So now we have all of our images on the canvas and our sports scene is beginning to take shape but we need to add a little more to make the scene really stand out. You should be left with something like this:Ĩ. We’ve found a nice little image of Flintoff celebrating with his team mates, so let’s use this.Ĭut out the image in the same way we did to the main image, remembering to fade any hair off slightly. We still have a lot of space left on our Sports Scene so let’s try and find a suitable image to use as a secondary image. You may also want to modify the levels on this image to make it that little bit sharper.ħ. Once complete you should be left with something like this: Once you’ve tidied your image up, you may also want to go around the players hairline with the faded rubber tool to smooth the edges of the hair off. I usually make the background layer a garish colour to make sure I can see the sides of the light image clearly like so: Select your rubber tool and begin going around the image making sure there are no traces of the background we’ve cut out. Now we have our image roughly cut out, lets tidy it up by rounding off corners and making sure there aren’t any jagged edges etc. You should be left with something resembling this:Ħ.
Don’t worry about being accurate to the pixel, we can round corners off etc once we have the image cut out. A lot of people use the pen tool but I prefer to use the polygonal lasso tool then fine tune with the rubber tool.
Let’s use an image of the England cricketer Andrew Flintoff for our main image: This makes the image a little more saturated and will help the foreground image we use stand out.ĥ. This will open up your levels options, change them to the levels in the screenshot below (or until you find something you think looks good): Make sure your image layer is selected and click ‘Image > Adjustments > Levels…’ This looks better but it’s not sharp enough, so let’s take a look at editing the levels on this to make it a little sharper. This will change your image to black and white:Ĥ. There are several ways of doing this but I prefer to change the Layer style to ‘Luminosity’ like so: So, lets make it black and white so it distracts the eye a little less. OK, so we have our background on the canvas but it’s a little too bright to use as a background and may distract from our main image we are going to use. I’ve found a nice high quality image of a cricket crowd cheering which I’ll use as my background, insert it onto your canvas using good old ‘copy and paste’ or alternatively save it to your desktop and import it in using ‘File > Place’.ģ. Seeing as though it’s the ashes soon, let’s use cricket as an example. Find a large picture that will make a suitable setting for a sports background such as fans waving or some nice stadium imagery. Open Photoshop and create a canvas 630px by 340pxĢ. We will be using Photoshop to create the image (sorry Fireworks fans) so without further ado, here we go…ġ. It’s tutorial time, we will be looking at creating a nice little sports graphic (finished image below) although the methods used can be applied to many other settings and scenes.
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