Stare at the black X in the image below. After about 15 seconds of staring at the photo below, it’ll change to a black and white version. Don’t worry, this isn’t one of those scary photos where the monster jumps and screams at you, I promise. What do you see?

You should of seen the photo in color when it turned to black and white. Weird, huh?  Today, we’re going to take a look at creating this Negative Illusion effect in Photoshop! You’ll learn how to create a simple animation to create the .gif you see above.

We’ll start off by opening a photo in Photoshop. File > Open. Navigate to the photo you chose and open it up. 

Double click the background layer to turn it into a “real” layer. Name it what you’d like and click OK.

Next, with the layer selected, hit Ctrl-J or Cmd-J on a Mac to duplicate this layer.

We need to Invert this copied layer. To do that, go to Image > Adjustments > Invert or use the shortcut key Ctrl-I or Cmd-I on a Mac.

Lets go ahead and hide this layer by clicking the little eye() icon to the left of the layer and select your original un-inverted layer.

Next, Click the Create new fill or adjustment layer icon () and choose, “Black and White“. This should create a new Black and White adjustment layer above your original color layer making it black and white.

Now if you click the eye icon next to the inverted layer to reveal it, you’ll see the inverted image and when you click it again, you’ll see a black and white image.

You can add a little dot or X somewhere in the middle so the viewer has something to stare at. For an X, just go to the text tool and type an “X” and position it where you want it. Go to the ellipse tool in the shapes to draw out a circle for a circle.

Now, we’re ready to animate this! First, we need to open the animation window. This can be done by going to Window > Animation. Your animation window might be at the “Timeline” view and look like this.

We need to change this into “Frames” view by clicking the little icon to the bottom right of the animation window.

Your animation window should now look something like this.

With Frame 1 selected, click the Duplicate selected frame button ().

With Frame 2 selected, go ahead and turn off the Inverted layer.

The black and white image should now be showing.

Change the duration of Frame 1 to 15 seconds. You can do that by clicking the little time icon below frame 1 and choose “Other…” enter 15 seconds and Click OK. The duration can be whatever you want, anywhere from 10-20 seconds or even shorter if you’re making a quick change back and forth.

Change the duration of Frame 2 to 5 seconds by following the same method above. 5 seconds should already be listed in the menu. You can click the play button to preview your animation.

Now we need to save this as an animated .GIF file. To do this, Go up to File > Save for Web & Devices.

Here, choose GIF as your save type with 256 colors you can add Diffusion at 100% depending on what looks best. Be sure to change the Looping Options to “Forever“. Click Save and save it to your desired location.

Click the image above to enlarge it if needed.

There you have it! If you happen to create some negative illusions, feel free to share ’em on our Facebook Page! As long as you’re not color blind, this should work.

Have you ever seen these types of Illusions? Do you know of any other cool optical illusions? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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In today’s tutorial, I show you how to turn film negatives into positives using Photoshop CS5.

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In this tutorial, I’ll show you how you can add your very own photo inside of text in Photoshop CS5. You’ll learn the basics of using Clipping Masks.

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Nowadays Photoshop is used in just about every photo I’ve seen. You probably don’t go a day without seeing at least one Photoshop outcome. People are starting to get a lot better at making you believe that what you see in pictures are real. Sometimes it can be extremely difficult to tell if a photo has been Photoshopped or not. That’s where Image Error Level Analysis comes in. This simple tool helps you analyze photos telling you whether they’ve been manipulated in any way. It’s as simple as pasting the link to the photo you want analyzed and it’ll show you the differing error levels throughout an image. Therefore, strongly suggesting some form of digital manipulation.

Explanation

“Error level analysis (ELA) works by intentionally resaving the image at a known error rate, such as 95%, and then computing the difference between the images. If there is virtually no change, then the cell has reached its local minima for error at that quality level. However, if there is a large amount of change, then the pixels are not at their local minima and are effectively original.”

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So, I gave it a try. Here’s the original photo of a dragonfly I uploaded that hasn’t been touched.

..and I came out with this analysis below.

You can see the final outcome at the site here: http://errorlevelanalysis.com/permalink/5521aed/

Here it looks pretty normal. Now lets take a look at a modified version below.

Here’s the modified version of the same dragonfly. I enlarged the eyes and moved the back up a bit.

Below you’ll see the analysis.

You can see the final outcome at the site here: http://errorlevelanalysis.com/permalink/3e7458c/

The eyes now show up darker indicating a suspicious area on the image.

Overall, I think this is a very useful tool in helping you figure out whether a photo has been altered in any way. Of course, this won’t be giving you any exact answers. But, at least it will give you some suspicion to work with if a photo has indeed been altered.

This can also be done in Photoshop by switching through the different color layers in your photo.If your photo is in RGB mode you can really tell a fake by switching through the Red, Green, and Blue channel layers. That way, you’ll be able to see more lighting differences in the photo helping you better tell if the photo has been altered or had things added.

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These are just a few ways to notice imperfections. If you have any other good tips on detecting a fake, please leave a comment below!

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In this tutorial, I show you how to “Match Color” in Photoshop CS5. Basically, we’re going to learn how to match the color of an object in one photo with the color of an object in another separate photo using the Match Color command. Match Color should be available in all CS versions of Photoshop.

If you utilize this tool and match the color of something in a photo you have, feel free to share this on the Facebook page!

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As requested, in this tutorial, I will show you how to place a photo in a wine glass. This is a very simple effect that you too can accomplish fairly quick. It’s just another effect to add to those great wedding photos. Thanks for Watching.

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Ever wonder if there was any way to reduce freckles on someone’s face in a photograph? In this tutorial, I will show you one of the most easiest and most effective way to reduce freckles using Photoshop. All you have to do is open up your photo, duplicate the layer, add a “Gaussian Blur”, open the “History” pallet, click on the duplicate layer state to return your photo to what it looked like when you havent applied the gaussian blur, click in the first column next to gaussian blur state, select the “History Brush Tool”, change the mode to, “Lighten”, bring the opacity down to 50 or 60, and paint over all of your freckles. That’s It! If the face looks to clean, you can always bring the opacity down further.

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