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How to use the tiny lens effect in a Photoshop background

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 03:45 AM PDT

The tiny lens texture effect is a type of glass effect that you can use to make interesting enhancements to your pictures.  In this tutorial we will show you how to use it on a background of our favorite subject, the white rose.

1. Choose an image and open it in Adobe Photoshop.  In this case, the rose:

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2. Create a new layer for the background of the image.

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3. Fill your background layer with a solid color.

4. Create another layer.

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5. These will be your secondary background layer. Choose a light color to fill this layer. For this, I chose light yellow.

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6. Make your image visible. The eye indicates visibility of the layer.

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7. Go to the toolbar. Click on the Lasso Tool.

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8. Trace the image using the Lasso Tool.

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9. Click on the Add Layer Mask

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10. Select the Layer Mask by clicking it in the layer control panel.

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11. Go to the Filter menu. Choose Distort -> Glass

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12. The Glass window will be shown. You can experiment with the values of Distortion, Smoothness and Scaling.

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13. The value for Texture should be 'Tiny Lens'. Invert should also be checked.

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14. Click the OK button.

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15. This will be the output.

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Try to experiment on other effects and parameters. 

Ben shows you how it's done!

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