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Note: Tutorial Created using Adobe Photoshop
CS2 on a PC with Windows XP.
The ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Puzzled are an
extremely versatile digital scrapbooking product. There are endless
ways you can use this product, and today I will show you one method
of creating the look of a puzzle photo... that's not quite
finished.
First, assemble all the pieces of the puzzle shape you
wish to use. I recommend opening all the pieces and locate piece “A” to
start building your puzzle on. Now locate your piece “B”.
Hold down your Shift key on your keyboard, click your
mouse on piece “B” and drag it over to piece “A”.
Release your mouse. Release the Shift key. This
should place the puzzle piece in exactly the right position. Close
the piece you just moved. Continue with the rest of your pieces.
Save your assembled puzzle with a new name, choosing a file format
that will keep all your layers separate and intact. If you
use PS or PSE, save as a PSD file.
Now select the photo you wish to make into a puzzle, open it,
and drag it into your puzzle document. Resize it if necessary...
you want it to be as close to the full puzzle shape as possible.
It should be on a layer above all the puzzle pieces.
The next step is to duplicate the photo, once for every puzzle
piece. The rectangle template has 12 pieces, so you will
create 12 duplicates of the photo. Right-click on the photo
layer in the Layers Palette. Select "Duplicate Layer."
Drag this duplicated layer above one of the puzzle layers. Keep
duplicating your photo over and over again and placing it above
other pieces of the puzzle, until you have a duplicated photo above
each and every puzzle piece/layer. Your Layers Palette will alternate
puzzle pieces and the photo.
After you have done all your photo duplicating, go through and
right-click on each photo layer and select "Create Clipping
Mask" (or Ctrl+Alt+G for PSCS users or Ctrl+G for
PSE users). You will do this to each and every photo copy, which
will make each photo layer take on the exact shape of the puzzle
piece you are clipping it to.
NOTE: If after doing all the clip
masks you are not happy with the way the photo is displayed as
a puzzle, you can move or resize the photo using the Move Tool
in the Layers Palette, but you MUST link all the photo layers
by Ctrl+Clicking on each photo layer to select, and then
click the “link” icon
at the bottom of the Layers Palette. This will keep all
the photo layers together so you can shift it around.
When you are all done, your photo will look like a puzzle. Save now
with a new file name (keep layers separate, don't flatten or merge
layers).
Now you are ready to move your photo your layout. Select
all of your photo puzzle layers (Shift+Click on the first
layer and then Shift+Click on the last layer to easily select
all), and drag all of them to your layout.
Here's where we will give the “unfinished puzzle” look
to your photo. Look carefully at your photo and decide which pieces
you would like to pull away from the rectangle. Find the puzzle
piece you want to separate and the photo layer clipped to this
piece in your Layers Palette. Select the Move Tool in
your Tools Palette. Hold down your Ctrl key and click on
BOTH the puzzle piece layer and the photo layer that is above the
puzzle piece. Now you can drag out the photo/puzzle shape. With
these pieces still selected in the Layers Palette, you can also
rotate them a bit (click Ctrl+T to rotate the photo/puzzle
a bit), which is what I did to make it a bit more interesting.
That's
it! Apply a ScrapSimple Chipboard Layer Style or play with the
bevels and shadows to get a realistic puzzle look if you like.
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