Comments on: Barack Obama’s Coldplay iPod + iTunes Commercial in Photoshop

By: Oliver

Oliver — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:29:27 +0000

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliverprobert/2630596382/sizes/o/

That’s my attempt… this is the first photoshop tutorial I’ve tried.

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:20:44 +0000

hey
this will probably sound stupid, but I’m using PS7 and I can’t figure out how to adjust the hardness on a brush. garrr!!!
if someone could explain how to do this quickly, it’d be much appreciated

By: Devin

Devin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:21:35 +0000

@Arnold I don’t know how to do it in after effects, but try here:
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html

By: arnoldsoko

arnoldsoko — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:56:19 +0000

YES!!! FINALLY i understand

now how do u think this can be done in After effects or how did they move the particles was it 3d tracking and in 3d app ?

By: Welcome to Paradise

Welcome to Paradise — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:54:33 +0000

The tutorial is super cool. But one thing, Barack Obama seems to be all over the internet now-a-days. ;)

By: Devin

Devin — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:33:24 +0000

@Ben Sorry I wasn’t more descriptive Ben about removing the background. Will did a great job at describing how to create the mask for a layer. There is multiple ways to remove the background, so I sometimes resist from being too descriptive about it (and it takes a lot of time & manual labor to remove the background). For example, you can use the eraser tool, pen tool, polygon lasso or magnetic lasso without even using a mask. If you want to use a mask (with is better because it’s non destructive to the layer) you could use the lassos, the pen tool or the brush.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:35:01 +0000

Thanks very much Will it’s been bugging me all day! :P I had a go at using the pen and I think I did what you meant, the result turned out like it was supposed to so I must’ve done (add anchor points around him and join them up, select the area and go mad with a large brush to colour just that area black?) Anyway thanks again I’ll crack on with the rest of the picture now and see how it turns out.

By: Will

Will — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:52:14 +0000

@ ben - Create a new mask later (the symbol in the layers panel that is like a square with a circle inside it) while you have the Obama layer selected. Then get the black pen tool and go round Obama, with the mask selected, and colour anything you don’t want to be seen in black. If you make a mistake go over it in white and it will be visible again. This is quite easy, but probably not the best way to do it however. Using the pen tool is the best way.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:38:18 +0000

‘First, we’ll need to take the photo and strip Barack of the background. To do this, create a mask for the photo layer, and blacken out the mask layer with a hard brush around Obama. Once you’ve completely masked out Obama, bring the layer over the 1200 px by 800px document’. Thanks in advance!

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:37:16 +0000

Hey, it looks awesome and I’d love to try it out but I got stuck at the very beginning, where you say create a mask around Obama, I don’t know how to do that and couldn’t figure it out. The rest of it looks doable and I really want to learn how to do this kind of thing so can anyone explain briefly how to do it?