Lost Header Tut
While making my new header, I was suddenly hit with a urge to make a tut for it... It just randomly comes to me.
this tutorial is for Photoshop CS2. I don't know how compatable it is
DON'T COPY WORD FOR WORD
if the bandwidth on the pics goes out, let me know and I will reupload them.
First, open a new document. I chose 750 x 600 px.
Next I pasted in a texture, this one from Tre-XTure
Then I took some Lost promo pics from Lost Media, sharpened, duplicated, set to soft light (at varying opacities),cropped them all to 550 x 100 px, and pasted them in the new image. Then I arranged them how I wanted.
I sort of merged all the picture layers, copied it, and then...unmerged it. Copy the version with them all in it and set it to soft light 100%. It's for later.
Then I took this light texture by teh_indy and set it to screen 100%. I moved it down slightly since it was over their faces (which is bad) and then smudged out the edges to make it look normal. This goes under the soft light picture layer.
Then, another texture by Tre-XTure, this time set to colour 61%.
I duplicated the texture, and set it to overlay, 50%.
Now, I made a new layer and filled it with black. Then I applied a Layer MASK. I set the layer to overlay.
Next I took a paint smudgy brush by gender and fiddled with the brush setting (Basically I just changed the angle, added some scattering and mucked with the foreground/background thing) Then I went over the black overlay layer with this. I tried to clear most of it off their faces.
New layer set to hard light 75%, and this gradient made by somebody.
Then I added a border by filling it with black (again) adding a layer mask (yeah..) and erasing some of it with a brush of a card thing... I dont really know who made it.
Next, I took the 7 pics I used originally, cropped them down to 60x100px, and arranged them in the header.
Then, I applied a black and white gradient after merging the layers (of the small pics).
Then I stroked the pics at 7px in black. Then since I am lame like that, I made a new layer and went over the areas that were still not even (since the pic are separate) with a black brush.
This is pretty much it, though I might add some text to the one I will use.