Photoshop: $100 bill
Photoshop Image
1. Before opening the program, install the Legal font.
2. Open the $100 bill.
a. Using the Ellipse Tool and holding down Alt, or the Magnetic Lasso Tool, make an elliptical selection of the image.
b. You can use a quick mask to correct any edges.
c. Select/Save Selection.
d. Save a new channel as an Alpha channel named Franklin.
3. Create a transparent layer called Ellipse and fill it with 50% gray.
4. Press the D key.
5. Filter/Filter Gallery/Sketch/Halftone Pattern. Size 1, Contrast 50, Pattern Line.
6. Delete the name Franklin.
a. Use the Eyedropper Tool to sample the background color of the bill.
b. Make a selection around the text.
c. Edit/Fill/Foreground Color.
7. Text
a. Type the person's name using the Legal font. 8. Sample the ink color using the eyedropper tool from the Font Color window.
9. Open the photo of our model.
10. Select the background with the Magic Wand tool or erase it with the Background Eraser tool.
11. Switch to Quick Mask to correct the background. Then exit the mask.
12. Unlock the background by double-clicking the background layer (the padlock icon) and pressing Delete. The background will now be transparent.
13. Select/Deselect
14. Crop tool. Size and Resolution. Crop to 8x8 cm at 300 dpi resolution. Press Enter.
15. Image / Adjustments / Desaturate
16. Add a transparent layer.
17. Edit / Fill the layer with 50% gray.
18. Press the D key to make the foreground color black.
19. Filter / Filter Gallery. Sketch. Halftone Pattern.
a. Size: 1
b. Contrast: 50
c. Pattern Type: Lines
19. Filter/Distort/Wave
20. CTRL+CLICK on the thumbnail of the layer below to create the silhouette of the extracted figure. Create a mask on the pattern layer.
21. Duplicate it with CTRL+J
22. Unlock the top mask (chains), rotate it 90º, and change the blending mode to Overlay on both pattern layers.
23. Hide the background. CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+E to leave only one layer with everything.
24. Copy onto the banknote.
25. Merge the two layers: the one of our model with the background ellipse. CTRL+E to combine them.
26. Change the color with a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. Check the Colorize box and change the values to: Hue 95/ Saturation 8/ Lightness -3
27. Load the Legal font into the fonts and write the name of the person chosen for the photo.