Learn about the essentials of placing images within a banner display, including understanding how to embed images and use Photoshop functions effectively. Discover how to resize images, adjust perspectives, and ensure a clean, professional result.
Key Insights
- The article provides a step-by-step guide on how to place embedded images within a banner display, highlighting the usefulness of embedded images for large files.
- The author instructs on how to use the 'transform' and 'skew' functions in Photoshop to adjust the perspective of images, making them appear three-dimensional and fitting them perfectly within the banner.
- The article further explains how to use the 'load selection' and 'create a mask' functions to crop out excess areas of the image, leading to a clean, professional-looking banner.
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In this video we're going to begin placing our images into our three banner display. So let's begin by placing each of our images.
We'll go to File, and in this case, we're going to be placing embedded images. We could place our linked Photoshop files to create each of the images, however, many of these files are rather large files for our computer, and some of them can even be up to a gigabyte or more. Since this is a lot of data for a single Photoshop file, we'll place the embedded JPEGs we've created to limit the size of our Photoshop file.
We'll select Place Embedded, and for our first one, we're going to be selecting the PTC banner one JPEG, and then we'll click Place. For this image, it's going to be on the left-hand side in this first banner, so let's resize it to roughly the size of our banner. We'll zoom in slightly and scroll to the left. Then, the goal for this one will be to size it roughly the size of the banner on the left-hand side.
Although, since the perspective of these banners is tilted to the right and further away, we won't be able to line up both the left-hand sides and the right-hand sides together. However, we're going to be doing some work to adjust it appropriately. So let's leave it here for now and hit ENTER.
Looking at this image now, we're going to have to change it from a flat picture to a three-dimensional picture where it's skewed to the right and back. To do this, we're going to again use Transform, but in a new way this time. We'll select PTC banner one and hit CTRL T. Then, we're going to right-click and go to Skew.
Skew will allow us to drag each of the corners of our image to the appropriate place and skew our image to look correct. In this case, I'll drag the right corner up and over slightly. I'll then drag the top-right corner by clicking and dragging. We'll drag it up, and if we scroll up, we'll also want it to be slightly over and up.
On the left-hand side, we'll choose this corner and we want it to fit just above here. We'll go to the bottom-left corner, take this corner, and make sure it fits right on the left. When we're aligning each of these corners, we want to do our best to arrange them right at the appropriate edge. However, if we have to go a bit beyond, we can do so, since we'll use the selection we created as a channel to crop out whatever is left of our image.
So let's zoom out, and we'll hit ENTER. This looks pretty good, we've created a banner within our banner image. Let's now just touch it up with the channel.
To do this, we'll right-click on our image and select 'Load Selection.' We can then load the channel we've created by going to PTC banner 1 transparency and instead selecting 'left banner, ' then we'll click OK. We now have the area of the banner selected. Where the banner extends beyond such as on the right and left, we can crop that out of our banner, giving it a cleaner look.
To do this, we'll simply go to the bottom and create a mask with PTC banner 1 selected. We'll click to create a mask, and we've now cropped it down to the previous selection we've made. Our banner now looks good within our banner display.
Let's now save our work using CTRL S on the keyboard, and in the next video, we'll be adding the final two images for our three-banner display.
See you there!