Get Sticky
Yesterday WordPress started playing up and it doesn’t seem to want to behave again today. If you know why it doesn’t want to put the images where I want them, please let me know. Anyhoo, here’s today’s bit;
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Photoshop User TV: Episode 189
Scott, Dave and Matt are all in the studio this week with three tutorials and some sound effects of their own added in.
Tuesday Tip – Make a Sticker
Looking over the shelves of magazines this morning I noticed that many of them had a ‘sticker’ on the front. Not a real sticker, but what was supposed to look like one.
Many of them were pretty basic, just a circle with a small drop shadow, but one had a little more. Good Housekeeping had a ‘sticker’ that looked like it was starting to peel off and curl over. Here’s my version;
This is how I made it;
1. First I selected the elliptical marquee tool and, holding down the shift key to keep proportions, drew a circle.
2. I want the top to be flat, so I selected the rectangular marquee and holding down Alt key I draw a rectangle that will, because of the Alt key, remove this from the original circle selection. This might take a few goes if you haven’t done this before. Just remember you have Ctrl+Z to undo if you go wrong.
3. I filled the modified circle with a bright yellow.
4. Now, using the move tool I can move the selection up to where I want the overlap to be. Then using the same Alt select technique I did in number 2, I remove part of the selection I don’t want.
5. Next, on a new layer, I filled the selection with a slightly darker yellow.
6. Next I need a shadow under the curl, so I’ll use the layer style. You can get to it by double clicking on the layer in the layer palette.
7. Now I have a problem. I don’t want the drop shadow all round. So I’m going to make the shadow into it’s own layer using one of my favourite things. From the menu I chose; Layer > Layer Style > Create Layer.
8. Now I have the shadow on it’s own layer and I can use the eraser tool to erase the shadow from the top of the curl.
9. Now, back on the curl layer I lock the transparency. This means that anything I do to this layer will only take effect on pixels that are already filled.
10. Using the Dodge tool with a low opacity I click the left of the curl and then shift and click the right to make a highlight. Shift clicking makes the line of dodge. Straight. I went over it a couple of times until I was happy.
11. It looks a bit straight, so I selected all the used layers and pressed Ctrl+T so that I could transform the layers. In this case I put my mouse outside a corner so that I could rotate it a little.
12. Finally I added the text, between the original circle layer and the drop shadow layer
13. Lastly, I added a tiny drop shadow to the first circle layer just to give it a bit of depth.
14. And there we are. An easy sticker.
And there we go, have a great day. See you tomorrow.
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