Make a Box of Neon Lights
Sunday, September 27th, 2009 running time 20:54
In Bert Monroy's Times Square piece, neon lights make the McDonald's building attractive. Learn how to create your very own box of lights with Photoshop and Illustrator.
Segments
Introduction to McDonald's building and lights
Bert shows his Times Square piece and focuses on McDonald's lights.
Create a canvas for lights
Create simple paths of the box in Adobe Photoshop. The paths for the actual lights are more detailed and will be handled in Adobe Illustrator. Fill your shape with a gray color and name the layer "base". After labeling the layer, hand-draw the path for other sides of the box. Use a gradient to color the selection made from the path, and use the dodge tool to add some shine and depth. Hand coloring and lighting is done to the shape. After you're done coloring, clip your color layers to the path and add details like borders.
Create neon tubes in Illustrator
Copy your box's path and go to Adobe Illustrator. In a new layer, paste the compound path of the box. Here, Bert shows how to create the neon tubes that simulate light using stroked paths. You can copy and paste these completed paths into Photoshop. The lights will rasterize, and this is OK. Clip the neon tube lights to inside the box, then add embellishments like the light hardware underneath.
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Highlights
lighter color: 9:19bergman: 0:43
darker: 8:18
illusion: 18:37
Automatically Generated Transcript
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" This episode of pixel perfect is brought to you by Netflix and godaddy.com. She fervently Bergman Roy at the show are all kinds of things gone. Today showed it to do a three dimensional sign except for the do type thing to be and they can look 3-D. Of the first. Because of the background the background for today's show was sent to us but all they could go check out this thing. -- Don't do that. It's really nice job it does not do both worlds here is the -- of my chauffeur and host -- Okay so now before we start at steak house sponsors. -- dot com makes it easy customize your virtual dedicated server. Choose one at three popular plans or select your own Linux or windows server with all the plan options you need. President of the coat pencil for when you check out to save an additional 15% of any order of 75 dollars or more. Also be sure to check out their revision3.com. Forward slash godaddy for all the pixel perfect godaddy deals and -- and it all by too long there. But you know some restrictions apply. Is his site for details get your piece of the Internet at godaddy.com. What bank Netflix for sponsoring pixel perfect. And would then the Netflix you can rent over 90000. Titles online. Including lots of Blu-ray titles with free shipping both ways to go home 90000 to stay home for the rest of yellow light and just watch movies. Netflix plans start from as little -- four 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.com. Forward slash pixel perfect. And yes you do have to type in net WWW. We used his -- So. That show here. As good another little part of my got times groupies as so many things going on in that I have all the shows coming out of it. And it's a little tiny little part on MySpace right now as you can see right here is is little tiny corner is that. Little -- character. This is the boats that we saw a few weeks ago it is available dubbed billboard now this is eighty little tiny corner. This black areas that we're seeing down here both black areas are basically hold places aware of the things are gonna go in fact his big shape right here. Abdicated to see here that's actually the back of --"
" Bus if you remember Ben who will -- wanna show. This isn't that is shows HDR. He lives in a bus and that's gonna be his bus rolling down Broadway. Now just to give you an idea of how tiny this little area is -- the turn on the rulers. And -- that there's an -- right there. There's image that is entirely McDonald's very had a little building here is just about an inch and a half high that's all tiny little thing. But the wait is gonna be printed. It's going to be able to see all that detail so I'm gonna go in here to show you how does is done now there's still a lot more to go here. These signs have to be finished -- to be a big snapple bottle right here in fact let me. To make it easy to see these things are eczema cursor is gonna draw in some stuff here is to be a bit snapple bottle it's gonna -- right in here. Has the ability banners that are going to be shooting all -- hiding most of the building and back. And a big obelisk that he which has Mars 2001. Is gonna come -- part. So I completed the entire buildings so that any part that's visible is gonna be just about seen through the have to worry about. What parts can be seen what parts I'm sorry -- made up and tied building -- closes guy down. And look at the actual file for the McDonald's store front and the -- and above it. Now right here is the area that I wanna talk about right in there these little neon -- this turns out to be about. It's just a little under a quarter of an inch high in this space of of Bob five feet by 25 feet Koreans who -- but. He medium we use for printing this is going to show that details are you gonna see. Pretty much everything that's -- it -- these little connectors which right now already though things in here that you see there appears just a little tiny black dot. But still they there was not that little black dot demands is going to be floating and the neon that little up connected there. Kind of type them -- decided adds that eligibility even though. Probably nobody have a -- even look at that tiny little quarter and sign. It's still it's absolutely asset it has to be realized that all the parts that needs and the little connectors are what's important. Now -- look at these signs. United that they are inside. A big box which is an arrow and they're tucked in there. That's what I wanna create the news for you today effect three dimensional look of this."
