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This is such a fun effect.... If you are "one eyed" about something here's a great way to show it lol You can get great images to use from Flair buttons, already rounded!

Thank you guys, enjoyed seeing your results and hearing how people enjoy trying it. Just an aside, Tom the Troll, a couple of things that will help.... Your photo is way too big for the forum, might want to save a smaller version for the forum :-) When you look at the negative spaces behind the weaves you will see the doubling of the shadows..... as mentioned in the last steps you need to elminate the doubling by selecting the shape deleting before you flatten your image.

Thanks for the inspiration pdnnoob.... same setting different effect....

Oh Thanks pdnnoob I dont feel quite so stupid now... I love the way yours looks and it certainly opens up different avenues for effects on each strip and the overal effects as well.

Well that would be because I love reinventing the wheel! Or probably truthfuly that I had no idea there was such a thing! Sorry... cant see where to remove the post now.... how do I do that?

This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it I came across this technique and decided to have a go at it in pdn. I love the results and thought you might too! Your result should be this First thing we will do is open our image and add a new layer. To this layer we are going to add a grid (render...grid). This grid should be even across the image and start and end gridlines at all edges. You need to mark your grid to show foreground only. I try and keep the grid lines to a managable level but you can use as many as you wish. Using this grid we are going to copy strips of vertical and horizontal rows and columns into new layers. Having your active layer on the original image and using the grid as a guide, copy and paste double strips into new layers. In between each double strip leave a single strip. Each new strip will need to be labeled vertical strip 1...2 etc, same for horizontal. You will end up with layers looking like this. When you have all your strips you will need to add a drop shadow to each in turn. Width I used is 7 and Blur 10 with axis both on zero. Change this according to your personal preferences. (On doing more of these I can see you can merge all the vertical strips into 1 layer and the horizontal as well, this will give you less layers to struggle with) After you have applied all your drop shadows you will have something resembling this. This is where you will have to select sections from each strip to copy and paste into new layers over the top of the opposing layer. I like to start at the focal point and choose a section on a horizontal layer to lay over a vertical layer. Copy from the horizontal layer and then paste into a new layer postioned above the appropriate vertical layer. (These "over strips" can also be placed in one layer at the top of your layer list if you wish) Do this as you look at your image alternating an under over weave pattern. When copying choose rectangle select and start and end in the middle of the cut out squares. You will notice that each time you paste a section over that part of the drop shadow duplicates along with it. Clean this up by cutting away excess shadow sections. You can then flatten your image and add a background layer colour etc or as I did a border around the image. Have fun.

I love this woven effect too.

Just trying this out, works very well. Added a bevel edge to each section as well. Thanks :-)

Hey there, wanted to share some of my outcomes with the pdn community and grab some feedback. Hope you like my work as I love delighting over the amazing creations people share in here. Thanks :-) The popping out technique really lends itself to some photos and I just cannot resist... and along the same lines, the object doesnt always have to pop "out" I kinda liked this "jumping in"

Or this one! uh oh I am hooked again

Had done some of these before and decided to revisit and do some more. Never fails to impress to me... but then it doesnt always take much lol

YES! Thank you it's almost what I need.... but it's for an image not for text, I also need the curl in the book on both sides of the image and in reverse if you know what I mean. For example I want to place MY image over the one below:

Hey guys, Am wondering if anyone has a solution to my question. I have jpg images I want to appear like open book pages. I dont want just a corner turning along one edge but to have the image look like an open book page. Can anyone help please?

OK see if I can explain in this... say my picture has a child on the beach much like the sample I posted earlier.... and the mask is the same as the one used. How can I "move" the mask over the part of the picture I want it to show. ie not chop her head off. When I downloaded that particular mask and open it as a separate image, it opens as just the one image.... yet when I open the same mask over the alpha masked picture it suddenly turns into 8 masks.... all on the one photo. I am sure this has something to do with the size of each image... does that sound right? Do they have to be the same size? Some of the masks dont show up at all.... is there a rule of type of file accepted... or does the mask have to be the same size as the image you want to cover? Just made another discovery which probably wasnt helping me, some of the masks are not black/white but a png with no colour so when I filled in with white they worked. Yippeee I am making headway :-) OK figured out a way to do it... which I am sure is a long winded route to achieve the same effect by opening the mask then adding the photo in another layer to get positioning and size right, then delete the mask and apply as per your method. Am a happy and relieved girl. You are a champion to persevere with me, thanks.

