
We'll slide the layer a little to the left by pressing the Left arrow on our keyboard a few times.
Let's collapse the Smart Filter.
Make a copy of the layer and reduce its opacity to 20%.
Then, press Enter or Return.
Press the right arrow on your keyboard a few times to move the layer to the right.
Scroll to the bottom of the Layers panel and make "Wave 1" active.
Change its Blend Mode to "Lighten".
Go to Filter, Distort and Wave.
Make the Number of Generators: 999, the Wavelength: 205 and 248 and the Amplitude: 1 and 2.
Make the Wave layer mask active and press "M" on your keyboard to open back your Marquee Tool.
Drag the tool across to make a relatively narrow shape and fill it with black.
Then, deselect it.
Invert yout layer mask by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + I.
If you'd like to reposition the layer, open your Move Tool and drag it.
Scroll to the bottom of the Layers panel and make the "Pointilize" layer active.
Change its Blend Mode to "Luminosity".
Go to Filter, Pixelate and Pointilize.
Make the Cell Size: 5 and click OK or press Enter or Return.
If you want to hide some of these pointilize sections, make the Smart Filter active,
open back your Rectangular marquee Tool and drag a selection over the areas you'd like to hide.
Fill it with black and deselect it.
Remember, you can adjust, move or change the Smart Filters to get a combination of effects
that works for your particular subject.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
Thanks for watching.