Add Magic to Photoshop - Part II
Monday, August 11th, 2008 running time 21:30
This week, Bert continues his quest to create an enchanted dagger.
Bert finished his enchanted dagger project this week, creating the blade and dagger-cover.
To make the blade, Bert first outline the shape with the pen tool and fils it in using the gradient tool. Bert adds texture to the blade by adding dark tones, the dodge tool, and layer styles (outer and inner glow). To add a sheen, Bert makes a path in the middle of the blade, strokes it with a white brunch, and then turns the path into a selection to give it an inverted mask.
Bert creates the background by simply using the gradient tool, specifically the radio gradient.
For a leather case, Bert first makes the shape with the pen tool, fills it with a brown color and then adds the Texture-Craquelure, Gaussian Blur and Pixilate-Facet filters for texture. Bert creates a pouch indent with the burn tool. Then, he makes stitches for around the cover by first creating a shape with the rounded corner tool (Filled with the foreground color) and then turning the shape into a brush with the brush engine (increase the spacing, adjust the space dynamic and adjusting the angle jitter).
Finally , Bert adds a drop shadow to the blade/handle and cover to make his enchanted dagger stand out.
Highlights
Netflix
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0:06, 1:19, 1:21, 1:35, 1:46, 0:06, 1:19, 1:21, 1:35, 1:46
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Blu-ray
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1:25, 1:25
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suede
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16:40, 16:40
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blade
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0:51, 4:54, 5:42, 5:45, 6:02, 7:46, 8:40, 8:48, 9:17, 9:27, 9:53, 10:29, 10:37, 12:30, 12:31, 18:08, 18:18, 18:46, 0:51, 4:54, 5:42, 5:45, 6:02, 7:46, 8:40, 8:48, 9:17, 9:27, 9:53, 10:29, 10:37, 12:30, 12:31, 18:08, 18:18, 18:46
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Netflix
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0:06, 1:19, 1:21, 1:35, 1:46, 0:06, 1:19, 1:21, 1:35, 1:46
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Blu-ray
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1:25, 1:25
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suede
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16:40, 16:40
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blade
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0:51, 4:54, 5:42, 5:45, 6:02, 7:46, 8:40, 8:48, 9:17, 9:27, 9:53, 10:29, 10:37, 12:30, 12:31, 18:08, 18:18, 18:46, 0:51, 4:54, 5:42, 5:45, 6:02, 7:46, 8:40, 8:48, 9:17, 9:27, 9:53, 10:29, 10:37, 12:30, 12:31, 18:08, 18:18, 18:46
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" Wow. This episode of pixel perfect is brought to you by Netflix and godaddy.com. So welcome to pixel perfect let me host -- Monroe. Today's show. Let's take what we did last week and finish it metal blade -- handles camera but before we get into it. I want to thank my good friend Matt -- million. If I misspelled or Smith said you're left name so are you don't have your lawyer called me just accept my apologies but check out the background. After that nuclear blast last week how to relax at the beach there isn't much better. But first let's think I'll -- spices Netflix. And it would Netflix you can rent over 90000 titles online including lots of Blu-ray -- With free shipping both ways to your home they now have a book forty shipping centers so almost all deliveries happening just one business day. The Netflix plans start from his little four dollars and 99 cents and has a new member you're getting no risk two week free trial membership. Check the whole thing out at www. Netflix dot com forward slash pixel perfect. And remember you do have to type in that WWW. To use this code. Also -- bank godaddy.com. The web hosting from Kodak dot com includes it in 99 point 9% up time. Plus 8247. Support and free access to host in connection. The place to install over thirty flea applications should help you get the most from your hosting plan and web site. Protect them I'd godaddy.com. So now let's take I would that it the next step to the final step who completed now -- who left off last week we have all the elements. That make up the dagger. Now we feel all the layers in fact let's let's bring down how little options -- so. But bring them without the picture this a little guy that they think all the layers and there still some related flap over a pound. Today though the layers not a background is not part of it I'm gonna turn that -- off of what I'm gonna do it and emerge all of these layers right so little news today merge visible. So you know what happened then they all have merged into one later and undo that. -- Because I want to keep both layers intact I want to make sure in case I want to do something else. Or after going to fix it or re -- something I want to have Apple's original layers -- gonna -- who created new layer on top of the whole thing here. And I call that might be up handle. And I call it comp. Sure for composite that's from the report all the layers together so now. -- save command -- visible but this -- and hold down my modified can go option key alt on the PC. Holy that is going to change the way things work so by holding back in meg going in there is a bridge visible you'll notice now that. There's -- handle up on the top there -- got merged into have -- the original layers remained intact. So now I have one layer that has everything but my original -- case I want it. Make it's over is that a gold whatever price and it did you."
