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March 14, 2006

Tooty Frooty Text Effect

Filed under: text-effects — admin @ 7:09 pm

Tooty Frooty Text Effect
Start by typing “TOOTY FROOTY”.
Right click the layer and select convert to shape.
Using direct selection tool you can select each alphabet and rotate and move.
In a new layer create some triangles, circles and squares with different color.
Merge all the shape layers. Ctrl+Click to get the selection. From edit menu select “Define Brush Preset”. Name this new brush “tootyfrooty brush”.
Press F5 to open brush settings. Adjust settings as shown.
Apply the brush in a new layer.
Ctrl+Click the text layer to get the selection.
Press Ctrl+Shift+I and delete the outer area of the layer with multi color shapes.
Double click the text layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.
Apply a nice radial gradient in the background.
Reduce the opacity of multi color shapes layer to 60%.










 

March 12, 2006

Scorching Sun Effect

Filed under: photo-effects — admin @ 6:49 pm

Creating scorching sun effect
Open an image in which there is some sky area visible.
From filter menu select blur>>gaussian blur.
Apply settings as shown.
Change the layer mode to linear dodge.
From filter menu select render>>lens flare.
Use settings as shown.










 

March 10, 2006

Navigational Header with Chains & Bolts

Filed under: web-graphics — admin @ 11:04 am

Navigational Header with Chains & Bolts
Start by creating a rectangle of your header size. Fill with dark gray color.
Take a duplicate of this layer and fill with a lighter shade of gray.
From filter menu apply noise>> add noise. use settings as shown.
Change layer mode of this layer to overlay.
Draw a small circle on one corner of the header. we’ll convert it to a bolt in next steps.
Double click the layer and apply following layer styles with settings as shown.
Duplicate the bolt and place on all four corners of the header.
Now we’ll create a chain. using text tool type a “0″.
Duplicate the text layer.
Press ctrl+T to transform. Squeeze the 0 horizontally.
Overlap the squeezed 0 with original one.
Double click the 0 layer and apply following layer styles with settings shown.
Duplicate these layers and place below each other to create a small chain. Rotate a bit to the left.
Group all layer of the chain in one group. Duplicate the group and rotate to the other side.
In a new layer create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool.
Double click the layer and apply following layer styles with settings shown.
Duplicate the rectangle layer. Remove layer style. Fill with a light gray color.
From top bar enable “subtract from shape” and draw four circles; one at each corner of the duplicated rectangle. This will cut circular shapes from the rectangle edges.
Double click the layer and apply following layer styles with settings shown.
Create four smaller bolts at the edges of this rectangle like you did for the header corners.
Select all layers and from layer palette select New group from Selection. This will place all layers we created till now in one group. Make sure you leave background layers and big corner bolts outside the header.
Using a nice font type page links and place on these rectangles.
Insert company logo and place it on left of the header.
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