OMG the penny has dropped!!! I finally get it Myrddin thank you heaps. but..... you knew this was going to happen didnt you lol. OK my individual mask now comes up 8 fold when I choose the mask and I dont know how to manipulate it to fit over the part of the picture I want or to make it only appear once. I tried playing with the size of the mask and applying but then lost it altogther. Any tips there for me?

At the risk of looking like a complete moron here.......... I dont see how this makes the transformation from mask to photo! I want this : to become this: The white background on the mask disappears and the photo "attaches" itself to the mask (or black sections). I cant see the corelation between the video tutorial and an end result.

I do have curves and curves+ and I still dont know how to apply the steps you posted.... sorry. This is an example of how it is explained on a tutorial for Photoshop that I find easy to understand but cannot "translate" into pdn. The instructions for using these masks are very simple. Step 1. Open your photo in PSE. Step 2. Select the photo mask you wish to use, and open it in PSE. Step 3. Drag the photo onto the photo mask so that it is the layer above the photo mask. Step 4. Select ctrl+g to clip it together. Step 5. To use it in a layout, select Layer--> Merge Visible. Step 6. Drag the photo onto your layout. Iwonder_who

Hmmmm dont know what to say to this.... I already have the mask..... example posted. I can find curves... direct mode I cannot even see under either curves headings, have no idea what draw a negative line means. Nor how to step by step set the input or output. Feel like I need an interpreter.... but thanks anyway

OK.... "Alpha Masks" are obviously what we need to apply our already made masks! Thing is I still cant get my head around how to use it even after reading through the two links Myrddin kindly sent. Obviously my limited understanding of graphics and programs are holding me back here. What I was doing with simple masks was using the magic wand to select the "black area" then copying it on to the picture I want to fit "on" the mask and cutting the opposite area away and voila result was prefect. As I am enoying this effect more though my masks have become more complex where for example a mask may be a million separate little dots and the thought of doing the magic wand to pick up every one is daunting and this is what I am finding hard to understand. So please if you can do a step by step I will love you for life. If you cant be bothered its ok too. for those willing to help here is another mask so you can see what I mean. In the below all black areas would effectively be erased. Thanks Yvonne

I was generalising and not pointing to anyone in particular with this..... all I was pointing out is sometimes even when one does search you could be looking for the "needle" in the haystack and find the "pin" without realising they were one in the same thing.

OK dont mean to be critical here BUT........... Can all the moderator/old dab hands/ masters of pdn PLEASE PLEASE be a little more helpful in these forums. I am pretty new to this and read this board often and with enthusiasm eager to learn new things. I do the searches before I post anything. As a novice who is keen to embrace pdn it's very disheartening to be fobbed off and told to seach. Have you ever thought maybe we did search and because of our lack of experience didnt realise a particular post actually answered our query without maybe using the exact terminology we assumed we were looking for? Surely your aim is to encourage people to experiment and grow with this great program. If new people are constantly belittled and chastised when asking an innocent question it doesnt really entice you to persevere and dare to post again does it. I know there are some lazy members who ask dumb questions where it's obvious they have made no endeavour to find the answer themselves but please dont lump us all into that category. Is the board that heavily populated and used that a quick reply with a link wouldnt suffice rather than a teacher like "go look for yourself" reply? I wanted to ask about these masks before and when I saw this original post I too thought "yippeee" that will answer my question too, so I thought I would post the pictures enabling the experts to see what we meant. Anyway thats my gripe for the day, I do hope I am not shot down in flames for voicing an opinion I am sure many feel. If anyone has the answer for this query I would appreciate the help.

I too have been looking to work with photo masks in PDN with limited success. Where the mask is crisp and clear variance between what you want to keep and what you want to disappear its pretty easy. However when the mask is more complex I havent had much luck. An example of the type of mask is this: Any help would be appreciated.

Bark this was where I saw the idea and tried to recreate in pdn as I said after lots of playing and samples I am close but yet to achieve the right look... http://www.jessicasprague.com/index.php?view=article&catid=19%3Aphoto-editing-tutorials&id=388%3Acreate-a-dreamyhandtinted-look-on-a-photo&option=com_content&Itemid=92 Thanks again for your help guys... many hands make light work!

OK using the above response gives a good result but not as soft as the result I am looking for. Using the same picture in the example I have reproduced a finished product and put it next to the finished product look using the "other" graphics program lol.... can you see the difference.... so much softer and with yet more colour in places PDN ........................................... Other