Photoshop CS: Creativity with New Year's greeting card (Part II)

Part I

Part II. Decorative soil background

1. Re- open the Thiep_01.psd document you designed in Lesson 1 - Part I.

2. Layer management

1. Click icon: Create a new set under the layer palette.
2. Rename the current set 1: "Tap hop"
3. Click the icon: Create a new layer below the layer palette.
4. Rename the current layer 1: "Nen dat 1"

3. Use the Pen tool

Draw some points for the layer "nen dat" as follows

- Click on point A

- Press the left mouse button and click point B (In the process of clicking point B, you move up or down to create an arc).

- After creating an arc> Simultaneously press Ctrl + click the mouse again to point B -> mark the end point

- Repeat the above steps with points C, D, and E and end at point A.

4. Create a selection

- Right mouse> Make selection

- Choose Feather radius = 0 in the Make selection dialog

- A line with broken lines will surround the selection frame.

There are 1 of 2 cases that happen with your selected frame.

1. If your design suffers a case 1. There will be no problem
2. If you encounter case 2, you can reverse the selection by:
   Click Select on the menu bar> select Invert (or ctrl + shift + I )

5. Color the selection.

- On the Tool bar > select Gradient tool

- On the Option bar: click Set to edit the gradient to select the color again

- Set color as follows:

1. Bold color: # C17706
2. Light colors: # EF940A

- After setting the color for the selection, you proceed to fill the color by cleverly clicking the mouse from above straight down.

- Press Ctrl + D : Remove the selection line

6. Add 2 new layers named

1. layer 1: "nen dat 2"
2. layer 2: "nen dat 3"

7. Repeat steps 4 and 5 to color the "layer 2" layers, "color 3" with the following colors:

1. "Data 2": # DFA20B - # FCCE5C
2. "nen dat 3" # DFA20B - # F9D885

So you have designed another part for this card_01 already. Don't forget to save the steps you've just taken.

Part III. Draw the ball

1. Open a new document

As well as the "light ray" design, pause the document "thiep_01" and open a separate document:

1. Name: "Through the bubble"
2. Size: 200px x 250px
3. Background: black (# 000000)

2. Layer management

1. Click icon: Create a new set to create a layer set 1
2. Rename the current set 1: "Tap hop bong"

3. Add new layer

1. Create a new layer
2. Rename the current layer 1: Layer "Over the bubble"

4. Construct the ball

- Select the Eliptical Marquee tool

- Draw an ellipse

- Press D: to change the default foreground color to the background: (black - white)

- Combine Ctrl + Backspace => fill white (#fffffff) for layer "Via bubble"

- Ctrl + D removes the selection

- Select Polygon tool ; side: 3

- Draw a small triangle below the ball, equalize both sides and fill this triangle white

5. Rotate the shape of the ball.

- Edit > Free Transform (or Ctrl + T )

- Move the mouse to any corner of the selection frame, rotate the angle to 10 degrees

- Press Enter key to finish

6. Fill the ball with color

- In the Palette layer > right-click on the "Via bubble" layer> select Blending option

- In the Layer style dialog box

Select Gradient overlay , and set the color as follows:

7. Add new layer: name: "Do bong"

8. Select the Brush tool

- On the Options bar, click the pop up menu from Option brush > choose Basic brushes

- Choose Soft mechenical brush 35 pixels , size: 60px

9. Click once to paint the brush on the ball

10. Use a brush to add a curve to shape the tie

So the design of the ball is done

11. Now we will gather the balls that have been made on top of the document "Thiep_01".

- On the document layer's "Layer through" layer> Click on "tap hop bubble" set

- Similar to drag "beam to" layer to document thiep_01 as I guided in part 1.

You will also drag the entire set of "tap hop bubbles" to the document you are looking at.

12. Your next job will be your creativity. Create a few different colored balls, shrink them and position them into the appropriate spots on the postcard.

This is an example of me