Creating a door that isn't there

[Tiffany]

Hi Everyone,

I'm wanting to basically create a door using the partial sample of wood I have above the door frame?

Is this possible?

In the photo you will see a door way where is pretty much a black hole. What I would like to do is using the wood panels above the door frame, I would like to create a door in photoshop to cover the black hole.

I'm only using cs3 extended. i don't mind if it's difficult to do, but I am very new to photoshop even though I have owned it for years.



Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please keep in mind this image is completely unedited at this stage.

 

[$1r_M4x1mu$]

Hi Tiffany Welcome to the forum.

in order to create a door or cover the opening in the wall using the same texture as the wood block above.

There's different techniques to get this job done

You can create a selection using the pen tool and select the texture to be cloned copy the selection or just create another layer whit it, using Crtl + C "Commnd +C" MAC , once you got the new layer whit the texture on it, just start duplicating it and positioning it over the places to be covered.

After positioning the cloned textures use dodge and bur tools to increase lightness or darken spots where is needed.

also use layer mask to obtain more realism in corner blending "see bottom where wall meets the floor and sides"

* U can use the clone stamp tool to change some spots on the texture to modify it's appearance.

this will be the easiest way, see example below




Or you can find some stock door picture from the internet and extract it using the pen tool.

* But the difficult thing is to find a picture suitable for the kind of work that you are performing like right angle, positioning, resolution, etc "this part is the most time consuming in any job"

And then you can place it on the right position, try some transforming, color correction to make it look right.

 

[Tiffany]

Thanks for the help.

Will definitely have to give it a go

 

[Tiffany]

Ok this is probably really stupid, but I'm getting a little lost with the whole copy and cloning thing...This is pretty much the biggest thing I have done in photoshop to date, so I'm stressing a little

 

[hawkeye]

There are many ways to do it. This is just one of them, I selected a piece of wood (arrow) and put it on a new layer (ctrl+j). Then transformed it (ctrl+t) to fit one side of the door frame. Duplicated it (ctrl+j) and moved it the other side. Same thing for the top and bottom pieces.

The center section, I selected and area (circle) put it on a new layer (ctrl+j) and moved it in place. Duplicated and moved as needed to fill the area. After merging all the layers for the door, I adjusted the color and brightness.