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Eclipse Tutorial |
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| Well, welcome to my first tutorial. Acutally, I didn't come up with this one. A guy over at DeviantArt.com did, but I wrote it down and made some cool pictures to go with it, so I guess you can say this tutorial is mine. Anyway, lets get crackin'. Set yourself up with a 400 x 400 document (Mode : RGB) and fill it with black. |
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Now we start with the fun stuff. On the same layer (ps - you only use one layer for this whole tutorial!) we are going to render a plastic wrap filter. You can find this in the Filter menu under Artistic. You will have three settings to play around with. A sample of my settings is shown at left. |
| OK, so now we have our plastic-wrapped black layer. It doesn't look much like an eclipse, but this next step is a doosey! |
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We are going to use another filter. This one is in the Filter menu, under distort. It is called Polar Coordinates. Here there are only two options; one is right and one is wrong. Set it for "Rectangular to Polar" as shown at left. |
| Well there you go. That is all there is to it! Now you have a nice little eclipse. However, I think there is something missing. What could it be? How about a little color? Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. |
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You can open up this window by pushing Ctrl+U on the keyboard. This brings up the Hue/Saturation menu. Click the check box in the lower, right-hand corner that says "Colorize". This is very important if you want to add some color! Now play with the three sliders you have. The top most will change the base color, the middle one with change the saturation, or how strong the color is, and the bottom one is for lightness. |
| And there you have it! Now we have a nice blue (or whatever other color!) eclipse. So, what can you use this for? Well, aside from the obvious avatars and forum sig bars, I found a cool, abstract way to use this one shape to create cool little images. If you are interested, you should check it out at My DeviantArt.com Gallery. Thanks for reading! |
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