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Design a Professional Laptop Using Photoshop Tutorial

Final Image:

Here is the final image that we will be creating:

Step 1:

Open up a new document 1000px wide and 600px high. Then paste an image of a laptop into

your document. Create a new layer set called laptop and put the layer containing your laptop

image into this layer set.


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Step 2:

Now I want to create a vanishing point for the screen of the laptop. Many Photoshop users,

including myself, dont yet have Photoshop CS2 or CS3, so this tutorial wont utilize the useful

vanishing point filter available in these versions. Instead, were going to manually create a fake

vanishing point.Select the screen part of your laptop using the lasso tool. Then copy your selection, create a new

photoshop document, and paste in the selection. Go to image>image size and double whatever

your image size is. In this case the original screen was 204px wide, so I simply doubled this to

408px.


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Then paste this new larger screen back into your original document. Positioning it roughly where

you think it looks good in terms of perspective.

Step 3:

Now select your line tool and a nice bright color for it and draw lines each corner of your

large screen through to the matching corner of the original screen and past to a vanishing

point. Do this with each corner of the laptop screen, until you have something like theimage below:


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Step 4:

Now duplicate your larger laptop screen and select edit>free transform. Then in the menu

near the top of your screen (see diagram below) change the W (width) and H (height)

percentages from 100% to 90%.

Move this resized image so that it matches up with the perspective lines that you created

earlier. Be sure to place this resized screen layer behind the largest screen layer but aboveyour original laptop photo layer.

Repeat this process of duplicating/resizing/aligning using the resizing percentages of 80%,

70%, and 60% from your large screen layer. Remember that your original laptop photo is

50% of this large screen layer.

This is how your image should look after you have created this new screens and lined them

up correctly:


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Step 5:

Now create a new layer set called photo 1. Paste in the image that you want to manipulate.

View a grid over your image and then use the free transform tool to resize your photo to fit

nicely into the grid squares. Make sure that the photo fits into an even number of grid squares for

its height and width. In this example the photo is resized to be 8 grid squares wide and 6 high.


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Step 6:

Now duplicate your photo layer, as you want to retain a copy. Be sure to hide the duplicate layer

and go back to your original. Select your single column marquee tool from your selection palette

(its under the Rectangle and Elliptical marquee tools). Using your grid click the grid line that

marks the center point of your image and delete a central 1px column. Then switch to the single

row marquee tool and do the same to delete a 1px line across the center of your image. You want

these lines to be a little larger than 1px though, so grab your magic wand tool and click

somewhere outside of your photo image. This will select all of the area surrounding the photo,

but also the 1px lines cutting through it. Then go to select>modify>expand and expand the

selection by 3px. Then hit delete to achieve an effect like the image below:

Step 7:

Now hide all of your duplicate laptop screens except the smallest one (the one that is 60%

of the size of your largest). With your photo layer selected (the one youve just cut up using

the grid) go to edit>transform>distort and distort the photo so that it fits exactly over thissmallest laptop screen image. To fit it well you make need to reduce the layers opacity to

allow the screen underneath to show though. The image below shows the transformed

photo layer at 57% opacity, allowing some of the screen underneath to show through. Be

sure to move this photo layer below the next largest laptop screen layer, so that it is mostly


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covered by it.

Step 8:

Now go back to your original photo layer. Duplicate it again, and using the same technique asbefore with the single row/column marquee tools cut it into 2X2 squares using the grid. As the

image is 8 squares wide and 6 high, this will result in 12 squares each 4 grid squares in size.

Again, use your magic wand tool to select the area around the photo and the lines cutting throughit, then expand your selection by 3px and hit delete. Then use the distort transform tool to fit

your new image to the 2nd smallest laptop screen. Remember again to move this photo layerbehind the next largest laptop screen layer. The image below shows the result of this, with the

photo layer again at 57% to allow me to nicely fit it to the screen image beneath.


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Step 9:

Now repeat these steps, but make your squares half the size each time. So using the grid that will

then be 1X1, 1/2X1/2, 1/4X1/4. To cut the photo into 1/2 and 1/4 grid square pieces I wouldrecommend just using your judgement, but if you want to be really picky you can use rulers.

Another tip is to duplicate the photo after cutting it into the squares, as this will save you having

to repeat the slicing process right from the start each time.


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Step 10:

Here is the same image but with all duplicate laptop screen image layers hidden and all photo

layers with 100% opacity.

Step 11:

Now is the time-consuming part. Hide all of your photo layers except for your smallest photo

layer. Use your magic wand tool set at 255 tolerance to select entire squares and delete them to

leave a checkerboard effect. To do this simply go down each column deleting squares, being sure

to leave a square remaining between each two that you delete. Then move onto the next column

and repeat, but make sure that no squares you delete are next to an already deleted square,

deleted squares should be diagonal to each other. The image below shows the various stages of

doing this with each photo layer:


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Step 12:

You should still have your original photo layer, as it was duplicated for safe keeping near the

start of the tutorial. Duplicate the layer again, and move it so that it is the first layer above your

laptop image layer. Then go to edit>transform>distort and fit the photo nicely over the laptop

screen. Then hide all of your vanishing point guidelines and make sure that all of yourcheckerboard photo layers are visible. Seeing as all these layers are within the same layer set

select the layer set and drag it to make the graphic more central in your document.

Step 13:

Right click on one of your photo squares layers and click blending options. Apply the drop

shadow settings shown below. Then once this has been applied right click on the drop

shadow shown inyour layers palette, select copy layer style and

paste the layer style to all of your other photo squares layers.

The outcome is shown below:


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Step 14:


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Now create a new layer set below your laptop/photos layer set called background. Hide your

laptop/photos layer set. Create a new layer and fill it with a white to light gray radial blur.

Step 15:

Paste a metal texture onto a new layer above your radial gradient layer and reduce its opacity to

20% for a subtle textured effect.


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Step 16:

Now create some bendy lines across your background using the pen tool. Be sure to have a white

1px brush selected and then once you have created your bendy pen line right click on it and

select stroke path. Then simply duplicate your line layer until you have multiple white lines

across your background. I merged all of my line layers together and reduced the merged layeropacity to 30% for a more subtle effect.

And were done!


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To finish things off I added some cool text. Click the image below if you want the full sized

version.
http://psd.fanextra.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/screenfinalfullsize.jpg

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