1. | Open the Duomo Scaffold photo. |
2. | Press -A (Ctrl-A in Windows) to select the entire image. |
3. | Choose View, Show, Grid to display the grid overlay. |
4. | Select Edit, Transform, Distort. |
5. | Drag the image window out as wide as possible and zoom out of the photo if necessary (press -- or Ctrl-- in Windows) so that there is enough gray border around the image to manipulate the image handles. |
6. | Pull each top-corner handle away from the image area to straighten the image vertically. |
7. | Select the Crop tool from the toolbox and press the Shift key as you're dragging to constrain the crop area to a square. |
8. | Drag the crop selection around the scaffolding to include the main portal on the left, all the way to the right edge of the photo. |
9. | Click the Background color swatch and select black from the Color Picker to set the background color. |
10. | Choose Image, Canvas Size and set the width to 3384 pixels and the height to 3264 pixels. |
11. | Position the anchor square in the upper-left corner of the grid and click OK to enlarge the canvas and fill it with black. |
12. | Double-click the layer name and rename the layer Cropped Image. |
13. | Select the Marquee tool and drag a selection around the cropped photo pattern. |
14. | Copy and paste the selected photo to duplicate the pattern on a separate layer. |
15. | Choose Edit, Transform, Flip Vertical to invert the pattern. |
16. | Select the Move tool and drag the pasted layer vertically below the original pattern, creating a mirror image. |
17. | Double-click the layer name and rename the layer Vert Flip. |
18. | Select the Marquee tool and drag a selection around the Vert Flip and Cropped Image layers. |
19. | Select Edit, Copy Merged, and paste the selection to duplicate the pattern on a separate layer. |
20. | Choose Edit, Transform, Flip Horizontal to flip the pattern. |
21. | Select the Move tool and drag the pasted layer horizontally to the right of the original pattern, creating a mirror image. |
22. | Double-click the layer name and rename the layer Horiz Flip. |
23. | Select Gradient Map from the Adjustment Layer pull-down menu in the Layers palette. |
24. | Click the gradient strip in the Gradient Map dialog box to launch the Gradient Editor. |
25. | Double-click the left color stop to launch the Color Picker and choose a rust color with an RGB value of R130, G54, B3. Repeat the process with the right color stop, selecting a tan color with a value of R206, G190, B124. |
26. | Click OK to apply the gradient. |
27. | Double-click the layer name and rename the layer Brown Gradient. |
28. | Open the file San Galgano 5. |
29. | Select the Rectangular Marquee tool from the toolbox and draw a square selection around the arches and doorway. |
30. | Copy the selection and paste it into the pattern composition. |
31. | Choose Photoshop, Preferences, General to launch the Preferences dialog box (in Windows, choose Edit, Preferences, General) and select Bicubic Smoother from the Interpolation Method pull-down menu. Click OK to close the dialog box. |
32. | Choose Image, Free Transform and drag the cropped San Galgano 5 photo to the upper-left corner of the composite. Then drag its lower-right handle out to the lower-right corner of the composition. |
33. | Double-click in the image area to apply the transformation. |
34. | Double-click the layer name and rename the layer San Galgano 5. |
35. | Select Linear light from the blending modes menu in the Layers palette. |
36. | In the Layers palette, turn off visibility for the Cropped Image and Vert Flip layers. |
37. | Choose the Rectangular Marquee from the toolbox and drag a selection vertically around the left side of the composite. |
38. | Choose Edit, Transform, Warp to load the warp grid over the selected area. |
39. | Drag the upper-right grid intersection down and slightly left, pulling the lower-and upper-right handles out slightly to bow the distortion in the lower part of the image. |
40. | Drag the grid intersection points to twist and bow the right wall as it recedes into the image at the upper-left corner of the central arch. |
41. | Double-click in the grid area to apply the distortion. |
42. | Select the Horiz Flip layer and reduce the layer's Opacity to 48%. |
43. | Select the Dodge tool and set the range to Highlights and the Exposure to 11%. Choose a 300-pixel brush and lighten the areas around the distorted left arch in the San Galgano 5 layer. |