Painting on Wall Photo Manipulation Photoshop Tutorial

Preview of Final Results

 

Step 1 - Create a new image

To begin, let’s create a new file, go to the Menu bar and click on File > New and find the Preset drop-down menu and click on A4 on the contextual menu or you can input the A4 settings manually:

• Width: 2480 pixels
• Height: 3508 pixels
• Resolution: 300 dpi
• Color Mode: RGB Color; 8bit
• Background Contents: White 

We would need a landscape canvas so we would need to rotate the newly created layer; so as the layer opens, go to Image > Rotate Canvas > 90’ CW.

Step 2 - Correct the perspective of our background

In this step, we would be opening “Grotty street stock” to our canvas and we would be fixing its asymmetrical perspective. So open our street stock from the folder you’ve saved it into and drag that image using the Move tool (V) to our A4 canvas.
Take a look at our image you’d notice the lopsided angles on the window and on the street which are produced by the camera, these lopsided angles are often called Barrel Distortion. There are a lot of ways on how to correct barrel distortion on an image, like using the Lens Correction Filter of Photoshop to downloading software that could do that specific job, but on this tutorial we are going to use a simpler way and that is through the use of the Warp and Liquify tool.
Note that you may do as you please, but here we will be learning how to use the Warp transform tool and the Liquify tool in correcting distorted images.
To start duplicate “Grotty street stock” by pressing Ctrl/Cmd + J, this should create a backup when you make mistakes from the transformation. We would need to resize the image since we won’t need the extra window on the left. Activate the Transform tool by right clicking on the image.

 Activate the Transform tool again and as the contextual menu pops up, click on Warp. Once you’ve clicked on it, a grid with 9 squares will form around the image.

 For more precision and accuracy in the Warp process, we would need a measuring tool and that would be Photoshop’s Ruler. Activate the ruler by pressing Ctrl/Cmd + R. We would need to create guides from the ruler to make this process easier. See image below for further instructions:

 We would be starting the Warp process, take a closer look at the images below:

 After that, the image should be similar to the image below:

Note: You may remove the guides by clicking on View > Clear Guides.
Now, you’d notice that the distortion is partially repaired. For the next part, we would be utilizing the Liquify tool. Activate it by pressing Filter > Liquify from the Menu bar. When the box opens input these values on the Tool options bar.

• Brush size: 270
• Brush density: 50
• Brush pressure: 100 

 Lastly, activate your Warp tool because we would need to fix some minor errors.

 Now we’ve finished correcting the distortion and the final result should be similar to the image below:

 For organizational purposes, rename your layer to “background”. To rename, you just have to double click on the text that says “layer 1” and then a Type box would appear and you may now rename it.

Step 3 - Create the street art

Now what we’re going to do on this step is that we would be adding a field which is currently being painted by a painter on the three gray blank walls on our image. To begin, let’s open the field stock image named “Landscape stock 5”.
When the image opens, do not move it to our canvas right away, because we would need to create some adjustment layers first. Let’s create a Solid Color adjustment layer for this image. To do that, click on the Create New Fill layer/ Adjustment layer button found on the bottom of the Layer window.

As soon as the Solid Color box opens, input the following value on the “#” box.

• #: 00001c 

Now you’ll be seeing a dark blue color covering the layer, we wouldn’t want that, so let’s change its Blending Mode by clicking on the Normal drop down menu. Its Blending Mode is currently set to Normal and we would need to set it to Exclusion. You may also change its Blending Mode by double clicking on the layer which would then open the Blending options menu. When this menu opens, you’d find the Blending Options: General Blending tab open, and from there you may change the Blending mode.
Next, let’s add another Solid Color. Input this value:

• #: 4f2c12

Then after you do that, change its Blending mode to Soft Light and its Opacity to 40%. Note: The Opacity is just located to the right of the Blending mode drop down menu on the Layer window.
Next, let’s create a Gradient Map adjustment layer, still from the Create New Fill layer/ Adjustment layer button. When its box opens, click on the Black & White gradient and press OK. (Given your Gradient Maps are set to default)

 When the box closes and the Gradient map is shown on the layer, let’s change its Blending mode to Luminosity and its Opacity to 70%. After that, right click on any layer and click on Flatten Image. Now we can move the Landscape layer to our A4 canvas. Press V and drag our image to the canvas. Activate your Transform tool and resize the landscape stock.

 After resizing it, let’s change its Blending mode to Overlay and its Opacity to 70%.

 Notice that the field image has blended well with the gray walls, but the excess still remains, so we’d have to remove that. Activate your Polygonal Lasso Tool (L) and click on a point where you want to start selecting an area to be removed.

 After deleting all the excess areas of the field stock image, our image should now be similar to this: