This is Marty form Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to recreate the iconic,
gunbarrel image seen in the intro to every James Bond movie. I provided two Photoshop
files for you to download. One includes 4 layers - A cinematic letterbox shape,
an image of James Bond, himself; this one played by Pierce Brosnan, a muzzle hole shape
and the rifling twirl that we'll place inside the gunbarrel later.
The other Photoshop file includes two layers that we'll use to create the inside of the gunbarrel.
I found that this photo works pretty well, but feel free to experiment with other images if you
like. Just make sure the image's shape is an exact square and its Width and Height are approximately
3100 pixels each. Its resolution should be 72 pixels per. inch. Before we begin, if you're
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I upload new Photoshop tutorials. Click off the eyeball icon next to the top layer to hide it
and make the bottom layer visible. If it's not already active, just click it. First,
we'll create guidelines to give us the vertical center of the image. To do this, go to "View"
and "New Guide Layout", which was introduced in version CC. If you're using an earlier version,
I'll show you how to create the guidelines in a moment. Uncheck "Rows"
and make the number of "Columns: 2. If you're using an earlier version, click "New Guide".
Tick "Vertical" and for its "Position", type in 50%.
Make the top layer visible and active. Go to Edit, Transform and "Rotate 90 degrees Clockwise".
With your Move Tool still active, press and hold the Shift key as you drag it to the right until
the grass is approximately in the middle. Go to "View" and if "Snap" isn't checked, just click it
to make it active. Open your "Rectangular Marquee Tool". Go to the top, right corner and drag
it down to the bottom of the middle guideline. It'll snap to it, since we have "Snap" checked.
Press Ctrl or Cmd + J to cut and copy the image within the selection onto its own layer. Hide the
middle layer and make a copy of the top skyline. Press Ctrl or Cmd + T to open your Transform Tool.
Go to the middle anchor point on the right side of the Transform's bounding box. Press and hold
the Shift key as you drag it to the left side of your document until it snaps to that side. Then,
press Enter or Return. We'll place all the flipped skyline layers into a folder. With the top layer
still active, Shift-click the bottom skyline and press Ctrl or Cmd + G. I'll name the folder,
"Skyline". Open the folder and make the top skyline layer active. Reduce its opacity to 50%
and close the folder. Change the Blend Mode to "Hard Light" and reduce its opacity to 33%.
Hide the skyline folder. We'll make a new layer below it by Ctrl-clicking or Cmd-clicking the New
Layer icon. Click the foreground color to open the Color Picker. In the hexadecimal field, type in
the letter "c" six times to gives us a light gray color. Then, click OK or press Enter or Return.
Open your Pencil Tool and Pencil Picker. Pick a hard, round point. Make the size 6 points,
the Hardness: 100% and the Opacity: 100%. If you're using CC 2018 or later, make the Smoothing:
100%. While it isn't absolutely necessary, it'll make our pencil strokes much smoother
as we draw them. I did an in-depth tutorial on the "Smoothing" feature, so if you'd like to watch it,
I provided its link, as well. Place your cursor approximately here at the top and draw a curvy
line to the bottom ending approximately here. We'll fill it in with the foreground color
by opening our Paint Bucket Tool and clicking anywhere on our image to the left of the line.
Go to Filter, Blur and Motion Blur. The Angle is 0 degrees and the Distance is 50 pixels.
Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer. Press "D" on your keyboard to make
your foreground and background colors black and white, respectively and press "B" to open back
your Pencil Tool. Place your cursor approximately here and draw a curvy line to approximately here.
Press "G" to open back your Paint Bucket Tool and click anywhere inside the line. Go back to Filter,
Blur and Motion Blur. This time make the Distance anywhere between 115 and 120 pixels.
Make a new layer and open back your Pencil Tool. Place your cursor approximately here
and as before, draw a curvy line to approximately here. Open back your Paint Bucket Tool and click
anywhere on your image to the right of the curvy line. We'll repeat the Motion Blur filter with
the settings we used by pressing Alt + Ctrl + G on Windows or Option + Cmd + G on a Mac.