" Box so I. Think about it there's an estado news file and we've created here now. -- basically start things in. And posted it but this will start here. I -- right here because. The past I'm gonna need a fairly simple except for the neon themselves the -- a -- a little more complex of those are going to be done somewhere else. It's an hour let it go and do we -- gonna create my basic shape for the sign itself solid -- here okay click here. Come way down here on a shift click. Click over to the corner like that. Click up. And straight up and then close it off. ICM at an angle. Have a slight angle than seeing this straight I'm sending our would be pointing perfectly straight and so but we're looking at this from angle so that's why I've. Given this a little bit of askew here Andy's -- at the top. There's going to be a three dimensional box so in -- later I'm gonna go ahead and build that -- and has great color. They've got the happy go ahead of them right there right so now what it called that. Base. That's my dates. So now. And save that path that we had a ironically it decides to this thing now and go here and it create -- way of mr. of that -- out video shape let alone here. Which is gonna be the depth come down here shift to constrain it click come over here. And I mean it at that corner and then close it off nicely done overlap that's good. It's good to have -- I went along the edge of the Ottawa there's a slight chance that might be -- bias in the pixel. So I'll have a space and I wanna that overlaps -- gonna get nice even tone in there. So and a new layer behind the base on my command Q so what I think you later he creates a new layer behind the currently selected later. So in that -- I'm gonna go ahead of the that was they. Different song that's going there and that's you know keep that grade that basic rate has put a background color up to the dark progress. Case and now I turn that. Have into a selection and a regular little gradient in my gradient tool I'm going there just to those some night. That price and I got this little gradient happening. So now we're going there and maybe add a couple little highlights here and is so when my dodge tool I just a little. Highlight right through there maybe a little tiny one right -- you'd like to -- And the Brussels smaller and give us strong one right through here but there's a little reflections from somewhere. That's good enough. I wanna do here is I'm just gonna select. From corner to corner of diagnosis. Make the whole thing a little bit darker. That -- do it this way to salute the doctors at the -- definition down there and a select this corner stadium and hold on my. Option key determines that a political selection tool and I'm gonna select this little corner just like that. That I can working their separately and when I'm gonna do is. A little -- the transparency -- I don't go anywhere outside and give them a little bit of a gradient as well. And there -- going and maybe take a little bit of a brownish tone. They really open like that the -- to degrade and also do gradient in there and we'll do they reflected great. So who -- I bet if -- which is kind of picking up this little highlight them down the street somewhere that there's my little basic box. -- now. This box has to be a three dimensional got the box so I do not take my based that I have there and I'm going to duplicate."
