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Know Photoshop and Get Templates

Firstly, you need to be very familiar with Photoshop and know your way around.  It is a complete necessity.  Now what you need to do is either go to IRC and trade templates with people there or we may have added a download templates section by then.  

Change Info and Add Picture

Now, for the Templates to be worthwhile for you, you will need to change all the information to suit your needs.  Especially the picture.  You will need to import your picture into Photoshop through either a digital camera/video camera or scanner. 

Edit your Picture
Now, you have imported your picture in a new file using either a digital camera or a scanner.   However, the ID that your attempting to replicate or create has a different background then the one that your picture was taken with.  So what you need to do is select the entire area that you do not want to change the color (IE your FACE!) as shown below.  Although the picture may appear to be a little choppy we are able to fix this!  Remember to only select the dark colors this is very important since we you will be adding a fade.



Cut the selected area as a new layer and you can delete the original background.  Leaving Your face and a blank background.  Now you can add a background layer with whatever background you would like.  You still may be saying I can not print this, my picture looks although it has been cut out.  Well you are going to edit the layer properties and add a drop shadow.  Play around with the settings and it should look extremely realistic.

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