Photoshop Zone

I’ve been fairly obsessed with animated gifs lately. My apologies. It was really If We Don’t, Remember Me that had me stuck in this loop. This person churns out such really interesting visuals, I couldn’t rest until I got something fairly close. I feel like the image above, while not perfect, is close enough to let things rest for a while 1 . Initially, I just thought IWDRM was just a master of choosing just the right clip. Now, that part can’t be discounted but there’s a lot of other things that go on to improve the final product. While fairly simple, I’ll try to detail what I did and how I eventually learned to make it more economical time wise. I’m not a PS guy, so there may be even better ways. If you know them, let me know. This is tilted towards CS4 but I imagine the concepts will make sense if you use other versions or other software. Clip your video down in Quicktime or something like that. You can edit in the PS import tool but it’s awkward. Import...

[2]-Now create the following selection with the help of ‘Polygonal Lasso Tool’ [3]-Now Open New Layer & then select Gradient Tool & use the following Gradient & Settings [4]-Now fill the selection with Gradient with Botton to Top Direction & after that Blending Mode of this Layer should ‘Linear Burn’ [5]-Now your image should look like as shown below [6]-Now Open New Layer & then create the following selection with the help of ‘Elliptical Marquee Tool’ with hold shift [7]-Now fill the selection with ‘fffffa’ color & then go to Blending Options,select INNER SHADOW & use the following settings [8]-Now Blending Mode of this Layer should “Overlay” [9]-Now your image should look like as shown below [10]-Now Make the Duplicate Layer with the help of press Ctrl+J & your layer pallete should look like as shown below [11]-Now select Duplicate Layer & then Increase the bubble shape with the help of Ctrl+T & then press ENTER [12]...

  1. Set Up Your Document Step 1 Launch Adobe Illustrator, and create a New document (Command + N) and place (File > Place) the Daft Punk artwork from "Random Access Memories" onto your art board. I’ve choosen this image as you can clearly see half of a helmet. This can be traced to create our helmet base. Step 2 To begin with, you want to create five layers on top of the layer that contains the album artwork. Select the "Photo" layer and set the Opacity to around 50% so you’ll be able to see your strokes more clearly. Make sure your reference is aligned to the center of your art board. Step 3 I suggest you Lock all the layers you will not be using at this moment. Just to make sure all your strokes will be placed on the correct layer. 2. Create the Outlines Step 1 Create a Guide on the center of your image and Lock the guide (Command + Alt + ; ). It is very important that this Guide will not move and is centered at all...