Add Magic to Photoshop
Monday, August 4th, 2008 running time 23:14
This week, Bert gets in touch with his Medieval side when creating an enchanted dagger from scratch.
In a two part episode, Bert shows us how to create an enchanted dagger and cover. This week, Bert begins by making the enchanted dagger's majestic handle.
Bert creates the shape of the dagger by using the pen tool as a mask. Bert adds texture to the main body of the handle (to create a pearl effect) by using various filters, such as Filter-Render-Fibers (adjusting variance and strength), Filter-Blur-Gaussian Blue, Filter-Blur-Motion Blur, inner shadow layer style and dodge tool for a lightened edge.
To create the golden tip of the handle, Bert creates a new layer and makes the shape using the elliptical tool, filling it with a golden color. To add various tones to the tip, Bert uses the dodge and burn tool.
For the side handles, Bert creates the shape using the pen tool as a mask, filling it with a golden color and implementing various effects. Bert duplicates the layer to add dimension and uses the Satin layer style, dodge and burn tool and filter-blur-gaussian blur (to remove the hard edge of the top layer)
To make a gem for the dagger, Bert creates a small red circle, adds noise (filter-noise) and adds a crystal effect (filter-pixilate-cystalize) and drop shadow layer style.
FInally, Bert adds a symbol for the handle using an image previously made in Illustrator and adjusting the opacity, and adding a bevel/emboss and inner shadow layer style.
Don't forget to design and e-mail Bert a background for our green screen! Please send a jpg design with size 1280x720 pixels
Highlights
Blu-ray
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1:12, 1:12
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blank screen
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2:18, 2:18
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Elliptical
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8:21, 8:21
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pendulum
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11:36, 11:36
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1:12, 1:12
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blank screen
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2:18, 2:18
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Elliptical
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8:21, 8:21
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pendulum
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11:36, 11:36
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" War. This episode of pixel perfect is brought to you by Netflix and godaddy.com. Shine a welcome depicts a perfect would be host there Montessori. First I want to thank Cairo go through his background look at this thing. Now got to keep today's short kind of show because I -- deal with -- fought coming in so had to rush out his sometime today but. They -- before we start go to Bangkok sponsors. First Netflix. With Netflix you can read over 90000. Titles online including blocks of Blu-ray titles with free shipping both ways to your home. They now have over forty shipping centers so almost all deliveries happen in just one business day. The Netflix scrapped plans start report dollars and 99 cents and as a new member you can get a no risk two week free trial membership. Check it out at www. Netflix dot com forward slash pixel perfect and remember you're gonna type in net WWW. When you use this code. Also. Godaddy.com. If you want to make an impact online godaddy.com. Has what you need. Dot com main -- is lower than dollar and 99 plus world class hosting fast and easy website builders and so much more."
" now tell you what let's get down to the -- of the day is here. This is something different today in fact what we're doing so complicated going to take two episodes to do and created and she handed dagger. Who create the handles port then next week we would do blade and loose amber to put it in fact director wouldn't carry everything around. So let's start off with a a totally blank screen does that create the entire thing from scratch. Now. Some of the steps you've seen before you're gonna see many different contexts that it pick on new meaning. The first let's start to do is to create. A candle -- going to be a -- hand. The that it can't the dagger welcome habit of -- him all right so I'm gonna give -- my through -- handle. Would make little pencil on the don't have start creating a shape for that handle. Just give -- little curve right in here like so. And code like that now if you first gone to Photoshop and that's what happens he noticed that I got here what's called a shape later. -- put out a way that's not what I want what I want to work with is actually a let's just -- and so they're here. Go to work with the second. Choice right there that second choice is -- creates paths. I'm before creating a figure which is based on the foreground color it was -- path as a mask. So now what I would create it's just the path that we I can control it and do other things that it. And I'm my second choice I start again with my pencil and operate -- those shape right here. Come down here you -- as it comes up -- could not just passed and I come way down here and create this shoot down here now. I'm limits as modified is a little bit from and its its read my little love. My little. -- to -- I'm holding down my command key which would be the the -- key on on the PC and as a shape right there that's basically shape so I'm gonna do we're gonna select this whole thing. I'm creating layers here. And then let it take that and duplicate it. To -- the -- I'm gonna make a job. Obama option key in my shift key and just drag."
