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This 50 Euro banknote is a flat, scanned object. These
days, Photoshop prevents us from scanning banknotes:
even if we take a photograph of one with a digital camera and
then try to import it, Photoshop will prevent us from opening
the image. Fraud is harder than it used to be!
4
We can drag the handle up as well as down, to create a
note that waves in the opposite direction – a quick way
of building an instant, different view of the object.
7
With the basic distortion added, we can now choose to
view our banknote from any perspective. Simply using
Free Transform to squeeze it vertically and rotate it a little gives
us a much flatter view of the note.
T
HE ILLUSTRATION ABOVE, FOR THE
Sunday Telegraph, is a simple enough
concept – a couple navigating a sea of debt. If
I’d had to draw each of those bills individually,
I’d probably still be drawing them now.
We can use Photoshop’s Image Warp tool
to take a single flat piece of artwork and distort
it so it appears to be a real, three-dimensional
object, and create multiple views of the same
item to create a lot of variation.
In early editions of this book I described
how to do this using the Shear filter, which is
how we used to have to work before Photoshop
CS3 brought us Image Warp. It’s altogether a
much better way to get the results we need.
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11
Paper and fabric
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To make the note look more three-dimensional, use
Ct Lt to enter Free Transform, then press the
Image Warp button on the Options bar. From the pop-up
menu, select Flag as the warp preset.
5
The sides look too straight and unnatural with just the
Flag distortion. Change the method from Flag to Custom,
again using the pop-up menu, and we can grab the corners
and handles and apply a more natural distortion.
8
We can easily distort that single note further, simply
using Free Transform. If you’re building a pile of notes,
adding shadows to all but the topmost note using the Burn
tool will make them look much more real.
3
The default distortion is far too strong. We can modify the
amount by grabbing the only control handle for this warp
method, and dragging it down until we get a more realistic
view of the note.
6
Hit E to apply the distortion. Adding shading using
the Burn tool, set to Highlights, instantly makes the
distorted note look much more like a real object. Add shading
to the valleys, rather than the hills, for added realism.
9
Although we can distort the note to a very high degree,
the one thing we can’t do is to flip it horizontally or
vertically. This is exactly the sort of error that will get noticed –
try not to fall into the trap!
HOT TIP
Although the
pile of notes in
step 8 was built
using minor
transformations
of the single note I
completed in step
6, in practice you’d
want to make
a stock of three
or four different
notes before going
on to build the
pile. It only needs
a few variations to
fool the eye into
thinking all the
notes are different.
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