Trick Photoshop: Turned Into Stone

Saturday, November 14, 2015

Turned Into Stone

You can turn a living person into stone in a trice in Photoshop. All you need is a photo and a stone texture. You can trawl google.com for a stone texture. And, you are set.

Step 1 : I have opened thes two images in Photoshop. The photo of the girl and a stone texture.

Step 2 : Click each photo in turn to select it and press CTRL+SHIFT+U. This will destaurate the images one by one.
Step 3 : Click the Move Tool. Make sure that Show Transform Controls (Bounding Box in PS7) is checked.
Step 4 : Keeping the SHIFT key pressed drag the photo of the girl onto the stone texture. Keeping the Shift pressed ensures that the photo of the girl lands exactly in the middle of the stone texture.
Step 5 : Now press CTRL+T. You will find a selection with corner handles around the image of the girl.

Step 6 : Now keeping Shift+Alt pressed drag any corner handle to the edge of the one below. Then click the Tick mark in the top panel to apply the transformation.

Step 7 : Note that the stone texture is the Background and the photo of the one is on Layer1. Now click where the arrow points to, to change the Blend Mode.

Step 8 : Set the Blend Mode from the popup to Multiply.

The girl has been turned to 'stone'. There is one point though. Stone images do not have eyes. That has to be fixed.

Step 9 : Zoom into the image with the Zoom tool for a closeup look at the eyes.

Step 10 : Click on the Erazer Tool.

Step 11 : The Erazer Tool functions just like the Brush Tool. Click in the top panel as shown and set the Hardness to zero. Choose a suitable size as Master Diameter. A shortcut to makie a brush soft is to press the Shift+[ bracket key repeatedly. To make it hard press Shift+] bracket key. Always work with a soft brush, whether it is the Brush Tool or other tools that function like brushes.