1. Choose photos of watermelon, seeds, water and water splash from internet.

2. Open PS, make a new file.

3. Select gradient tool, choose light blue and white colour for gradient.

4. Use reflected gradient and drag from left to right to make the background more realistic.

5. Open the watermelon photo.

6.Use pen tool to select the cuticle.

7. Drag the selection to the gradient one.

8. Name the layer of watermalon as watermelon. Convert the layer to smart object to make it easy to resize.

9. Put the watermelon at the right place.

10. Make a new layer above the watermelon layer. Right click and select clipping mask.

11.Use brush tool and select the light blue colour and brush inside the peel of watermelon.

9.Open the water photo. Name it as layer water.

10.Drag the water to the watermelon. Convert the layer to smart object.

11. Resize and put it nicely inside the watermelon.

12. Then,right click the layer, choose resterize layer. it will make it easy to erase the

outside of the watermelon.

13. To erase water at the watermelon, Press ctrl while selecting the watermelon layer and you can see that it only select the watermelon. Use eraser to erase the water at the watermelon.

14. Click at the water layer to erase the outside of the watermelon.

15. Open water splash photo and place it rightly at the top of water. Convert to smart object to avoid the quality reduction.

15.You can duplicate the water splash layer to make more splash.

16.Resterize the water splash to erase the waste.

17. To make the splash colour like the water colour,on water splash layer,use brush tool,select the colour as water and brush the water splash. After that choose saturation for the layer.

18. Then,go to filter>blur>gaussian blur.

19. Now,we want to put the seed inside the watermelon.

20.Open the seed photo, place it right inside the watermelon by converting to smart object and resize it.

20.Duplicate the seed layer to make some seed inside there.

21. Then,put all the seed layers into group.

22. Put all the layers except the background layer including all groups into one group only and name it as watermelon complete.

22.To make some reflections, press Ctrl T, then drag the watermelon below to create the reflection. Select multiply for that layer. Done!

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Step to do this poster

1. Create a new file name Poster with A3 size.

2. Find a texture image. I choose the texture of jeans because i think it is nice to me. But please select the texture with big size of resolutions so that your poster will be clear enough.

3. Place the the texture at the poster as backgound.

4. To make the contents, Firstly, I make the photography border. I use text tool to type 'Photography'.

5. Then I find a camera image with .png format so that i can drag into the poster. Combine it with the photography text and use eye drop to colour the camera as same as the colour of the 'photography'.

6. Then, I used shape tool and choose line to make the left, bottom and right and above border.

7. After that, i made a triangle of exposure as the input for this poster. As usual, i used shape tool, text tool, blending options and some image to make the complete triangle. This tools also been used for the content of 'let's learn how to snap better pictures'.

8. For the image with the film background, firstly, i used shape tool and select the shape of film. Then, i take some pictures of mine and put it into frames in the films. Adjust the picture correctly to make sure the picture will be suit in the frame. Then, i merged all the pictures adjusted with the frame of film. So, it will become an image of film with picture. Do it repeatedly to make the other film.

9. To place it nicely in the poster, used the transform tool and transform the image as you want.

10. Done

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How to make the effect of vintage photo?

1. Open the photo.

2.Curves Image Adjustment

First thing we’re going to do is go to Image > Adjustment > Curves.

3.Add a Gradient Map.

Now go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient Map. Click the gradient editor and choose the Blue, Yellow, Blue gradient preset. Check the Reverse option.

4.Reduce the Opacity of the Gradient Map Layer

In the Layers Panel, drop the Opacity of the Gradient Map layer down to 30%.

4.Add a Curves Adjustment Layer

Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Curves. Make sure this layer is under the Gradient Map layer that we created in Step 3.

5.Add an Inner Shadow Layer Style

By default, in Photoshop, the photo you use will be opened as the Background layer and this layer will be uneditable (denoted by a padlock icon). In the Layers Panel, double-click on the Background layer and click OK to unlock it. Next, go to Layer > Layer Style > Inner Shadow. Set the blend mode:colour burn, distance:0, choke:20 and size:250.

6. Add a Gradient Overlay Layer Style

This is the final step. Go to Layer > Layer Style > Gradient Overlay. Change the Style to Radial and use the Black, White gradient preset. Set them to blend mode:overlay and opacity: 20.

7. Done but if you want the effect is to be on your favourite colour,use can use gradient map to select the colour gradient that you want.

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1. Open an image of model

2. It is quite good if you have found the model picture with white background.

3. If not, you have to change the background into white background.

4. For the model,it is optional if you want to change the model into black and white or stay the same as original.

5. Now, we will doubling the image to make a pattern at the model only. So, open an image of tree. This image will double the image of the model.

6.Make sure that layer model is above the layer model. Place the layer tree correctly.

7. Reduce a little bit opacity of layer tree then set it into vivid light. it is depends on you that suitable with your photo. you can choose multiply/screen/overlay depends on the effects that you want.

8. Done

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