" File here. -- going to assemble this whole thing so let's go here and let's make it a good. Let's go would be. 700. And -- they have let's go for a whole thousand on the height and make it RGB. Click okay there's this big space right now I want to take back composite there and drag it right over to here it's enough I can go here and wouldn't close this file. Say goodbye and that I save it yet we should say it was shouldn't it so it could handle. And we'll save it right here we'll -- desktop. We know exactly where it is there it is. Now back over here here's my handle cop right there which I'm not going to shrink and bring it down and make it smaller. -- available here and scale it down whole numbers shift key to constrain it and bring down to about that size right to. Kenneth but does -- position right in the center about -- to -- this is the pseudo. Now there it is there's are handled in place for now going to create the blade. So now. -- might go up into an assistant does the better there you go now would my pencil I've always start over -- until I don't handle it click right here. We'll battle handle come way down here and pull up on him like this now now my. Option key to change direction of a lot of -- to the site that. Then I'm gonna pull out the option -- yet another handle going this way and come way up to about here. And then close it off right. And it. Finish it. There's my blades now if you -- submit -- might want to take these to handle them well over a little bit just little fatter and maybe straighten this out just a little here. This has so little. Let's have occurred and there's -- blade so let's say that path that go ahead and save it will -- blade. -- and now we have that's it. Gone here and the layer behind his handle here. I hear it's gonna hold down my job. My command Q so it creates a layer behind the handle an -- that they -- the blade. That is -- And outlets to go in here and turns into a selection. I -- that it is actually right there like that and we got this great year but let's go pick -- later time. And it's a really light colored. And go into the blues it really like Korea like that. And integrated Bluetooth -- lighten -- just a little there and I get -- gradient tool -- integrated on the -- little gradient. And a new layer right there. That I -- until analyst of creative gradient straight up and down like that. All right so that's not look good. Read more tones that few minutes -- I would can be selected. So now that's a backdrop pass through going to do is gonna add little edge that he's right here so with a path I'm going and going to. Pull out. -- got to -- it right in here like this. So open that up a little bit and in this piece right in there and about like that. This can -- that nice little edge in there. It's gonna be that edge really have a whole different thing happening now what is going to happen and -- this guy out here. We're out of the way. All right so now what's gonna happen along there isn't getting machine a nice solution is gonna happen there from the switch to black and white. And he's white. And want to do want to get a brush. And soft -- rush but not as big as 200 is going -- here at my sides say about. That's a good sides were right there could be -- nice size centered inside that little shape and elated -- even twenty. Let's go in this -- twenty that's a good size right there. Right so now in new layer on top of the blade a new layer or we'll call this one. She. I don't know what this under the edit stroke that path with the brush. And go ahead and stroke it and -- we get that little she's right on that edge but now it should be -- it should be shark so one thing to do. -- I'm gonna go into my -- May -- it turn into a selection."