" Over to the right bit and then his second one on -- go and they say. Transform the patent that flip horizontal. And Eric got to shape not its its pulls this guy over just a little bit of bring them over. Baghdad we have a nice thing kind of handle and I'm gonna finish it off I'm gonna click on the top here and close it off there click on the bottom and close that off. So now there's the basic shape for my handle so we'll do now is create some colors to create this pearl. So. An ongoing and get a nice. Beige kind of a color economists thought -- like that maybe that'll. Let's talk now on the right in the like that and that sort of background color I'm gonna get a nice kind of a deep grey but like that and it's good. That I would go ahead and fill that pack. Would that might page just said that there will have some kind of a texture and there it so now the total pop path. In another layer this thing I'm gonna create texture so want to do so like the nice shape about -- that. That encompasses the entire handle and go ahead and fill that with that back up. All right so now. I'm gonna give this a filter which is gonna start in my pro texture now fibers I've fallen in love with private amusing and a lot lately I'm gonna use -- Based on that page and that dark Graham and get a nice exercise come down here to render it. And I say fibers. So there it burned itself varies down to about the C seven and open the strength down to about two with it would that looks like. Let's see that startled look actually -- get these little later withdrew the various back up again and that's looking good. Click OK I got this texture right here which -- gonna go ahead of boomer I'm going to give that a little guys simpler just to soften it up a little bit. Like that. That's looking good and maybe just a little bit of a motion blur of motion -- just the kinda. They could stretch out a little bit so but you straight up and down. And let's type it to be faster. There you go up and out of -- little more distanced itself if I get this nice kind of a texture like that. There we feel we have there and -- and how we're doing and go ahead and clip it. -- to select it. And I'm gonna go -- it and clip it. With this by holding down my option key -- PC and click in between those two and that it would -- the shape is not inside of that handle. Now it's a little too dark no problem we can go in there and maybe to lighten it up a little bit. And just lighten up just to give of the war of atonement that now and go ahead and -- that -- Right now of course handle. He's gonna have to keep track of all these different layers because we are gonna have a lot of layers in this particular file. So I'm gonna go -- and let's get that a little bit of a job. It's just a little inner shadow which an increased the distance on -- and softened up a little more like that. And increased at a -- just a little and click OK so we have this nice tone going on. Now I'm not want to go in there also and lighten up a little highlight his that would might dodge tool that's gonna kinda. Hit a couple times right in here to -- right there like that. Now. -- enchanted there is going to heavy blue glow. So this spears nice polish are kind of pro here it's gonna have to reflect that light. So -- lay on top of this and we -- blue collar. Get a nice kind of like to do about them like that. All right and then I'm gonna get a nice big paintbrush. I -- that go to 200 and I'm just gonna go right in here and it's given little hit read about -- that. All right so now I'm going to go ahead and click that. Click those two. And then banana capacity for that -- just a little sister to little hint of blue -- tiny little hint. And everything would down a little bit further down here it now we have the little hint of the blue. Now it can merge that. I think now to get out basic -- now going to start -- beetle kind of fancy right so. Innovative behind this. Right down here would create a layer. Right behind here. I would get my little. Elliptical to a select a little lips right from here and hold down my I can keep that they from the middle out. -- the middle just like that and it bring that down it just about like that and we get a nice golden color. So pick a nice kind of artist like that and and that they I'm gonna go ahead and feel that. Okay there it is all right so now I'm gonna move my selection up and move that selection straight up. Straight up like that now let's get real close we get real close on this -- the -- here I'm gonna add to that selection. This radio my shift key and an ad so that it meets this area here and -- this area. Made here let's take away from that a little bit too far there there -- that's looking good. Now on the layer behind that behind this flare right there in the air behind it I'm -- that seem golden color to that. Right so now we have these two goals right some -- don't hear in -- select this. And I'm gonna start adding some tones to make it look like gold that is one -- that this is that edge. And I'm going to start -- some tones so it's I'm gonna get my it'll burn tool here. It's -- the -- a little smaller and start. Just -- a couple of hones right in there along this -- here this make the brush really small. And we'll to a couple. Dark spots me when their panel do a little really deep one right in there like that we can now look at dodge tool. Make it smaller. And now it'll highlight right in there. If it nice and bright and maybe it'll -- one right in here which is people dead and it generated there get -- to highlight a baby one more right there. If there was going to get this nice golden kind of takes it good Lucent and -- bottom part that's the bottom part down here I'll add a couple of highlights to that. Well a little highlight there. Little highlight. For the highlights do these guys are going and in board so do. Facing a little blade and we'll go in here with a larger. Burn tool which is kind of dark and that's that little bit and decided to scanner. Given looked hone my that we pull -- we see that we had little golden tip on top. No doubt at the bottom part that is what can top that look at that you'll see. So now look though it might open until again and down here I'm gonna create a shape. So. I'm going here and done. -- associate that looks kind of like this. And had to come right out to about here. All right so there we got this -- we go -- there and get a nice and straight getting nice and even. And that looks good so I'm gonna gonna select that it is said that before and make a copy of that path. Just say that I'm gonna do this time when doing little flip. Vertical. Right for now I'm gonna move it down imposition. -- down -- like that. And I think this this piece here on the kind of Allen did little bit just a little bit. That's longer than a piece on top. Right from other I have with the when it finished his side off. I get my pendulum gonna start from right here and gonna click got a little handle it comes out like that given the crow right in there like that. That's going to backtrack on itself so that -- option bulky press that we'll let you handle and it could they know little coral. Like that. Come up here about like that. Come down here and we close it off. Now I can go into the -- is not perfect the first time he knows motive for NASA and the area. Close to perfection. So that we got that so let's select the whole thing and copy it over straight across and we do it. Flip. Horizontal. And now we see that we have. The basic shape of -- happening here so now wanted to do it I'm gonna take. I got bad gold color and and a layer on top of this whole shebang it we'll go ahead and bill that passed. -- those colors not a little space in between that's because of the fact it was a little bit of an overlap between my pat. No problem which is going there and fill that in just like so. There ago and now we have one complete little -- there. If you select that Smith pulled back. All right so that's looking good so now we've got to start adding some dimension to this so I'm gonna do is want to duplicate that -- Duplicate that there and the one I'm back here I'm gonna move down and move down to a little bit old economic shift key to constrain it I'm gonna bring it down to about. They act just like that. They're not big into disco we don't need to see him yet the one on top here let's start adding a little. Tones and stuff to us that have going here into my latest styles and -- let's say we give it a little satin. -- now than going to and that's just made this film strip above let's type in the number. -- And we'll get a -- complex -- like that on there. And go play around with these this those sizes stuff that we get something really funky going on there but I bet on an inverted. Converting it gave me the opposite the dark tone became lights and so one summer -- here and I'm also going to change that color not black we don't want black. But going to going to get a nice kind of warm brown like that sees the monsters look more like gold. Okay that's looking good. So click OK I might want to add another little -- to that that was my job my little. Dodge tool here I might want to go in here and just create a little shape right inside here let's go to a nice sized brush. That's. That over cap -- we're doing and which is still a little highlight right through there just like that. That give them little. Extra tall. All right that's looking good -- want him back here this woman Batman turn on again and we're gonna do this one is gonna start principal. Making besides that even see how we get a little space there -- some -- going there anticipated there -- that little cap on top and one head. Fit right in there that's move it over. There ago and going to do a little shift. Select on this -- even though it's fairly even it looks good and then right here. Fifth of the shape right there. All right so we're -- background guys I'm gonna go ahead and fill those with that. -- now let's go over to the other side Leo -- this I would do the same thing here so that those fit right in there. Shift so that this -- that in there and and that's that's fine disco and here and -- ghost towns. All right so now. Pull back again and we have all little -- that's going to start adding some tones that is so and they had little highlight."
" in here. In there it'll highlight the highlighted here maybe another one right there you know it is having been one of background that the one in front. That's get out burn tool and he'll start really getting. Tighten them going to really darken this says right in there. And -- said. Right through there and -- this little corner right in there is that little corner and this corner right in there then the edges of this piece here. Inside there and them milk that in there. Those who've been there on the site it made little shadow right there tested and a little nuance and here. I would do to solve it which is half."
