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[–] Psilocyber ago 

I'm no expert with PS by any means but is that what you wanted to achieve?

If so, I got there by selecting the phone. Many ways to do that, I used the 'pen tool'. Once I had the selection I opened a new layer and applied a black to white gradient on an angle.

I noticed at that point the phone was full of residue from the previous owner so I copied the layer and cleaned that up a little with the clone tool. The thumb needed a little work around the edges too, clone tool again. Also cleaned up the edge of the phone a little by using the selection I had made with the pen tool, expanding it by a pixel, inverting the selection and sweeping around the edge with the 'sharpen tool'. Painted a bit of a shadow under the thumb on a new layer set to about 10 opacity.

Finally I created a new layer at the top with a blue-gray color applied to it and set it to 'screen' blend mode at about 10 percent opacity to help make it look like all the elements in the image are in the same environment.

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[–] SolomonPapermaster [S] 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

How do you apply the gradient tool to the selection (iphone) only? I select the phone only and when I apply the gradient tool it changes the hole picture.

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[–] Psilocyber ago  (edited ago)

If the gradient applies to the whole image then you either don't have the phone selected or you have the whole or wrong layer selected.

When you have just the phone selected (with the marching ants around the phone) open a new layer and apply the gradient to the selection on the new layer.

I'm in the habit of making a selection on a new layer and filling the selection with color. That way I can "Ctrl+click' that layer if I want to use the selection again. When you 'Ctrl+click' a layer the pixels of that layer are selected (in other words the shape or outline or that layer). Note: make sure your selection isn't feathered when you save it this way.

Edit: I learned PS a long time ago on PS 7.0. but I haven't kept up with it. I can still get things done on the newer versions if I need to, though my methods may be crude.

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[–] SolomonPapermaster [S] 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

Nice, thank you. Would you mind sending the PSD?

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[–] Psilocyber ago  (edited ago)

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[–] MisterGrieves ago 

It has been a while since I have used Photoshop but there are actual lighten and darken tools so that should be pretty easy. I would use the lasso tool to select the phone and then copy to a new layer before doing the adjustments. That way you would only be adjusting the phone and not anything else. If you don't have Photoshop gimp is a free program that would handle this kind of thing pretty easy. And if you meant an actual line on it that is pretty easy to draw. Hope that helps.

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[–] SolomonPapermaster [S] 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

The lasso is hard to use, do you think there is a way to make a perfect line selection?

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[–] ElementalPee ago 

If the magic lasso that MisterGrieves suggested doesn't work, you could try the polygon lasso tool. It will let you select an area by selecting a series of points around it. Just zoom in pretty far and use a ton of points and it will probably come out looking good.

I'm a bit of a control freak so I do it this way far more often than I should. I use a ton of points and it takes forever with most images, but this is a pretty basic shape so it shouldn't be too bad. Just use a lot of points and trace around the two edges you want to be the dark half, like the bottom and left edges or whatever, making a lot of points. You could start at the top left, finish at the bottom right, then connect the start and end points with a big diagonal line through the middle where you want the adjustment to happen.

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[–] MisterGrieves ago 

I think they have made pretty good advances in the selection tools. Use the magic lasso and see if that helps to select. If not we can get into what they call masking.