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Preview:

Step 1:

First of all, open your image that you want to use as the paper. As you can see here, I have used our logo. CRTL+A to select all the image, then CRTL+C to copy it.

Step 2:

CRTL+N to open a new photoshop document. You will see that the width and height match our selection, so change these values to something quite a bit bigger. The background layer is white, so we can’t really see our layer properly. Click the ‘Set Foreground Color’ square in the tools menu and select a different color. Then press ‘G’ on the keyboard to activate the Paint Bucket tool and click on the open document. Just make sure you have the background layer selected first. Another thing you can do is drag some guide lines from the rulers at the top and left of the screen. These can help you when it comes to positioning our logo layer. CRTL+V to paste our logo layer. The last thing to do on this step is to rotate our layer. Hit CRTL+T to enter transform mode, hold SHIFT to constrain the rotation degree to 15, and drag a corner of our layer around 90 degrees:

Step 3:

Now still in transform mode, right-click and choose ‘Warp’ from the menu that appears. Drag the corner handlebars until it resembles something like this (or do your own thing!)

Step 4:

Not only can we move the corner handlebars, but also the angle of each corner. To do this, simply drag the little circle that you can see protruding from the corner handlebars. Spend a bit of time here practicing.

Step 5:

But there’s more (there always is in Photoshop). You can also distort the layer by dragging the squares within the warp. Try it and see what you can come up with.

Step 6:

When you are happy with your warp, hit ‘Enter’ to exit transform mode. Open your building image, hit ‘V’ to activate the move tool, and drag the logo layer on to the building layer. Doesn’t look very realistic, does it? There’s still work to be done.

Step 7:

If you look closely at the bottom of the layers panel, you will see a little gray rectangle with a white circle in it. This is the mask icon. If you click it (with the logo layer highlighted in blue), another layer appears to the right of our logo layer. Now this mask does some really amazing things. What we are basically going to do is hide the parts of our logo layer that you shouldn’t see. The foreground and background colors change to black and white. NOW REMEMBER: Black takes away from the logo, and white brings it back. Hit ‘B’ to activate the brush tool. Right-click and we have a lot of options to choose from. Change the Hardness to 100% and the size to very small. You should zoom in quite a bit. Now if you paint over the logo layer, you will see that it disappears, giving the illusion that the logo is behind the window frame.

Step 8:

To paint straight lines, click once at the top of the window frame, then SHIFT+click at the bottom, all the while trying to keep the line straight. This might take some practice, so don’t forget CRTL+Z to undo your last stroke.

Step 9:

Do the exact same action across the image where the venetian blinds should hide the logo.

Step 10:

Now you can see that the top left hand corner of the logo layer should be in shadow. Zoom in the change the opacity of the paint brush to 50%. In the next step of this tutorial, I will show you another way of producing the same effect.

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