Well, here's your chance to learn it :D
OK, first of all you need yourself, a tripod, a digital camera and of course a computer with Adobe Photoshop installed(no special version required).
There's only a few easy steps to this tutorial.
- Shoot the pictures
- Download them to the computer
- Put all pictures in layers
- Start erasing
- Save the picture
Use the timer on your camera or get your friend to shoot some pictures af you.
Remember! The camera must not move an inch or it'll be harder to work with the pictures. Do also remember to get the lighting right and use as little flash as possible... use none if possible. The first pictures I made was really annoying because I could never get the shadows right.
#2
One of the easy steps.
Use your USB-cable or card-reader(or whatever you use) to download the pictures into a folder on your computer. After that, open all the pictures in Photoshop.
#3
Now you have to put all the pictures in layers. You don't have to do it in a special order, but I always prefer to use the picture where I'm the longest away from the camera as the background.
Now add a vector mask(also called layer mask) to all the layers, except the background-layer.
#4
Everything you have to do now is to erase some of the parts in the layer masks. To do that you'll need to use the Brush Tool. As you can see, the only colors you can use when you're working with layer masks is black and white. The black color erases and the white color restores.
Now start erasing some of the white stuff(how nasty can you be) in the layer masks with the Brush Tool.
#5
When you're finish and happy with your result save your picture as JPG/JPEG or PNG. Also save it as a PSD if you want to use it as a refference later on... or maybe decides to use it for at tutorial like I did ;)
If you don't have the greatest computer in the world, then let me give you a little advice. Remember to save your picture as a PSD from time to time while you're working on it. Don't you also hate it when you're working on something and your computer suddenly crashes and you forgot to save your work?
Well.. I hope you could use this little tutorial.
You can find some of my clone-pictures here and alot other clone-pictures other people made right here.