PhotoShop CS5 synthesis of butterfly specimens on display in frames

George Cairns will tell you how to combine multiple photos into a beautiful and unique piece of work.

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Software Preparation: Photoshop CS5

Learning Goals: Create and adjust selections for complex images using tools such as adjustment edges and layer masks

Operation time-consuming: 30 minutes

Final effect:

Artists combine the various elements they find to create amazing works of art. The random combination of these elements can touch the hearts of people, or can tell a story, to achieve one plus one greater than two effects.

In this tutorial, the specimen of the butterfly has been filled with dust for too long in the display cabinet, and the quality of the wooden frame is not flattering. But by putting them together, you get a very attractive image.

Our original artwork needs to undergo a certain amount of processing before it is assembled. We will tell you how to adjust the rectangular wooden frame to square, and to match the size of the butterfly. Then you'll also see how to use layer masks and

The new addition of the CS5 can only be the radius and other advanced techniques to remove the chaos behind the butterfly environment.

To make the composite picture richer, we chose a piece of cloth photo as the background texture and joined the museum with a blending mode to display the spotlight. The use of layer styles adds shadows to the different elements in the composite image,

Enhance the overall sense of the picture to make it more real.

We also add a description tag to the butterfly, and the text on the label is also the name of the composite image. So we'll also show you how to simulate fading, deforming, tearing on the label,

It seems to have been posted on the wall of the museum since Victorian times.

1. New Document

Select File > New, set the unit to inches from the Drop-down menu, and width set to 15. Background content white, resolution 240 pixels per inch. Type "Red Butterfly" at the name and click OK. Select File > Open,

Select the butterfly_before.jpg used in the tutorial in the File Explorer and determine.

2. Create a selection

Using the Quick selection tool, set the selection to "New selection" along the outer side of the butterfly click to select the background of the screen. Then set the selection to "subtract from selection" and remove the white edge of the butterfly from the selection you just created.

The butterfly tentacles don't need to be handled too carefully at the moment. Perform "SELECT > reverse".

3. Optimize constituency

Click the Adjust Edges button to set the view mode to black bottom. Set the partial radius of the edge detection to 3.3 pixels, adjust the edge portion smoothing to 26, feather 0.7, and soften the clear edges of the selection.

The output is set to a layer mask, and we will further optimize it to restore the butterfly tentacles. Click OK.