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Really good video tutorial on creating altered reality images?

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November 18, 2021
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I'm trying to figure out how to do different types of altered reality that I've seen. In particular, I've seen images where an open book was used as a base on which to display an image or images. I'm having trouble figuring out how to place the image on the book and have it conform to the book pages. I can PHYSICALLY do it, but the image doesn't look normal because it started as a 3:2 image and was distorted down to something like 4:1 to fit the pages. On top of this, the process of warping the image heavily causes it to look unnatural...

So, I'm looking for a good tutorial (probably video would be good) that'll go through the process of getting things to work...

It doesn't HAVE to be this particular process, but I'm looking for ways to use images, not clip art or stock images or other work that isn't mine, so I'm not trying to do anything really outlandish or surreal.

Thanks for any pointers you can provide...

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JJMack

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Pages images in a book mockup are usually transform and warped to conform the the book page distortion.

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DavePinMinnAuthor

Inspiring

True, but you can't warp both pages together. Even with the warp split it doesn't work. You have to do each page separately and if you have angled line, like a roofline, I havent found a good way to keep the lines straight and the angles correct.

JJMack

Community Expert

Actually you are not correct, With a single Smart Object layer that is a double page layout like a centerfold where even and odd page is a single image side by side like a stitched panorama. All one need to do in the Template is Transform , Warp and Mask the object twice once for the left page layout once for the right page. just duplicate the smart object layer. Make the two distortions do a third if its a foldout. A Page lighting shadow overlay can easly be added

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Myra Ferguson

Community Expert

If you'd like to warp an image to make it appear that it is a page from the book, here's a tutorial :

Make a print mockup

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DavePinMinnAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks. That one is similar to the one's I've watched. I THINK one of my problems is my image and my book are different aspect ratios... I tried making them similar then splitting the single image into two pages. Works but when I warp the curve in the middle it makes the images not match...

So, I'm part way there - closer but still way from good.

Chris 486

Community Expert

Hi DavePinMinn!

Could you provide any screenshots of wwhere you are in your progress? I bet once we can see that, we can provide a specific technique to get it looking right for you.

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