• Photoshop magnifying glass In this Photoshop tutorials is a nice easy method to create the illusion of a magnifying glass which you can lay over any background you like.

    The finished design will look like this :



    photoshop tutorials step 1
    To start off we need a picture of a magnifying glass - first port of call is sxc.hu. A great free stock photo site.
    You can also grab the magnifying glass photo from tutorialblog.

    Cut out the image and resize it to suit your image, the tutorial image will be created at 400px square.


    photoshop tutorials step 2
    Next, get your background image and resize it down - we will be using a larger version for the magnified part so its important to resize it down :


    photoshop tutorials step 3
    Now create a new layer and past a larger version of your background image on to it :


    photoshop tutorials step 4
    Using the circular selection tool, draw a circle the rough shape of the magnifying glass lense :


    photoshop tutorials step 5
    Now, go to select > transform selection, this will put handles to resize your circular selection :


    photoshop tutorials step 6
    Resize the selection and get it as close to the edges of the magnifying glass rim as you can.
    Hit enter > make sure the large background image is selected, then select > inverse selection > press delete.

    You should now have something like this :


    photoshop tutorials step 7
    With that layer still selected, right click on it in the layer window and select blending options.
    Give it an inner shadow with these settings :


    photoshop tutorials step 8
    Now give it a stroke of 6 pixels :


    photoshop tutorials step 9
    Select the magnifying glass layer and give it a drop shadow to make it look more realistic :


    photoshop tutorials step 10
    Your image should now be looking like this :


    photoshop tutorials step 11
    Next we will add a slight reflection, create a new layer, draw a circle like this and fill it white :


    photoshop tutorials step 12
    Select the layer below, select > inverse and press delete, you should now have :


    photoshop tutorials step 13
    Select the white reflection layer and right click to go into blending options, change the settings to overlay :


    photoshop tutorials step 14
    Once this is done, you should now have this as your finished image :

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