LOA: How Did You Do That?

[chamiletart]

Here's a tutorial on how I made this wallpaper. I use Pixelmator, which is a wonderful program for the Mac, but I think it translates pretty well with Photoshop. I know I can open .psds with Pixelmator, so I think they're pretty compatible.:



I will be recreating it, so it may end up looking slightly different. For this wallpaper, I used images of Kurt that all had a similar brown tone to them.

1. I started with a large screencap.



2. I duplicated the layer and desaturated the image.



3. I added a layer mask and selected the rectangle tool. On the masked layer, I drew a rectangle over a portion of Kurt's face. I used the paint bucket to color in the rectangle with black. This revealed a rectangular portion of the colored picture beneath.



4. Next I copied and pasted a smaller picture of Kurt in the upper left corner. This image I also duplicated and desaturated.



5. Once again, I added a layer mask, drew a rectangle and colored it in with black using the paint bucket.



6. I added a third picture at the bottom and repeated the procedure again.



7. Finally, I added the text Kurt Hummel, font Zapfino, size 96. I used the dropper tool to color it the same as Kurt's hair.




Here is the finished product (click for larger).

Comments

[sgafirenity.livejournal.com]

This is really good. Congrats for being one of the very few you actually did the challenge and didn't use a Golden Ticket at all.

[chamilet]

Thank you! I almost didn't do it and just used my Golden Ticket. But I really need to save that in case I can't do the upcoming .gif challenge with Pixelmator. I didn't think I had anything interesting to do a tutorial on, then I made this wallpaper for the Alphabetize Me game and BINGO!

[sgafirenity.livejournal.com]

Just because I asked for a header to be made does not mean it'll be used this phase. That GIF challenge may not happen till Phase 6. I mean I've had headers for challenges that the original mod of Land of Art gave me when I took over at the end of Phase 3. :P

[chamilet]

But for some reason I seem to be trying for 100% participation this round, so I need to save it for something I might not be able to do.