hi this is marty from blue lightning tvi'm going to show you how to transform aphoto of someoneinto a stone statuethis document is eighteen hundred eightysix by twelve hundred twenty pixels witha resolution of seventy two pixels perinchso you can follow along i provided thisphoto for the background and this stonetexturethese files as well as this figure canbe downloaded from the links in thevideo's description or project filesthe first step is to separate yourfigure from its background by creating aselection around the figurethere are many ways to make selectionsand i covered them in most of my othertutorialsyou'll get the best ultimate resultsfrom images who aren't wearing starkcontrasts of clothingin this example i lighten the top of thepants of this figurecolor doesn't matter since we're goingto remove itpress ctrl shift u on a pc or commandshift u on a mac to desaturate itpress v to open your move tool and dragit up onto the tab of the backgroundwithout releasing your mouse or pen dragit down onto the background and thenreleaseto reposition it click inside the figureand move itclick off the eyeball of the backgroundto hide itwe're going to use the figure todisplace the stone texture so it willwrap around the contours of the figureto do this go to layer and duplicatelayerclick on the arrow and choose newtype in displacement and either click onokor press enter or returnclose the document by clicking on thesmall x at the right side of its tab andthen click yes to save iti'll save it on my desktopclick saveand click okmake the background visibleand open the stone texture file iprovidedpress ctrl or command a to select itand control or command c to copy itclick on the tab of your background andpress control or command v to paste thetexture into it go to filter distort anddisplacewe'll displace the horizontal andvertical scales by fivechoose stretch to fit and repeat edgepixelsclick on displacement and openimmediately you'll notice a subtle butimportant shift in the texture whichwill become apparent shortlygo to the figure and control click it ona pc or command click it on a mac tomake a selection of its shapeclick on the layer mask button to make alayer mask of the selection next to theactive layer which is the textureclick on the textureand change the blend mode to multiplylet's brighten our stone statue byopening the levels windowpress ctrl or command lslide the right input level to where theblack beginsmake the figure active and make itbrighter as wellnotice how the displacement map made thetexture wrap around the contours of thefigurethe statue looks great as is but i'dlike to enhance the shadows a bit moresince the light in the background isbright and sunnyi'll make the texture active and open mybrush tooli'll choose a brush size of forty fivepixels and a hardness of zero percentthe blend mode is multiply and theopacity is forty percenti'll brush over areas of the statue thatare on the underside of the form andangled away from the sunto make the brush tip larger press onthe right bracket keythe last step is to make the backgroundblurrier as it recedes in the distanceto simulate the effect of a camera'sdepth of fieldmake the background active and make acopy of itgo to filter blur and gaussian blurwe'll blur it by 3.5 pixelsclick on the layer mask button to make alayer mask next to the blurry backgroundopen your gradient tool and make surethe linear gradient is highlightedclick on the gradient thumbnail andchoose the third preset on the leftthis is the black to white gradientpress and hold shift as you click on thebottom of the documentdrag up to approximately where thebuilding beginsthis makes a layer mask that graduallyreveals the focused backgroundunderneath the blurry backgroundthe ground is in focus at the bottom andgradually becomes blurry as it getscloser to the buildingif you want to slide your statue overmake the texture active and shift-clickon the figure under itthis highlights both layersopen your move tool and press shift asyou slide it overhave fun transforming someone orsomethinginto a stone statue this is marty fromblue lightning tvthanks for watching[Music]