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If you want a picture where you can have invisible clothes, then Photoshop can solve you problem, as always. This is a multi step process that takes around 8 minutes, but you will definitely love the result. We need two pictures for this tutorial. First, the picture with the body of someone, with some clothes on, that we will make invisible. The second picture has to be a background we will move the bodies on, because for seeing behind the body, you also need to change the background.

The big picture is the original picture. We will cut the boy’s and the woman’s body and we are going to move them to another background, which is going to be the picture on the right side (the little one)

Step 1

We need to cut the boy’s and woman’s body before moving them to the other picture. We will use the Quick Selection Tool or the Magic Wand Tool, and our result should be this one. As you can see, the two bodies are selected and are ready to be moved to the background. You do this by using copy / paste. Now after you move the picture to the new background, it may be smaller of bigger than it should be. If that’s the case, then click Ctrl+T or go to Edit -> Free Transform and adjust the picture. When you’re finished hit enter. The result should look like that:

That’s the picture we are going to work with from now own. We are going to make the boy’s T-Shirt invisible, and after just some effects applied you are going to see through him. Now we have two layers: the background and the two persons.

Step 2

Duplicate the second layer by clicking Ctrl+J or by going to Layer -> Duplicate Layer. On the new layer we have to create a mask. You can do this by clicking the button which is highlighted in the screenshot below. Also, don’t forget to make the middle layer invisible.

Step 3

Now we have to use a brush. I recommend a large one for this step. Make sure you have the foreground of the colors on the left sidebar black, and the background white. This is one of the most difficult parts of this tutorial, so pay special attention to it. The result will mostly depend on what you do now. Working with the brush, on the third layer, you have to make everything invisible on the mask besides the clothing part you want to be invisible. In the picture below you can see how our example should look. Take a look at the mask you’ve created too, the only white part on it is our T-Shirt.

Step 4

Now we will continue working with the third layer. Click on the left box of it, where you can see the bodies of the woman and the boy, then go to Image -> Adjustments -> Desaturate. This will not make a big difference in this example because the T-shirt is already black, but if you work with your own example it may change the color.

Step 5

Now go to Filter -> Artistic -> Plastic Wrap. Adjust the settings like in the screenshot and click on. Don’t be concerned by the fact that you can see in this new panel the whole picture, is just the way it should be.

Step 6

Change the blending mode to Screen and you will get something your invisible T-Shirt. Now we have to make a selection of the T-Shirt. Hold Ctrl down and click on the little white part of the mask we’ve created earlier.

Now if you set the second layer to be visible, you will notice that the T-Shirt has the same color like the one after we applied the Plastic Warp. Click on the second layer, the one that was invisible until now, and hit delete. Before hitting delete you have to be sure you’ve selected the T-Shirt before, otherwise you will delete the whole layer, and you won’t like that. You can select the T-Shirt by holding down Ctrl and clicking on the white part of the mask of the third layer. Your T-Shirt should be invisible by now.

This is our final result: