Monday, 8 March 2010

Guide: Making A Digital Polaroid

I decided to give the Men's fashion print a bit of a funky look, so I made the pictures into digitally created Polaroid pictures, totally using information I'd collected myself. This is a guide to creating them, my way!
  • Open the image you want in the Polaroid frame.
  • Get rid of any blemishes, scratches using the clone or spot-healing tool.
  • Make any contrast / saturation changes if you want to make the picture look like a Polaroid
  • When done, use the Selection tool and while holding the Shift key, drag a square around the part of the picture you want in the Polaroid.
  • Go to Selection > Modify > Feather, Radius 5
  • Go to Edit > Copy
  • Click File > New > Size 8.8 x 10.8cm
  • Click Edit > Paste
  • Move the new layer so the border around the top and 2 sides are equal, with a bigger space underneath.
That's pretty much it, unless you have a white background in your picture, in which case go to the Blending Options on that layer and add a small line around it using the Stroke tool.

Here is one I just did, using this method:

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