Photoshop Tutorial: How to Create a Powerful, Prism 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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powerful prism portrait effect from a

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photo the technique that I'll show you

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allows you to quickly replace your photo

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with others without having to redo all

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the effects open a high-resolution photo

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of a close-up of someone's face I

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downloaded this one from shutterstock

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will crop it to a specific size and

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resolution

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open your crop tool

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and crop presets click 16 by 9 in the

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width field type in 1920 px4 pixels and

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in the high field type in 1080

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go to a corner and when you see a

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diagonal double-arrow press and hold alt

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or option + shift as you drag it out

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until a face is cropped to a size you

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like press Enter or return to slide the

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face up or down press the up or down

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arrows on your keyboard

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then click the check mark at the top to

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fit your document back onto the canvas

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press ctrl or command 0 next we'll cut

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our subject from the background to do

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this for this example I'll use the magic

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wand tool if you're using this tool as

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well make sure contiguous is checked

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I'll make the tolerance 10 pixels click

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the white area on the left to make a

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selection of it and shift-click the

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white area on the right to add its

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selection as well invert the selection

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by pressing ctrl or command shift I

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press ctrl or command J to cut the

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subject out and copy it to its own layer

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click the background to make it active

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we'll fill it with black but first 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 since your

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foreground color is black press alt or

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option + delete

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make the subject active will convert as

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subject into a smart object so we can

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modify it non-destructively as well as

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allow us to replace the photo with

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another without having to redo all the

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effects click the icon at the upper

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right corner of the layers panel

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and click convert to smart object

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copy of it by pressing ctrl or command J

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reduce its opacity to fifty percent

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make six copies of this layer by

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pressing ctrl or command J six times

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alt-click or option-click the eyeball

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icon next to the top layer to hide all

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the other layers scroll to the bottom

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and make the black background visible

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scroll back to the top

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and open your rectangular marquee tool

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go to the top left corner and drag a

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selection approximately this wide to the

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bottom of your subject click the layer

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mask icon to make a layer mask of the

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selection next to the top layer increase

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its opacity to a hundred percent and

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make the layer below it visible and

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active go to the upper right corner of

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the last shape and drag another

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selection to the bottom as before click

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the layer mask icon to make a layer mask

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of the selection next to the active

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layer then increase its opacity to a

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hundred percent make the layer below it

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visible and active make sure the next

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selection covers most of the eye

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continue these steps for each copy of

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your subject

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scroll to the bottom of the layers panel

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and hide the black background scroll

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back to the top will slide each layer to

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the left or right but first open your

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move tool and make sure auto-select is

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checked as soon as we click on our

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subject auto select automatically

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selects the respective layer that

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corresponds to where we clicked on our

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subject now we don't have to find and

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activate each layer manually in order to

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slide it click on the left of your

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subject and press and hold shift as you

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slide the image to the left edge to

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slide the next shape click the left of

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your subject to make that layer active

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and again press and hold shift as you

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drag the shape approximately here

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click on the right of your subject to

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make that layer active and press and

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hold shift as you slide it to the right

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edge slide the rest of the shapes to

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these approximate positions on your

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document if you need to reposition any

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of them simply click on the shape press

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and hold shift and slide it uncheck auto

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select

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to save space in the layers panel will

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group all of our subjects copies into a

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folder make the top layer active scroll

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to the bottom and shift-click the bottom

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copy of the subject press ctrl or

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command G

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make a copy of the folder

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and convert it into a smart object

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then make a copy of it

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I'll name the folder strips but you can

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name it whatever you like name the

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second layer blur

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and the top layer dark make the black

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background visible

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press thee to open your move tool and

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press and hold shift as you drag the

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layer to the left until it aligns with

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the area of the layer below it it's okay

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to leave a little space between the two

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layers to Center the subjects face on

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our document shift-click to blur layer

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to make it active as well and press and

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hold shift as you slide your image to

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the center

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click the dark layer to make it active

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and reduce its opacity to fifty percent

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click the FX icon and click bevel emboss

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the style is inner bevel and the

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technique is smooth the depth is a

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hundred percent and the direction is up

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the size is sixty eight pixels the angle

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is a hundred eighty degrees

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and the altitude is 5 degrees the

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highlight mode is colored dodge and its

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opacity is seventy-five percent

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the shadow mode is color burn and its

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opacity is thirty percent

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make the blur layer active

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and go to filter blur and Gaussian blur

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make the radius 15 pixels

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click the FX icon and click bevel emboss

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keep the same settings as you had for

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the dark lair except make the size a

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hundred pixels

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to save space in the layers panel let's

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collapse the effects

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make the dark layer active click the

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adjustment layer icon and click black

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white

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I did an in-depth tutorial on the black

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white adjustment layer so if you'd like

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to watch it I provided its link in my

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video's description below in the

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properties panel open the preset list

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and click on each preset to see how it

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affects your image

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for this example I'll use the blue

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filter preset to adjust a particular

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color component select the on image

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adjustment tool icon the area that you

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click on corresponds to that specific

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color of your image in this example i'd

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like to brighten the irises of the eyes

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so i'll click on an iris and drag the

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tool to the left or right which makes

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that specific color darker or brighter

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in the image since the eyes are light

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blue you'll notice that the cyan slider

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automatically slides to the right as I

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drag the tool to the right next we'll

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create a dark soft thin yet on both

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sides of our image which helps to focus

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our attention to the center of the face

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make a new layer

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and open your gradient tool make sure

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the linear gradient icon is active and

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open your gradient presets click the

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black to transparent box and click on

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the left edge of your document press and

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hold shift as you drag the tools

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straight across approximately this far

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and release go to the right edge and

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again press and hold shift as you drag

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the tool to the left approximately the

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same distance

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reduce its opacity to sixty percent this

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is Marty from Blue Lightning TV thanks

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for watching