Expressive Portrait Montages
1st!
You must take three expressive photos of ONE person. Or have
someone take three of you. You MUST photograph on a black background.
Make sure they are in FOCUS!!!!
1. Making Space
Open 1st picture. Double click the background layer to unlock it, (it will be called
layer 0). Go to Image > Canvas Size to
widen the canvas and make room for the
other two. Set WIDTH to 250 and click OK.
2. Copy and Paste
Open 2nd image. Go to Select> All; then
Edit > Copy. Go back to original (1st)
document and go to Edit > Paste.
Use the MOVE tool to move the image
into place to the right or left of the frame.
Then drag layer 1 below layer 0.
250
SAVE!
3. Make a Layer Mask
At the bottom of your layers palette select
the LAYER MASK icon. It will show up as a
white box next to the thumbnail in the layer.
Select the BRUSH tool.
click on the mask and make sure the
Foreground and Background colors are set to
Black and White.
Make sure you are on black, select a brush
size and carefully remove the edge of the
image that covers part of the arm. If you
remove too much~ switch forground color to
white to add back what you lost.
SAVE!
4. Mask 3rd Portrait
Copy and Past the third portrait into the document like you did in Step 2. Mask over areas like you did in
Step 3.
5. Increase Contrast
At the bottom of the Layers Palette choose the
New Image Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation.
Reduce master Saturation to negative (-100)
6. Increase Contrast
Choose another New Layer Adjustment> Levels
Set White Highlight slider to 181-ish
Set Black Shadow slider to 22 -ish.
Save: Your name triplets save as a .jpg