" Right there and they should mean that she later given a mask. Adam asked automatically. Took on what was selected and you know -- the other side the one dude I got the map I'm an inverted. Just go go and I think command I and then inverted nicely issues on the other side. Now days parts of it. We don't see them now right now because the background is white but it the part of this site it's visible so doing I'm gonna go ahead and -- that. I'm gonna clip it with the blade and -- machine only inside the play itself. Okay so now. Let's go in there and go to blade and look at a couple little things to like a little. Dark spot right through there may be another one. And you know what the -- and do that for a thicket. Why because I like that -- thing that happened there it's going to to a history. And I don't want that are part there don't want that in there that's just go here and they. Come back here to tipping. Right so why don't want to know why because it's a different edge I want it just on the flat edge of the blade so we do that going to turn on that path. And on that -- Today and we had to look happen only in there I go back that there is the blade so now when I fill my little dark tone. If I'm going happening here not here I wanted to name -- name and a little dark tone right there and then with my. Dodge tool that's making a bigger. It'll highlight breakthrough here. It a couple of times it did that make a little smaller and we'll -- a little Sheen reindeer. All right so now lets you select this whole thing. For it and -- blade. "
" Let's go in here and into the background will create a new layer behind there made there and here are gonna start in -- homes. So let's go in here and pick nice. Kind of like the new. Like -- like that and it's. That may be warranted graves. There you go that's a good color and then this background color that goes to a deep bluish gray stuff like that. And now what we're going to do -- background there of them to a radial gradient. That's gonna. -- center right there on the edge about blade like that not a got a background. Now we have a background that we can see I've played against. Let's go back of the blade. And give it some other stuff that's enchanted so it's going to glow to have this nice glow around right so let's get a little out of -- I am gonna make him and his big size like that -- a little bit but not yellow it's blu yellows. Kind of everyday life and chances salute them go with a blu. Those really pretty for a enchanted feelings that we got this thing for the blue going on there. And we might want to give a little inner -- to the -- to go into the blues. And kind of make that -- vigorously -- We will be inside as well so now probably to start had disenchanted look now we need to be able to put this away. We need to be able to put that thing away -- going down. To the parent to get our print a whatever so I wouldn't go in here and create a nice leather case for our little scary. A lot dagger from the start -- here and create associate. And going to come down to about here. At and it's. On -- combat in here. If this little curve and angle here like that that's good now the change direction. They've come straight down to back here. Goes round this little edge. And around there. Come around up here and go straight up to here. And in here I'm gonna go in again to say they've been -- is set -- come in and create this little curve and finish it off on top. This Baghdad now need to modify it I can at this point they're going to say we've heard these guys in a little bit war. So we have the -- about design sense to. That's going to be our little."
" Cover for -- so of course recover. Their. The -- we had that. Think of Malia and let's turn off the blade would need to see the blade. Good to see that you can review and feedback holy to see if that piece right there so no they are on top of this. I'm gonna take then that's been my brown called. Goad him to -- browned about like that maybe the latest click okay and we'll go ahead and fill that -- would that for a okay so now. We've got to do stuff that it's. Gonna don't care and get a little texture feel a little textures so I'm going here and just say. That school give it a filter like a crack into. Ecuador's going to go with a nice kind of rough texture like that lead the settings as they are click okay that looks good. I wanted to little burglar. That's a little bit of a gauzy -- a little bit and you know what if he had he had -- soft. We need to protect those ages want to keep the truck that it's blocked the transparency on that I would've brought he's going to happen inside and not effect that -- So now go back into. Doesn't and are nice idea just -- thought to -- instead get blurred. And it brings it down to about that they've won just it softened up a little bit like that and just let final touch. We'll give -- a little. That's it and it's going to break it up a little more and here we have this nice effect going on so now. I would keep the leather together because of going to be approach to effect let's create that little pouch. If this little area right in here like so. And then there is then my -- take my. Burn tool and I'm gonna make a little bigger. That's gonna darken that area right in there that's the part where the thing is invented a little bit before like that there's that little lump. Part where. That goes it matters to -- do other how do you keep them together. We need to go in there and -- states who going to create this bitch. Certainly going here and let's get our. The rounded corner tool here to upgrade the sort of shape to save that -- you know that created a path that don't do that. There's a third choice available not happen until but it is available for those -- and that's this guy right here. When that guy does now when I created shape it's gonna create a -- that's filled with the foreground color -- pixels. It will not create -- shaped like the first choice you'll create a path but the second choice to create a build shape. That feature is only available for these tools and not depend for now watch what happens when it -- get in shape. A few days going to be filled with black and of course sudden you know -- later. There you go. There bill -- black so now -- to -- goes into the new material. Let's go here and get a soft bed brush. As the -- to 45 that looks Cisco with the 65. And local radio between those -- about it today about fifty -- Q right there would bring down my capacity for my brush. -- is gonna do portrayed in there and we'll put him there if there's this little grey area right at the edge. Oh my yeah my stitches tonight could select that. And turn that into a brush. Define brush."
