Create a transparent clothes effect in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial you will to achieve a camouflage photo effect where we make t shirt look transparent. It’s a super simple tutorial, quite easy for beginners to learn some things.

We will cut out the background and and than separate t-shirt from body and will change the blending mode to make it mix with background. The real trick is to make t-shirt black and white before making it transparent so we don’t have any trouble with miss matching colors. Also we will use displacement map, which we have done many times before so that should not be any trouble.

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