Photoshop Tutorial: How to Make a Basket-Weave Effect from a Photo

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hi this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV

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I'm going to show you how to create a

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cool-looking interlocking basket weave

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effect of your photos this effect works

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especially well on closely cropped

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portraits open a photo you'd like to use

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open your crop tool and type in 870

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pixels for the width and the height type

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in a hundred fifty pixels per inch for

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the resolution and check delete cropped

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pixels this will delete everything

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around the cropped area go to a corner

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and when you see a diagonal double-arrow

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hold down shift and alt on windows or

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shift + option on a Mac as you drag it

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in until most of the head is inside the

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box to reposition it click inside and

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drag it so it's centered then press

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Enter or return it immediately crops to

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the width height and resolution that you

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typed in to see your image at a hundred

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percent press ctrl or command + 1 if

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your foreground and background colors

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aren't black and white respectively

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press D on your keyboard make two copies

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of it by pressing ctrl or command J

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twice click the thumbnail of the bottom

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layer to make it active and press alt or

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option + delete to fill it with black

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make the top layer active and go to edit

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preferences and guides grids and slices

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in the grid section click the color box

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and pick a bright color for the grid

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then click OK or press Enter or return

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make the grid line every 217 pixels and

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divide it into six subdivisions then

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click OK or press Enter or return go to

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view and make sure Snap is checked if it

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isn't just click on it

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to see the grid go to show and click

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grid open your rectangular marquee tool

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go to the top left corner and drag down

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a rectangular selection across three

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columns of boxes to the bottom it'll

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snap to the grid because we have snapped

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checked skip one column and hold down

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shift as you drag down another

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rectangular selection across three

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columns continue to skip one column and

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drag over three click the layer mask

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icon to make a layer mask of the

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selection next to the active layer go to

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the top left corner and drag to the

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right across three rows continue to skip

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one row and drag over three make layer

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one active and click the layer mask icon

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to make a layer mask of the selection we

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can hide the grid now press ctrl or

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command H to hide it ctrl-click or

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command click on the layer mask of the

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horizontal rows to make a selection of

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it go to the layer mask of the vertical

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columns and hold down ctrl shift alt on

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windows or command shift option on a Mac

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to make a selection that overlaps the

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vertical columns with the horizontal

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rows go to select and save selection

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when you see this window click OK press

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Q to make the selection into a quick

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mask open your paint bucket tool and

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left click inside the second empty box

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at the top to fill it in skip a box and

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left click on the one after it continue

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this pattern on every other row then go

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to the first empty box on the second row

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and fill it in continue to fill in every

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other empty box in every other row so

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your final quick mask looks like this

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press Q to revert it back into a select

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and press ctrl or command J to cut the

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shape of the selection from the active

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layer click the thumbnail of the top

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layer to make it active click the

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channels tab to open the channels panel

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and ctrl-click or command click on alpha

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1 to make a selection of its shape click

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back on the layers panel and press Q to

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make it into a quick mask this time left

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click inside the first empty box at the

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top left and fill in every other empty

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box on every other row then left click

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on the second empty box of the second

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row and continue this pattern so your

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quick mask looks like this press Q to

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make it into a selection and press ctrl

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or command J to cut the shape of the

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selection from the active layer the

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basket-weave effect comes to life once

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we add shadows to these shapes we need

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to clip the shapes to the layers

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directly below each one in order to

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restrict their shadows to their

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respective layers to do this go to layer

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and create clipping mask notice the

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active layer moved to the right which

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indicates that it's now clipping to the

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one layer below it will clip these

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shapes as well make it active and this

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time we'll use the shortcut ctrl Alt key

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on Windows or command option G on a Mac

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click the FX icon and choose outer glow

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click the color box and pick black then

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click OK change the blend mode to

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multiply and make the opacity fifty

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percent make the size 40 pixels and

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click OK to copy the outer glow shadows

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to the other shapes go to the FX icon to

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the right of the layer and hold down alt

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or option as you drag it up to the top

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layer next we'll add a texture but first

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make a composite snapshot

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your image to do this make the top layer

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active and press ctrl shift alt e on

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windows or command shift option e on a

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Mac go to filter and filter gallery open

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the texture folder and click texturizer

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choose burlap and make the scaling a

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hundred percent the relief is one and

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the light is from the top then click OK

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or press Enter or return this is Marty

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from Blue Lightning TV thanks for

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watching