" Economic -- So now. -- got my path here there's a path to cover which I'm not going to turn into a selection and I'm going to. Contract that selection to come over here are modified they contract that contracted. Let's say. If you're fifteen pixels going to do this is nice shape right inside there for now what I want to do that shape is I want to turn into a back. And -- the -- why the going to stroke. And you can -- the selection you can always -- with a brush and we struggled to stroke tool I want stroked the area with a brush so I turned into a -- So again my brush and I choose a brush it just shows that one right there is -- brush it right now who do that. Donovan capacity back up to 1% and pick a nice color going to be good for our stage that's good nice kind of like color like that. Going to be like suede. And about it that that's good right so now I go into my bush engine. You know brush engine here. And question -- I'm going to increase to spacing. Might those space going between Baghdad the Google and then they come out this like that and then go to look my shape dynamics eternal night. -- patent pressure and so the size and going to very I don't want any variation on the site I don't want it any variation on any of them I want to all of the same but I am going to go in here. And -- angle. He's the -- is. All kind of horizontal but following a big stroke with state direction. And I think -- Following the direction of the of that stroke so now now that I have that I come over here and in a new layer on top of this thing. I'm gonna go ahead and take that brush -- make little smaller. It's a little tiny stitch but -- that. And I take that path and I stroke it with that brush. The -- had done little stitches or on the site about blue sky -- So now. Let's go back into here and you know built -- go ahead and merge that down. They become one thing here and we'll go ahead and kind of called -- cover. CO BP. All right so now what happens here as you turn on my background and we turn on a blade and is our handle. So what to do is that go ahead of merge these together into one to. Marriage visible. And although into the blade. But now -- all the different pieces and take the cover and it rotated. The rotation. Is rotate artists I'd like that. Make that happen. -- did they laid itself. Let's go back into the -- spousal given a drop shadow. We didn't come from below and will increase that distance. So becomes dramatic it's bringing that light from that blade down below -- many passes just a tad. That is his shadow now click okay. -- cover have to have a shadow too. But we will probably because the fact that the light source is directly to senate which means we should have shadows on two sides. So I'm going to cover and given a drop shadow. Busy drop shadow which follows that same -- before -- they'll give that shadow and you know -- play around with this. Directional a little bit. And they come from that like that and more distance and will soften it up just a little bit that is that shadow but now we went down here to. And click okay and when I'm doing a separate that drop shadow from the -- by coming appeared there latest styles create layer. And there is that shadows and I can duplicate that shadow. And take that second shadow and move it. Down in this direction. But like that it's moving it position. I'd like that that there and there we see that we had this really cool dagger. With she removes gathered hold that in place and all that good stuff. -- remember you can create do we want to create entire some rice or whatever it is that you want to create. There's a basic steps out of that the you've taken a step further makes them improvisations here there and make it look really good. It did anything you'd like to see you on the show email me -- Spirit and revision3.com. You can also check out pixel perfect forums at revision3.com. -- slash form. Join discussions about the show and who knows you might influence a future episode. Also your artwork can be used as a background. Expected this as you can see why that is -- They already. Your artwork and be right back he would send me your designs to -- and revision3.com. And background should be 1280 by 720 pixels and -- at. JPEG -- I hope you learned something small -- remember to place the best way to learns to sit there and play this -- work does is having fun this is playing around. I hope to see you next week."
" Wow. This episode of pixel perfect is brought to you by Netflix and godaddy.com. So welcome to pixel perfect let me host -- Monroe. Today's show. Let's take what we did last week and finish it metal blade -- handles camera but before we get into it. I want to thank my good friend Matt -- million. If I misspelled or Smith said you're left name so are you don't have your lawyer called me just accept my apologies but check out the background. After that nuclear blast last week how to relax at the beach there isn't much better. But first let's think I'll -- spices Netflix. And it would Netflix you can rent over 90000 titles online including lots of Blu-ray -- With free shipping both ways to your home they now have a book forty shipping centers so almost all deliveries happening just one business day. The Netflix plans start from his little four dollars and 99 cents and has a new member you're getting no risk two week free trial membership. Check the whole thing out at www. Netflix dot com forward slash pixel perfect. And remember you do have to type in that WWW. To use this code. Also -- bank godaddy.com. The web hosting from Kodak dot com includes it in 99 point 9% up time. Plus 8247. Support and free access to host in connection. The place to install over thirty flea applications should help you get the most from your hosting plan and web site. Protect them I'd godaddy.com. So now let's take I would that it the next step to the final step who completed now -- who left off last week we have all the elements. That make up the dagger. Now we feel all the layers in fact let's let's bring down how little options -- so. But bring them without the picture this a little guy that they think all the layers and there still some related flap over a pound. Today though the layers not a background is not part of it I'm gonna turn that -- off of what I'm gonna do it and emerge all of these layers right so little news today merge visible. So you know what happened then they all have merged into one later and undo that. -- Because I want to keep both layers intact I want to make sure in case I want to do something else. Or after going to fix it or re -- something I want to have Apple's original layers -- gonna -- who created new layer on top of the whole thing here. And I call that might be up handle. And I call it comp. Sure for composite that's from the report all the layers together so now. -- save command -- visible but this -- and hold down my modified can go option key alt on the PC. Holy that is going to change the way things work so by holding back in meg going in there is a bridge visible you'll notice now that. There's -- handle up on the top there -- got merged into have -- the original layers remained intact. So now I have one layer that has everything but my original -- case I want it. Make it's over is that a gold whatever price and it did you."
