Displacement Map - Filter

First, duplicate the silk by image > duplicate. Press Ctrl + Shift + U (desaturate) and press Ctrl + Shift + L (Auto Level), then save as PSD, close it.

Second, Duplicate the background layer by pressing Ctrl + J, Press Ctrl + Shift + U (desaturate) and press Ctrl + Shift + L (Auto Level).


Third. Open the 'flat pattern', press Ctrl + A and Ctrl + C, open the Silk then hit Ctrl + V. Press Ctrl + T for free transform then change the blending mode to Multiply.



Last, with the pattern layer selected, go to Filter > distort > displace. ignore the setting on first showed up window and simply click OK, then choose the displacement map that we already made, Click Ok.

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Color Range - Selection

Next we will learn about the selection technique using 'Color Range' . Let's change the sky of this picture.

go to Select > Color Range. choose eyedropper with plus sign (+) which mean adding selection. Click in the sky area , on the map you'll see black and white, where the white side is the sky we have been selected. Slide the Fuziness to the right or left untill the color in the map becoming black and white solid, minimize grey area and then click OK.

Next, we'll inverse the selection by Shift + Ctrl + i or you may go to select > inverse, Press Ctrl + J to duplicate with selected area. if its correct then you'll have a new duplicated layer with sky erased, youl see the squares which indicates the transparent area.

On the top most layer, point the cursor to thumbnail and press Ctrl, wait until the tiny square show up then left - click it (Ctrl + click), we use it to load the selection the layer. We're going to change the existing sky with a new one, so we have to inverse the selection by pressing Shift + Ctrl + i.

Open the file we're going to use as a new sky. Press Ctrl + A, Ctrl + C then go back to the first picture, with top most layer still selected, go to edit > paste into. if its correct there will be created a new masked layer. set the position by hit Ctrl + T, click OK when you're done.

Last, take a look at the trees, we'll see the white 'halo', how to reduce them? click the mask of the top most layer then go to filter>blur>gaussian blur, set the value to 2 px. then go to Filter > Other > Maximum and set the value to 2 px.

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Paris Van Java

This time we'll learn how to mix two different pictures which having a similarity in time - taking and position. Both picture s were taken at night from below.

First, Open the Eiffel tower, hit Ctrl + A (select > All), then Ctrl + C (Edit>Copy).

Second, Open the other one and paste it by Ctrl + V (Edit > paste). if its correct then the tower will be placed on a top most layer. press Ctrl + T for free Transform so you can change the positon and resize it, Hit Enter when you're done.

Third, we're gonna add some mask on Layer1, click Layer1 then click the 'add mask' icon which located at the bottom of Layer's pallet next to 'f' icon. if its correct then a white box will be added on the right side Layer's thumbnail.

Next, fill that mask with a black color, click the white box then press Shift + F5 (Edit>Fill), choose black. if its correct the tower will be disappeared.

Last, to bring the tower back we must paint the mask with a white color, click the mask on the first layer then pick the brush tool , dont forget to set the opacity and hardness to 100%, set the foreground color to white. we will paint it white starts from the top of this picture to the space between their heads. we can also take a look at the mask which showing the map of the selection that we have made.

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Change the Eye's Color

In this tutorial we will learn how to use 'Hue / Saturation' Adjustment Layer to change the Eye's color.

First, open the picture, the eye (you can get it from Google). double click the background layer and rename it. Then add the adjustment layer by clicking the icon on the bottom of Layer's pallet. When the window show up, set the value of Hue and saturation to +99 and +25, we are looking for the light green, click OK when you're done.

Now we're having a totally green picture, but we just want to change the middle part of the Eye ball.

Second, lets take a look at the top most layer, look at white box, we'll fill it with black color. Click the white box and hit Shift + F5 or you can try Edit > Fill and choose Black.

Last. we will show the green color back but only in a pupil, the middle part. Click the mask (the white box we just filled with black), use the brush tool ( shortcut : B ), set the foreground color to white and you can start to paint that part.

Note : when you're done, and you still wanna change the eye's color, simply double click the thumbnail of Hue / Saturation layer and set the both value of hue and saturation.

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