> PHOTOSHOP USER>^ JUNE 2017[ 50 ]
With this tutorial, I’ve provided you with the
files you’ll need to follow along, but here’s
what you need to know to use your own
images: You’ll need one photo focused on
the phone set at a depth of field that causes
the background to be knocked out of focus.
In this case, I shot at f/2.8, but you can use a
narrower depth just as effectively to achieve
the necessary effect.
The second shot needs to be the exact
same scene with the same exposure settings,
but without the phone, and focused on the
main feature of the shot. Use your tripod to
ensure your composition remains consistent.
The composition and alignment of
the phone is important because you must
ensure that only the desired element—the
Elizabeth Tower—can rise from the phone
when we get to postprocessing. The rest
of the building to the right of it must
remain below the limits of view masked by
the phone. If you don’t do this, you’ll be
left with an awkward situation whereby
the roofline of the building to the right
(which, if you’re interested, is Westminster
Hall) would have to be chopped off at the
limitations of the screen edge, and so you
wouldn’t have a clean image. To ensure
that you don’t land in this situation, it’s
important that you position the phone
in such a way that you fully consider the
final result.
[KelbyOne members may download the
files used in this tutorial at http://kelbyone
.com/magazine. All files are for personal
use only.]BRINGING SMARTPHONE SCREENS TO LIFE
In this project, we’ll take a London city scene that features a tall object (in this case, it’s the Elizabeth
Tower, or St. Stephens Tower, or Big Ben, or Jubilee Tower, depending on who you ask) and composite
it with an image of a smartphone. We’ll manipulate the two images in Adobe Photoshop to create an
effect where it appears that part of the building comes to life and emerges from the smartphone.
Together, we’ll blend the desired elements of both images to create the composite.DAVIDWILLIAMS
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