Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to create the look
of a retro, sci-fi hologram. This is an updated version of the one I did on an earlier version
of Photoshop. I provided this image for you to download, so you can follow along. Its
link is located in the video description or project files. Open a photo you'd like make
into a hologram. I downloaded this one from Shutterstock.com. The first step is to cut
out your subject from its background. To do this, we need to make a selection around your
subject. For this example, I'll use the Quick Selection Tool. I'll make the size is 4 pixels.
If you have a large area to select, you may want to increase the size, so you don't need
to drag as much, however, selecting smaller areas requires a smaller cursor.
Dragging your tool over the inside of your subject, automatically makes a selection along the
edges. To add a selection to inside areas, hold down Alt or Option and drag your tool
inside those areas. Then, release. If you missed a spot, just go back and carefully
drag your tool over it. Press Ctrl + J on Windows or Cmd + J on a Mac to cut the subject
from its background and copy it to its own layer. To move it onto the hologram background,
press "v" to open your Move Tool and drag your subject onto the tab of the hologram
background. Without releasing your cursor, drag it down onto your image and release.
To resize it, open your Transform Tool by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + T. 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 in or out. To reposition it, just place your cursor inside the Transform
and drag your subject. Continue until you're happy with its size and position. Then, press
Enter or Return. Make 2 copies of it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J, twice.
Name the top layer, "glow", the layer under it, "blur edges" and the original layer, "motion blur".
Click off the eyeballs of the top two layers to hide them and change the Blend Mode of the active
layer... to "Linear Light".
Go to Filter, Blur and Motion Blur. Make the Angle: 0 degrees
and make the Distance an amount that looks similar to mine. For the size of this image,
I'll make the Distance: 40 pixels. The larger your subject is on your document, the greater
the Distance should be. Once you type it in, click OK or press Enter or Return.
Hide the "motion blur" layer and make the "blur edges" layer visible and active. Change its Blend
Mode to "Luminosity".
Ctrl-click or Cmd -click on the thumbnail to make a selection of the
subject's shape. Go to Select, Modify and Contract. I'll contract it by 10 pixels. Again, if
your subject is larger than this example, you may want to type in a greater amount.
Go back to Select, Modify and Feather. Feather it 10 pixels.
Invert the selection by pressing
Ctrl or Cmd + Shift + I. Go to Filter, Blur and Gaussian Blur.
Blur it: 3 pixels.
To deselect it, press Ctrl or Cmd + D.
Hide "blur edges" and make the "glow" layer visible and active.
Reduce the Fill to 0%. This makes the subject invisible, but it any effects that we add
to it will be visible. Double-click on the "glow" layer to open its Layer Style window.
Click "Outer Glow" and the color box. Pick white and click OK.
Change the Blend Mode
to "Color Dodge". Reduce its Opacity to 30% and make its Size: 50 pixels.
Click "Inner Glow" and the color box. Again, pick white and as before, change the Blend Mode to "Color
Dodge". Reduce its Opacity to 30% and I'll make its Size: 250 pixels.
Make all the layers visible.
Next, we'll create the scan lines. Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer.
We'll fill it with 50% gray. The easiest way to do this is to press Shift + F5 key at the
top of your keyboard to open the Fill window. Choose: 50% Gray. Then, click OK.
Go to Filter and Filter Gallery. Open the Sketch folder and click Halftone Pattern. Make the Pattern
Type: Line, Size: 1 and the Contrast is 40. Then, click OK.
We need to double the amount of
lines to approximate the look of scan lines. To do this, open your Transform Tool.
The Width and the Height of the Transform are both 100%, so go to the Height and type in 50%.
Then, press Enter or Return.
Go to View and make sure "Snap" is checked. If it isn't,
just click on it. Open your Move Tool, place your cursor on the lines and hold down Shift
as you drag it down until it snaps it place. Holding Shift as you move it, keeps it aligned.
Make a copy of the layer,
hold down Shift again and drag the copy to the top until it
snaps in place. Merge the 2 layers by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + E. panel.
Open your Channels panel.
If you don't see it, go to Window and Channels. At the bottom of the Channels panel, click
the small, circular icon to make a selection of your image. Open back up the Layers panel.
Now that we have a selection of the scan lines, we can trash this layer, since we don't' need it anymore.
Make the "motion blur" layer active and click the Layer Mask icon to make a layer
mask of the selection next to it.
Place your cursor on the layer mask and hold down Alt
or Option as you drag a copy of it next to the "blur edges" layer. To get the result
we want, we need to invert one of the layer masks. To do this, press Ctrl or Cmd + I.
Lastly, we'll color cast our hologram with cooler tones. First, group the hologram layers into
a folder by Shift-clicking on the top layer to highlight all the hologram layers and then,
press Ctrl or Cmd + G.
Click the Adjustment layer icon and choose "Photo Filter".
Click this icon to clip the adjustment layer to the one layer beneath it in the Layers panel.
All the contents in the folder will have its color cast adjusted, but not the background.
Open the list of photo filters and click Blue.
To increase the intensity of the blue color
cast, increase its Density. I'll increase it to 50%.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!