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3D Pop Up Effect In Photoshopritten by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop tutorial ,ell learn how to create a fun 3D pop-up effect, similar aildrens pop-up book, where the main subject of your oto appears to be standing up and popping right out of otherwise flat image.

o add even more of a 3D look to it, well be curling theges of the photo using Photoshops Warp commandd adding a custom shadow underneath. Theres quite aw steps involved in creating the effect but theyre all

ry simple and easy. Ill be using Photoshop CS6 heret any recent version of Photoshop will work.

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eres the photo Ill be starting with:

e original image.

eres what the final result will look like:

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e final effect.

ets get started!

tep 1: Make Two Copies Of The Backgroun d Layer ith our photo newly opened in Photoshop, if we look in the Layers panel , we see our image sitting all by itself one Background layer :

e Background layer holds our original image.

ets start by making a couple of copies of the layer. Press Ctrl+J (Win) / Command+J (Mac) on your keyboard toickly make the first copy. Youll see the copy, which Photoshop automatically names Layer 1, appear above the

ackground layer in the Layers panel. These default names that Photoshop gives new layers are not very useful,since this first copy will be used as the flat version of our image, double-click directly on the layers name and

name it flat . Press Enter (Win) / Return (Mac) on your keyboard when youre done to accept the name change:
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ange the name of the new layer from Layer 1 to flat.

ow well make a second copy of the layer. Press Ctrl+J (Win) / Command+J (Mac) again on your keyboard.nother new layer, this time named flat copy, will appear above the other two layers in the Layers panel. Well being this layer to create our pop-up effect, so double-click on the layers name and rename it pop up . Press

nter (Win) / Return (Mac) when youre done to accept the name change. You should now have three layers intal:

ange the name of the second copy from flat copy to pop up.

tep 2: Turn Off The Visibility Of The New Layerse dont need to see these two new layers in the document just yet, so click on the flat and pop-up layerssibility icon (the eyeball) on the far left of each layer to temporarily turn them off and hide them from view (evenough nothing will seem to have happened in the document window since all three of our layers contain the same

mage):

hen the eyeball disappears, it means the layers are turned off.

tep 3: Select The Background Layer ick on the original Background layer to select it (selected layers appear highlighted in blue):

lecting the Background layer.


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tep 4: Add A Gradient Fill Layer ets add a layer to use as the background for our effect. Well use a Gradient Fill layer, since gradients are a bitore interesting than solid colors. Click on the New Fill or Adjus tment Layer icon at the bottom of the Layersnel:

icking on the New Fill or Adjustment Layer icon.

hen choose Gradient from the list that appears:

oosing a Gradient Fill layer.

tep 5: Select The Black, White Gradienthis opens the Gradient Fill dialog box. Click on the gradient preview bar at the top of the dialog box to edit theadient:

icking on the gradient preview bar.

his opens the larger Gradient Editor dialog box, with a selection of preset gradients we can choose from at thep. Select the Black, White gradient by clicking on its thumbnail (third from the left, top row):

icking on the Black, White gradients thumbnail to select it.

tep 6: Replace The Black With A Lighter Grayith the Black, White gradient selected, lets edit it and make a slight change. We can edit gradients in the bottomlf of the Gradient Editor. Double-click on the black color stop below and to the far left of the gradient previewr:


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ouble-clicking the black color stop.

his opens Photoshops Color Picker , allowing us to change the black in the gradient to some other color. Black isbit too dark for our background, so choose a lighter gray to replace it with, at least for now. Well learn how to gock and change the gradient colors if needed at the end of the tutorial:

oosing a lighter gray with the Color Picker.

ick OK to close out of the Color Picker, then click OK to close out of the Gradient Editor. Finally, click OK to closet of the Gradient Fill dialog box. If we look in the Layers panel, we can see our new Gradient Fill layer sittingrectly above the Background layer (but below the other two layers):

e Layers panel showing the Gradient Fill layer above the Background layer.

nd if we look in our document window, we see the gradient background we just added:


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ur gradient background.

tep 7: Select And Turn On The flat Layer ext, well create the flat version of our photo. Click on the flat layer in the Layers panel to select it (so itsghlighted in blue), then click on the layers visibility icon to turn the layer back on in the document window:

lecting and turning on the flat layer.

our photo will reappear in the document window since the flat layer is sitting above the Gradient Fill layer and isw blocking the Gradient Fill layer from view:

e photo is once again visible in the document window.

tep 8: Select The Rectangular Marquee Tool


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lecting Perspective from the menu.

tep 12: Drag The Corner Handles To Create A 3D Perspectiveow that were in Perspective mode, click on the handle in the top left corner of the selection outline and, withur mouse button still held down, drag the handle in towards the right. The opposite handle in the top right corner ll move in along with it:

ag the top left handle towards the right. The top right handle will move towards the left.

