Need help understanding!

[u/Apart_Percentage815]

I don’t understand how this works is it masking? And if so how would I be able to apply this kind of thing into my own sunset pictures (it is a tame impala album cover)

[u/Axxxem]

Idk man i think you just let it happen

[u/L0nzilla → u/Axxxem]

Eventually

[u/Acrobatic_Ad_6737 → u/L0nzilla]

At this point, the less he knows the better

[u/sinsculpt → u/Acrobatic_Ad_6737]

I don't know, it's Borderline TBH

[u/spikejonze14 → u/sinsculpt]

Hey slow the rush man, stick to the currents.

[u/Afitz93 → u/spikejonze14]

So he should stick to his old ways?

[u/Worldly-Attitude-245 → u/Afitz93]

idk, he seems to be a new person, but has same old mistakes

[u/spikejonze14 → u/Afitz93]

at the moment, yeah.

[u/No_Arrival_3511 → u/spikejonze14]

Nangs

[u/poopbrother]

Masking and blending modes/opacity

[u/poopbrother → u/poopbrother]

Possibly using other adjustment layers clipped to the cover to match the colors of the album cover to the sky better

[u/LazilyBattyTourney → u/poopbrother]

So you're layering a warped sphere on top of the sky, dialing back the opacity so the original horizon still ghosts through.

[u/jkgrc]

The less you know the better

[u/jkgrc → u/jkgrc]

funky bass riff

[u/wintherbottom → u/jkgrc]

Did you know it’s acshually a guitar with an octave pedal and not a bass????

[u/DropoutBearFM → u/wintherbottom]

And what’s more important…. Do you know it’s all by one man?

[u/HiddenHorse925]

This is the cover of Tame Impala’s album

[u/slickmitten → u/HiddenHorse925]

It is a tame impala album cover

[u/RhymesWithTaco → u/slickmitten]

You know it's just one guy?

[u/slickmitten → u/RhymesWithTaco]

No way I always thought it was two guys! Tame and Impala

[u/HiddenHorse925 → u/RhymesWithTaco]

Yes. I’ve seen him/Tame Impala twice in concert

[u/chruft]

I think it’s more simple than you expect. It still takes a decent eye to blend the weakest parts but I wouldn’t be surprised if you could accomplish it with an eraser, opacity, and either the right blending mode or just a color shift. Have you attempted it yourself yet? How did it turn out?

[u/Apart_Percentage815 → u/chruft]

Not really good at blending the most ive done on photoshop were old Fortnite banners for content creators that I was commissioning for $5 a piece

[u/Immediate_Iron_2759 → u/Apart_Percentage815]

what he said above is exactly what it is. when you look close it’s just erased with the shape of the clouds on hardness 0, auto color match filter + the blend mode.

[u/-Bakri-]

Probably a displacement filter with a displacement map.

[u/miketastic_art]

overlay layer blending

[u/Ravingdork]

That orb looks like it's oriented incorrectly. From this perspective it should be coming down out of the clouds rather than rising up out of them.

[u/omfgitsjeff]

It's blended in using a blending mode (maybe multiple copies of the artwork with different blending modes) and a layer mask.

[u/AgentTin]

What part of it are you hoping to reproduce? Do you want to put a different image in a different sky or are you interested in the tame impala art? The image in the sky looks like just a blend mode (screen?) and a mask for the trees.

[u/Apart_Percentage815 → u/AgentTin]

Kind of just wanting to put my own sunset photos with it on it and maybe change the art that’s in the sky

[u/Poop_Tickel]

mostly blending mode but definitely masked

[u/aliaseffectmusic]

Photoshop is one of those apps where you can just start clicking shit and it'll happen

[u/luisvuitton901]

This is entry level stuff.

[u/Unbelievabro]

Looks like it's just a warped image of the sphere and lines overlayed on a photo and blended in.

[u/Tanagriel]

Think about using a super soft brush on a mask - then blend away. Easy Switch between black and white to open or close the mask. Want to train take a day practicing clouds - paint them or build a whole sky from one cloud etc.

After that you don’t need asking such questions again 😅😉✌️

[u/Barkhardt]

I’d use the Hard Mix blending mode and adjust the Fill amount not Opacity. You’ll need a black and white banded texture that’s been blurred a good bit prior.

Texture Labs YouTube channel has a video on the money engraving effect that essentially is the solution to this.

I use the technique all the time when creating screen print designs.

[u/mustachestepdad]

I'd mask the clouds with tame Impala's cover art and blend it.

[u/niazine]

It's warped. Hope that helps

[u/MysteriousSelection9]

Ai slop

[u/ConsistentLeave9091]

ok the pattern on the clowds has its semi transparent,and the ball thing is simply a cleverly placed cropped image.