Since this region is a square let’s do this the easy way – with the Rectangular Marquee Tool.įirst add a layer mask to our polaroid frame layer by first clicking on the layer in the layers palette to make it active and afterwards by going to Layer > Layer Mask > Reveal All. Let’s get rid of the black region where the actual photo is supposed to be.
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Press Ctrl + T to enter Free Transform (basically when in free transform you can position and resize your layer freely by dragging from the corner handles – holding shift while dragging will resize the layer proportionally) and resize/position the polaroid frame as shown in the picture below: Select all by pressing Ctrl + A, copy ( Ctrl + C) and paste the frame into our scene by pressing Ctrl + V. Inside you should find an already cut out polaroid frame with shadows already added. Open the file “ Polaroid” with Photoshop. Your scene should look like the photo below. Drag the left slider towards the center to darken the image and boost the contrast at the same time. Let’s further adjust the color of our wood background layer by making it darker.Ĭreate a new Curves Adjustment Layer by going to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Curves. The color of the wood is a bit too intense and may prove distracting in our final scene so let’s tone it down a bit.Ĭreate a new Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer ( Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation) and drag the saturation slider to -64. This will be our background for the polaroid photos.
Go back to our newly created document and press Ctrl + V to paste. Select all by pressing Ctrl + A and copy by pressing Ctrl + C. Let’s start by creating a new document 1503×1362 by pressing Ctrl + N.