" File here. -- going to assemble this whole thing so let's go here and let's make it a good. Let's go would be. 700. And -- they have let's go for a whole thousand on the height and make it RGB. Click okay there's this big space right now I want to take back composite there and drag it right over to here it's enough I can go here and wouldn't close this file. Say goodbye and that I save it yet we should say it was shouldn't it so it could handle. And we'll save it right here we'll -- desktop. We know exactly where it is there it is. Now back over here here's my handle cop right there which I'm not going to shrink and bring it down and make it smaller. -- available here and scale it down whole numbers shift key to constrain it and bring down to about that size right to. Kenneth but does -- position right in the center about -- to -- this is the pseudo. Now there it is there's are handled in place for now going to create the blade. So now. -- might go up into an assistant does the better there you go now would my pencil I've always start over -- until I don't handle it click right here. We'll battle handle come way down here and pull up on him like this now now my. Option key to change direction of a lot of -- to the site that. Then I'm gonna pull out the option -- yet another handle going this way and come way up to about here. And then close it off right. And it. Finish it. There's my blades now if you -- submit -- might want to take these to handle them well over a little bit just little fatter and maybe straighten this out just a little here. This has so little. Let's have occurred and there's -- blade so let's say that path that go ahead and save it will -- blade. -- and now we have that's it. Gone here and the layer behind his handle here. I hear it's gonna hold down my job. My command Q so it creates a layer behind the handle an -- that they -- the blade. That is -- And outlets to go in here and turns into a selection. I -- that it is actually right there like that and we got this great year but let's go pick -- later time. And it's a really light colored. And go into the blues it really like Korea like that. And integrated Bluetooth -- lighten -- just a little there and I get -- gradient tool -- integrated on the -- little gradient. And a new layer right there. That I -- until analyst of creative gradient straight up and down like that. All right so that's not look good. Read more tones that few minutes -- I would can be selected. So now that's a backdrop pass through going to do is gonna add little edge that he's right here so with a path I'm going and going to. Pull out. -- got to -- it right in here like this. So open that up a little bit and in this piece right in there and about like that. This can -- that nice little edge in there. It's gonna be that edge really have a whole different thing happening now what is going to happen and -- this guy out here. We're out of the way. All right so now what's gonna happen along there isn't getting machine a nice solution is gonna happen there from the switch to black and white. And he's white. And want to do want to get a brush. And soft -- rush but not as big as 200 is going -- here at my sides say about. That's a good sides were right there could be -- nice size centered inside that little shape and elated -- even twenty. Let's go in this -- twenty that's a good size right there. Right so now in new layer on top of the blade a new layer or we'll call this one. She. I don't know what this under the edit stroke that path with the brush. And go ahead and stroke it and -- we get that little she's right on that edge but now it should be -- it should be shark so one thing to do. -- I'm gonna go into my -- May -- it turn into a selection."