Make the Skyline folder visible and active. Click the Adjustment Layer icon and click
"Black & White". This removes all the color. Next, we'll make the midtones and the shadows
darker. Click the Adjustment Layer icon again and click, "Curves".
If the Curves panel is partially hidden, just drag down the panel until you can see the entire
window. Basically, the Curves panel represents the tonal range of your image from black to white
along the diagonal line. Moving a point in the top portion of the curve adjusts the highlights.
Moving it the center adjusts the midtones and moving it in the bottom section adjusts the
shadows. To darken the midtones, place your cursor on the middle point of the diagonal line and drag
it down approximately this much. To make the shadows darker, place your cursor on the lower,
left corner of the line and drag it to the right along the bottom edge approximately this much.
Next, we'll convert our visible image into a Smart Object,
so we can add filters to it non-destructively. But first, I'll drag the Properties panel back up,
so we can see more of the Layers panel. Scroll to the bottom and Shift-click the bottom layer to
make all the layers active. Click the icon at the upper, right and click "Convert to Smart Object".
Let's name it "Gunbarrel".
Go to Filter, Distort and "Twirl". For the Angle, type in minus 673 degrees.
Go back to Filter, Distort and "Pinch". For the Amount, type in 100%.
Then, convert the visible image into a Smart Object. We're ready to place it onto the
gunbarrel template I provided. Press Ctrl or Cmd + A to select it and Ctrl or Cmd + C
to copy it. Open the Gunbarrel template and press Ctrl or Cmd + V to paste it into the Layers panel.
We’ll flip the gunbarrel horizontally by opening our Transform Tool and going to Edit,
Transform and "Flip Horizontal". If your image has flat distortions on both sides, we'll
increase the size of the gunbarrel until those distortions are cropped off. To do this, go to a
corner. If you're using a version earlier than CC 2019, press and hold Alt or Option + Shift as you
drag it out. If you're using CC 2019 or later, just press Alt or Option as you drag it. Then,
press Enter or Return or click the checkmark at the top. Next, we'll crop it to the aspect ratio
of the cinema letterbox. To do this, Ctrl-click or Cmd-click the thumbnail of the letterbox
to make a selection of its shape. Invert the selection by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + Shift + I.
Go to Image and Crop. Deselect it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + D. Let's zoom into our image by pressing
Ctrl or Cmd and the plus key on our keyboard a couple of times. Or, if you like, you can fit it
onto your canvas by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + 0. Now, that we cropped it to the letterbox, we can delete
that layer by either dragging it to the trash can or, in later versions, by pressing the Delete key.
Drag the gunbarrel twirl layer the bottom of the Layers panel.
Hide the top two layers and double-click the "Rifling twirl" layer to open its Layer Style
window. Click "Drop Shadow". If the color isn't white, click the box and pick white. The Blend
Mode is "Normal", the opacity is 50% and the Angle is 138 degrees. The Distance is 10 pixels
and the Spread and the Size are both 0. The Contour is Linear.
Make the "Muzzle hole" visible and double-click it to open its Layer Style window. I'll move it over,
so we can see the left side of the muzzle hole. Click "Drop Shadow" and the color box. Pick black.
Make the Opacity: 100% and the Angle: 0 degrees. Make the Distance: 20 pixels.
Make the top layer visible and active. We'll place James Bond inside the muzzle hole by making James
Bond into a Clipping Mask. To do this, press Alt + Ctrl + G on Windows or Option + Cmd + G
on a Mac. You could also go to Layer and "Create Clipping Mask". Lastly, we'll create the blood.
Make a new layer. I'll name it "Blood". Click the foreground color and pick a bright red.
Open your Pencil Tool and draw a curvy line approximately like this.
Open your Paint Bucket Tool and click inside the line to fill the space with the color.
Change the Blend Mode to "Multiply". To brighten the darker areas, make a copy of the layer
and change the copy's blend mode to Soft Light. We'll reveal back the details of the gunbarrel on
the right, by clicking the Layer Mask icon to add a layer mask next to the top layer.
Open back your Pencil Tool. Increase its size and with black as your foreground color,
draw over the brighter areas to reveal back the original blood layer as you draw over it.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!