" There's a duplicate. Now the duplicate. I'm gonna go in there -- the transparency. And given them much lighter color. It's going there and given an ice. Light gray like say about like that that's inside the box which is being lit by the in the hands that are going to be inside there. So I go in there and fill that. Go -- and -- but the foreground color. A 100% normal and get satellites now. These are now of I think that box and move it around I move and it like that but that some do that and and clip it. Option put between those two layers in the -- which would watch it in -- eclipse it created a clipping moved so that now I'm gonna see this they only put a lot but some of that -- so now when I move that -- You can see that it's inside it looks like its inside. And then move it until I have justice kind of shape -- there was just backing up right there. That's the back end which ends right there and I got these little shapes in here and add a little variety that -- there was gonna select this corner here. And I see right there. Select that peace and indeed base which is where that is -- and and throw in a little highlight the photo highlight along the bottom down there. Just like that and maybe a little bit longer just alongside him like that okay then it's good. So now let's say. Amber's everything else basically this side here so and I can go in there and this make my. Pressure a little bit bigger and which is gonna highlight right across this area here. Right through here made in the like that. And just a little bit towards the top there ago tested enough there to give it that sense of a little highlight going on. And now down here I'm gonna match up these corners. And that there I'm going to maybe up it will darken that. -- darken that bottom part -- everything they'll lock that transparency do it again and now fills up only that area and there which a little light in just a tad. Just to give a little more of the dimension there they -- act out this guy is just quite right as he isn't. That's going here and select. This guy that's -- him right here at this. Edge of the thing and we're just make a little copy of itself code on that whenever I'm home I'm my option -- command keys. Which reveal -- Alton control so that when idea clicked. My idea. Move tool my yeah my cursor keys it has made a copy and came down about -- Israeli and cool that's looking good. And now we have this box which recognizes this is made of an -- only in really thin metal it's got its -- weight. I'm gonna go back to my base -- that's his -- shape here double click on it to bring up the layer styles I'm gonna give it a little stroke. There's a stroke which I'm gonna put on the inside. I want money inside just like that and I don't want black I want a great. So go -- alike great affect we're gonna go that kind of warmer slight break but I that the school. Google may be able to see it happening could live preview going so there it is just getting a little later. Yeah a little light assisting up light from from the street outside of us that there. And there click okay and now -- metal has some thickness to state -- this nice little ads in there click okay so there's our box. Now would put the neon inside. You might wanna get though the connector -- do those -- the first to go in here and well do. As I'm just gonna connect. And get this main path here. And -- and a path into a selection there as getting him right there and I'm gonna copy of which is NATO command C and when it over to. Photoshop to illustrate. Get -- and -- now what I've done in those they're like little later in back as black. That I -- that -- would be able to see mining now it's gonna be like turn this off for a second. And in a layer of the -- and that I'm gonna go ahead and paste as they pace. But he's gonna paste my path and has to say compound have this fine because basically this is going to be just a guy. I'm gonna go in there and give it a -- like black stroke says is just a guide myself so. That's good enough to us like that -- been -- as they have my god that's the opening that going to be working. So than right here in fact it's being these guys that we know we got we call this -- guide. This one here is going to be to tubes. So let's lock the guy who don't wanna be able touchdown. -- I'm gonna go in here and that's the background is there so. We don't need to see it right now I'm going to start to create my tubes so let it go and get my pencil and write in here I'm gonna commit to that comes up and that. -- a little to say that goes and comes down here. That goes up there corals and he goes down to the edges of the sign down there. Now adams' -- this guy put down further but like that that looks good and how much has changed his angle and bit. And we go that's looking better -- phenomena create a copy this guy down here. So I'm holding down my option command and shift key to constrain which would be both control and shift on PC. We had grabbed it was low points and I just dragged down to make a copy this one we're looking at a slightly different angle so I have to going to make a little modifications to it. And -- here and things went up to just a little. To live like that. But this guy up just a little how we have to to me -- that almost exactly site at saint. But slightly different amount -- the -- and select both windows. Both of those together and what they're going to look like the host and on -- background here right now they are blacks so let's make it. That's given -- didn't go to make it white to -- to delight. And we'll make nice thick so let's just say we want. Lets you attempt point is gonna look like that's a good size -- fickle finger but go with two entering twelve points right there. Twelve point that looks good and I wanted just to be round and round it right the perfect. And here's my tubes. So -- to do with both those selected now I'm -- and come appears to object. Blend make. Now made this is a certain certain number based on whatever I did the last -- blend and go to my blend options. Well I have specific numbers steps which announced that the war -- to say that I wanted to be six. Previewed that there's relatives -- click okay I have all my tubes now so now now that did there and their selector and go ahead and copy that. Come back over here to move to Photoshop. Its -- show where we appeal by the base. Based copied if the data's inside that -- but that's currently selected there. Because -- it paints something and it's gonna automatically paste it above that layer so what I had that live there political hearsay pace. So am -- gonna -- What I did and does -- as a smart object which means that I need to modify it I can always go back the original and modified. It refreshes off here. And I noted that I got it right their plan that had a kind of thing that has to be right so much has been units pixels. It'll automatically raster rise to this Photoshop file become part of Photoshop files like click okay. And it falls right in place right on top and there they are. So make that happen so now I'll take that they are put in a position where I want it right about there. There it is written there and I go ahead and clip it. With the base like the rest and they we see that that there is now it's been would've just a little bit. It's -- inside as you can see it's inside my box. To an end in there. Behind it I'm gonna create a little. Connectors so here I'm just gonna go in here and it's clear layer behind it -- there and it creates a little shape but like that. Who make this one really simple and go ahead of the that would this dark gray that we have down there. Okay and actually we got that unclear but first. And that this so we see it okay there it is and then I'm going to create another little circle inside and it. -- that this move this over to -- a little and down right there and we'll fill that with some black. -- that is going to be the little connector which have been moving the position. Underneath. My -- great there. That is go ahead and -- them again that we see them only inside the shape and duplicate that guy down. Down. Found. And."
