Ghost dogs Playing poker (ghosting any image in a scene is the same)

REQUIREMENTS:

larger version on my website:
http://nightmareinshiningarmour.com/recent/displayimage.php?pos=-165


I used photoshop CS2, but any recent version will be the same with similar icons.
1 Picture to ghost something in it.

note: I have a PC if you have a MAC when you see CTRL it is the CMD button. I didn't want to repeat myself a million times. Put a sticker on that key if you can't remember. It is your punishment for me not being rich enough to have a mac :)



Shown here are the original dog playing poker which is PRE 1923 and thus public domain in America. So no copyright issues.
Also the room reconstructed empty, the tools we will use and the final ghost dogs playing poker





We will tackle this in two steps.

First we will reconstruct the room as if there were no dogs, everything currently behind a

dog we have to create by finding something similar in the picture, and cloning it into the

area currently holding dog image.

We then use a layer on the top of the layer palette that is the original, and select out

the dogs and their equipment turn it blue lower the opacity and paste it onto the empty

room as see through ghosts.

very cool no?


You can do this with any image, ghost people, ghost plants, ghost cars on a

street...whatever you want. Create an empty scene, select the ghost subject and blue and

low opacity Instant ghost.


So start reconstructing everything you can't see:

Step 1: Start At the front. Velvet Chair seats.

Chair Seats
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The velvet chair seats are tough so do them first. We have only a little bit visible in

the front chair brown dog


That little triangle will be our source from the 4 visible chairs.

We start by using the polygon select tool to select the area outlining where the seats

would show if the dogs left. (basically 4 sort of trapezoid shapes.

Use the clone tool

press and hold ALT and click the middle of the red seat that is the source.

start painting tiny areas into the selected trapezoid shapes until you have red velvet

everywhere you need it.

Repeat cloning in little pieces carefully. Hiding the dogs.

When you are done.OPen the BURN TOOL

Set the burn tool to a small fuzzy brush like 17 or less by clicking on the brush size

arrow and sliding or selecting a preset

Make sure the red velvet layer is selected still

Use th burn tool to go over any areas that are in shadow to darken them

Burn along the very lip of the seat to show the 3D effect of the cushion


Go back to the main source and use the Clone stamp to fill in any wood that is missing on

the lower legs, and black out anything in shadow using the shadowed areas as sources.

open clone tool

ALT and click the source

paint as needed to fill in holes with wood and cover the dogs as much as possible in the

lower dark part under the table.

Comments

[Tygerson]

Great tutorial! For some reason I really like the shot of the empty room.

[Penolopy Bulnick]

This looks really good! It really shows how much time you put into it. I also really like that you made the cards and chips ghostlike. It makes it really seem like the whole thing isn't really there and not just the dogs. Bravo :)

[Sovereignty]

Reminds me of the Haunted Mansion ghosts at Disney. Definitely put some work into the Instructable, too. Looks really awesome.

[Penolopy Bulnick]

Have you entered this in the Photo Editing Challenge? If not, I really think you should.

[solipsism]

my second kick at the prize....fingers crossed.