Photoshop Tutorial - 'Pineapple Grenade'
We start with 3 photos :
hand grenade.jpg
pineapple.jpg
pineapple half.jpg
Background
Open a new document.
Select the 'foreground' colour and select a light orangey yellow colour.
Select the 'background' colour and select a dark orangey colour.
Select the 'Gradient Tool' and draw a gradient from bottom to top (dark at the bottom).
Add a 'New Layer' then select the 'Rectangular Marquee Tool' and select a thin rectangle
horizontally across the document.
Feather by about 10.
Select the black brush and paint black into the rectangle - resize and reposition it to look like the
background 'join' - reduce opacity to suit.
Add a 'New Layer' reset the foreground and background colours to default (black and white) and
draw a gradient (black to transparent) from the bottom to the 'join' - reduce opacity to suit.
Grenade
Open the photo 'hand grenade.jpg'.
Use the 'Magic Wand Selection Tool' to select the white background.
Select>inverse.
Feather by 1 pixel then press Ctrl+j to move it onto it's own layer.
Import this layer into the main document.
Edit>Transform>Flip Horizontal.
Resize and position it to suit.
Pineapple
Open the photo 'pineapple half.jpg'.
Use the 'Quick Selection Tool' to select the pineapple.
Feather by 1 pixel then press Ctrl+j to move it onto it's own layer.
Import this layer into the main document - resize and reposition to be the same as the hand grenade.
Use the 'Rectangular Marquee Tool' to select the right half of the pineapple then Ctrl+j to place it on
a new layer. Do the same with the left half.
Reduce opacity of the 'right half' of the grenade to 50%ish and position it to the centre of the
grenade.
Compress the 'right half' by pulling in the right middle adjustment handle.
Add a layer mask.
Using a 50% hardness black brush - paint away the bits you don't want to see.
Increase opacity to 100%.
Repeat this with the 'left half'.
Add a layer mask to the hand grenade layer and paint away the bottom of the grenade which
overlaps the pineapple.
Use 'Layers>Merge Down' to combine the grenade and pineapple layers.
Use the 'Rectangular Marquee Tool' to select a 'slice' of the pineapple then Ctrl+j to place it on a
new layer. Rotate and position to suit.
South Shields Digital Group
Jasper Connor
March 2013
Shadows
Create a new layer and position it below the 'grenade' layer - use a soft black brush to paint in the
shadows on the grenade and slice.
Open the photo 'pineapple.jpg'.
Use the 'Magic Wand Selection Tool' to select the white background.
Select>inverse.
Feather by 1 pixel then press Ctrl+j to move it onto it's own layer.
Import this layer into the main document - position it between the 'background' and 'hand grenade'
layers.
Create a new layer above the pineapple layer and attach it as a 'Clipping Mask' by 'alt clicking'
between them.
Select the 'Brush Tool' and paint black all over the 'clipping mask' layer until the pineapple turns
completely black.
Layers>Merge Down.
Resize and position this shadow to suit.
Blur>Gaussian Blur 15 ish - reduce opacity to suit.
Finishing
Add a levels adjustment layer.
South Shields Digital Group
Jasper Connor
March 2013