hen click on the handle in the bottom left corner of the selection outline and, again with your mouse button stillld down, drag this handle outward towards the left. Since were still in Perspective mode, the opposite handle ine bottom right corner will move outward along with it:

ag the bottom left handle towards the left. The bottom right handle will move towards the right.

tep 13: Switch To Scale Modeext, we need to switch the Transform Selection command out of Perspective mode and into the more commonale mode. Right-click (Win) / Control-click (Mac) once again inside the selection outline and this time, chooseale from the menu:


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lecting Scale from the menu.

ow that were in Scale mode, click on the handle at the top of the selection outline and, with your mouse buttonll held down, drag the handle downward:

ag the top of the selection outline down towards the center.

nally, click on the handle at the bottom of the selection outline, keep your mouse held down, and drag thisndle upward:

ag the bottom of the selection outline up towards the center.

ontinue dragging the handles to reshape the selection outline, switching between Perspective and Scale modesneeded, until your selection outline looks more like its fading off into the distance. When youre done, press

nter (Win) / Return (Mac) to accept it and exit out of the Transform Selection command:


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e selection outline now looks more 3D-ish (technical term).

tep 14: A dd A Layer Maskith our selection in place, click on the Layer Mask icon at the bottom of the Layers panel:

icking on the Layer Mask icon.

his converts our selection into a layer mask. We can see the new layer mask thumbnail thats been added to thelat layer in the Layers panel. The black area in the thumbnail represents the part of the layer thats being hidden

om view in the document, while the white area represents the part that remains visible in the document:

ayer mask thumbnail appears on the flat layer.

nd if we look in our actual document window, we see that everything on the layer that fell outside of our selections disappeared, leaving only the area that was inside the selection:


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e image after converting the selection to a layer mask.

tep 15: A dd A White Stroke Layer Styleets use a white stroke to add a border to the photo. Click on the Layer Style icon (the fx icon) at the bottom of e Layers panel:

icking the Layer Style icon.

hen choose Stroke from the list of layer styles that appears:

oosing a Stroke layer style.

his opens Photoshops Layer Style dialog box. First, we need to change the color of our stroke, so click on thelor swatch :

icking on the color swatch.

hoose white in the Color Picker when it appears, then click OK to close out of the Color Picker:


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ange the strokes color to white using the Color Picker.

ack in the Layer Style dialog box, change the Position of the stroke from Outside to Inside :

anging the Position option to Inside.

nally, click on the Size slider and begin dragging it towards the right to increase the size of the border around theoto (keep an eye on the document window as you drag the slider). Im going to set my stroke size to 16px, butpending on the resolution of your image, you may need to set your size even higher to get a similar result:

crease the size of the stroke using the slider.

hen youre done, click OK to close out of the Layer Style dialog box. We now have our photo border:


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e image after adding the white stroke around the photo.

tep 16: Select And Turn On The pop up Layer ere ready to add our pop-up effect. Click on the pop up layer in the Layers panel to select it, then click on itssibility icon to turn the layer back on in the document window:

lect the top layer and click its visibility icon.

tep 17: Select Your Main Subjectsing the selection tool of your choice ( Lasso Tool , Quick Selection Tool , Pen Tool , etc.), draw a selectionound the main subject in your photo. Here Ive selected the two boys and the snowman. Try to make your lection as accurate as possible around the areas that will actually be popping up out of the photo (in other words,e areas that will end up appearing in front of the gradient background), but its okay to draw a loose selectionound lower areas that will appear in front of the flat version of the photo:
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lecting the main subject(s) that will pop out of the image.

tep 18: A dd A Layer Maskith our selection around our main subject in place, click once again on the Layer Mask icon at the bottom of the

ayers panel:

icking on the Layer Mask icon.

st as we saw earlier, Photoshop converts our selection into a layer mask, displaying a mask thumbnail on theop up" layer:

e Layers panel showing the new layer mask thumbnail for the pop up layer.

nd with the layer mask added, the area we selected now pops up out of the image:


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e selection outline is visible once again around the photo.

tep 21: Add A New Layer Below The flat Layer old down the Ctrl (Win) / Command (Mac) on your keyboard once again and click on the New Layer icon at thettom of the Layers panel:

old down your Ctrl (Win) / Command (Mac) key and click on the New Layer icon.

ormally, Photoshop adds new layers directly above the currently selected layer, but by adding in the Ctrl (Win) /ommand (Mac) key, Photoshop places the new layer below the selected layer. In our case here, it places it belowe flat layer. Double-click on the new layers name and rename it shadow, then press Enter (Win) / Return

Mac) to accept the name change:

otoshop adds the new layer below the flat layer. Rename the new layer shadow.

tep 22: Fill The Selection on The New Layer With Blackets fill our selection on the shadow layer with black. Go up to the Edit menu at the top of the screen and choosee Fill command:

o to Edit > Fill.

his opens Photoshops Fill dialog box. Change the Use option at the top to Black, then make sure the Modetion in the bottom half of the dialog box is set to Normal and the Opacity option is set to 100% :


