Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
In my most recent tutorial, I showed you how to create
this "Glitch Art" image from your own photo.
Now, I'll show you how to create this one using different methods.
I provided a PSD file for you to download, so you can follow along.
Its link is located in the video description or project files.
It includes this artifact and a full-screen, RGB glitch.
Open a photo you'd like to use.
Press "v" to open your Move Tool and drag your photo on to the tab of
the glitch art document. Without releasing,
drag it down onto the image and then, release.
To re-size and position it, open yourTransform Tool
by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + T. If your photo is too large to see the
entire Transform Tool,
press Ctrl or Cmd + 0. Drag it into position
and then, go to a corner. When you see a diagonal, double-arrow,
hold down Shift + Alt on Windows
or Shift + Option on a Mac and drag it in.
Then, press Enter or Return.
To see your photo at 100%, press Ctrl or Cmd + 1.
Open your Rectangular Marquee Tool,
go to the top, left corner and drag a selection across your entire image.
Then, go to Image
and Crop. This crops your photo to the size of the glitch document.
To deselect it, press Ctrl or Cmd + D
Go to Filter,
Pixelate and Pointilize. Make the Cell Size: 3
and click OK. Go back to Filter,
Other and Offset. For this example,
we're offsetting the photo to the right by 100 pixels.
For your photo, have fun experimenting with different amounts
offsetting it horizontally and/or vertically.
However, make sure the Undefined Areas are "Set to Transparent". This allows us to
see the RGB glitch beneath it in the Layers panel.
When you're happy with its Offset settings, click OK.
Click the Adjustment Layer icon
and choose Hue/Saturation. Slide the Saturation amount to minus 100
to completely remove the color. Notice it removed the color of the photo,
as well as the color of the RGB glitch. It didn't effect the artifacts.
The reason for this is because Adjustment Layers
effect all layers beneath them in the Layers panel, but no layers above them.
That's why the Glitch layer is de-saturated
and the artifacts layer isn't. To make the adjustment layer effect only the photo,
we need to clip it to that layer. To do this,
click the "clip-to-layer" icon or you can press Ctrl or Cmd + G on WIndows
or Cmd + Option + G on Mac.
Notice the adjustment layer moved to the right.
This indicates that it's now clipping or effecting just the one layer beneath it.
You can see that the photo is now the only layer that's effected by the adjustment layer.
We're ready to add some text. Open your Horizontal Type Tool
and choose a font. I'm using,
"Arial Regular" at a size of 50 points...
Sharp... Right alignment and White for the color.
Click on your document and type out your text.
To reposition it, click your Move Tool
and move it.
Click this icon and choose "Convert to Smart Object".
It added this small icon to let us know that the layer is now
a Smart Object. Doing this allows us to change the text,
while retaining all the effects and filters we'll be adding to the original.
Go to Filter, Blur and Motion Blur.
Make the Angle: 0 degrees and the Distance: 10 pixels.
Then, click OK.
To make the entire image pop more, let's adjust its Levels.
Make the top layer active and click the adjustment layer icon.
Choose, Levels.
Make the Input black: 100.
Next, we'll distort the image.
Go to the bottom layer and hold down Shift
as you click on it to highlight all the layers between it
and the top layer. Open the fly-out list
and click "Convert to Smart Object".
Go to Filter, Distort and Shear.
The Shear window will open. Tick "Wrap Around"
and drag the vertical, center line to distort your image.
Then, click OK.
If you want to move and/or change your text
without having to redo it effects, double-click the Smart layer
and when you see this message, click OK.
Make your Smart text layer active and double-click it to open your text in its original state.
When you see this message, click OK.
If your text is white, it'll be a little difficult to see.
Double-click the large "T" to highlight it and type out your new text.
Don't be concerned if it's too long to see it in the window, we'll take of care that in a second.
Click your Move Tool and open your Transform Tool.
Re-size and position your text in the window.
Then, click the small "x" on your text's tab
and when you see this message, click "Yes" to save any changes you made.
Notice, your text immediately updated all the effects and filters we applied to the original text.
To enlarge it, open your Transform Tool.
This message is telling us that the Smart Filters will be applied to it
after we use the Transform Tool. Click OK.
Re-size and position your new text on your image.
Then, press Enter or Return. It instantly updated the filters and effects.
Click on the small "x" on the tab and click
"Yes" to save the changes.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
Thanks for watching!