Custom Text

How to make Custom Text

Difficulty: 2/10

Look at this picture. And this one too. Isn't it really cool? It is. You want to learn how to make something like that. You WILL learn how to make something like that. So let's start.

First, open up Photoshop and make a new file, any (REASONABLE) size. You'll have a nice, blank canvas.

Move on over to the Text tool. It happens to look just like this:

Click it, and type what you want to type. For my example, I'll be doing the word Moon. Adjust the size to fit your blank canvas. Here is mine:

Color doesn't matter, it'll be a picture soon anyways. Then, copy and paste the image you want as the background. CTRL + C copies the image and CTRL + V pastes it. This will open the picture in a new layer. Resize the image to fit your screen. Here is what mine now looks like:

(Notice the layers.)

Now, drag the moon layer behind the text layer, click the eye so the image is hidden, and right click the text layer and click "Rasterize type". Your layers should now look like this:

Now, go over to the tools and click the magic wand tool. It looks like this:

Go to the top and set it to the addition setting here:

Now, click each letter (make sure you have the text layer highlighted) so they are all selected. Now, switch the the moon layer (With your selection still made). Make it visible and push CTRL + SHIFT + I and then push Delete. This will delete everything but the text. Delete the whole entire text layer. After all of that is done, you should be left with this:

And that's it! Your desired text is now a picture also!

My tutorials are starting to be less slightly in-depth to adjust to developing skills. If you have any questions about any steps or any comments, feel free to comment!
If you have any other questions, you can follow this tutorial also!

Face Changing

Face Changing

Difficulty: 5/10

A looot of girls are attracted to Justin Bieber. Some guys are willing to go out of their way to look like him. One fan even payed over $100,000 to look like Justin Bieber, with... mediocre results. What this fan didn't know is that he didn't have to pay $100k to look like him, he could have payed $10 a month for photoshop! A couple of simple tricks and he'd look just like him. What tricks? I'll show you the tricks all right.

Okay, now this tutorial is for more than just looking like Justin Bieber. With this tutorial you'll be able to take someone's face it put it on someone else's body, so let's get started!

First pick the two faces you want to use. One face will be the one we copy, and the other will be the face we paste it onto. I'll be using Justin Bieber and Mr. Bean, with Mr. Bean being the face we copy, and Justin Bieber the receiver. 

Open them both up in Photoshop. (If I skip any basic steps, like how to open files, check to my older tutorials on how to do so.) Your screen should now have open two tabs. If you happen to be doing Justin Bieber and Mr. Bean your screen will look like this:

And this on the next tab:

Now, what you want to do is select the tool that looks like a pen. It's right below the tool that looks like a hand. Look at the image above to see a reference. Next, select around just the eyebrows, nose, and mouth on Mr. Bean. This tool is like connect the dots. When you select one point, it adds a dot. When you select another, it connects the two. You should now have this:

Next, right click the selected  (with the pen tool)  are and push "Make Selection..." Guess what happens? Guess guess! This window!! :

Now, your box will say "Feather Radius: 0 pixels" but we're gonna change that to... guess again! 5! and push okay. You now have this;

Once you have that, push Ctrl + X and it'll cut out the picture. Now, swap to Ol' Justin Bieber, and push Ctrl + V. Here's your new screen:

Drag the corners of the image to line it up. Shift + draging a corner will enlarge to image proportionately . Play around with it until you get it JUST right. 

Once you get it all aligned and any other kinks worked out, you'll have your final image. Get prepared because here comes the final result of mine!

If you look at it for a little bit you'll notice some slight color differences between the top of Mr. Beans face and Justin Bieber. To fix problems like this or if you just want to know more about methods like this, check out this tutorial for more info!

Like always, comment with any questions or comments!

Perspective Tool

Perspective Tool

Difficulty: 3/10

Don't you hate it when you're in an argument, a real heated one, and someone says you need to "take a step in their shoes" or "change your perspective?" Well heck, I'm going to teach you how to do just that, how to change your perspective using Photoshop! Now this may not be what they mean by changing your perspective but they can't deny that you tried, so let's start!

First, pick the picture you want to change the perspective on. I'll be using this picture that was originally posted here. 

In Photoshop click File, then Open... and select the picture from wherever you saved it. Your screen should now show your picture. 

Now, what you'll want to do is click edit and then Perspective Warp. 

Next just left click. A rectangular box will pop up, like this one:

You'll want to take the corners of the rectangle and drag them to the corners of one side of the building or object your changing, much like how I did below:

Then, shift click somewhere else on the picture. Another rectangle will pop up. Drag the corners to the corners of the other side. The corners that meet up should pop together. Your picture should now look like this.

Now, click the Warp box in the top middle leftish of the screen. It looks a lot (almost exactly, probably exactly) like this:

Now when you click and drag on the corners they will move. Experiment around with moving them to get the perspective you want. If you Shift + Click on a corner it combines the top corner and bottom corner so they move together. Shift + Click undoes this. Here is an example of what this tool can do:

Note two things here: First off, the slight difference in perspective. It looks as if you're standing at a different spot than the original picture. Second, the edges of the picture are distorted, this is a con of using this tool! Reading past and future tutorials can teach you how to do things like remove the edge errors though! If there's something I didn't cover all the way (these are basic simple tutorials after all) check this post for some more things, the post has a different perspective than I do!

Hopefully this taught you some new things, and like always, comment with any questions, complaints, or anything really.