Superimpose your photo

MAKING A WALL MURAL IS A BIG COMMITMENT, SO WHY NOT CHECK HOW IT WILL LOOK FIRST? HERE’S HOW…

Make a selection

Take a photo of the wall that you intend to use for the mural. Open it in Photoshop and then grab the Polygonal Lasso tool. Click to plot a selection around the edges of the wall, then hold Alt and click around the windows to exclude them. Continue until the wall is completely selected.

Copy the wall

Go to Select>select and Mask and use the sliders to improve the selection edge. Increase the radius to expand the area of refinement along the edge. Set Output: New Layer and hit OK. Next press Cmd/ctrl+shift+u to desaturate the layer, and Cmd/ctrl+l for Levels. Increase the contrast with Levels.

Clip the image

Open the wall mural image. Grab the Move tool and drag it to the other image, then right-click the layer and ‘Create Clipping Mask’ to clip it to the cut out wall layer, Set the blend mode to Multiply, hit Cmd/ctrl+t, then hold Cmd/ctrl and drag the corner points to skew the image to fit with the wall.