" I would -- I so get there. For now got to do one more thing. Let's get close on listen to see what's gonna happen here if you started right here. I don't like that hard it just doesn't look right so I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go here and it's around. That -- give this a little bit of a feather. And I'm just gonna give it a feather of about four not keep in mind that this the other is based on the resolution I'm working on he would distribute two to four hours. But it it if you're gonna 300 PPI file. Four is very little. Somebody go here and to select this bottom portion. Of my. First -- Like that. Okay this shift. And this little piece here are some I got that bottom portion right here I'm going to have to learn that. So -- New Year's -- gauzy blur and I would go and it just kind of soften that and you have to be in the right layer. Typical user error this layer that's delay. So that's going to -- it is again we'll go to gauzy blur and see how that -- to softens up. It would just go to the war. And we can soften of them Ralitsa makes it look like it's one continuous. Gold piece click OK and I do the same right here tonight this little piece down here. And -- this the peace over here. And just give it that same. Filter and there. Now we can be select this and now we start to see that our. Sort of start to take shape all right so now I'm gonna do it I'm gonna select this little piece right here. -- All right so now that little piece that I just created great there I want to bring. Back here. All the way back here. And then I'm gonna move it up and move it up to the top coaches who up. And it pops up on topic and it's moving over to us a little bit that are right there. There goes we have this little. On top so now going to create a little circle there create a circle right up -- here. Option and shift to get it perfect circle and put it right up on top there. That is to be at the very top of the image here so but it whip on top and so go ahead and fill that with that thing gold we've been used. So political entity there's stuff for that. And we'll give it that same little satin. Which grew up in fact you know what does that work really well over here we have the color all set -- for -- what I'm doing Bluetooth take this. Effect pulling down my option Okie I'm just gonna drag it right on top of that and they create the effect rate in the state it's already there. So now going to do -- best selection isn't gonna contract that selection. -- going to say contract. To shrink it down that should be done about -- say that he -- twelve pixels going to do. And gaming little circle right so now on top of that. I'm gonna pick a nice bright red. Really bright red like that and go ahead and fill that with the net. Now I'm gonna give that some noise. Had no eyes and we'll give it quite a bit. Analysts say monochromatic -- stays in those same colors but I bet click okay and then we'll give that a little. Bit of crystallize. -- to become kind of like a little. Gem it is a little -- we can be selected it. And that will give -- a -- has given little drop shadow which is gonna come from the bottom. To say that. Click okay. Natalie asked that we gotta do is it puts some kind of a symbol right here right here and has sent a part so I happen have a little symbol that I created. And I have a down here in Nam and might doc isn't showing up so -- just -- Turn it -- there in illustrator good illustrator here's this little. Symbol. I select that and go ahead and copied. Copy. Go back to Photoshop. And I'm gonna say pace and was they were right on top yes grand tops I go there and say paste. -- and has pixels because I don't either packets it's just to shape and it's gonna come in here. And there it is so I make it happen. And I'm gonna put in a position right where I want it right about there that I shrink it down. -- and as they scale. And shrink it down. Holding down my option key. Troops have from the center initiative they fit perfect shrink. And if go without a little bit and -- position and say do it all right so there's that little symbol which I'm not gonna go into the latest styles -- And bring down the capacity so we don't see it it's just a little hint of it right there and then give it a little battle the voice which embassy. Out of level so the effect is on the outside. And we get is like coming from below so much has changed its effects they get this like down here. And we'll get a little inner shadow as well little inner shadow which will make really small let's say we do it too. And -- two so that this little shadow on the inside. And it's change its direction to look like it's coming from below. And out of banana -- in just a little more dark there you go click okay and then we have. Power. Sort this is just to handle. Now on next week's show -- who's been coming here finishes to and a blade. With closed around it not a nice leather scattered cold that's been in place you don't carries around care of your. Pants or whatever so going to have a nice little cover for it. I was a lot of steps there whole lot of steps. Again like I always say. You can change things around a little bit different color different settings so on and you can create your own sort of can be green marble if you want to whatever. So. I hope you learn something from there all these steps together. It was a sort -- there is."
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" now tell you what let's get down to the -- of the day is here. This is something different today in fact what we're doing so complicated going to take two episodes to do and created and she handed dagger. Who create the handles port then next week we would do blade and loose amber to put it in fact director wouldn't carry everything around. So let's start off with a a totally blank screen does that create the entire thing from scratch. Now. Some of the steps you've seen before you're gonna see many different contexts that it pick on new meaning. The first let's start to do is to create. A candle -- going to be a -- hand. The that it can't the dagger welcome habit of -- him all right so I'm gonna give -- my through -- handle. Would make little pencil on the don't have start creating a shape for that handle. Just give -- little curve right in here like so. And code like that now if you first gone to Photoshop and that's what happens he noticed that I got here what's called a shape later. -- put out a way that's not what I want what I want to work with is actually a let's just -- and so they're here. Go to work with the second. Choice right there that second choice is -- creates paths. I'm before creating a figure which is based on the foreground color it was -- path as a mask. So now what I would create it's just the path that we I can control it and do other things that it. And I'm my second choice I start again with my pencil and operate -- those shape right here. Come down here you -- as it comes up -- could not just passed and I come way down here and create this shoot down here now. I'm limits as modified is a little bit from and its its read my little love. My little. -- to -- I'm holding down my command key which would be the the -- key on on the PC and as a shape right there that's basically shape so I'm gonna do we're gonna select this whole thing. I'm creating layers here. And then let it take that and duplicate it. To -- the -- I'm gonna make a job. Obama option key in my shift key and just drag."