" One more. Thing about that here. And then we see that we now have this little neon sign -- all the different pieces are inside the basic shapes and looks like its hollow. Metal frame. With the back inside and then all the nuns have been tucked inside because there'll be clip. -- shape to create that illusion that this is a three dimensional box and was looking into it. And remember it's how you handle all these different steps and what your particular subject matter is that's gonna make a difference it's. How I got to -- that's important exactly what I did but how I did it. I suppose -- techniques that you have to kind of figure out and then applying to your particular job. Is this something that you'd like to see. Meaning that the Burton admitted Revision 3 com -- I can't figure this thing out of my boss is yelling at me. However I do this and hopefully I'll answer you on the show. Because it's got the form that revision3.com. Forward slash forms we can join discussions about the show on a bank. All that Fred -- again for submitting this incredible background look at this thing."
" And I'm back. It really is nice have you here thank you thank you so questions. And that to you. If you like your work out here -- get -- they had his big chance now it's your chance that is green screen and unseen. It is your artwork can be back here enough that the size that anybody to see it annual -- will be emblazoned on screen send those designs to me. At revision3.com. And your background has to be 1280 by 720 pixels and -- JPEG file. I hope to see your -- back there. And remember it plays the best way to learn this stuff to sit there and play you -- know I'm gonna be in the near future from coming to a town near you. Go to my on my website to put on or not comments Q I'm going to be a next month might be community Italian media person you can show me stuff right. I'm gonna -- president's assisted claim this is where have fun. It's actually."
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" War."
" This episode of pixel perfect is brought to you by Netflix and godaddy.com. She fervently Bergman Roy at the show are all kinds of things gone. Today showed it to do a three dimensional sign except for the do type thing to be and they can look 3-D. Of the first. Because of the background the background for today's show was sent to us but all they could go check out this thing. -- Don't do that. It's really nice job it does not do both worlds here is the -- of my chauffeur and host -- Okay so now before we start at steak house sponsors. -- dot com makes it easy customize your virtual dedicated server. Choose one at three popular plans or select your own Linux or windows server with all the plan options you need. President of the coat pencil for when you check out to save an additional 15% of any order of 75 dollars or more. Also be sure to check out their revision3.com. Forward slash godaddy for all the pixel perfect godaddy deals and -- and it all by too long there. But you know some restrictions apply. Is his site for details get your piece of the Internet at godaddy.com. What bank Netflix for sponsoring pixel perfect. And would then the Netflix you can rent over 90000. Titles online. Including lots of Blu-ray titles with free shipping both ways to go home 90000 to stay home for the rest of yellow light and just watch movies. Netflix plans start from as little -- four 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.com. Forward slash pixel perfect. And yes you do have to type in net WWW. We used his -- So. That show here. As good another little part of my got times groupies as so many things going on in that I have all the shows coming out of it. And it's a little tiny little part on MySpace right now as you can see right here is is little tiny corner is that. Little -- character. This is the boats that we saw a few weeks ago it is available dubbed billboard now this is eighty little tiny corner. This black areas that we're seeing down here both black areas are basically hold places aware of the things are gonna go in fact his big shape right here. Abdicated to see here that's actually the back of --"
" Bus if you remember Ben who will -- wanna show. This isn't that is shows HDR. He lives in a bus and that's gonna be his bus rolling down Broadway. Now just to give you an idea of how tiny this little area is -- the turn on the rulers. And -- that there's an -- right there. There's image that is entirely McDonald's very had a little building here is just about an inch and a half high that's all tiny little thing. But the wait is gonna be printed. It's going to be able to see all that detail so I'm gonna go in here to show you how does is done now there's still a lot more to go here. These signs have to be finished -- to be a big snapple bottle right here in fact let me. To make it easy to see these things are eczema cursor is gonna draw in some stuff here is to be a bit snapple bottle it's