Thursday, November 5, 2009
Photoshop Workbench 202: Creating a Filmstrip Effect
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In last week’s Workbench, we looked at a compelling filmstrip composite produced by Ray Mascarenhas. Today, we’re going to examine how he produced the effect. Before diving into Photoshop, start by using your scanner or digital camera to capture one of your analog filmstrips. If you don’t own any film, it’s possible to download a digital version from a site like iStockPhoto. If you plan to use this filmstrip more than once, its wise to cover the existing images by filling Rectangular Marquee selections with white. As you can see, this is where today’s Workbench picks up…
Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 7:37 am
There are many ways to create a film strip, even creating one from scratch. However it is done, there would not be a drop shadow or bevel around the image frames, since they are part of the film. I would select just the sprocket holes to delete from the layer so that the layer styles would only affect them and the perimeter of the film strip, but not the image frames
Then change the film strip layer blending mode to darken or multiply to reveal the inserted images through the white frames. Making the drop shadow into its own layer would further allow warping of the film strip and the shadow to give a curled effect.
Another thought is to use a stamp visible layer of film strip and images as the drop shadow. Since film is transparent, the images would also be projected as part of the shadow:
http://www.pbase.com/filer/image/94460307/original