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Photoshop loves to turn things grey, but that's very handy! Blacks and whites aren't very helpful when trying to overlay colours and other special effects.
- Make a new layer, place it above 'cutout' and name it 'texture 1'
- Fill 'texture 1' with a colour, and use noise and motion blur to generate a texture
Everything below the texture is now hidden - enter clipping groups!
- Place the pointer on the line that separates 'texture 1' and 'cutout' in the layers palette
- Hold down the Alt key - the cursor icon should change to an arrow with two circles
- Click on the line to clip 'texture 1' to 'cutout'
Clipping groups are very cool. You can have more than one layer in a clipping group, just keep Alt Clicking! We have lost our cut in effect so we'll use layer modes to get it back.
- Make 'texture 1' active
- Change the layer mode to multiply or overlay
- Make a new layer, place it above 'emboss' and name it 'texture 2'
- Fill 'texture 2' with colour, noise and blur
- Change the layer mode of 'texture 2' to multiply or emboss
- Experiment with other layer modes
You can use third party plugins like Extensis Phototools to create a 'cut in' look, but doing it manually is heaps more fun, plus it gives you full control and understanding of the effect. |