" Over to the right bit and then his second one on -- go and they say. Transform the patent that flip horizontal. And Eric got to shape not its its pulls this guy over just a little bit of bring them over. Baghdad we have a nice thing kind of handle and I'm gonna finish it off I'm gonna click on the top here and close it off there click on the bottom and close that off. So now there's the basic shape for my handle so we'll do now is create some colors to create this pearl. So. An ongoing and get a nice. Beige kind of a color economists thought -- like that maybe that'll. Let's talk now on the right in the like that and that sort of background color I'm gonna get a nice kind of a deep grey but like that and it's good. That I would go ahead and fill that pack. Would that might page just said that there will have some kind of a texture and there it so now the total pop path. In another layer this thing I'm gonna create texture so want to do so like the nice shape about -- that. That encompasses the entire handle and go ahead and fill that with that back up. All right so now. I'm gonna give this a filter which is gonna start in my pro texture now fibers I've fallen in love with private amusing and a lot lately I'm gonna use -- Based on that page and that dark Graham and get a nice exercise come down here to render it. And I say fibers. So there it burned itself varies down to about the C seven and open the strength down to about two with it would that looks like. Let's see that startled look actually -- get these little later withdrew the various back up again and that's looking good. Click OK I got this texture right here which -- gonna go ahead of boomer I'm going to give that a little guys simpler just to soften it up a little bit. Like that. That's looking good and maybe just a little bit of a motion blur of motion -- just the kinda. They could stretch out a little bit so but you straight up and down. And let's type it to be faster. There you go up and out of -- little more distanced itself if I get this nice kind of a texture like that. There we feel we have there and -- and how we're doing and go ahead and clip it. -- to select it. And I'm gonna go -- it and clip it. With this by holding down my option key -- PC and click in between those two and that it would -- the shape is not inside of that handle. Now it's a little too dark no problem we can go in there and maybe to lighten it up a little bit. And just lighten up just to give of the war of atonement that now and go ahead and -- that -- Right now of course handle. He's gonna have to keep track of all these different layers because we are gonna have a lot of layers in this particular file. So I'm gonna go -- and let's get that a little bit of a job. It's just a little inner shadow which an increased the distance on -- and softened up a little more like that. And increased at a -- just a little and click OK so we have this nice tone going on. Now I'm not want to go in there also and lighten up a little highlight his that would might dodge tool that's gonna kinda. Hit a couple times right in here to -- right there like that. Now. -- enchanted there is going to heavy blue glow. So this spears nice polish are kind of pro here it's gonna have to reflect that light. So -- lay on top of this and we -- blue collar. Get a nice kind of like to do about them like that. All right and then I'm gonna get a nice big paintbrush. I -- that go to 200 and I'm just gonna go right in here and it's given little hit read about -- that. All right so now I'm going to go ahead and click that. Click those two. And then banana capacity for that -- just a little sister to little hint of blue -- tiny little hint. And everything would down a little bit further down here it now we have the little hint of the blue. Now it can merge that. I think now to get out basic -- now going to start -- beetle kind of fancy right so. Innovative behind this. Right down here would create a layer. Right behind here. I would get my little. Elliptical to a select a little lips right from here and hold down my I can keep that they from the middle out. -- the middle just like that and it bring that down it just about like that and we get a nice golden color. So pick a nice kind of artist like that and and that they I'm gonna go ahead and feel that. Okay there it is all right so now I'm gonna move my selection up and move that selection straight up. Straight up like that now let's get real close we get real close on this -- the -- here I'm gonna add to that selection. This radio my shift key and an ad so that it meets this area here and -- this area. Made here let's take away from that a little bit too far there there -- that's looking good. Now on the layer behind that behind this flare right there in the air behind it I'm -- that seem golden color to that. Right so now we have these two goals right some -- don't hear in -- select this. And I'm gonna start adding some tones to make it look like gold that is one -- that this is that edge. And I'm going to start -- some tones so it's I'm gonna get my it'll burn tool here. It's -- the -- a little smaller and start. Just -- a couple of hones right in there along this -- here this make the brush really small. And we'll to a couple. Dark spots me when their panel do a little really deep one right in there like that we can now look at dodge tool. Make it smaller. And now it'll highlight right in there. If it nice and bright and maybe it'll -- one right in here which is people dead and it generated there get -- to highlight a baby one more right there. If there was going to get this nice golden kind of takes it good Lucent and -- bottom part that's the bottom part down here I'll add a couple of highlights to that. Well a little highlight there. Little highlight. For the highlights do these guys are going and in board so do. Facing a little blade and we'll go in here with a larger. Burn tool which is kind of dark and that's that little bit and decided to scanner. Given looked hone my that we pull -- we see that we had little golden tip on top. No doubt at the bottom part that is what can top that look at that you'll see. So now look though it might open until again and down here I'm gonna create a shape. So. I'm going here and done. -- associate that looks kind of like this. And had to come right out to about here. All right so there we got this -- we go -- there and get a nice and straight getting nice and even. And that looks good so I'm gonna gonna select that it is said that before and make a copy of that path. Just say that I'm gonna do this time when doing little flip. Vertical. Right for now I'm gonna move it down imposition. -- down -- like that. And I think this this piece here on the kind of Allen did little bit just a little bit. That's longer than a piece on top. Right from other I have with the when it finished his side off. I get my pendulum gonna start from right here and gonna click got a little handle it comes out like that given the crow right in there like that. That's going to backtrack on itself so that -- option bulky press that we'll let you handle and it could they know little coral. Like that. Come up here about like that. Come down here and we close it off. Now I can go into the -- is not perfect the first time he knows motive for NASA and the area. Close to perfection. So that we got that so let's select the whole thing and copy it over straight across and we do it. Flip. Horizontal. And now we see that we have. The basic shape of -- happening here so now wanted to do it I'm gonna take. I got bad gold color and and a layer on top of this whole shebang it we'll go ahead and bill that passed. -- those colors not a little space in between that's because of the fact it was a little bit of an overlap between my pat. No problem which is going there and fill that in just like so. There ago and now we have one complete little -- there. If you select that Smith pulled back. All right so that's looking good so now we've got to start adding some dimension to this so I'm gonna do is want to duplicate that -- Duplicate that there and the one I'm back here I'm gonna move down and move down to a little bit old economic shift key to constrain it I'm gonna bring it down to about. They act just like that. They're not big into disco we don't need to see him yet the one on top here let's start adding a little. Tones and stuff to us that have going here into my latest styles and -- let's say we give it a little satin. -- now than going to and that's just made this film strip above let's type in the number. -- And we'll get a -- complex -- like that on there. And go play around with these this those sizes stuff that we get something really funky going on there but I bet on an inverted. Converting it gave me the opposite the dark tone became lights and so one summer -- here and I'm also going to change that color not black we don't want black. But going to going to get a nice kind of warm brown like that sees the monsters look more like gold. Okay that's looking good. So click OK I might want to add another little -- to that that was my job my little. Dodge tool here I might want to go in here and just create a little shape right inside here let's go to a nice sized brush. That's. That over cap -- we're doing and which is still a little highlight right through there just like that. That give them little. Extra tall. All right that's looking good -- want him back here this woman Batman turn on again and we're gonna do this one is gonna start principal. Making besides that even see how we get a little space there -- some -- going there anticipated there -- that little cap on top and one head. Fit right in there that's move it over. There ago and going to do a little shift. Select on this -- even though it's fairly even it looks good and then right here. Fifth of the shape right there. All right so we're -- background guys I'm gonna go ahead and fill those with that. -- now let's go over to the other side Leo -- this I would do the same thing here so that those fit right in there. Shift so that this -- that in there and and that's that's fine disco and here and -- ghost towns. All right so now. Pull back again and we have all little -- that's going to start adding some tones that is so and they had little highlight."
" in here. In there it'll highlight the highlighted here maybe another one right there you know it is having been one of background that the one in front. That's get out burn tool and he'll start really getting. Tighten them going to really darken this says right in there. And -- said. Right through there and -- this little corner right in there is that little corner and this corner right in there then the edges of this piece here. Inside there and them milk that in there. Those who've been there on the site it made little shadow right there tested and a little nuance and here. I would do to solve it which is half."