gonna -- right in here. Has the ability banners that are going to be shooting all -- hiding most of the building and back. And a big obelisk that he which has Mars 2001. Is gonna come -- part. So I completed the entire buildings so that any part that's visible is gonna be just about seen through the have to worry about. What parts can be seen what parts I'm sorry -- made up and tied building -- closes guy down. And look at the actual file for the McDonald's store front and the -- and above it. Now right here is the area that I wanna talk about right in there these little neon -- this turns out to be about. It's just a little under a quarter of an inch high in this space of of Bob five feet by 25 feet Koreans who -- but. He medium we use for printing this is going to show that details are you gonna see. Pretty much everything that's -- it -- these little connectors which right now already though things in here that you see there appears just a little tiny black dot. But still they there was not that little black dot demands is going to be floating and the neon that little up connected there. Kind of type them -- decided adds that eligibility even though. Probably nobody have a -- even look at that tiny little quarter and sign. It's still it's absolutely asset it has to be realized that all the parts that needs and the little connectors are what's important. Now -- look at these signs. United that they are inside. A big box which is an arrow and they're tucked in there. That's what I wanna create the news for you today effect three dimensional look of this."
" Box so I. Think about it there's an estado news file and we've created here now. -- basically start things in. And posted it but this will start here. I -- right here because. The past I'm gonna need a fairly simple except for the neon themselves the -- a -- a little more complex of those are going to be done somewhere else. It's an hour let it go and do we -- gonna create my basic shape for the sign itself solid -- here okay click here. Come way down here on a shift click. Click over to the corner like that. Click up. And straight up and then close it off. ICM at an angle. Have a slight angle than seeing this straight I'm sending our would be pointing perfectly straight and so but we're looking at this from angle so that's why I've. Given this a little bit of askew here Andy's -- at the top. There's going to be a three dimensional box so in -- later I'm gonna go ahead and build that -- and has great color. They've got the happy go ahead of them right there right so now what it called that. Base. That's my dates. So now. And save that path that we had a ironically it decides to this thing now and go here and it create -- way of mr. of that -- out video shape let alone here. Which is gonna be the depth come down here shift to constrain it click come over here. And I mean it at that corner and then close it off nicely done overlap that's good. It's good to have -- I went along the edge of the Ottawa there's a slight chance that might be -- bias in the pixel. So I'll have a space and I wanna that overlaps -- gonna get nice even tone in there. So and a new layer behind the base on my command Q so what I think you later he creates a new layer behind the currently selected later. So in that -- I'm gonna go ahead of the that was they. Different song that's going there and that's you know keep that grade that basic rate has put a background color up to the dark progress. Case and now I turn that. Have into a selection and a regular little gradient in my gradient tool I'm going there just to those some night. That price and I got this little gradient happening. So now we're going there and maybe add a couple little highlights here and is so when my dodge tool I just a little. Highlight right through there maybe a little tiny one right -- you'd like to -- And the Brussels smaller and give us strong one right through here but there's a little reflections from somewhere. That's good enough. I wanna do here is I'm just gonna select. From corner to corner of diagnosis. Make the whole thing a little bit darker. That -- do it this way to salute the doctors at the -- definition down there and a select this corner stadium and hold on my. Option key determines that a political selection tool and I'm gonna select this little corner just like that. That I can working their separately and when I'm gonna do is. A little -- the transparency -- I don't go anywhere outside and give them a little bit of a gradient as well. And there -- going and maybe take a little bit of a brownish tone. They really open like that the -- to degrade and also do gradient in there and we'll do they reflected great. So who -- I bet if -- which is kind of picking up this little highlight them down the street somewhere that there's my little basic box. -- now. This box has to be a three dimensional got the box so I do not take my based that I have there and I'm going to duplicate."
