Harry Potter Montage

This took me three days on Photoshop.  But it looks pretty cool! 

Here’s how to do it.

1) Open the picture with the shape you want to use for a pattern.
2) Press ctrl J to copy the background. Create a new layer and fill it with a color or a gradient where the two colors are really close in hue.
3) Place the color layer below the background copy layer.
4) Get the pen tool and set the option to shape. Now draw the outline of your subject. (This doesn’t have to be a perfect outline just somewhat close to the general shape of the subject.)
5) Lower the opacity of the shape layer to about 40% then lock both the shape layer and the background copy layer so you don’t accidentally make changes to them.
6) Get the type tool and click at the bottom of your image. Choose a blocky font so you will have more shape to work with and type your word or phrase.
7) Go to layer-type-convert to shape. Now go to edit-transform-warp. Now you can adjust and shape the text as you like. (You can also do this with individual letters instead of whole words.)
8) Select the layer with the individual letter then use the direct selection tool to push and pull the anchor points.
9) Keep building the words and phrases in the image.
10) For some variety by selecting the text shape layer then choose stroke in the layer style menu. Choose your color and thickness. Click OK. Then lower the opacity to 0%.
11) When you have the shape all filled merge all the text layers together. Go to layer-layer style-gradient overlay. Choose your colors.
12) Open a texture picture. Place the texture over your image. Then press ctrl + shift + U and set the blend mode to overlay.
13) Finally create a new layer set a foreground color that matches the colors you have already chosen and set the background color to #000000. Go to filter-render-clouds and set the layer to overlay and the opacity to about 40%.

*Sometimes you can’t merge the shape layer, so you have a ton of layers, and Photoshop may quit working.  To solve this, right click on a shape layer and select “group to layers”, or something like that.  You can then drag all the shape layers into the group.  Right click on the group heading and select merge group.  The layers will all be glued together, and take up lots less space.

Studio C!!!

I had, like, one of the best valentines days ever!!!  A lady in our ward works at the BYU broadcasting building, which is where they do Studio C.  It was one of their filming nights, and there were extra tickets!!!  She let my friend know, and so they came and picked up Mark and I so we could go see a live showing.  We drove up there so we could get our place in line, and played hand games for an hour before we got in our seats.  We then got to watch the prop guys do the finishing touches on the stage sets.

The Sets at Studio C.

Camille and I waiting for the show to start.

Mark and I.  He looks like he’s having such fun doesn't he? :)

Yep, I’m sooooooo happy!!!

The applause sign.

After waiting in our seats for about half and hour, Stacy came out and had us do a cheering scale.  We started at one, and when we got to ten, the Cast burst in and the music started playing, and it was totally epic!  Then they filmed a bunch of sketches that will be aired in April.  My favorite was the mind-reading one.  I’ll post it when it’s available.  In between the sketches Stacy came out and did question and answer with the cast.  There was also two lies and a truth, with a t-shirt if you got it right.  And Steven and Whitney shared their best and worst valentines day stories.  It was so fun, and the cast was really funny.  There was a new bisque guy sketch, and it was really good.

That Wednesday, for Young Women's, we got to go and take a tour of BYU Broadcasting Studio’s.  And guess who we saw rehearsing?  Yep, Studio C.  Here’s a picture.

We also got to see the camera’s that they use.

Here’s where they do all their cooking shows.

Here’s where they do the live broadcasting of the football games.

This is the head control board.

Here’s where they do the slow motion replay stuff.

Here’s the little control box they use.

This is one of the make-up rooms.

After we were done, we took pictures with the cutouts of the cast.

With Stacy!

With Jeremy!

With Jason!

With Matt!

Then my friend went and caught Mallory while she was coming out of the Studio, and got a picture with her.  Lucky! :)

And if you read this whole blog post and you don’t know who Studio C is, here’s some of my favorite video’s. Enjoy!!