Careful selection of your images will be an important part of your dvd/vhs design. I've seen some substandard designs that have almost shocked me because I know I could have (not only designed better quite often) but chosen better production stills. You want everything to 'gel' together to represent the product that you are marketing.
Drag in several layers thinking about where you want to place them. Once they are scaled down to be slightly larger than the 'cell' layers, go ahead and do some layer organization in the layers palette to bring each layer directly above the actual cell layer. Do this for each.
Go to Layer: Create clipping group or mask
(depending your version of Photoshop) or Ctrl/Cmd G when on the
layer you are going to clip (with the corresponding cell layer right
beneath it).
Go ahead and place each image above the cel in both the design AND
the layers palette (otherwise you might clip a layer, wonder where
it went and have to drag it across the screen in the document to see
it). It might happen to the best of us...
Spice things up by creating a gradient stroke under layer effects on
one of the layers. Now drag this layer effect to the other cell
layers (not the image layers) in the layers palette. If you want you
can go in and change the angle of the gradient on some of the
layers.
Ok, I decided to do a little different picture
selection. You can see the gradient stroke effect on each cell layer
(feel free to change the settings). It's nice to do minor things
like this to just enhance the overall effectiveness...small details
like this can just 'make' a design that much more professional and
you've got lots of options at your disposal. In this case though you
want it to be a subtle complement or afterthought. You can
have this .psd in your Photoshop to better help you understand the
design from the
iPSDirectory
Here you can see how the clipped layers look.
Remember that you can move the image layer around 'within' the cell
with it selected in the layers palette but when you select the
bottom layer (fill layer) you move the entire clipping mask/group
around.
Ok, it's bugging me now but that tunnel scene needs to be in the
middle not on the bottom. Also start thinking like that...think
about balance and which images would look best where.
You can clip even large layers like this as long as they are above the appropriate layer in the layers palette (Ctrl G). Then you can nudge it right into place.
Here I've spent way too much time on the guidelines
(for this tutorial) but you get the idea. On a real production you'd
want everything perfect.
With the guidelines in place it becomes very easy to create new fill
layers. Grab your rectangular marquee (M) starting at the
intersection corner of guidelines and they will 'snap' into place.
You have previously laid out the guidelines where you want this next
fill layer for a text backdrop to be.
Remember to be creating new layers to 'fill' these marquee 'selections' onto. Run another marquee across but make it very thin. Do this right above the large fill. Now drag this layer to the new layer icon to duplicate it and hold Ctrl click and drag it straight down to the same location beneath the large fill.
Here I've done it all the way across to show you some more editing. I'm making a selection as you can see but I'll have to switch to the appropriate layer in the layers palette and then Ctrl X to cut the extraneous portion out. Do this for each extension. Since the guidelines were already there, you could just start from the first left vertical guideline.
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