If you’ve been through superhero comics, you will surely remember how the hero with his supernatural powers sometimes ended up turning into a fierce man of stone. Well, do you want to achieve that result in your photo shoots? If yes, please follow the steps below:
Step 1:
Get a photo with a smooth background to make the editing process easier. Access the File menu and click Open. Basically, you would need to use Adobe Photoshop to open JPEG files. Once open, they will have a locked background layer. This particular layer can be easily duplicated by choosing the Layer menu, where you would need to select the Duplicate Layer submenu. When the dialog box appears, name it ‘layer 1’. Now, use the white color to override the background. For this purpose, you would basically need to make use of the Paint Bucket tool. Now, you would need to take layer 1 and delete its background layer. To achieve this, you will have to make use of the Magic Wand tool and then press Delete on the keyboard.
Step 2:
Now the next step involves you having to press Ctrl + D. This will basically help you remove all the remaining selection. The next thing you need to do is give things a bit more realistic texture. For this purpose, you would have to access the Layer menu, choose Duplicate Layer and now rename Layer 1 to ‘Texture’. For this layer, you would now have to choose the image menu, after which you will need to select ‘Adjustment> Desaturate’. In fact, this will allow you to remove all traces of the existing color from the image and turn it gray. This layer should now be placed on top of Layer 1.
Step 3:
For the next step, you should actually give the layer a bit more texture, but that would only be possible after making sure that said layer is active. To do this, access the ‘Filter’ menu and select Texture> Crackle. This will ask you to enter some parameters, so in the Crack Depth parameter, add 7, for Crack Spacing, add 75, and for Crack Brightness, enter 6. Once everything is done, hit the Enter key. This will put a lot of cracks on your image. To get rid of the cracks in the pattern tool, just use the Eraser tool.
Step 4:
The next step is to prepare some stone images. Although you have the possibility to photograph roads or walls, there is also the possibility of finding a reference image on Google. Once you have an image handy, open it and move to the working canvas with the Move tool. Stone texture throughout the area and rename this layer to Stone.
Step # 5:
Make adjustments to the layer via the Layers Panel’s Blending Mode and take it to Multiply. Now press ctrl + left click to work on a selection of images on the texture layer. Take the cursor and move it to the Stone layer. Access the menu and choose Select Inverse so that the selection area can be inverted. Eliminate the parts you need.
Step # 6:
Enhance the texture of the image through the Patter option. Open a photograph of a marble floor and move it onto your canvas. Now on the texture layer, Ctrl-click + Left-click so the selection can be retrieved. Click the Select menu, click Reverse Select, and press the Delete button. Go to the panel layer and hit Multiply Mode, and drop down to an opacity level of around 15%, voila!