How to Make a Blueprint Effect in Photoshop
In today's tutorial, we are going to learn how to create a Blueprint Effect in Photoshop from a given image.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:25 Outline the Subject
02:26 Desaturate
02:37 Find Edges
02:55 Create a Blue Background
03:23 Add Stroke
03:51 Create Grid Pattern
How to do blueprint effect in Photoshop:
1. Outline the subject.
Grab the Pen Tool. Make sure Path and Combine Shapes is chosen from the menu in the options bar.
Use The Pen Tool to trace around the subject.
Start by clicking once to place an initial anchor point.
Continue clicking to set anchor points to create a path.
Close the path by position the Pen tool over the first anchor point.
Click or drag to close the path.
Ctrl+Enter to turn the path into a selection.
Copy the selection onto its own layer by going to Layer-New-Layer via copy (or press Ctrl+J).
You can hide the Background layer by clicking on the eye icon on the left.
2. Desaturate the drawing layer.
Choose Image-Adjustments-Desaturate.
3. Apply Find Edges filter.
Choose Filter-Stylize-Find Edges.
Invert the Drawing Layer (Image-Adjustments-Invert).
4. Create a Blue Background.
Choose Layer-New-Layer to create a new layer. Move the new layer just below the drawing layer.
Fill the New layer with Blue. Choose a foreground or background color by clicking on the foreground/background box.
Choose the Blue color then click OK. Choose Edit-Fill (Shift+F5).
In this dialog box, under Contents, select whether to fill with the foreground or the background color.
Select the drawing layer in the Layers panel and change its blend mode to Screen.
5. Add a Stroke Layer Style.
Choose Layer-Layer Style-Stroke.
Choose the White color, stroke size, Position Inside. Click OK.
6. Create the Grid pattern.
Create a new document for the grid pattern at around 50 x 50 pixels in size,
resolution 72 pixels and white Background contents.
Choose Layer-New-Layer from Background to unlock the Background layer.
Create a white border by 1 pixel. Choose Select-All then choose Select-Modify-Border.
Enter 1 pixels for width then click OK.
Invert the selection by choosing Select-Inverse.
Press the Delete key to delete everything inside the selection.
Choose Select-Deselect to remove the selection.
Go to Edit-Define Pattern. Name it like 'Blueprint Grid'.
Create a New Layer for the Grid Pattern.
Choose Layer-New-Layer (Shift+Ctrl+N).
Leave the default settings and click OK.
Fill the new layer with the Grid Pattern.
Choose Edit-Fill. Select Pattern in Use drop-down menu.
In the Custom Pattern, choose the grid pattern we previously created.
Adjust its opacity if necessary, in the Layers panel.