Polaroid pictures are gorgeous -- let's face it. Everyone adores them, so why not learn how to use a polaroid texture on photoshop?
Under the cut you'll find an easy to follow step-by-step tutorial teaching you how to use polaroid textures. Here's a masterlist of polaroid textures for you to use!
Please like/reblog if this helped you in anyway.
You should end up with something like this:
-Zoey. x
1) Find your polaroid texture. For the sake of this tutorial, I'll be using this one from this masterlist:
2) Open up your texture in photoshop.
3) Find an image you want to put into the polaroid. It doesn't matter what colour they are since you can drag a PSD over it. I'll be using these [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x]
4) Using the magic wand tool, select one of the purple patches like so.
Now, this is where people do things differently. Some people paste their image above the purple patch, select inverse, clear, but I personally don't like that because it just gets messy in my head and I can't deal with that.
5) Make a new layer by hitting this button at the bottom of your layers tab
Your layers should now look like this
6) Control click (second-click) on the selected patch of purple, and select "fill"
Note that on some version of photoshop, the "Fill" option won't show up unless you switch to this tool instead of the Magic wand
In this case, make sure the patch is still selected, and then click on the Rectangular Marquee Tool, control click on the patch and then click fill.
7) You should now be looking at a window like so
If the option says "Use: Color..." "Use: Foreground color" or "Use: Background color" already, then hit OK. If it says something else (e.g. Content-aware, Pattern, History, Black, 50% Gray, White) then click on the drop down tab and select "Use: Color", and choose any colour.
8) Your workspace should now look like this
9) Open up your desired image in photoshop.
10) Drag the image onto the polaroid window using the "Move" tool. Your workspace should now look like this
11) Now, here comes the part most people mess up on. (Pay extra attention!) First of all, deselect the little patch you've still got selected so that the dotted lines are gone like so.
12) Now, control click on the layer of your desired image, and click "Create clipping mask".
The image of Amber should now only show up in the little white patch you made over the original purple polaroid patch earlier like so
13) Using the free transform (Edit > Free transform or command+T), resize the image of Amber until it's where you want it.
14) Repeat steps 4-13 until you've got all six patches filled in with an image
15) Drag a PSD over the images to make them match
16) Adjust the PSD so that it's how you want it. Select the background layer, and then use the magic wand tool and hold shift to select the bits you don't want the PSD on. This means the polaroid borders for me.
17) Open up the PSD group, and select each layer mask before hitting delete/backspace to clear the the PSD from affecting the selected parts of the image.
18) I personally don't like the PSD effect on some of the pictures, so I'm going to remove those individually. Feel free to tweak the colouring until you're happy with your product.
19) This is my ending result
You can make it look pretty/add textures and whatnot so that it looks scratched and such. It's really just up to you!
Under the cut you'll find 10 polaroid textures at least 500px in width, with the images cut out and filled in with purple (replace with your own images). They've all been made by me, zoeyrph, so it'd be great if you could give this post a like/reblog if you're using any of them. Although you don't have to give credit when using them, it'd be great if you did. I do not own any of the images, I simply found them on google. If you need a tutorial on how to use them, click here. Hope you enjoy!