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It’s Curtains For You

 

Creating Cool stage Curtains as a Background Effect.

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

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23 Comments

  1. Kyle said on — December 19, 2008 @ 3:53 pm

    Wow. That is freakin awesome Corey!!!

  2. Fabio Pysklyvicz said on — December 19, 2008 @ 6:10 pm

    Freaking AWESOME!

    (Y) :D

  3. Biju Subhash said on — December 20, 2008 @ 1:10 am

    Nice tutorial … :)
    Thank You,

    Biju Subhash

  4. Seniorita said on — December 20, 2008 @ 3:34 am

    just super…..and as we said i my country τζαμάτο……

  5. Snowman said on — December 21, 2008 @ 6:15 am

    This is so awesome!

    I watch all your tutorials and I never saw any other tutorials as cool and good as yours!

    You are my “Bob Ross of Photoshop” :D

  6. Andrew said on — December 21, 2008 @ 12:02 pm

    Hi Corey!
    I love all of your tutorials! As some of you may know, Britney Spears is going back on tour. Her show is called “The Circus Starring: Britney Spears”
    I thought that this technique would be perfect to create a promotional image for the tour. This is what I made:

    http://i44.tinypic.com/9px8ox.jpg

    Thank you Corey for all the hard work that you do!

    -Andrew

  7. Khaled said on — December 22, 2008 @ 8:16 am

    thank you!!
    very nice

  8. Dayo said on — December 24, 2008 @ 11:08 am

    Thanks corey, very useful tutorial.

    @Andrew, you got it perfectly, keep it up

  9. MaddLatin said on — December 24, 2008 @ 8:44 pm

    Very cool work!!!!!!!!! thanks

  10. Roland said on — December 25, 2008 @ 4:14 pm

    Thank You Corey!

  11. SirX said on — December 26, 2008 @ 1:41 pm

    WOW. Excellent tutorial. I am not necessarily following all tutes but it is very inspirational and gives ideas how to approach certain things. Cool stuff.

  12. Kathy said on — December 28, 2008 @ 1:11 pm

    This is great…I can’t wait to try it!

  13. Márcio Guerra said on — December 28, 2008 @ 8:41 pm

    Simple but effective. Congratulations. An Excellent 2009 for all of you! See you back at Layers TV.

    Márcio Guerra

  14. nicksis said on — December 30, 2008 @ 4:26 am

    Nice tutorial! i learn more about photoshop.By the way what version do you use?

  15. Zack said on — December 31, 2008 @ 2:49 pm

    I wasn’t excited about this tutorial at first, but when I saw the end result, I was really happy. Simple techniques that produced a very realistic and dimensional effect. The only alteration I made is adding a row of smaller “stage lights” across the bottom of the piece using the same lighting effects filter technique.

  16. David said on — January 2, 2009 @ 12:46 am

    You are a Photoshop creative genius! Fantastic and mesmerizing steps are always presented, Corey!

    When I try to replicate what you show, I have play and replay (and replay) the various steps to reach a similar end result. Have you ever thought about having a “recipe” printout ready for your visitors to have?

    Thank you for your great website too!

  17. Rob said on — January 5, 2009 @ 2:45 am

    FANTASTIC!!!!! Awesome tutorial Corey! As far as tutorials go, yours are the best!! I really enjoy what you have to show us all.

    Thanks, and have a super duper New Year! =)

    -Robster

  18. Meg said on — January 6, 2009 @ 12:40 am

    Corey…your tutorials never cease to amaze me. Love this effect and so easy.
    Yes…it does need animation!! GMTA ha ha
    Thanks for the great tut. Meg

  19. maximillian said on — January 20, 2009 @ 5:14 am

    showtime!!!

  20. pumin said on — January 24, 2009 @ 10:59 am

    Thank you the idea tutorials, best !!

  21. Stephen said on — January 25, 2009 @ 11:14 pm

    Holy-jaw-dropping-tutorial Batman!!! You are the shiznik. Who would of thought it would be like taking candy from a baby. Because I was so impressed I didn’t leave a link to my site, but instead to the digg that I made coming back to this awesome tut.

    Other commentators who are also Diggers please give Corey a little more PR by digging the link in my name. I don’t get credit, but I have gotten Corey number one on google for the Key Phrase “Make Movie Curtains in Photoshop”

    You are the man!!!!!!!!

  22. 1luv1faith said on — March 4, 2009 @ 6:41 pm

    Super cool! I spent the previous day trying to find a good image and trying to create a curtain for a special layout. Finally today I found this tutorial and created the curtain for my backdrop. Thank you soooooooo much! this is the best tutorial website there is. Thanks again Corey!

  23. Bluedilly said on — March 9, 2009 @ 8:14 am

    Corey your curtain was super cool please let me have the tutorial as I am a beginer and
    I need something to go by. Thanks Bluedilly

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