" Right there and they should mean that she later given a mask. Adam asked automatically. Took on what was selected and you know -- the other side the one dude I got the map I'm an inverted. Just go go and I think command I and then inverted nicely issues on the other side. Now days parts of it. We don't see them now right now because the background is white but it the part of this site it's visible so doing I'm gonna go ahead and -- that. I'm gonna clip it with the blade and -- machine only inside the play itself. Okay so now. Let's go in there and go to blade and look at a couple little things to like a little. Dark spot right through there may be another one. And you know what the -- and do that for a thicket. Why because I like that -- thing that happened there it's going to to a history. And I don't want that are part there don't want that in there that's just go here and they. Come back here to tipping. Right so why don't want to know why because it's a different edge I want it just on the flat edge of the blade so we do that going to turn on that path. And on that -- Today and we had to look happen only in there I go back that there is the blade so now when I fill my little dark tone. If I'm going happening here not here I wanted to name -- name and a little dark tone right there and then with my. Dodge tool that's making a bigger. It'll highlight breakthrough here. It a couple of times it did that make a little smaller and we'll -- a little Sheen reindeer. All right so now lets you select this whole thing. For it and -- blade. "
" Let's go in here and into the background will create a new layer behind there made there and here are gonna start in -- homes. So let's go in here and pick nice. Kind of like the new. Like -- like that and it's. That may be warranted graves. There you go that's a good color and then this background color that goes to a deep bluish gray stuff like that. And now what we're going to do -- background there of them to a radial gradient. That's gonna. -- center right there on the edge about blade like that not a got a background. Now we have a background that we can see I've played against. Let's go back of the blade. And give it some other stuff that's enchanted so it's going to glow to have this nice glow around right so let's get a little out of -- I am gonna make him and his big size like that -- a little bit but not yellow it's blu yellows. Kind of everyday life and chances salute them go with a blu. Those really pretty for a enchanted feelings that we got this thing for the blue going on there. And we might want to give a little inner -- to the -- to go into the blues. And kind of make that -- vigorously -- We will be inside as well so now probably to start had disenchanted look now we need to be able to put this away. We need to be able to put that thing away -- going down. To the parent to get our print a whatever so I wouldn't go in here and create a nice leather case for our little scary. A lot dagger from the start -- here and create associate. And going to come down to about here. At and it's. On -- combat in here. If this little curve and angle here like that that's good now the change direction. They've come straight down to back here. Goes round this little edge. And around there. Come around up here and go straight up to here. And in here I'm gonna go in again to say they've been -- is set -- come in and create this little curve and finish it off on top. This Baghdad now need to modify it I can at this point they're going to say we've heard these guys in a little bit war. So we have the -- about design sense to. That's going to be our little."
" Cover for -- so of course recover. Their. The -- we had that. Think of Malia and let's turn off the blade would need to see the blade. Good to see that you can review and feedback holy to see if that piece right there so no they are on top of this. I'm gonna take then that's been my brown called. Goad him to -- browned about like that maybe the latest click okay and we'll go ahead and fill that -- would that for a okay so now. We've got to do stuff that it's. Gonna don't care and get a little texture feel a little textures so I'm going here and just say. That school give it a filter like a crack into. Ecuador's going to go with a nice kind of rough texture like that lead the settings as they are click okay that looks good. I wanted to little burglar. That's a little bit of a gauzy -- a little bit and you know what if he had he had -- soft. We need to protect those ages want to keep the truck that it's blocked the transparency on that I would've brought he's going to happen inside and not effect that -- So now go back into. Doesn't and are nice idea just -- thought to -- instead get blurred. And it brings it down to about that they've won just it softened up a little bit like that and just let final touch. We'll give -- a little. That's it and it's going to break it up a little more and here we have this nice effect going on so now. I would keep the leather together because of going to be approach to effect let's create that little pouch. If this little area right in here like so. And then there is then my -- take my. Burn tool and I'm gonna make a little bigger. That's gonna darken that area right in there that's the part where the thing is invented a little bit before like that there's that little lump. Part where. That goes it matters to -- do other how do you keep them together. We need to go in there and -- states who going to create this bitch. Certainly going here and let's get our. The rounded corner tool here to upgrade the sort of shape to save that -- you know that created a path that don't do that. There's a third choice available not happen until but it is available for those -- and that's this guy right here. When that guy does now when I created shape it's gonna create a -- that's filled with the foreground color -- pixels. It will not create -- shaped like the first choice you'll create a path but the second choice to create a build shape. That feature is only available for these tools and not depend for now watch what happens when it -- get in shape. A few days going to be filled with black and of course sudden you know -- later. There you go. There bill -- black so now -- to -- goes into the new material. Let's go here and get a soft bed brush. As the -- to 45 that looks Cisco with the 65. And local radio between those -- about it today about fifty -- Q right there would bring down my capacity for my brush. -- is gonna do portrayed in there and we'll put him there if there's this little grey area right at the edge. Oh my yeah my stitches tonight could select that. And turn that into a brush. Define brush."
