How to Transform your Photo into a Brick

PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL

Hi this is Rosally Ygot from BSIT 2B and I'm going to teach you how to transform your photo into a brick wall portrait.

First Step, Open the Photoshop.

Second, Download a brick wall, So we want our portrait to wrap around the contour of a brick wall so lets make our brick wall into a Displacement Map...in order to do that.... duplicate the brick wall as a separate document by clicking the icon at the upper right corner of the layers panel and click Duplicate Layer,click New and type in Displacement then click Ok.

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So Displacement is nice to look at when it is Slightly blur,Click Filter,blur,and Guissan blur.I blur 1 pixel then click Ok.

To remove its color just click Ctrl+Shift+U.

It is important that your image have enough contrast,since displacement is base on tonal values..... to adjust the contrast Open your level window by pressing Ctrl+L.And Drag the input white slider near with histogram start and also the black slider as well then click Ok.

Then Save it by going to file ,Save as to your Desktop as Photoshop psd and Click save.

Lets close the Displacement Document since we already save it to our Desktop..Open a photo of someone you want to make a portrait.

Lets make a selection....

Press Ctrl+J to cut and copy your subject to its own layer... To place your subject into the brick wall press V to open the move tool.

And Drag your subject into the Tab of the wall and release....

To resize it open your transform tool by pressing Ctrl+T.

Before adding the effect lets protect it by converting into smart object. Click the icon of the upper layers panel and click to Convert to Smart Object.To open the layers style double click the empty layer of the area, Click Stroke,change the size to 2 pixel ,outside then Click Ok.

Next is go to Filter and next Filter Gallery,Artistic and Click Fresco....and Adjust the brush size into 1 and the brush detail is 10 and texture is 1.

Convert the Layer into Smart Object again and change the blend mode into Overlayreduce the capacity into 80%. And you can angle it or leave it that way ... to angle it we need to resize and re-position the portrait to make it perfectly fit to the angle brick wall...Open your transform tool and go to the top right corner of the transform and press and hold Shift and Drag it, then go inside the transform and press and hold shift again as you slide the portrait.then press enter or return.

We are going to make our portrait to pop more use the Ctrl+J and change the blend mode to Soft light.

Lets angle the entire image make a compose snap shot by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E....Zoom out your Document by Ctrl+- twice..Go to Edit ,Transform then perspective go to the bottom left corner and drag it down.Press Enter and return.

Press Ctrl+O to back to your canvass ,,,To give more image depth lets make the wall darker to see in a distance.Click the New layer icon make a new layer ,Open your gradient tool and make sure the gradient icon is active...Click the gradient bar to open the gradient editor..Click the Black White preset,click the lower stat and the color box.IN the color pixel type the 808080 then click ok in both windows.Go to the side of your document in the wall reset and press and hold Shift as you drag a line to the middle then release your cursor.Change blend mode to linear Burn and reduce the Capacity to 40%.

This is the final look of our Photo Brick.....

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