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Kamis, 02 Desember 2010

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Th3 M@kum!
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Create Grass text in Photoshop

A Tutorial about how to easily create grass text. Using the basic photoshop brushes it is simple to make some nice looking Grass text

Photoshop Tutorial: Grass Text

Step 1:

Create a new image 640 by 480 pixels 72ppi.

Stap 2: Create a new brush based on the brush Dune Grass.

Press D to get the default foreground and background colors.
Create a new layer.
Activate the Brush Tool and go to the Brush preset picker where you select Dune Grass.
Go to Window > Brushes to get the Brush Presets and uncheck all the checkboxs.
Click once in your image to draw one brush stroke.
Photoshop Tutorial: Grass Text
Duplicate the layer.
Choose Edit > Transform > Rotate 180°.
Move the rotated layer like this:
Photoshop Tutorial: Grass Text
Choose Edit > Define Brush Preset and give it a name.
Now you can delete the two layers.

Step 3: Create an easy background.

Change the foreground color to a light green (in example #00dc00) and the background color to a darker green (in example #006400).
Go to the Gradient Tool en create a Radial Gradient from the centre to one of the corners.
Photoshop Tutorial: Grass Text
Choose Filter > Brush Strokes > Sprayed Strokes with the following values
Photoshop Tutorial: Grass Text
Duplicate the layer.
Choose Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal.
Change the blend mode to Hard Light.
Photoshop Tutorial: Grass Text

Stap 4: Add the text and convert it into a path.

Activate the Text Tool and choose a font and font-size (in example Courier New 144pt).
Crtl-click (mac: Cmd-click) on the layer thumbnail of the text layer to select the text.
Go to the palet Paths and press the 'Make Work path from selection' button.
Photoshop Tutorial: Grass Text
As you don't need the text layer anymore you can delete it.

Step 5: Create the brush.

Activate the Brush tool and choose the brush Dune grass. Not the brush made in the second step.
Go to Window > Brushes to get the Brush presets.
Here you go to 'Brush tip shape' and pick the brush made in the second step.
Photoshop Tutorial: Grass Text
Go to Shape dynamics and change Angle-Jitter to 100%.
Photoshop Tutorial: Grass Text

Step 6: Create the grass text.

Create a new layer.
Activate the Brush Tool and change the brush size to 30 pixels.
Go to Paths and right-click on the path ans choose Stroke Path and use the Brush.
Change the brush size to 20 pixels and stroke the path again.
And once more with a brush size of 10 pixels.
Photoshop Tutorial: Grass Text

Step 7: Improve the text.

Duplicate the text layer.
Doubleclick on the layer thumbnail of the bottom text layer to open Layer Style. Go to Drop shadow and use the default values.
Activate the top text layer and change the blend mode to Hard Light.
The text is still a little to soft to make it better:
Activate the top text layer Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask and use the following values.
Photoshop Tutorial: Grass Text
This is the final result.
Photoshop Tutorial: Grass Text


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Energy explosion

A tutorial about how to make an energy explosion

Photoshop tutorial: Energy explosion

Create the base of the explosion

Open Photoshop and start a new document of 400 by 400 px, 72ppi.
Press D to get the default forground and background colors.
Activate the Gradient Tool. Choose in the option bar the first gradient (black to white) and choose as type/style Radial Gradient and tick on the option Reverse. Make the gradient as shown below.
Photoshop Energy explosion, gradient

Create the explosion

Go to Filter > Sketch > Graphic pen and fill in these values:
Photoshop Energy explosion, filter graphic pen Photoshop Energy explosion, graphic pen
Then go to Filter > Blur > Radial Blur and fill in these values:
Photoshop Energy explosion, filter radical blur Photoshop Energy explosion, radical blur
Press Crtl-J (mac: Cmd-J) to duplicate the backgroundlayer and change the Blending Mode into Difference. This creates a entirely black image.
Press V to activate the Move Tool. Make shure that the top layer is active and move this layer two pixels to the left (press 2 times the left arrow on the keybord).
Photoshop Energy explosion, blend mode difference
Merge the layers by pressing Crtl-E (mac: Cmd-E).
Go to Image > Adjustments > Levels and move the whitepunt from the curve as shown below.
Photoshop Energy explosion,screenshot levels Photoshop Energy explosion, levels

Enhance the explosion by adding Sun, Lens flare.

