This was my original picture, which I believe I downloaded
at Thalassa's now-defunct Stargate cap site. It is actually a crop
of a larger picture.
First
off, the original picture was way too dark and needed more contrast, so I
duplicated it and ran a quick auto levels (
Image --> Adjustments -->
Auto Levels) (
Background copy).
A few years ago, Vered made a TV vector shape, so I used that to make a TV
screen shape with the
Custom Shape Tool (you can download the shape
on Creative
here) (
Shape 1). I selected this shape by holding down the Ctrl
button and clicking on the shape layer. Then I selected my picture layer,
right clicked, and selected
Layer via Copy (
Layer 1). I
created a layer right below this which I filled with black to make the
background (
Black).
I copied my picture layer and desaturated it to make it black and white (
Image
--> Adjustments --> Desaturate) (
Layer 1 copy). I copied this
layer, set it to
Overlay, and lowered the opacity to 13% just to
add that extra oomph (
Layer 1 copy 2). To make the whole thing a
bit washed out, I added a median filter on this layer later (
Filter -->
Noise --> Median,
radius 1 pixel).
To create the lines, I created yet another copy of my desaturated layer
and started to tinker. I forgot my exact steps here, but I believe I
created clouds (
Filter --> Render --> Clouds), pointilized (
Filter
--> Pixelate --> Pointillize, cell size 5), and ran a motion blur (
Filter
--> Blur --> Motion Blur, with settings of
Angle 0, Distance 61
pixels). I may have sharpened this layer (
Filter --> Sharpen -->
Sharpen), and this gave me (
Layer 1 copy 3), which I set to
Soft Light. This made my picture way too dark, so I duplicated this
layer and messed with the Levels (
Image --> Adjustments --> Levels)
of this duplicate until it was much lighter (
Layer 1 copy 4, which
is set to Soft Light). Then I made the original motion blurred layer
invisible.
I seem to remember old 60s TV to be much lighter and less contrasty than
current TV, so I duplicated my (
Layer 1 copy) and messed with the
Brightness and Contrast until I was happy (
Image --> Adjustments -->
Brightness/Contrast, settings at
Brightness +13, Contrast -11)
(
Layer 1 copy 5).
To create the dots, I made a new layer, set it to
Soft Light, and
brushed on some black dots from
Rose's damnapple3 set (
Dots). I erased any dots over the face.
To make it look like the TV screen curves out at you, I created a new
layer and brushed a 35 pixel soft rounded brush near the edges (
Reflection):
black around the left and bottom sides, and a light gray around the top and
right sides. I set this layer to
Soft Light and lowered the opacity
to 68% so the effect was not too obvious.
Finally I created two more layer, (
Edge Glow) and (
Layer 2).
I selected the TV shape as described above (
Ctrl --> click on Shape 1
layer), right clicked and hit
Select Inverse, and filled this
area with a light gray in (
Edge Glow) and a black in (
Layer 2).
Finally, I ran a Gaussian Blur on (
Edge Glow) (
Filter --> Blur
--> Gaussian Blur,
Radius 10.5 pixels) to really emphasize the
border and complete the curved look of the screen.
