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Fence Effect | Photoshop Effect | Photoshop Tutorial

Updated: Nov 6, 2022

Learn how to give this awesome Fence effect to your photos in Photoshop and shock you friend and family member with it , also creating such effect might look difficult to create but , it is not . So just follow the steps and learn how to give this Fence effect in Photoshop






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Steps on how to give this awesome fence effect to your Photos in Photoshop :-


  • So the first step is to create a duplicate of this image by pressing CTRL + J


After pressing CTRL + J
  • Now hide the duplicate for now by click on the eye icon and then make the background layer active by clicking on it


Hide the duplicate layer

Make the background layer active
  • Then select Lasso tool and then using the tool make selection around model as follows , make sure the selection covers whole model


Select Lasso tool

Make selection around model
  • After that right click over there and then select Fill option and then in the pop set use as content-aware and then click on OK , so this will fill the selection with same as that of background


Right over there and then select Fill option

Set the following and then click OK

After clicking on OK
  • Now press CTRL + D to deselect the selection


After pressing CTRL + D
  • Then press CTRL + J to create a duplicate of the image and then rename that layer to blur


After pressing CTRL + J and renaming layer
  • After that go to Filter and then blur and then select Field blur over there and set the blur according to the image and then click on OK(Note : My background is already blurred so I am not blurring it anymore)


Then go to Filter and then blur and then select Field blur over there

Set blur and light bokeh according to the image and then click on OK
  • Now make the duplicate layer active by clicking on it and then unhide the layer by clicking on eye icon


Make duplicate layer active and then unhide it
  • Then using Quick selection tool select the model in image (Note : Press ALT and then click and hover the selection to deselect it )


Select Quick selection tool

Select model in the image
  • After that click on Refine edge and then using brush hover over the edges to smooth out the selection at edges and then click on OK


Click on Refine Edge

Hovering over edges
  • Then click on Add layer mask icon which will only keep the selection and remove rest of background , so this will give you 2 separate layers one layer of complete background and other layer with model only


Click on Add layer mask icon

After clicking on Add layer mask icon
  • Now if you want to scale the model in image then press CTRL + T and then scale it by pressing SHIFT to scale evenly and then click on tick icon


After pressing CTRL + T

Scaling image

After scaling and clicking on tick icon
  • Now bring in Fence image over here and then scale fence image so that it fits the whole image also while scaling press SHIFT and scale to scale it evenly and click on the tick icon to place it


Bring in fence image over here

After scaling and click on tick icon
  • Then make the mask of the model layer active by clicking on it


Make mask of model layer active
  • Now select brush tool and brush as Hard round and then make the foreground color as black


Select brush tool

Select brush as Hard round

Set foreground color as black
  • Now using brush tool click and hover over any square of fence , so this will remove the model image and keep the background image as you hover that part as follows


Using brush click and hover over area of any part of fence
  • So like this way remove model image from appropriate square so that it looks good (Note 1 : Press CTRL + Z to go a step back , Note 2 : Use square brackets of your keyboard to increase and decrease the size of the brush )


After removing model image from appropriate squres
  • Now make the top layer active and then click on Create new layer icon to create a new layer at the top


Make top layer active

Click on Create new layer icon
  • Now change the brush of the brush tool as Soft round and make sure that foreground color is black and then using brush hover over the image as follows


Select brush as Soft round

Click and hover over as follows
  • After that right click on the layer and select Create clipping mask over there , so this will keep the black color on the fence only


Right click on the layer and select Create clipping mask over there

After selecting Create clipping mask
  • Then reduce the opacity of the layer to 35%


Reduce the opacity of the layer to 35%

So this will give you your Fence effect in Photoshop!


So that's it guys!


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