" I would -- I so get there. For now got to do one more thing. Let's get close on listen to see what's gonna happen here if you started right here. I don't like that hard it just doesn't look right so I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go here and it's around. That -- give this a little bit of a feather. And I'm just gonna give it a feather of about four not keep in mind that this the other is based on the resolution I'm working on he would distribute two to four hours. But it it if you're gonna 300 PPI file. Four is very little. Somebody go here and to select this bottom portion. Of my. First -- Like that. Okay this shift. And this little piece here are some I got that bottom portion right here I'm going to have to learn that. So -- New Year's -- gauzy blur and I would go and it just kind of soften that and you have to be in the right layer. Typical user error this layer that's delay. So that's going to -- it is again we'll go to gauzy blur and see how that -- to softens up. It would just go to the war. And we can soften of them Ralitsa makes it look like it's one continuous. Gold piece click OK and I do the same right here tonight this little piece down here. And -- this the peace over here. And just give it that same. Filter and there. Now we can be select this and now we start to see that our. Sort of start to take shape all right so now I'm gonna do it I'm gonna select this little piece right here. -- All right so now that little piece that I just created great there I want to bring. Back here. All the way back here. And then I'm gonna move it up and move it up to the top coaches who up. And it pops up on topic and it's moving over to us a little bit that are right there. There goes we have this little. On top so now going to create a little circle there create a circle right up -- here. Option and shift to get it perfect circle and put it right up on top there. That is to be at the very top of the image here so but it whip on top and so go ahead and fill that with that thing gold we've been used. So political entity there's stuff for that. And we'll give it that same little satin. Which grew up in fact you know what does that work really well over here we have the color all set -- for -- what I'm doing Bluetooth take this. Effect pulling down my option Okie I'm just gonna drag it right on top of that and they create the effect rate in the state it's already there. So now going to do -- best selection isn't gonna contract that selection. -- going to say contract. To shrink it down that should be done about -- say that he -- twelve pixels going to do. And gaming little circle right so now on top of that. I'm gonna pick a nice bright red. Really bright red like that and go ahead and fill that with the net. Now I'm gonna give that some noise. Had no eyes and we'll give it quite a bit. Analysts say monochromatic -- stays in those same colors but I bet click okay and then we'll give that a little. Bit of crystallize. -- to become kind of like a little. Gem it is a little -- we can be selected it. And that will give -- a -- has given little drop shadow which is gonna come from the bottom. To say that. Click okay. Natalie asked that we gotta do is it puts some kind of a symbol right here right here and has sent a part so I happen have a little symbol that I created. And I have a down here in Nam and might doc isn't showing up so -- just -- Turn it -- there in illustrator good illustrator here's this little. Symbol. I select that and go ahead and copied. Copy. Go back to Photoshop. And I'm gonna say pace and was they were right on top yes grand tops I go there and say paste. -- and has pixels because I don't either packets it's just to shape and it's gonna come in here. And there it is so I make it happen. And I'm gonna put in a position right where I want it right about there that I shrink it down. -- and as they scale. And shrink it down. Holding down my option key. Troops have from the center initiative they fit perfect shrink. And if go without a little bit and -- position and say do it all right so there's that little symbol which I'm not gonna go into the latest styles -- And bring down the capacity so we don't see it it's just a little hint of it right there and then give it a little battle the voice which embassy. Out of level so the effect is on the outside. And we get is like coming from below so much has changed its effects they get this like down here. And we'll get a little inner shadow as well little inner shadow which will make really small let's say we do it too. And -- two so that this little shadow on the inside. And it's change its direction to look like it's coming from below. And out of banana -- in just a little more dark there you go click okay and then we have. Power. Sort this is just to handle. Now on next week's show -- who's been coming here finishes to and a blade. With closed around it not a nice leather scattered cold that's been in place you don't carries around care of your. Pants or whatever so going to have a nice little cover for it. I was a lot of steps there whole lot of steps. Again like I always say. You can change things around a little bit different color different settings so on and you can create your own sort of can be green marble if you want to whatever. So. I hope you learn something from there all these steps together. It was a sort -- there is."
" Anything you'd like to see on the show email me at -- at revision3.com. Check out -- form that revision3.com. Forward slash form and then you can join discussions about the show and influence a future episode. Also your artwork can be used as our background back here. Felt to send me your background -- email them to me. To add -- add revision3.com. And the background should be 1280 by 720 pixels and a JPEG. I hope you learn something from this and I hope to see you next week."
mari1ee
Started discussion: August 4, 2008 @ 11:26am GMT
Episode 94 - Add Magic to Photoshop [Discussion]
This week, Bert gets in touch with his Medieval side when creating an enchanted dagger from scratch.
