Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
I'm going to show you how to create a cool-looking,
interlocking, basket-weave effect of your photos.
This effect works especially well on closely-cropped portraits.
Open a photo you'd like to use. Open your Crop Tool
and type in 870 pixels for the Width
and the Height. Type in a 150 pixels per inch for the Resolution
and check "Delete Cropped Pixels".
This will delete everything around the cropped area.
Go to a corner and when you see a diagonal, double-arrow,
hold down Shift + Alt on Windows
or Shift + Option on a Mac as you drag it in
until most of the head is inside the box. To reposition it,
click inside and drag it so it's centered.
Then, press Enter or Return. It immediately crops to the Width,
Height and Resolution that you typed in. To see your image at 100%,
press Ctrl or Cmd + 1. If your foreground and background colors
aren't black and white respectively, press "d"
on your keyboard. Make two copies of it
by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J, twice.
Click the thumbnail of the bottom layer to make it active
and press Alt or Option + Delete to fill it with black.
Make the top layer active and go to
Edit, Preferences and "Guides, Grids & Slices"
In the Grid section, click the color box
and pick a bright color for the grid. Then,
click OK or press Enter or Return. Make the Grid Line
every 217 pixels and divide it into 6 subdivisions.
Then, click OK or press Enter or Return.
Go to View and make sure "Snap" is checked.
If it isn't, just click on it. To see the grid,
Go to "Show" and click "Grid". Open your Rectangular Marquee Tool,
go to the top, left corner and drag down a rectangular selection
across 3 columns of boxes to the bottom. It'll snap to the grid because
we have "Snap" checked.
Skip 1 column and hold down Shift
as you drag down another rectangular selection across 3 columns.
Continue to skip 1 column and drag over 3.
Click the Layer Mask icon
to make a layer mask of the selection next to the active layer.
Go to the top, left corner and drag to the right
across 3 rows. Continue to skip
1 row and drag over 3.
Make Layer 1 active and click the layer mask icon to make a layer mask of the selection.
We can hide the grid now. Press Ctrl or
Cmd + H to hide it. Ctrl-click
or Cmd-click on the layer mask of the horizontal rows
to make a selection of it. Go to the layer mask of
the vertical columns and hold down Ctrl + Shift + Alt on WIndows
or Cmd + Shift + Option on a Mac
to make a selection that overlaps the vertical columns
with the horizontal rows. Go to Select
and "Save Selection". When you see this window,
click OK. Press "Q" to make the selection
into a Quickmask. Open your Paint Bucket Tool
and left-click inside the second empty box at the top
to fill it in. Skip a box and left-click on the one after it.
Continue this pattern on every other row.
Then, go to the first empty box on the second row
and fill it in. Continue to fill in every other empty box
in every other row, so your final Quickmask looks like this.
Press Q to revert it back into a selection
and press Ctrl or Cmd + J to cut the shape of the selection from the active layer.
Click the thumbnail of the top layer to make it active.
Click the "Channel" tab to open the Channels panel
and Ctrl-click or Cmd-click on "Alpha 1"
to make a selection of its shape. Click back on the Layers panel
and press "Q" to make it into a Quickmask.
This time, left-click inside the first empty box at the top, left
and fill in every other empty box on every other row.
Then, left-click on the second empty box of the second row
and continue this pattern, so your Quick mask looks like this.
Press "Q" to make it into a selection
and press Ctrl or Cmd + J to cut the shape of the selection from the
active layer.
The basket weave effect comes to life once we add shadows to these shapes.
We need to clip the shapes to the layers directly below each one
in order to restrict their shadows to their respective layers.
To do this, go to layer and "Create Clipping Mask".
Notice the active layer moved to the right, which indicates that it's now
clipping to the one layer below it. We'll clip these shapes, as well.
Make it active and this time,
we'lluse the shortcut: Ctrl + Alt + G
on Windows or Cmd + Option + G on a Mac.
Click the "fx" icon and choose: Outer Glow.
Click the color box
and pick Black. Then, click OK.
Change the Blend Mode to Multiply and make the Opacity 50%.
Make the Size: 40 pixels and click OK.
To copy the outer glow shadows to the other shapes,
go to the "fx" icon to the right of the layer and hold down
Alt or Option as you drag it up to the top layer.
Next, we'll add a texture, but first make a "composite snapshot" of your image.
To do this, make the top layer active
and press Ctrl +Shift + Alt + E on Windows
or Cmd + Shift + Option + E on a Mac.
Go to Filter and Filter Gallery.
Open the "Texture" folder and click "Texturizer".
Choose "Burlap" and make the Scaling 100%,
the Relief is 1 and the Light is from the Top.
Then, click OK or press Enter or Return.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!