Cloaking Effect
Today we will learn how to insert a figure into a scene and give it a cloaking effect that makes it look invisible.
Okay, the first part of this tutorial is pretty tricky. We need to pick two images. The first, being the figure we want to be cloaked onto the second image, which is the scene. With that in mind, it is best to choose a scene image that has lots of detail, thus making the cloaked image stand out more.
Here is the figure i chose:
And here is the scene.
Now. Taking our Figure (first image). Go to Image > Mode > Grayscale. This will cause all color information to be lost, but this does make the best cloaking affect.
Next you need to change the contrast of your image by going to Image > Adjustments > Brightness / Contrast. Play with the settings to get the right effect, but a basic tip is if your figure is to dark, add more light to it, if its to light, make it darker. You want to have a good range of light to dark to get the right effect.
Go to File > Save As and save the image as a .psd file. This is crucial because we will be importing it into our other image.
Before you close this image. Select your figure by pressing Control and clicking on the layer. Now go to Edit > Copy (control + c) to copy the layer.
Now Open your scene.
Copy your scene layer. This is also important incase you make a mistake. Now go to Edit > Paste To paste your figure into the scene. This will make the cloaking effect more effective so to speak.
Now move the figure into position where you want it. I chose the bottom left corner because that is where he looks best.
Now control + Click on your figure layer to select it. This is crucial to get the distortment where we want it.
Now the important part Make sure you have your duplicated scene layer selected and go to Filter > Distort > Displace and press okay. Then select the .psd file you saved earlier. This will cause the image to be loaded into the selection and act as a displacement map. You cannot see it yet because your figure layer is still over the change you just made.
Click on your figure layer and lower the opacity to about 25%. This is what i came up with. As you can see, there is a very nice difference in the look of the scene and it looks like this character is cloaked. Congradulations.
Okay, the first part of this tutorial is pretty tricky. We need to pick two images. The first, being the figure we want to be cloaked onto the second image, which is the scene. With that in mind, it is best to choose a scene image that has lots of detail, thus making the cloaked image stand out more.
Here is the figure i chose:
And here is the scene.
Now. Taking our Figure (first image). Go to Image > Mode > Grayscale. This will cause all color information to be lost, but this does make the best cloaking affect.
Next you need to change the contrast of your image by going to Image > Adjustments > Brightness / Contrast. Play with the settings to get the right effect, but a basic tip is if your figure is to dark, add more light to it, if its to light, make it darker. You want to have a good range of light to dark to get the right effect.
Go to File > Save As and save the image as a .psd file. This is crucial because we will be importing it into our other image.
Before you close this image. Select your figure by pressing Control and clicking on the layer. Now go to Edit > Copy (control + c) to copy the layer.
Now Open your scene.
Copy your scene layer. This is also important incase you make a mistake. Now go to Edit > Paste To paste your figure into the scene. This will make the cloaking effect more effective so to speak.
Now move the figure into position where you want it. I chose the bottom left corner because that is where he looks best.
Now control + Click on your figure layer to select it. This is crucial to get the distortment where we want it.
Now the important part Make sure you have your duplicated scene layer selected and go to Filter > Distort > Displace and press okay. Then select the .psd file you saved earlier. This will cause the image to be loaded into the selection and act as a displacement map. You cannot see it yet because your figure layer is still over the change you just made.
Click on your figure layer and lower the opacity to about 25%. This is what i came up with. As you can see, there is a very nice difference in the look of the scene and it looks like this character is cloaked. Congradulations.