" Economic -- So now. -- got my path here there's a path to cover which I'm not going to turn into a selection and I'm going to. Contract that selection to come over here are modified they contract that contracted. Let's say. If you're fifteen pixels going to do this is nice shape right inside there for now what I want to do that shape is I want to turn into a back. And -- the -- why the going to stroke. And you can -- the selection you can always -- with a brush and we struggled to stroke tool I want stroked the area with a brush so I turned into a -- So again my brush and I choose a brush it just shows that one right there is -- brush it right now who do that. Donovan capacity back up to 1% and pick a nice color going to be good for our stage that's good nice kind of like color like that. Going to be like suede. And about it that that's good right so now I go into my bush engine. You know brush engine here. And question -- I'm going to increase to spacing. Might those space going between Baghdad the Google and then they come out this like that and then go to look my shape dynamics eternal night. -- patent pressure and so the size and going to very I don't want any variation on the site I don't want it any variation on any of them I want to all of the same but I am going to go in here. And -- angle. He's the -- is. All kind of horizontal but following a big stroke with state direction. And I think -- Following the direction of the of that stroke so now now that I have that I come over here and in a new layer on top of this thing. I'm gonna go ahead and take that brush -- make little smaller. It's a little tiny stitch but -- that. And I take that path and I stroke it with that brush. The -- had done little stitches or on the site about blue sky -- So now. Let's go back into here and you know built -- go ahead and merge that down. They become one thing here and we'll go ahead and kind of called -- cover. CO BP. All right so now what happens here as you turn on my background and we turn on a blade and is our handle. So what to do is that go ahead of merge these together into one to. Marriage visible. And although into the blade. But now -- all the different pieces and take the cover and it rotated. The rotation. Is rotate artists I'd like that. Make that happen. -- did they laid itself. Let's go back into the -- spousal given a drop shadow. We didn't come from below and will increase that distance. So becomes dramatic it's bringing that light from that blade down below -- many passes just a tad. That is his shadow now click okay. -- cover have to have a shadow too. But we will probably because the fact that the light source is directly to senate which means we should have shadows on two sides. So I'm going to cover and given a drop shadow. Busy drop shadow which follows that same -- before -- they'll give that shadow and you know -- play around with this. Directional a little bit. And they come from that like that and more distance and will soften it up just a little bit that is that shadow but now we went down here to. And click okay and when I'm doing a separate that drop shadow from the -- by coming appeared there latest styles create layer. And there is that shadows and I can duplicate that shadow. And take that second shadow and move it. Down in this direction. But like that it's moving it position. I'd like that that there and there we see that we had this really cool dagger. With she removes gathered hold that in place and all that good stuff. -- remember you can create do we want to create entire some rice or whatever it is that you want to create. There's a basic steps out of that the you've taken a step further makes them improvisations here there and make it look really good. It did anything you'd like to see you on the show email me -- Spirit and revision3.com. You can also check out pixel perfect forums at revision3.com. -- slash form. Join discussions about the show and who knows you might influence a future episode. Also your artwork can be used as a background. Expected this as you can see why that is -- They already. Your artwork and be right back he would send me your designs to -- and revision3.com. And background should be 1280 by 720 pixels and -- at. JPEG -- I hope you learned something small -- remember to place the best way to learns to sit there and play this -- work does is having fun this is playing around. I hope to see you next week."
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Started discussion: August 11, 2008 @ 9:29am GMT
Episode 95 - Add Magic to Photoshop - Part II [Discussion]
This week, Bert continues his quest to create an enchanted dagger.
Watch or download the episode here.
Johnosullivan
about 1 year ago
Cool ep. Final piece was class. The only thing that I thought could have been improved on was where the knife slipped into the pouch. I was expecting him to actually accentuate the outer area of the opening. All in all, very impressed though.
Chizzle
about 1 year ago
very cool episode. to make it look like the knife is really inside, try hitting the leather piece with some (not too strong) shadows and highlights just where the knife would be inside. you can make the knife a selection and there you have your template. Might be able to actually use some effects in the selection to make it look real. Maybe even a bevel and emboss :O with fill opacity at 0.
Play around with the settings, might just work.
Play around with the settings, might just work.
LiquidSpeed
about 1 year ago