Watch or download the episode here.
Smeerkaas
about 1 year ago
Great episode. Bert really knows his stuff.
On the production side of the story:
I was irked by the background noise in this show. Some sort of hum/pitch. In a professional studio such things should not happen. However I'd pick the hum over the noise gating as used a while back any day.
I do have a positive note: I liked the little Bert in the lower right hand corner.
It's cool to see mini-Bert perform an action and see it happen on the big screen next to him perfectly synced!
On the production side of the story:
I was irked by the background noise in this show. Some sort of hum/pitch. In a professional studio such things should not happen. However I'd pick the hum over the noise gating as used a while back any day.
I do have a positive note: I liked the little Bert in the lower right hand corner.
It's cool to see mini-Bert perform an action and see it happen on the big screen next to him perfectly synced!
Johnosullivan
about 1 year ago
Love these kinds of shows where Bert comes up with new ideas. Its not even so much the tutorial any more, but seeing the things he makes and the techniques he uses that I love. These shows and the ones where he talks about how he made his own commercial work are definately my favourite ones.
With regards to the background hum, that was not really that noticable to me, and I think that, as I montioned in an earlier thread, the production is now brilliant. As you said, showing Bert in the bottom corner was a nice touch
PS: geeko321, Ive attached a simple sketch that i did a while back ind scanned into the computer. The way I did this was by drawing the pointed part first, then intertwining the rounded one second, erasing where it overlapped. I then re-drew it using a black pen. I rotated it onto its side so that it can be viewed on one page without having to scroll down. Hope this helps.
With regards to the background hum, that was not really that noticable to me, and I think that, as I montioned in an earlier thread, the production is now brilliant. As you said, showing Bert in the bottom corner was a nice touch
PS: geeko321, Ive attached a simple sketch that i did a while back ind scanned into the computer. The way I did this was by drawing the pointed part first, then intertwining the rounded one second, erasing where it overlapped. I then re-drew it using a black pen. I rotated it onto its side so that it can be viewed on one page without having to scroll down. Hope this helps.
viewlife
about 1 year ago
i can't understand the difference between photoshop and illustrator when we want to create a shape, it has better quality?
Johnosullivan
about 1 year ago
Basically, the difference is that Illustrator uses vector based images, as opposed to pixels which are used in Photoshop. If you expand an image that is pixel based, it will blur, whereas if you expand a shape made in Illustrator, there will be no blurring. I THINK it uses mathematics to generate the expanding image. If im wrong, someone please let me know.
John
John
silentspyder
about 1 year ago
Good episode but I almost stopped watching because of a production thing. I figure the Rev3 staff must be tired of hearing us complain but here it goes. I find the little corner Bert to be distracting when he's doing something. To keep it simple I think the camera should be on Bert when he's only talking and on screen when he's doing something. Combining the 2 makes it harder to concentrate.
darktiki101
about 1 year ago
In reply to Smeerkaas:
Great episode. Bert really knows his stuff.
On the production side of the story:
I was irked by the background noise in this show. Some sort of hum/pitch. In a professional studio such things should not happen. However I'd pick the hum over the noise gating as used a while back any day.
I do have a positive note: I liked the little Bert in the lower right hand corner.
It's cool to see mini-Bert perform an action and see it happen on the big screen next to him perfectly synced!
On the production side of the story:
I was irked by the background noise in this show. Some sort of hum/pitch. In a professional studio such things should not happen. However I'd pick the hum over the noise gating as used a while back any day.
I do have a positive note: I liked the little Bert in the lower right hand corner.
It's cool to see mini-Bert perform an action and see it happen on the big screen next to him perfectly synced!
I would agree. The compression on the audio is also a little harsh. There are a lot of artifacts. Is better to have a little noise in the background than the quick cuts in-between speech. There is also a ground hum visible in the monitor.












Celtic knotwork design
Bert,I know for sake of time you had to just breeze past that Celtic knotwork design that you made in Illustrator, but that really intrigued me. I've tried to do Celtic designs such as that in Illustrator before, and it has been incredibly difficult and time consuming.
Can you please show us how to do that in one of your future episodes?
-Greg Warner