Film Strip Photo Display Tutorial
Here is a nice way to display your photos for scrapbooking or displaying on your website.
Film Strip Photo Display Tutorial
For this film strip photo display tutorial a couple of free resources are required, links are given after this intro. This is an easy tutorial using some unusual Photoshop tools such as the Warp transform tool. If you encounter any problems, please feel free to drop a comment and I will help if I can. Enjoy!
Resources:
- Film Strip from CleanPNG
- Wood Texture from Photo Mix on Pixabay
Step 1
Open the Film Strip image.
Select the Crop Tool, and crop from the left side to about 1540px.
Step 2
Open the Wood Texture image and select Image > Image Rotation > 90° Clockwise.
Click on the padlock on the right in the layers palette to unlock the layer.
Ctrl+T to transform the object.
Right click anywhere on the image and select Perspective.
Click on the top left handle and drag inwards to 8.6°
Right click anywhere on the image and select Free Transform
Click on the top middle handle, hold down the Shift key and drag down to H:2445.
Image > Image Size – set to Width: 2866px, click OK.
Ctrl+T – hold down the Shift key and drag the image from either the top middle handle down, or the bottom middle handle up to about 1055px height.
Step 3
Create a new image: 1540px x 1022px
Drag the wood texture into the new image and move it to fill the background.
Now drag the film strip into the same image and place as shown below, rename the layer filmstrip:
Step 4
Make sure the filmstrip layer is active.
Select the Magic Wand Tool and make the following selection – you need to hold down the shift key to add to selection to include the folded back part of the strip:
Hit the Delete key to clear the selection.
Now, with the filmstrip layer active, select the Magic Wand tool and click inside the area you just cleared.
Select > Modify > Expand – set to 3 and click ok.
Create a new layer below the filmstrip layer and fill the selection with white.
Double click on the layer to bring up the blending options and apply the following Gradient Overlay settings:
Step 5
Make the filmstrip layer active and make the following selection using either the Polygonal Lasso Tool or the Pen Tool:
Ctrl+J to copy the selection to a new layer.
Drag this layer below the filmstrip layer.
Now with the filmstrip layer active, make the following selection, using the Magic Wand Tool, holding down the Shift key to add to selection:
Making sure the filmstrip layer is still active, hit the Delete key… NOTE: you won’t see any difference, so turn off the visibility of the layer below to ensure the selection is deleted.
Step 6
Just to tidy up the layers palette, make Layer 3 active, hold down the Shift key and click on Layer 2. Right click on either layer and click Merge Layers. I show my palette below in case your layers don’t have the same names. Rename this newly Merged Layer gradients:
Step 7
Turn off the visibility of the gradient layer.
Open the first photo you want to use. I have used a sunset image from Reimund Bertrams on Pixabay
You need to set the image size to about 400px high (auto width). Drag the photo into the main file below the gradient layer.
Ctrl+T to transform the object. Right click anywhere on the image and click on Warp. Manipulate the photo to follow the curves of the film strip, keeping the perspective as far as possible:
Delete any overlapping parts of the image. It should only fill the square part.
Repeat this step for all 4 photos.
Step 8
Restore the visibility of the gradient layer.
Reduce the opacity to around 30%.
Step 9
Select the Polygonal Lasso Tool and make the following selection, making sure the filmstrip layer is active:
Ctrl+J to copy to a new layer.
Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur – set to 5.2px and click ok.
Move the selection down a little using the arrow keys to create a small shadow.
Reduce the layer opacity to about 92%
Step 10
In the layers palette, click on the top layer (the shadow), hold down the Shift key and click on the bottom photo layer – this should select all the layers except the wood texture and the background layer.
Ctrl+G to group these layers. Name the group filmstrip
If you now wish to add other photos or postcards, for the postcard, I used an image of Segovia, added a 15px white stroke inside, added extra white at the bottom, then used Transform: Perspective as we did with the wood texture.
The polaroid frame was from Photoshop Supply, adding a photo and using the same method of Transform: Perspective.
For both images I added a very small drop shadow.
Image credits:
Seascape from Mate Markovics on Pixabay
Lions from Christine Sponchia on Pixabay
Lighthouse from PIRO4D on Pixabay
