PHOTOSHOP® ELEMENTS 3: DOWN & Dirty TRICKS

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161CHAPTER 7 • Special Effects

This technique creates a wall made out of TV monitors, with each monitor containing part of a much larger, single image.

You start by creating a single screen, duplicating and stacking it, and pasting an image into a selection of each monitor.

Building a Video Wall

STEP ONE: Create a new document in

RGB mode (the one here is 8x7"). Create

a new blank layer by clicking on the

Create a New Layer icon at the top of

the Layers palette. Press M to get the

Rectangular Marquee tool, and draw a

horizontal rectangular selection. Press D

to set your Foreground color to black,

and then press Alt-Backspace to fi ...