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Create Ghost

Author: Nikhil Verma More by this author

Added: Jan 26, 2006 Rating:

Level: Beginner Software: n/a

Make any person as ghost using this Photoshop Tutorial.

(Before starting Reset your workspace by Window > Workspace > Reset Palette Locations)

This tutorial enables you to create this type of a ghost...

In this picture I am making this 3d model a ghost. I got him from a wallpaper.

You can take a human's image too.

Okay so let's get started... Use a picture taken in dark environment or which looks spooky. Here I have opened a picture taken by me in the forest (Yes, I go out of the house too...) Looks pretty scary eh?

Click to enlarge

Open up the picture of the person you want to convert to a ghost and the picture of the place too. We will first make the model spooky and then extract his picture. So first of all we have to convert the picture to Black/White

Image > Mode > Lab Color
Go to the channels tab and delete and one of the channels a and b.
Image > Mode > Grayscale
Image > Mode > RGB color
Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast {Contrast : 70 - Brightness : 15}

Filter > Extract

{ Here you have to use the Edge Highlighter(B) to highlight the edges you weren't to extract and then fill the portion with Fill Tool(G) }

Select the Move Tool(V) and then drag the image of the model into the forest image, and set the new layer's blending mode to Screen (Hint : You my need to resize the picture of the guy, Go to Edit > Transform > Scale and drag the corner of the image while pressing Shift, to get the desired size
Ctrl+Click the new layer
Select > Feather (5px)
Ctrl + Shift + I, then press Delete
Now select the Eraser tool(E) {Radius : depends - Hardness : 0 - Mode : Brush - Opacity : 100 - Flow : 100 Erase the legs of the ghost to be...
You should be almost done. Now you have to play with the blending modes and opacity to make the ghost scary.

Things you could do with the ghost:

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