Biju Subhash: Create a film strip in photoshop

Create a movie film strip
Author: Biju Subhash Date: 16th of October 2008

Here's How:

Open Adobe Photoshop » Create a new document with the size of 800 x 600 pixels.
Create a new layer. Name it film strip.
Select the Regtangular marquee tool and draw a selection with the size of 193 x 330 pixels.
Select black color from the color palate and fill the color.
Create an another layer. Name it hole.
Select the Rounded regtangular tool from the tool palate. Set the radius 3px. Anti-alised is on.

Select the Move tool. Press and hold the "Alt" key, then go to the Edit menu and Press and hold the left button of the mouse too. Go to "Transform" and select "Scale"
A bounding box wil appear. Zoom in the object 3 to 4 times. Press and hold the "Alt" key, then press and hold the left button of the mouse and drag it down. Press "Enter" key. A duplicated object created with a duplicated layer.
Press and hold the "Ctrl" key plus "Shift" key and press the "T" key. This will repeat step which you done before. Repeat this step again and again when the film strips end.
Link these layers, which you duplicated. Merge it.
Select the Move Tool. Press and hold the "Alt" key and drag it to the right side of the film strip.
Merge these layers again.
Select the merged layer (hole). Press and hold the "Ctrl" key and click the mouse button on the merged layer. You will get selection
Delete the merged layer.
Select the "Film Strip" layer and press "delete". Now the "Film Strip" layer have some holes.
Select the brush tool. Select a golden yellow color "#8C6E2B" (see the picture below). Draw some brush strokes horizondal over and over.

Open the picture which you want to make film. Reduce the size of the photo to fit the film strip.
Select all and copy the image. Close the picture file.
Go to the "edit" menu and select "Paste Into".
Duplicate the layer and move down for the next. Redo this when the film strips end. Part on is completed.
The second part is, we want to make the film lean somewhere and make a perspective shadow.
Hide the background layer if there it is. Select the regtangular marquee tool and draw a regtangle around the film.
Go to the "Edit" menu, select the "Copy Merged" and paste it. It will paste a merged copy with transparency.
Go the the "Edit" menu, select "Transform" then Rotate 90° CW. Move the object to left bottom corner. Not the end, keep some margin (60 to 80 pixels).
Go to the "Filter " menu, select the "Distort " and select "Spearize... "
Amout is -100% and the mode is normal

Create a copy of the current layer. Name it "film shadow". Move the layer down and place it under of "Film Strip"layer.
Press and hold the "Ctrl" key, then press "T". Move the center point right bottom corner of the object. Then rotate the object to "-16°". Press and hold the "Ctrl" key and press "Enter" key to set the position.
Lock the transparent pixels.

Set the background and foreground colors to default (Ctrl + D). Select the Gradient tool and drag it from bottom to top.
Remove the layer transparency. Then apply a filter "Gaussian Blur". Set the radius 2 pixels.
That's it.

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