- In this movie, we're gonna integrate
a second photograph into our logo,
specifically the ever famous horse head nebula,
and because we're gonna need to scale and rotate the image,
we'll do so using a Smart Object.
So the first thing you need to do
is make sure your Rectangular Marquee tool's selected,
and then right click inside the image window
and choose Duplicate Layer.
Then, I'll go ahead and switch my document
to my progress so far, which is called fullofstars.psd,
and I'll go ahead and call this New Layer "nebula," like so,
and then I'll click OK,
and then I'll switch back to that image,
at which point I'll see the nebula like so.
Now notice if I switch the Blend Mode to Screen
at this point so I can see through the image.
It's not quite large enough
to entirely cover our logo,
so as I was saying, I need to scale and rotate it.
Any time you're thinking of scaling an image,
however, inside Photoshop, or rotating it for that matter,
you'll want to convert it to a Smart Object,
but you want to do so before you apply a Blend Mode.
So go ahead and switch the Blend Mode back to Normal,
if you're working along with me,
and then right click inside the image window
and this time choose Convert to Smart Object
to convert your nebula layer into a Smart Object,
and you can see that it is
by the appearance of this little page icon
in the lower right corner of that layer thumbnail.
Now at this point, you can go ahead
and switch the Blend Mode back to Screen,
so that way the Screen Blend Mode isn't baked
into the Smart Object.
All right, now, go up to the Edit menu
and choose the Free Transform command,
and because we're working with a Smart Object,
this is gonna be a non-destructive modification.
Now, I'll drag outside the transform boundary
in order to rotate this layer,
and I'm gonna zoom out as well,
and I'll Shift Alt or Shift Option drag
one of the corner handles
in order to scale the layer proportionally,
that's why the Shift key is down,
and outward from its center,
that's why the Alt or Option key is down.
Now, I just happen to know that I want to apply
some specific values up here in the Options bar,
so I'm gonna start by clicking on the little link
between the width and height values,
and then I'll change either the width or the height value
to 126%, like so,
and then we want the angle to be 30 degrees,
just like the rocket,
but it's positive 30 degrees here inside Photoshop
as opposed to negative 30 degrees inside Illustrator.
Now, I also happen to know the coordinate positions
for the center of this layer,
so make sure the center point is selected
in the reference point matrix,
and then change the X value to 1677
and change the Y value to 1439.
So, some pretty specific coordinates,
at which point, I'll now press the Enter key,
or the Return key on the Mac,
a couple of times in a row
in order to apply that change,
and then I'll zoom back in.
Now, you may notice that once again
the nebula is exceeding the top portion of the logo.
So, I'm gonna grab that vector base mask right there
that's associated with the galaxy layer,
and I'm gonna copy it by pressing the Alt key,
or the Option key on the Mac,
and dragging that vector mask onto the nebula layer,
and that will then mask the nebula
inside the top portion of the logo.
All right, now we want to increase the contrast
of this layer specifically,
so I'll go ahead and click on the nebula layer,
then go up to the Layer menu, choose New Adjustment Layer,
and choose Levels, and that will force a display
of the New Layer Dialog Box.
I'll go ahead and call this layer "contrast,"
and very important, I need to turn on
the "Use Previous Layer to Create Clipping Mask" check box
and click OK.
Now, I'll go ahead and click in this black point value
here inside the Properties Panel,
and I'll press Shift up arrow three times in a row
in order to raise that value to 30,
and then I'll press the Tab key twice
to advance to the white point value,
and I'll press Shift down arrow a bunch of times
until I arrive at a value of 175,
and now I'll close the Properties Panel,
and so just to give you a sense of what we've done here,
I'll turn off that layer,
and you can see that we have a kind of weak effect
at this point, and then I'll turn the layer back on
in order to really bring out the edges of that nebula.
All right, now at this point,
I think I've gone a little bit too far.
So I'm gonna once again brush away
portions of the effect by creating a new layer,
so I'll press Control Shift N,
or Command Shift N on the Mac,
and I'm gonna call this new layer "dark down"
because I'm gonna darken the lower portion of the effect,
and once again I'll turn on the check box
"Use Previous Layer to Create Clipping Mask,"
that way everything we do will be masked
inside of that vector mask
that's assigned to the nebula layer,
and now I'll click OK.
Next, you'll want to select the Brush tool.
Again, you can get that by pressing the B key.
Make sure your foreground color is set to black.
If it isn't, press the D key
in order to reinstate the default colors,
and then I'm gonna click up here
toward the top of the rocket,
actually kind of just right there in the middle
of the top portion of that rocket
in order to brush that effect away.
And notice, even though we're brushing with black,
because the nebula layer is set to the Screen Mode,
black forces that portion of the layer to disappear.
So we're not really brushing in black,
we're brushing in invisibility,
and now I'll just go ahead and paint along the bottom
of the ring, like so,
and then, I'll reduce the size of my brush a little bit
and click over here in the left hand ring,
and then I'll paint just a little bit over here
in the right hand ring as well.
All right, now you may want to paint in
just a little more here and there
just to back off the effect a bit.
I don't like, however, the fact that this star
right there is turning sorta gray,
so I'm gonna erase the whole in my blackness right there
using the Eraser tool, which you can get
by pressing the E key,
and then I'm going to right click inside the image window,
and I'm gonna crank this size value up to,
let's say 200 pixels,
and I'm gonna take the Hardness value down to 0%,
you want a nice, soft brush.
And then, I'm gonna press the right bracket key
a couple of times in order to increase
the size of that cursor a little bit,
and I'll just click right there on the star
in order to bring it back,
and I may click at a few other locations
to bring back some effects as well.