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

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

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- 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

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

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4. Create a selection

- Right mouse> Make selection

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- 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.

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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

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

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- Set color as follows:

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

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

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- 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"

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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

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

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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

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- Draw an ellipse

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

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

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- Ctrl + D removes the selection

- Select Polygon tool ; side: 3

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

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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

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- 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:

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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

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9. Click once to paint the brush on the ball

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

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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

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- 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.

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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

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