Tutorial 12 – Popping Out of a Picture

Found on the internet by Justin Soulliere (2007)

Major edits made by Mr. Campeau (2012)

This tutorial will make an aspect of a photo seem like it is popping out of a frame. It will look like this:

STEP 1

Find a picture where it will look natural for something to be coming out of the picture - in this case I am using this picture of an iguana!

STEP 2
Duplicate the layer so you have two layers that are the picture.



STEP 3

Create a new layer. Double click on the layer name to rename it. Call it “Temporary”.

STEP 4

On the temporary layer, draw lines such as shown below.

Note: The layers with the Iguana were made invisible for this so that you can better see what was done.

STEP 5

Use the magic wand to select inside your shape.

STEP 6

Create a new layer. Call it “Shape”.

STEP 7

You should now be on the new layer with the selection of your shape. Using the Paint Bucket tool, fill your selection with Black.

STEP 8

Delete the layer called “Temporary” that contains the lines.

Note: The view below shows the shape along with the iguana layers made visible.

STEP 9

If the shape is not in the exact location that you want, you can move it at this point.

Here are the steps to do so:

-Hit CTRL-D to get rid of any selection,

-Click on the Shape layer,

-Use the blue arrow tool (Move Selected Pixels) to drag and drop the shape to a new location

STEP 10

CONTINUE WITH THE ORIGINAL TUTORIAL HERE…

Select the black box and then select the second picture layer. Invert the selection and hit delete so all that remains is the picture that is in the shape of the box.



Move this layer above the black box layer. Then select the black box layer and use the magic wand to select the box. You can then use the "move selection" tool to elongate the box so that it creates a white frame around the picture.



Once this is done you can then merge these two layers together so you should now have a layer that has the whole picture on it and one that has a framed out chunk of the picture.



Move the whole picture layer on top of the framed picture layer and then hit F4 and change the opacity to 150. This will allow you to see the framed picture underneath the whole picture to use as a guide.



Then use the lasso tool to select the parts that are out of the picture, making sure that you are going all the way to the picture so that none of the white line shows. You can hold down CTRL and select more than one area - on this I selected the head and the foot.



Once you have the sections selected, invert the selection and delete everything else in teh top layer. Then go in and change the opacity of the layer back to 255.



On mine I then flattened out the image and changed the background to black so you could see the white border of the picture better.



And again, here is the finished product.



Best of luck

This tutorial was taken from the following url:

http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=5087

The author’s name is unknown. The author’s alias is spongey437.

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