Make a new layer and press Shift-Backspace. The window fill pops up. Choose after Contents for 50% gray.
Go to Filter > Render > Lens Flare and fill in the following values.
Photoshop Energy explosion, lens flare
Go to Image > Adjustments > Equalize.
Photoshop Energy explosion, equalize
After this go to Filter > Blur > Radial Blur and fill in the following values.
Photoshop Energy explosion, radical blur Photoshop Energy explosion, after radical blur
Change the blending mode to Screen.
Photoshop Energy explosion, blend mode screen

Finishing off the explosion.

Take off a few pixels on the right with the Crop Tool.
Activate the backgroundlayer and choose Filter > Blur > Motion Blur.
Photoshop Energy explosion, motion-blur
Go to Filter > Blur > Radial Blur and fill in the following values.
Photoshop Energy explosion, radical blur, lens flare
Activate the top layer and make a new adjustmentlayer Hue/Saturation. Use the following values. Beware that you tick on the option Colorize before you change the values:
Photoshop Energy explosion, Hue Saturation
and this is the result.
Photoshop Energy explosion


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Change your text into magic glowing sparkles

In this tutorial you learn how you can convert your normal text into magic glowing sparkles. Using stroke path and layer style it isn't so hard to get this texteffect

Photoshop Tutorials - Magic glowing sparkles

Get started, type the text and prepare it to release the sparkles.

Create a new document 400 x 300px and fill it will black.
Type the text in "Edwardian Script ITC", font-size 160 pt. Set the anti-aliasing method to Smooth, color doesn't matter as long as it is not the same as the background color.
Magic glowing sparkles
Ctrl-click (mac: Cmd-click) in the layers palette on the layer miniature of the textlayer to make a selection of the text.
Go to the path palette and press the Make workpath from selection button.
Magic glowing sparkles

Prepare the brush to make sparkles.

Now the text is a path it is posible to stroke it with the brush. But before that you need to change the brush options.
Activate the brush tool en press F5 to open the brushes palette.
Click on Brush tip size:
Magic glowing sparkles
Shape Dynamics:
Magic glowing sparkles
Scattering:
Magic glowing sparkles
Now the brush is ready to stroke the text.
Go to the layer palette and delete de textlayer or make it invisable. Make a new layer.
Set white as the forground color.
Go to the path palette and rightclick om the Work Path and choose Stroke path.
In the window that now appears choose for Brush and make sure Simulate pressure is not checked.
The stroke is a litte to hard to make this better:
Change in the brushes palette the following options:
Brush Tip Size: Diameter to 4px and Spacing to 130%.
Scattering: Scatter 600%
Stroke the path again but this time with the option Simulate pressure checked.
Click in the palette path on an emty spot. That way the path becomes inactive.
Magic glowing sparkles
Magic glowing sparkles

Make the sparkles glow.

Go to the layer palette and dubbelckick on the layer miniature of the sparkles layer to open the layer style window.
Go to Drop Shadow and change the values as shown below:
(don't forget to change the Blend Mode to Lighter.)
Magic glowing sparkles

Go to Outer Glow and change the values as shown below:
(don't forget to change the Blend Mode to Lighter.)
Magic glowing sparkles
Magic glowing sparkles

The background.

To work easier it is best to turn of the sparkles layer.
Activate the backgroundlayer.
Change the forground color to #d5b19b and the background color to #3b0f05.
Activate the gradient tool, go to the option (above in the photoshop window) and set it so the gradient goes from forground color to background color , type Reflected Gradient.
Draw the gradient as shown below.
Magic glowing sparkles
Create a new layer, change the gradienttype to Radial Gradient and draw the gradient as shown below.
Magic glowing sparkles
Change the blend mode of this layer to Overlay and make the sparkles layer visable again.
Magic glowing sparkles

the finishing touch

Make sure the sparkles layer is active.
Create a new layer and fill it with black. Because the sparkles layer was active the new black layers stands above the sprankles.
Go to Filter > Render > Lens flare. Move the sun so it stands on the first letter and change Lenstype to 105mm.
Magic glowing sparkles
Change the blend mode of this layer to Soft Light.
Magic glowing sparkles
Duplicate the sparkles layers and place it above the sunlayer.
Magic glowing sparkles


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