All right folks, time do dive in. Altough I’m still very busy setting this thing up, but I’ve decided to start with the first tutorial ( I couldn’t wait 
). It’s a how-to for making a dwarf from a giant ( as you may have guessed from the title ), very usefull trick indeed.
This is what we’ll start with:
For this example, we’ll use a picture of two basketballplayers, I can be wrong but isn’t the left one Yao Ming ( quote from Time: “Striding in at a lanky 2.26 meters—who knew a Chinese could grow so tall?” ) ? We’ll shrunk him in no time to about the size of a hobbit.
Read on!
1. Ok, open the source picture in Photoshop.
2. Change the name of the picture-layer to “playfield” ( allways give the layers a logical name, so you can handle your file when you’re working with a .psd with a massive 100 layers … ), by clicking two times on it’s name.
3. Duplicate the layer: Layer > duplicate ( top of the screen ).
So now we have a layer to work with. We call this one “player”.
4. We’re going to “cut” Yao out, so we can transform him. To begin with, add a layer mask ( in the layer palette, click on the add layer mask-icon ) to the player-layer. A layer mask works like this: the areas you paint black, dissapear, and the areas you leave white ( or paint them back with white ), are visible. The main difference with simply erasing is that with a layer mask, you can call parts back at any time if you made a mistake somewhere. So unless you are an eraser-master, a layer mask is the best option.
Set the underlying playfield-layer to “invisible” by clicking on the eye-icon, so you can easy see what you’re doing.
Then pick a brush with a hard edge and size 13 ( find out what works best for you ).
Now brush slowly around our basketballplayer ( take a smaller brush tip for details like his fingers ). Make sure the foreground color is set on black ( it standard is, otherwise strike “d” ). You’ll want to zoom in to make it easyer: view>zoom in or “ctrl++”
5. When you’ve bin around him, let the background disappear by filling the big area around him with black. To get the filler in your hands, hit “g”. Click somewhere aside the player and it’s vanished.
6. So, now we have our giant “cut out” on a separate layer so we can transform his size. But there’s still a copy of him in the playfield-layer: we’ll have to remove him there. Therefore, make the “player”-layer invisible and select the “playfield”-layer ( and thus making it back visible ).
In this layer, we’re going to “stamp him away”, with digital ink. Pick the clone stamp-tool and set brush size to about 65.
Now, to suck up our digital ink, press alt and then click on an area next to his leg ( to begin with ). Now you can “stamp” with this color/texture by clicking over his leg.
See how it dissapears? It’s Photoshop magic! Go on by sampling different colors, try to sample them as close to the desired area as possible ( to remain darkness or texture ). Do the same with the blue and red parts. Don’t mind the white lines, nobody will notice these, so just stamp over them …
7. So far, so good. Now we have the playfield with an empty spot where Yao stood. Now make the player-layer back visible, and there we have what we started with. At least, it seams like that. But, now we have our player on a seperate layer and an “empty” background ( so we don’t have to worry about the background shrinking too when we modify Yao ).
8. Now it’s time for the big action: the shrinking. Hit “ctrl+T” to get in “free transform”-modus ( or edit>free transform ). First thing is clicking the chain-icon to keep the properties.
Then change the 100% next to the “W” in 50%. Hit enter, or make modifications with the crosshairs.
9. Drag him to the right place.
Hmm, it still looks like he’s floating. That’s because there’s something missing: a shadow on the floor. Let’s fix this. Duplicate the player-layer ( layer>duplicate ) and call the copy “shadow”.Turn the “shadow” around: edit>transform>flip vertical and drag down till his two feet are touching ( hold shift while dragging to go straight down ).
Not yet right, it needs some rotating: edit>transform>rotate (or again ctrl+T ) and then turn it around with the ground crosshair, till the four feet make contact.
Set the blending mode of the shadow-layer to “hard light”, this let’s the underground shine trough a little.
Now place the shadow-layer underneath the player-layer.
The shadow is a littlebit conspicuos: adjust this via image>adjustments>brightness and contrast, then slide contrast to -70.
That’s a lot better!
10. There you go! Wasn’t that hard, was it?
It’s my very first tutorial, so feel free to give critics & comments on how to improve!
Hilarious! Great tut.
You messed up a lot of the background by using the Clone Stamp Tool. No new techniques, 4/10
I agree.
i wanna say just!
it’s good.
Great tut, but you forgot to fix the white line
@Adrian: You’re right. Should’ve fixed that, altough it’s not that easy ..
LOL it was easy for me i did it to another pic and had no lines missing at all
@Cabral: Don’t hesitate to show us your results! I’m always interested to see what you do with the tut’s.
don’t try to put the line back in, just take the whole thing out. Also, use Vanishing Point in CS2 to get a realistic background for the floor. for a first tut, I give you more credit then that ‘4/10′
you were original and didn’t just redo another tutorial, as i tend to see too many of those nowadays.
good concept, keep at it, but perfect itbefore you put it online.
You could really sell it if you tilted the opponents head down so he appeared to be looking at the little player, instead of over his head.
that is not Yao….thats OOOOLD image you got…Yao was perhaps 8-9 yrs at the time.
Its Drazen Pertovic head on M.J.
@Lebisol: You’re sure?
I found it with a Yao-search ..
It’s good, cept for the line and the court. Now, if you did this with something that had a plain background….
This is not what I cal a good tutorial!!! I’m sorry for beïng so hard.. but you ruled the whole background!! But cause it’s youre first tutorial, it’s oké to do some things wrong…
I agree too. I’m german
Dude nice tut i ahve to admit you did sorta ruin the thing with the whiteline .. but yeah its perfectomudo if you get it correct
dudez that great it works… thanks….
Hehehe, this was awesome.
although it need a little extra polishing to the image that what was shown in the tutorial, its still great.
Keep up the good work!
OK…but you can still see the refelction from the normal sized one, and you gorgot to re draw the 3 - point line. also you can see where the line is suppose to be it its smudged from where you put the shrunken image, and doesn’t look very natural.
sweet dude. Realy nice I must say:D Keep up the good work
yeah the other guy is right thats not yao
yea and yoa isnt a point guard
Just a quick comment: If the player is smaller, wouldn’t the ball stay the same size as before?? And yeah, the line, the head of the opposing player should’ve been fixed to fit …
you forgot to put the three point line back
it is nice for the beginners.
great tut ! but you forgot to bring the lines back on the field
It Seems very difficult but i keep on tring.i have made every effort to do eventually i Can do it on my own.Thanks…
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YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT THE BALL AT THE ORIGINAL SIZE!!!
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good tut… it would look a little better and make more sense though if the ball stayed actual size…
There’s no line in the floor
that’s not Yao damn it Timmeyyyy
Dayum Thats Nice! but you just missed (sorry) the end of the white line, were the chinese basketball player used to be standing
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hi its fucking hard
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randi ka bacha its hard
i am trying to do this
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i just want to say Jancok for your tutorial.
I agree with all of the past comments, you did a great job, I only have one suggestion, and that would be to enlarge the ball back to normal size. (as well as fixing the white line. You don’t necessarily have to use the clone stamp for the line. Try selecting a similar area of the court with the lasso tool, then copying it and pasting it over the missing section. Try to line up the floorboards as much as possible. Then you can use the distort transformation tool to shrink it and bend it to match even more.)
So, I havent actually done this tutorial, But the image made me giggle… *snicker*
that is nice one
i made that check this out
http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/917/dt13yu0.jpg