Part 1: Choosing Theme and Files 

Step 1

  • Pick the theme for your city.
    • Your theme can be anything as long as it’s school appropriate
      • My example below is of a concert for Twenty One Piolets

Step 2

  • Find and save a photo online that will become the background behind your Staple City
    • I picked a concert for my background

Step 3

  • Find and save 3 characters that match the theme of your background
    • You may do mor than 2 characters if you like
  • To find the best photos:
    • Google the characters name, along with full body so that the image is not cut off

 

Part 2: Adding the Background 

Step 1

  • Open Staple City Photo
  • Pick the Quick Select Tool
    • Select OUTSIDE of staples 

Step 2

  • Go to the Layers
    • Select the Mask (box at bottom of layers pallet) 
      • This will make the staples disappear

Step 3

  • Click
    • Control  i
      • The background will now disappear

Step 4

  • Right Click on the Layer 0
    • pick Duplicate Layer
      • You will now have 2 layers

   

Step 5

  • Open the background file you have choosen
  • Select the Move Tool
    • Move and Drag the background file so it covers Staple City

Step 5a

  • You will now have 3 Layers

Step 6

  • Click and Hold on the Top Layer
    • Drag this Layer down so that it Between the two Staple City Layers
      • The background photo will now be behind Staple City

Step 7

  • Flatten your image

Part 3: Adding the People

Step 1

  • Open the Characters you saved from Part 1
  • Choose the Quick Select Tool
    • Choose Select Subject
      • If it doesn’t select the whole character, use the plus anad minus to select and deselect the image

Step 3

  • Select the Move Tool
    • Drag the character onto Stpale City

Step 4

  • Control  T  to make image smaller or bigger

Step 5

  • Follow Steps 1-4 and to add more characters

Step 6

  • Flatten Image

Step 7

  • Open in Camera Raw
    • Edit so the characters colors and exposure blend into the scence