Hi guys, do you have any clue how to achieve this patch effect in PS? I tried doing it with a drop shadow, but this is what I got (the one below).Thanks!
this is kinda blue dress/white dress kinda thingit looks like cut outs with images underneath.try just being more aggreissve in your tones and imagine like the paper is uneven and so the shows and hights are also unevenalso, consider if you arent agressive and half your 'patch line' is in the dark and you cant see it, well then you cant see it and the effect is lost
Basically just emulate how it would be done in real life by cutting out the area you want to appear pasted on and paste it over the image in a layer above the source/ background and then using masks you can add in shadows and high-/ low- lights to emulate slight variations in flatness.Other small stuff to consider-curling or otherwise un- pasted down paper is what makes paste ups most obvious and accounts for slight registration issues when shot...your image isn't terrible but that's the difference, see the vertical strip in picrel for how the relections change and the shadows tapera real pasted copy even if perfectly registered will be one paper layer closer to the camera so a very tiny amount- like the minimal increment possible- of blur on that element can help sell the illusionwhen paste ups like this are shot they are carefully lift specifically to prevent any drop shadow effect...so make your basic shadow line uniform rather than weighted at the bottom and then add to it where the pasted part is supposed to look curledwhether or not that shadow line needs to be visible is imo not as cut and dried a "yes" as >>456088 suggests; properly pasted and lit/ shot a paste up like this won't show any shadow lines so a less than perfect one may only show a cut line here and there. Since you're trying to emulate a sloppy paste up having an unbroken line isn't bad, but IRL it might not be that perfect.rather than using a drop shadow you can just use the original cut area border as a mask and grow it by 1 or 2 pixels to get your basic shadow line and feather the outer edge to make a softer more realistic shadowsince pasted duplicate elements like these are cut from another sheet than the one being pasted over, it can help to create a duplicate layer of that background image and ever so slightly alter the paper texture so it's more like real world source material ie two different pieces of paper...then cut your images from that layer to apply to the top one
>>456092Also note that in that closeup, even though the blue and black areas register perfectly as a duplicate of the underlying pic, where the patch covers the orange dot there isn't a correspoding dot and it chops it off...which reflects the fact that paste ups and collages often cut parts of earlier versions of a photo or illustration to apply either as a fix or for aesthetic effect. That's another detail than whether done carelessly or deliberately signals that it's an assembled image.For that reason any small (tiny) shift in colors or exposure or size or other visible aspects of the layer you cut the patches from can help create the effect...but subtlety is they key if you want it to look like a real paste up.
>>456092dont @ me bitch
Why not just do what the original designer did, and print them out and cut them out and glue them and then take a photo? Yes, you can digitally do a good job, but sometimes there's easier ways of doing things creatively with physical concepts.
