Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to put a face onto
paper money, make it look like a steel engraving, blend it into the money itself and add a name
to the face. I covered this subject quite a while ago on earlier versions of Photoshop.
Due to its popularity, I'm updating it now making it easier and more effective. I provided
this paper money template for you to download. It includes this paper money template and
a shape that we'll place our photo into. Its link is located in my video's description
or project files. Open a photo of someone you'd like to use for this project. It can
be color or black and white. If it's in color, desaturate it by pressing Ctrl + Shift +U
on Windows or Cmd + Shift + U on a Mac. To adjust it's brightness and contrast, press
Ctrl or Cmd + Shift + L to invoke "AutoTone". Go to Image and Image Size. Make its resolution:
72 pixels per inch and its height: 870 pixels. Its width will automatically change to a different
amount because the height and width are linked. Click OK. To fit it back onto your canvas,
press Ctrl or Cmd + 0. Next, we'll create the line pattern that we'll use to make our
photo look like a steel engraving. Go to File and New. Make the Width and Height: 3000 pixels
each and the Resolution: 72 pixels per inch. Then, click OK. We'll fill it with 50% grey
by pressing Shift + the F5 key at the top of your keyboard to open the Fill window.
Open the fly-out list and click "50% grey". Make sure your foreground and background colors
are black and white, respectively. If they aren’t, press “D” on your keyboard.
Go to Filter and Filter Gallery. Open the "Sketch" folder and click "Halftone Pattern".
Make the Pattern Type: Line, The Size: 1 and the Contrast: 50. Then, click OK. Go to Filter,
Distort and Wave. Make the number of generators: 1, the Wavelength: 159 and 160, the Amplitude:
20 and 48 and the Scale: 100%. The Type is "Sine" and tick "Repeat Edge Pixels". Then,
click OK. To place the pattern onto your photo, just drag it onto the tab of your photo and
without releasing your computer mouse or pen, press and hold "Shift" as you drag it down
onto the photo and release. Pressing Shift kept the pattern centered over the photo.
Change the Blend Mode to Overlay. Make a copy of the pattern by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J.
Invert the copy by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + I.
Go to Edit, Transform and "Rotate 90 degrees Clockwise".
Make a composite snapshot of your image by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E on
Windows or Cmd + Shift + Option + E on a Mac.
Now, drag your composite snapshot onto the of the money template
and without releasing your computer mouse or pen, drag it down onto
the template and release. Click on the Channels panel. If you don't see it, go to Window and
Channels. Ctrl-click or Cmd-click on the black and white thumbnail to make a selection of shape.
Open back up your Layers panel and click the Layer Mask icon to make a layer
mask of the selection next to your photo.
Click off the chain-link between the layer and the layer mask.
Now, we can resize and reposition either of them independantly of
each other. Click the photo to make it active. To resize and reposition your photo, press
Ctrl or Cmd + T to open your Transform Tool. Go to a corner and when you see a diagonal,
double-arrow, press and hold Alt or Option + Shift as you drag it in or out. To reposition
it, just go inside the Transform and drag it. Continue until you're happy with its size
and position. Then, press Enter or Return. Change the Blend Mode to Linear Burn. To lighten
the dark areas of the face, click the Adjustment Layer icon and click "Exposure". To restrict
the Exposure adjustment layer to effect only the face and not the other layers under the
face, click the clipping mask icon or you can press Ctrl + Alt + G on Windows or Cmd + Option + G on a Mac.
Slide the Gamma Correction to the left until the dark areas
of the face closely matches the dark tones of the paper bill. We can always go back and
adjust it later if we want. We're ready to add the last name of the person. Make the
face layer active. Open your Horizontal Type Tool and open your list of fonts. I'm using
"Legal Tender Regular". If you'd like to use it, I provided its link, as well. I'll make
its size: 13 points, Smooth and Center Alignment. Click the color box and click a dark part
of the bill to pick up that specific color. The hexadecimal code for the color I clicked
is: 2A3436, however, yours may have a different code depending on exactly where you clicked.
Click the top layer to make it active. Our text will be placed above it. Press "z" to
open your Zoom Tool and drag it over the arched banner to zoom into that area. Hover your
cursor over the center of the banner and press "T" to open your Type Tool. Click on your
document and type out the last name of the person. Click the "Warped Text" icon. Open
the list of warp presets and click "Arc". Make the Bend: 18% and click OK. Open your
Move Tool and drag the name over the banner. If the text seems to be sticking a little,
go to View and make sure "Snap" isn't checked. If it is, just click on it to deactivate it.
Center the text over the banner. To see your entire image at 100%, press Ctrl or Cmd + 1.
I'd like to lighten the dark areas of the face more, so I'll make the Exposure
adjustment layer active and slide the "gamma correction" to the left a bit.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!