From the course: Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: Photography
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Emulating a retro image transfer effect - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: Photography
Emulating a retro image transfer effect
- [Narrator] Before I started shooting digitally, one of my favorite alternate processes, involved taking Polaroid images and then transferring them to paper before the emulsion dried. So today we're going to use a scan of some of the edges that I've created in the past, and we'll soften the image and add a bit of a texture, to achieve a similar look. In this document I've got the salt flats image, as well as this scanned edge. I want to set the blend mode to multiply, in order to maintain those black edges, but when I do that, we can see the image in the center, and we no longer can see the white around it. So let me just undo that using Command + Z, for just a moment. And I'll switch to the lasso tool, it's going to be easier if I select the polygonal lasso tool, and then I'm just going to click around the edges here, in order to select the previous image, so that we can mask that. So on the Layers panel, I'll hold…
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