Filling an Image with Other Images
Tutorial in Advanced, Effects, In Photos
We will fill in an image with several images or, at least, with several copies of them. If you see the image from far away, you will see the face of a person. As you get closer, you will realize there are several images inside the picture. You can apply the effect with a family picture or with your friend’s. No matter what picture you choose, you will have some fun.
This will be the main image.
Then we will add these pictures:
Select ((Crop Tool)). You will crop the black kid image. Press enter.
The image will be cut according to the selection.
Do the same with the other pictures. Before doing this, go to ((Crop Tool)) and, in the option menu, choose: Width 50px and Height 50px.
Now select only the face. After pressing enter, you will see that the image is cut and the size is 50 x 50px.
Repeat the step with the other girl’s image.
It should also be 50 x 50px.
Open a new Photoshop document (100×100px and white background).
Merge invisible everything but the new document and one of the girls (as shown in the image below). With the girl’s document active, click and drag it into the new document. There will be a new layer created in the new document.
Repeat the previous step with the other girl. Take a look at the image below and see how the ((Layers)) palette is conformed: a layer with a white background and two layers with the girls’ faces.
Duplicate the layers (Ctrl + J) and arrange them so that they look like the ones in the image below.
Unify the layers. Go to ((Layer))-((Flatten Image)).
Then ((Image))-((Adjustment))-((Desaturate)).
Save this image as ((Pattern)). Go to ((Edit))-((Define Pattern)), name it and save it.
Go back to the kid’s layer.
Create a ((new layer)) and place it over the background.
Go to ((Edit))-((Fill)), select the ((Pattern)) you had just saved (generally, it is on top of the list). Click OK.
It should look like this. There’s still something wrong; the main face cannot be seen. In order to fix the issue, change the blending mode to ((Overlay)).
Great! The tutorial is finished.
