Creative Photoshop: Digital Illustration and Art Techniques Photoshop Cs4- P7

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Creative Photoshop: Digital Illustration and Art Techniques Photoshop Cs4- P7 15 Part Three: Real World Photoshop 39 Duplicate the newly reduced, copied, pair of paths again. Reduce them in size and place them so that they surround the center of the flower in the center of the image. Next, make a couple more reduced copies of the paths and place them on either side of this central pair, creating a nice cluster of circular paths. Press the “U” key to access the Ellipse tool. In the Tool Options bar, select the Custom Shape option. And then, in the Custom Shape Preset picker, choose the Flower 5 Shape preset. Hold down the Shift key, then click and drag to create a flower shape within one of the circular paths as shown here. You can use the Path Selection tool to adjust the placement of the new shape. Then, Alt(PC)/Option(Mac)-drag the shape to the inside of the opposite circular path to copy it. Do your paths look different? 40 Target the top smart object in the Layers palette. Choose the Gradient Map option from the Create New Fill or Adjustment Layer menu at the bottom of the For the gradient map layer to appear Layers palette. This will create a new gradient map layer at the top of the layer as it does here, you must pay careful stack. Your current path will be used to add a vector mask to the layer. In the Adjustments palette, click on the gradient to access the gradient editor. In the attention to path area operations. For gradient editor, click on the stop at the lower left to select it. Click on the Color instance, if you did not set an inner swatch below to access the picker. When the picker appears, run the mouse over an circle path to subtract, you might see a area of dark gray-blue in the image and click to select that color. Press OK to exit solid circle rather than a hoop. If you did the picker, and then click on the stop at the lower right. When the picker appears, something wrong, don’t worry about it. choose a taupe color and click OK. Again, click OK to close the gradient editor. You can use the Path Selection tool to select any path with an incorrect path area setting and simply reset it in the Tool Options bar as necessary. 288Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. 15 Chapter 15: In and Out of Photoshop 41 Now select the Stroke option from the Add a Layer Style menu at the bottom of the Layers palette. When the Stroke options appear, click on the Color swatch and then choose a white color from the picker. Set the size at 3 pixels and click OK to add a thin white stroke around the visible areas of your gradient map layer. Duplicate the layer and disable the visibility of the original layer in the Layers palette—this will avoid confusion. Ensure that your duplicate layer is targeted in the Layers palette, not the original. Use the Path Selection tool to select the flowers and all other path components except for those that make up the two central circles. Press the Delete key to remove all selected path components from this layer’s mask. 42 Select all of the remaining path components on the layer’s mask and then click on the Align Vertical Centers and the Align Horizontal Centers buttons in the Tool Options bar. Then drag all of the selected, aligned path components up to the top area of the canvas. Now, drag the current ...