" There's a duplicate. Now the duplicate. I'm gonna go in there -- the transparency. And given them much lighter color. It's going there and given an ice. Light gray like say about like that that's inside the box which is being lit by the in the hands that are going to be inside there. So I go in there and fill that. Go -- and -- but the foreground color. A 100% normal and get satellites now. These are now of I think that box and move it around I move and it like that but that some do that and and clip it. Option put between those two layers in the -- which would watch it in -- eclipse it created a clipping moved so that now I'm gonna see this they only put a lot but some of that -- so now when I move that -- You can see that it's inside it looks like its inside. And then move it until I have justice kind of shape -- there was just backing up right there. That's the back end which ends right there and I got these little shapes in here and add a little variety that -- there was gonna select this corner here. And I see right there. Select that peace and indeed base which is where that is -- and and throw in a little highlight the photo highlight along the bottom down there. Just like that and maybe a little bit longer just alongside him like that okay then it's good. So now let's say. Amber's everything else basically this side here so and I can go in there and this make my. Pressure a little bit bigger and which is gonna highlight right across this area here. Right through here made in the like that. And just a little bit towards the top there ago tested enough there to give it that sense of a little highlight going on. And now down here I'm gonna match up these corners. And that there I'm going to maybe up it will darken that. -- darken that bottom part -- everything they'll lock that transparency do it again and now fills up only that area and there which a little light in just a tad. Just to give a little more of the dimension there they -- act out this guy is just quite right as he isn't. That's going here and select. This guy that's -- him right here at this. Edge of the thing and we're just make a little copy of itself code on that whenever I'm home I'm my option -- command keys. Which reveal -- Alton control so that when idea clicked. My idea. Move tool my yeah my cursor keys it has made a copy and came down about -- Israeli and cool that's looking good. And now we have this box which recognizes this is made of an -- only in really thin metal it's got its -- weight. I'm gonna go back to my base -- that's his -- shape here double click on it to bring up the layer styles I'm gonna give it a little stroke. There's a stroke which I'm gonna put on the inside. I want money inside just like that and I don't want black I want a great. So go -- alike great affect we're gonna go that kind of warmer slight break but I that the school. Google may be able to see it happening could live preview going so there it is just getting a little later. Yeah a little light assisting up light from from the street outside of us that there. And there click okay and now -- metal has some thickness to state -- this nice little ads in there click okay so there's our box. Now would put the neon inside. You might wanna get though the connector -- do those -- the first to go in here and well do. As I'm just gonna connect. And get this main path here. And -- and a path into a selection there as getting him right there and I'm gonna copy of which is NATO command C and when it over to. Photoshop to illustrate. Get -- and -- now what I've done in those they're like little later in back as black. That I -- that -- would be able to see mining now it's gonna be like turn this off for a second. And in a layer of the -- and that I'm gonna go ahead and paste as they pace. But he's gonna paste my path and has to say compound have this fine because basically this is going to be just a guy. I'm gonna go in there and give it a -- like black stroke says is just a guide myself so. That's good enough to us like that -- been -- as they have my god that's the opening that going to be working. So than right here in fact it's being these guys that we know we got we call this -- guide. This one here is going to be to tubes. So let's lock the guy who don't wanna be able touchdown. -- I'm gonna go in here and that's the background is there so. We don't need to see it right now I'm going to start to create my tubes so let it go and get my pencil and write in here I'm gonna commit to that comes up and that. -- a little to say that goes and comes down here. That goes up there corals and he goes down to the edges of the sign down there. Now adams' -- this guy put down further but like that that looks good and how much has changed his angle and bit. And we go that's looking better -- phenomena create a copy this guy down here. So I'm holding down my option command and shift key to constrain which would be both control and shift on PC. We had grabbed it was low points and I just dragged down to make a copy this one we're looking at a slightly different angle so I have to going to make a little modifications to it. And -- here and things went up to just a little. To live like that. But this guy up just a little how we have to to me -- that almost exactly site at saint. But slightly different amount -- the -- and select both windows. Both of those together and what they're going to look like the host and on -- background here right now they are blacks so let's make it. That's given -- didn't go to make it white to -- to delight. And we'll make nice thick so let's just say we want. Lets you attempt point is gonna look like that's a good size -- fickle finger but go with two entering twelve points right there. Twelve point that looks good and I wanted just to be round and round it right the perfect. And here's my tubes. So -- to do with both those selected now I'm -- and come appears to object. Blend make. Now made this is a certain certain number based on whatever I did the last -- blend and go to my blend options. Well I have specific numbers steps which announced that the war -- to say that I wanted to be six. Previewed that there's relatives -- click okay I have all my tubes now so now now that did there and their selector and go ahead and copy that. Come back over here to move to Photoshop. Its -- show where we appeal by the base. Based copied if the data's inside that -- but that's currently selected there. Because -- it paints something and it's gonna automatically paste it above that layer so what I had that live there political hearsay pace. So am -- gonna -- What I did and does -- as a smart object which means that I need to modify it I can always go back the original and modified. It refreshes off here. And I noted that I got it right their plan that had a kind of thing that has to be right so much has been units pixels. It'll automatically raster rise to this Photoshop file become part of Photoshop files like click okay. And it falls right in place right on top and there they are. So make that happen so now I'll take that they are put in a position where I want it right about there. There it is written there and I go ahead and clip it. With the base like the rest and they we see that that there is now it's been would've just a little bit. It's -- inside as you can see it's inside my box. To an end in there. Behind it I'm gonna create a little. Connectors so here I'm just gonna go in here and it's clear layer behind it -- there and it creates a little shape but like that. Who make this one really simple and go ahead of the that would this dark gray that we have down there. Okay and actually we got that unclear but first. And that this so we see it okay there it is and then I'm going to create another little circle inside and it. -- that this move this over to -- a little and down right there and we'll fill that with some black. -- that is going to be the little connector which have been moving the position. Underneath. My -- great there. That is go ahead and -- them again that we see them only inside the shape and duplicate that guy down. Down. Found. And."
" One more. Thing about that here. And then we see that we now have this little neon sign -- all the different pieces are inside the basic shapes and looks like its hollow. Metal frame. With the back inside and then all the nuns have been tucked inside because there'll be clip. -- shape to create that illusion that this is a three dimensional box and was looking into it. And remember it's how you handle all these different steps and what your particular subject matter is that's gonna make a difference it's. How I got to -- that's important exactly what I did but how I did it. I suppose -- techniques that you have to kind of figure out and then applying to your particular job. Is this something that you'd like to see. Meaning that the Burton admitted Revision 3 com -- I can't figure this thing out of my boss is yelling at me. However I do this and hopefully I'll answer you on the show. Because it's got the form that revision3.com. Forward slash forms we can join discussions about the show on a bank. All that Fred -- again for submitting this incredible background look at this thing."
" And I'm back. It really is nice have you here thank you thank you so questions. And that to you. If you like your work out here -- get -- they had his big chance now it's your chance that is green screen and unseen. It is your artwork can be back here enough that the size that anybody to see it annual -- will be emblazoned on screen send those designs to me. At revision3.com. And your background has to be 1280 by 720 pixels and -- JPEG file. I hope to see your -- back there. And remember it plays the best way to learn this stuff to sit there and play you -- know I'm gonna be in the near future from coming to a town near you. Go to my on my website to put on or not comments Q I'm going to be a next month might be community Italian media person you can show me stuff right. I'm gonna -- president's assisted claim this is where have fun. It's actually."
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Episode 145: Make a Box of Neon Lights [Discussion]
In Bert Monroy's Times Square piece, neon lights make the McDonald's building attractive. Learn how to create your very own box of lights with Photoshop and Illustrator.
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A million and one uses
Thanks Bert, I thought of about a half-dozen ways to use these techniques just during the show. Sometimes just seeing something being used one way triggers many more ways to use the same technique Great tools for my toolbox!