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Surveillance Camera Effect

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At first, let's open our photo. I used this photo.

I flipped it: Edit-Transform-Flip horizontal.

Image-Adjustments-Hue/Saturation: Saturation-0.
Filter-Sharapen-Unsharp mask: Amount 140%, Radius 0.3.
Add some blue color using Hue/Saturation: tick 'colorize', set hue to 190 and saturation to 10.

Tip: Use Blur Tool to slightly blur some parts of the photo.

image 1

Now the REC. Select Type Tool and type [  REC] in the right top corner. Font-Arial, Style-Blod, Size 14pt.
Create a red circle using Elliptical Marquee tool. Fill it with color #ae0000.

How to add cluter:

1. Download this pattern. Create a new layer and fill it with white color. Go to Layer-Layer Style-Pattern Overlay and fill it with the pattern you've downloaded. Scale 100%.

2. Create a layer below the clutter and press Ctrl+E

3. Select-Color Range, click on the white part (Fuzziness-66%) and then delete it. Filter-Blur-Blur more.

4. Blending mode-Multiply, Opacity 43%

Now the animation. We are going to make 11 frames. How to to make a frame? Select the Move Tool and move the clutter 4 px down. Save it GIF format. Repeat 11 times. Now, select the layer with the photo and go to Filter-Blur-Motion blur. Set  the distance to 13 px. Save it as 12th GIF frame.

You will need a GIF animator program. You can use this one.

Install it. Now, in this program, Press Ctrl+I and add the 11 frames. Frame properites-Delay 0.1 sec. Select the frames and press Ctrl+C. Then press Ctrl+V twice and add the 12th frame (delay 0.1 sec). File-Save as…

Surveillance Camera Effect

That's all!

P.S. Bond. James Bond.



About the Author:

Let me introduce myself. My name is Andrey Igorevich Chernov, or just Andrey. I was born on March 25 1990 In Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia (near China and North Korea). Started to experimenting with Adobe Photoshop and Corel Draw since 1998. Yes, it was very amusing. Now I work as a web designer and run my Photoshop tutorials blog at verbaska.com.
These tutorials also appear on webdesign.org. Many thanks to the site's team who published them!