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| 1. First of all, save this image to your computer by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save image as." If you are on a Mac, click and drag the image to your desktop and either move it to a folder or upload it from your desktop.. If you wish to use a different sign, feel free to, but for this tutorial this one would be the simplest to use. Open it in Photoshop. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. Press Ctrl+J, Layer>Duplicate, or right click on the thumbnail of the image in the layers palette, then select "duplicate layer." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. On your duplicated layer, hold down the shift key and click on the sign letters with the magic wand tool until all is selected. (If you are using a different image and the words are inside of a shape, select that as well.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4. Next, click on Select > Inverse. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5. Now press "delete" then Ctrl+D or Select>Deselect to deselect the image and remove the dotted lines. You will now have the original image again, though most of the image of the top layer will be gone when you look at the layers palette. Now click on the eye of the top layer in the layer palette so to hide the selections you made in the last few steps. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6. Now click on the background layer again, and duplicate it. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7. Now select the Magic Wand tool in the toolbox and click on the sky. Hold shift while clicking the areas so to make sure you have the whole sky selected. Then make a new layer by going Layer>New>Layer, Shift+Ctrl+N, or clicking on the box with the doggy-ear at the bottom of the layers palette. The the dotted lines will still be there, but on a new layer. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8. Now select the paintbucket tool again and select black for your foreground color. (If you do not see the paintbucket tool, click and hold down until you see a box pop-up, then select the paintbucket). Still on the layer with the black sky, choose Filter>Noise>Add Noise and enter 20, Gaussian, Monochromatic. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9. Select the "background copy" layer. If it is a different name for you, then select the layer directly above the original background layer. Click Ctrl+M or Image>Adjustment>Curves to open the curves box. Adjust the curves to resemble this image. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10. On that same layer, select a layer mask. You can do this by either going Layer>Layer Mask>Reveal All, or clicking on the white circle inside of a grey box at the bottom of the layers palette. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11. With the layer mask selected, make sure that black is your foreground color, select the paintbrush tool, and paint over any areas that should be lit, EXCLUDING the sign itself. We will work on that later. If you paint over any areas you didn't want lightened, just make the foreground color white and paint over it. If you make a mistake, press Ctrl+Z or Edit>Undo. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12. Now the stars are too intense, so what to do is click on the thumbnail of the image in the current active layer, then again take your Magic Wand tool and click on the sky. Then click on the layer with the stars, make a new layer, fill it with black with the Paint Bucket tool, and set the opacity to 55%. This will tone down the stars a good bit to seem more realistic. (The reason I'm doing this now is because I'm remembering how I did this as I make this, and realized that the stars looked too fake...I apologize about that.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13. Next I added this image | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14. Click on the topmost layer, then open the moon image in Photoshop. Click the image of the moon, either click Ctrl+A or Select>All, then copy and paste the moon onto the sign image. Position it wherever you want in the sky and resize it to your liking. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15. Now double-click quickly on the side of the moon layer, and the blending options box will pop-up. Change these effects: Outer Glow: Blend - Luminosity, Spread - 6, Size - 7 Color Overlay: Blend - Soft Light, Color - feff99, Opacity - 90% |
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| 16. Now last, but definitely not least, it's time to turn the lights of the sign on. First thing is to make the letters/sign layer visible again, so click where the eye was to make the layer reappear. Then quickly double click on the layer for the blending options to appear. Change to these settings: Outer Glow: Blend - Luminosity, Spread - 7, Size - 6 Inner Glow: Blend - Luminosity, Opacity - 15%, Size - 50 All you have to do now is click Layer>Flatten Image and you're done! I know it doesn't look the most realistic, but it does make a pretty cool effect. Here's my final result. |
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