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February 28, 2006

Creating a Logo With Book Style Vector Art

Filed under: web-graphics — admin @ 6:47 pm

Creating a logo with book style vector art
Start by creating a rectangle.
Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select distort.
Adjust nodes as shown.
Right click the layer and select warp.
Adjust nodes to give it an open page shape as shown.
Apply layer style as shown.
Duplicate the layer and move few pixels upwards.
Scale down the bottom layer vertically and rotate.
Similarly create another page below this layer.
Select the three layers together. Duplicate it . Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select flip horizontal.
Move it to the other side to complete an open book.
Type the company name.
Add a line below the text.
Create registration target 2 shape using custom shape tool.
Right click the layer and select rasterize.
Create a circular selection using elliptical marquee tool.
Press Ctrl+Alt+D to apply the feather to the selection.
Press Ctrl+Shift+I to inverse the selection. Press delete twice to remove the outer area.
Create a rectangular selection using rectangular marquee tool covering the text and line.
Press Ctrl+Alt+D to apply the feather to the selection.
Press delete to remove the selected area.










 

February 26, 2006

Creating a Waterfall

Filed under: photo-effects — admin @ 6:56 pm

Creating a Waterfall
Start by opening an image of a girl. We’ll create a waterfall out of nothing.
Create a new layer and press Q to enable quick masking. Apply filter>>render>>fibers.
Use settings as shown.
Press Q to disable quick masking.
Create a sky blue to white gradient.
Apply this gradient to the selection.
Press Ctrl+T . Right click and select distort.
Adjust nodes to get the following shape.
Press Ctrl+T . Right click and select warp
Adjust nodes to get the following shape.
Press Ctrl+F to apply the previous fiber effect again.
Change layer mode to linear dodge.










 

February 24, 2006

Creating A Global Vision Conceptual Animation

Filed under: effects — admin @ 7:01 pm

Creating global vision conceptual animation
Start by opening an image of a eye.
Using lasso tool select upper area of the eye lashes. Press Ctrl+J to let the image under selection paste in a new layer.
HIde the duplicate layer. Using elliptical marquee tool select the eye lid.
From select menu apply save selection.
Name this selection “eyelid”.
Fill this selection with white color in a new layer.
Select eraser tool and using a feathered big radius brush settings, click at the center of the eye lid.
Insert a world map cutout.
Place it over the eye lid.
Create two duplicates of the world map layer. Move to the right and left of the original map layer. Make sure you have equal gaps in between the three instances of map layer.
Merge three map layers. Move the first join area of the map to the center of eye lid.
From select menu apply load selection.
Select “eyelid” from channel.
From layer menu apply layer mask>>reveal selection.
Move the map layer below the feathered white eye lid layer.
Unhide the eye lashes layer.
Open animation window.
In layer window unlink the mask and map.
In animation window duplicate the first frame and move the map layer towards the left.
Repeat the above step by moving map layer in equal increments with each duplicate frame till you reach the point where you have second joint of the maps at the center of the eye lid.
Press the play button in animation window to preview the animation.
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