Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Are You 21? How to Make Photo Indentification


First of all, someone got this idea in their head to make a fake id; I'm guessing that was back in the '70s. One of my friends did not have a driver's license and was going to a government military base for a culinary field trip. I borrowed the staff badge from RCHS and proceeded to make a copy of it. First I measured the badge and got a new blank on Photoshop the same size as the badge. Then I used the marquee tool to select an area large enough for the yellow background, and used the bucket paint tool to fill in the border navy. With that done, I took the Panther logo from our school and copied and pasted it onto the background as a separate layer. Zooming in and using the erase tool, I got the panther clear of any excess white background. I then carefully adjusted its size with the move tool. After the Panther was in place, I used the Arial typing tool to select a font and navy color similar to the staff badge, and filled in the year, student, DOB, etc. Then I flipped the typing tool to vertical and put RCHS by the panther head. After the text was completed. I copied and pasted a new layer with my friend's mugshot onto the badge. I used the move tool to adjust the size and placement. Viola! A RCHS staff badge.

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