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Google Maps Parody Photoshop Tutorial
Tutorial Details
- Program: Adobe Photoshop CS2
- Version: 9
- Difficulty: Easy
- Estimated Completion Time: 1 hour
Resources:
- Earth pin 025 by Michael Vincent Manalo (Creative Commons License)
- Aerial view of Paranaque PHILS by Michael Vincent Manalo (Creative Commons License)
- Sunny Field by frozenstocks (Creative Commons License)
Step 1 - Create a new image
To start, let’s create an image document with the following settings:- Width: 3072 pixels
- Height: 2048 pixels
- Resolution: 300 dpi
- Color Mode: RGB Color; 8bit
- Background Contents: Transparent

Step 2 - Create the background
In this step, we would be creating our background, that is, the ground and the sky. So, to begin, let’s open Aerial View of Paranaque PHILS. Once it has been opened, left-click on the image and activate the Move tool (V) then drag it to our newly created canvas. You’d notice that this stock image’s dimensions and that of the canvas are similar, so there is no need to do any resizing.

- Brightness: 0
- Contrast: -5
- Color Levels: 22, 0, -19
- Tone Balance: Midtones
- Preserve Luminosity: Checked


- Edits: Master
- Hue: 0
- Saturation: -21
- Lightness: 0
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