cool… will try this soon…

wow, dude! This is great. Thank.

hi yeah this is a really great tutorial the only thing is i get stuck at the step 1 of the determining the size of the polaroid i don’t know what the layer thumbnail? i hope you can help me thanks

this is a good tutorial.

Hi Dave, click here for a sample of layer thumbnail.

I agree with Dave, i got stuck at step 1 too. :( Help ME!

Janna, this is the Layer Thumbnmail. Left click to get its size.

just download the sample guys

nice tutorial man…I’ll be visiting again for sure

i’m not good with photo shop. I keep getting stuck on this one part

“Look for your desired image, copy it and SHIFT + CTRL V to paste it. You will noticed the image will paste itself into the highligted selection.”

The thing is still highlighted and everything and i’m pasting my picture in but it doesn’t go in the highlighted selection…help me please =)

“Look for your desired image, copy it and SHIFT + CTRL V to paste it. You will noticed the image will paste itself into the highligted selection.”

The thing is still highlighted and everything and i’m pasting my picture in but it doesn’t go in the highlighted selection…help me please =)

Mee too stuck at this very same point..The copied pic does not paste itself into the higlighted selection at all..

there is something missing in the tutorial i feel..as it does say hide the layer but we will use it as a reference later..where is that gone..where do we use it.i think it has something to do with the pic pasting inside the selection if im not wrong

I stayed up all night making these. LOL.

Hi, I have done everything here. When it comes to pasting my image, Paste is not even an option. Also in the download, Photo in Polaroid is missnig from the tutorial ? Is this right ? There seems to be a few things missing…

Thanks.

Ahhh… when pasting your photo, select the photo layer and click on paste into… then click transform and then scale. Works a treat.

Thanks for this tut !

i need help pls on the third step of ‘creating the base’.

when i try to double click on the layer name to launch blending options i get ‘new layer’ pop-up, then when trying to establish the drop/inner shadow it doesn’t edit the edges of the rectangle i drew but the entire perimeter of the canvas itself. help!

Great TUT, thanks Hongkiat!

One thing to keep in mind: The polaroid image itself is a square. So you wanna keep the width and height equal (step 4). Look at W & H in the “Info” tab (FN + F8 for Mac).

As a gimmick you could add sticky tape or a drawing pin and maybe some dirt or something;)

@Lenny: You can also right-click the layer and go to Blending Options.

Cheers

i always get stuck in the highlight part.
whenever i left click it, the layer is highlighted and not the selection.

i cant paste my image…pls.help!im so interested in this polario effect its so challenging.;)

I noticed most of you are confused with the highlight part. Let me do this is a short video, hope this helps you understand things better.

What I did before hand is copy my image, then outline it with Photoshop, hit SHIFT + CTRL + V to paste it inside where I outlined it.

Check out the video.

http://www.screencast.com/t/zsKGundog

I’m very new to Photoshop, but have been able to successfully complete several of the free tutorials I get from Photoshop Roadmap News. This one, however, is way too difficult for a beginner. It was written for people who know photoshop. Create a new canvas? I tried hitting control new, but not sure if that’s correct. I have CS 2 and don’t have the rounded rectangle tool, just the regular. Can’t find help on the help screen. Don’t bother telling me, either. I’ll just get stuck on the next. It just would have helped if more direction could have been given. I was really looking forward to accomplishing this because it looks so different.

i still dont get it even after watching ur video… o.O?

ok.. i feeel so stupid..ive been trying that image pasting,,, cant get it yet.. nd no offense but the video isnt really clear.. you can only see the blue layer and then turning into the golf pictyure,, i still cant see what you did sorry!!!

i found an easier way to create polaroid effects, just upload and click
http://polaroid.cuteness.ws

stucked on #3. I mean do I create a new layer on #2? then go to #3? I don’t get it. Thank you.

Create a new layer, then go open up another image, copy it and Shift-paste into the selection.

Thank you so much. I’ve create 2 very realistic Polaroid effect photos for my project. This is a very great tutorial, and very pro finished. Thank you again, Hongkiat.

Hi, thanks for a really nice and detailed tutorial!
I’ve made an online converter to create a polaroid-style images – http://www.instantizer.com Simply upload your picture, add a description and specify rotation angle if needed.
Feel free to try it!

i wan to paid $50.00 someone help me to made some pictures
by photoshop!!

Amazing tutorial ! I’ll be back !

Thank you and greatjob !

Nice tutorial. But… Your left, right, and top borders are not wide enough. Need to be about 1/4″. I grew up in the 60’s, and had three polaroid cameras, and an SX-70, if you know what that is. So it’s currently not realistic with your borders. Just a suggestion…

very helpful especially when i needed it. thanks .

Hi, what’s the font you used in your photo?

Hello, I really enjoyed the tutorial, too. Same question as Tommy – what font did you use? Any styles added to the font?

@Tommy, @Aaron
I’m using Pristina Regular as the font. No extra style added :-)

Hi,

I am importing the polaroid into Indesign and wanted to know if there is a way I can vectorise it or create in illustrator or indesign so the quality doesnt drop when I import. In Indesign I notice when I rotate the polaroid to the left slightly it looks jagged.

Any ideas?

Importing pixel oreitned image sinto Indesign do preview jagged, but in fact they print perfectly. So it’s only an optional issue within indesign

Greetings,

Great tutorial but it gives me a question though:

What is the purpose of step three? I see the effect of course but why does that step need to be done?

Thanks,

I left out the most important part of my question.

i was meaning the step three where you “Select Polygonal Lasso Tool, Hold ALT and draw a rectangular like the image below to cut off half of the highlighted selection.”

Why does that make the photo somehow blend better?

Do it online.. xtremely simple.
http://ankitjain.info/ankit/2009/02/20/free-image-polaroid-template-add-title-shadow

waw. cool! thx a lot

Excelent! i’m creating a new theme for my blog and this is great

Really great tutorial! The only thing I did differently is added a 5px feather to the glossy step so the gloss looks more natural and blended.

Are you retarded?

The final image doesn’t look like a Polaroid. I take Polaroids religiously, and anyone who does can tell you the same thing. Sharpness and depth is totally off. The Greens don’t render in that fashion on a real Polaroid. Also, real Polaroids have a specific grain structure which is unique to them, and yes, it shows in certain areas, like the sky. The blue of the sky doesn’t render in that fashion on a real Polaroid.

I don’t think we need heavy software like photo shop to do this. Its like using a

There are so many easy ways. Here is one of them
http://open-tube.com/creating-polaroid-effect-easily/

This tutorial…sucks. I mean if thats what a polaroid looked like then yea it’d be good, but a polarioud has a texture to is and it has a wider area around the photo, and you could have spent some time on making the photo itself be retro looking.

my today’s is not complate without you.