Burn Holes

This tutorial teaches you how to apply burn holes to an existing graphic.

1. Open any images

2. use Lasso Tool to create a shpe (for the hole), double click on Quick
Mask tool, Color Indicates:Masked Areas;Opacity:50%

3. Apply Filter—> Pixelate—>Crystallize, Cell size lets say
7 (as long as it looks pleasing)

4. exit quick mask mode, go to channels panel, select Save selctions as
channel, then go back to layers panel

5. create a new layer, fill selection with white color

6. go to select —-> modify —> expand, 5 pixels

7. ctrl+alt+d, feather radius 4 pixels

8. Select—> Load Selection.

Channel:Alpha1;Operation:Subtract from Selection

9. click on background layer, CTRL+U, Hue: 14, Saturation: 29, Lightness:
-61

10. keep selection, ctrl+j, copy selection via layer

11. go to blending option, drop shadow, opacity: 75, angle 120, distance
3, sspread: 19, size, 24

12. now add a stoke (in layer style) for the white piece in the top layer,
use a color abit darker than the background of the image, position is
inside, here we go.

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