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e Fill dialog box.

ick OK when youre done to close out of the dialog box. Photoshop fills the selection on the shadow layer withack. We cant actually see it at the moment in the document window because the photo on the flat layer above itblocking it from view, but we can see our black-filled area if we look at the shadow layers preview thumbnail ine Layers panel:

ch layers preview thumbnail shows us whats on the layer, even when we cant see it in the document window.

tep 23: Select The flat Layers Maskell come back to the shadow after weve curled the corners of our photo, which is what well do next. Clickrectly on the layer mask thumbnail on the flat layer to select the mask:

lecting the flat layers mask by clicking on the mask thumbnail.

tep 24: Unlink The Layer From Its Mask

you look closely, youll see a small link icon between the flat layers preview thumbnail and its mask thumbnailthe Layers panel. Click on the link icon to remove it, which will unlink the mask from the contents of the layer:


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icking the link icon to unlink the mask from the layer contents (the photo).

tep 25: Select The Warp Commandith the layer mask thumbnail selected and unlinked from the photo itself, go up to the Edit menu at the top of thereen, choose Transform , then choose Warp :

o to Edit > Transform > Warp.

tep 26: Drag The Four Corner Points Upward To Curl The Cornersoull see a warp grid appear around the photo. Click on each of the four corner handles on the grid and dragem upward. As you drag each handle, youll see that corner of the photo curl upward, and youll reveal some of e black shadow layer below the photo. Press Enter (Win) / Return (Mac) when youre done to accept the effectd exit out of the Warp command:

ag each corner of the grid upward to warp the photo and curl the corners.

tep 27: Select The shadow Layer ets finish things off by softening the shadow below the photo. Click on the shadow layer in the Layers panel tolect it:

lecting the shadow layer.

tep 28: A pply The Gaussian Blur Filter o up to the Filter menu at the top of the screen, choose Blur , then choose Gaussian Blur :


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o to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur.

his opens Photoshops Gaussian Blur dialog box. Drag the Radius slider at the bottom of the dialog box towardse right to increase the amount of blurring thats applied to the shadow. The more blur we apply, the softer theadow edges will appear. Im going to increase my Radius value to around 10px, but depending on the resolutionyour image, you may want to set your Radius value higher, so be sure to keep an eye on the image in thecument window as you drag the slider:

crease the Radius amount to blur and soften the shadow edges.

ick OK when youre done to close out of the dialog box. Heres what my shadow now looks like after applying theur filter:

e shadow edges are now softer thanks to the Gaussian Blur filter.

tep 29: Lower The Opacity Of The Shadoweve softened the edges of the shadow but its still too dark and intense. Go up to the Opacity option in the top

ght of the Layers panel and lower the shadow layers opacity from 100% down to 60% :


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wering the layer opacity down to 60%.

ith the opacity lowered, the shadow now fades more into the background:

e image after lowering the opacity of the shadow.

tep 30: Reshape The Shadow With The Free Transform Commandne last thing. Lets tidy up the shadow a bit so it looks more like its actually under the photo. Go up to the Editenu and choose Free Transform :

o to Edit > Free Transform.

his places the Free Transform box and handles around the shadow. Im just going to click and drag the left , rightd bottom handles inward a bit so the edges of the shadow line up better with the edges of the photo:

oving the left, right and bottom edges of the shadow inward.

hen youre done, press Enter (Win) / Return (Mac) on your keyboard to accept the transformation and exit out of e Free Transform command. Heres my effect after reshaping the shadow a bit with Free Transform:


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e shadow edges now line up better with the photo edges.

hanging The Background Gradient Color you decide you dont like the color of the background gradient, one thing you might want to try is sampling a color rectly from the image to use for the background. Lets quickly see how to do that. First, double-click on theradient Fill layers thumbnail in the Layers panel:

ouble-clicking on the Gradient Fill thumbnail.

his re-opens the Gradient Fill dialog box just as we saw at the beginning of the tutorial. Click on the gradienteview bar to re-edit the gradient:

icking the gradient preview bar.

his will re-open the Gradient Editor . I want to change the gray color in the gradient to something else, so Illuble-click on the gray color stop below and to the far left of the gradient preview bar:


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ouble-clicking on the gray color stop.

hotoshop will re-open the Color Picker , but instead of choosing a color from the Color Picker, Im going to movey mouse cursor directly over the image itself, which will temporarily turn my mouse cursor into an eyedropper on. To sample a color, simply click on the color you want in the image. Ill click on an area of light blue in theow. Photoshop gives me an instant live preview of what the new color looks like in the gradient:

oosing a color from the image to use with the gradient.

nce youve chosen a color you like, click OK to close out of the Color Picker, then click OK to close out of theradient Editor and then the Gradient Fill dialog box. And with that, were done! Here, for comparison, is myiginal photo once again:

e original image.


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