Faded Lines in Photoshop
PART 1 PART 2
1. Download tut30-ex.jpg. Open this image in Photoshop.
2. Open a new document 800 x 120 pixels, 72 pixels/inch, RGB color, white
background
3. Using the nudge or move tool, click on the butterfly picture and drag it
onto the the new background image placing in on the left edge of the white
work area
4. Press the
keyboard shortcut Ctrl+J to create a duplicate layer.
5. Zoom in and using the rectangle marquee tool, select a 3-5 pixel strip vertically
along the right edge of the butterfly picture.
6. Choose Edit-->Free Transform (keyboard shortcut Ctrl+T)
8.
Click on the right handle on the transform border and drag it all the way to
the right edge of the document to stretch these pixels. Double click inside
the free transform boundary to apply the transformation. Your picture at
this point should look like this...


9. Add a new layer by clicking Edit=>new=>layer and name it stripes changing
the blend mode at the top of
the layers panel to soft light. This will allow the butterfly and the stretched out pixels to show through the stripes you are about to make.
10.Use the steps from part one to fill this layer with an alternating
pattern of two pixels high grey at 50% opacity and white stripes.
- Using the horizontal single row marquee tool at a A
ZOOM
level of 500% Select the top pixel row.
- Hold down the shift key and add the next two pixel rows by clicking
them with the single row marquee.
- Set your forground color to light grey.
- Select the fill tool
and set
the fill properties opacity to 50%

- Click on the paint bucket
and fill
the area.
- With the selection still active, hold down the shift key and use the
single
row marquee tool two more times as before to make the selection 5 pixels
wide.
- Select white as foreground color and set properties to 100% opacity.
Fill the rest of this selection with the white.
- Choose Edit-->Define Pattern, naming it butterflystripe
- Click Ctrl+D which will deselect the area
- Choose Edit-->Fill-->Use: Pattern. Select the partern
youjust made from the selection that appears. Click ok. This will fill in
the whole area with the striped pattern.
{Alternately you can use the paint bucket
to fill
setting the fill to pattern and the pattern to your new butterfly pattern}
.
- Click ok. This will fill in the whole area with the striped pattern.
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11. Next we will erase the stripe effect from the left side of the photo. We
will do that with a layer mask. Highlight the stripes layer then choose
Layer-->Add Layer Mask-->Reveal All.
The layer mask will be on the same layer palette with the stripes. (White
reveals and black hides portions of the layer.)
12. Click on the layer mask thumbnail in the palette to make it active.
13. Using the gradient tool set for a black to white gradient and drag from
the left edge of the picture to where the original right side edge of the
butterfly picture was.
14. There will still be some lines covering the butterfly portion of the
photo. We will paint these out directly on the layer mask.
15. With black as the foreground color, select a large soft paintbrush and
set the opacity to about 50%.
16. From left to right, swipe across the area of the flowers and butterfly
to erase some of the lines in this area. Voila, there is your effect. Neat,
huh?
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