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Colorful Fountain Tutorial (Part I) |
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| Alright, this is my second tutorial. This one I discovered after messing around with the Eclipse Tutorial. If you have done that one, then you will see a common starting point, and a few common filters. However, this one gives you a completely different result. OK, this tutorial is a bit longer, and consists of two parts, so let's get to it. Start with a 500 x 500 (Mode: RGB) document. Stay on the black layer. |
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As in the Eclipse Tutorial, we are going to start with a plastic wrap. Find this on the menu bar: Filter > Artistic > Plastic Wrap. Use the settings I have shown at the left of play with your own. It is hard to tell at this point what the end result will look like, so you'll have to go all the way before you can see if you want to change it. That's what the undo button is for! |
| OK, here is our plastic wrapped layer. Yeah, that's lookin' pretty nice. |
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Now for another filter. On the menu bar: Filter > Artistic > Film Grain. Again, I have provided my sample settings at left, but please try your own at least once after you finish this tutorial. It is only by expanding on tutorials that you really learn anything. |
| Our film grained layer. Very sharp. |
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Here is another filter we used back in the Eclipse Tutorial. On the menu bar: Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates. Click the option button for "Rectangular to Polar" and click OK. |
| Here is our distorted film-grained, plastic-wrapped black layer. |
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This is an easy step. Using the transform tool, we are going to rotate the whole layer by 180 degrees. You can hotkey this by hitting Ctrl+T on the keyboard. Then, after the square and handles come up, right click, and at the bottom of that menu will be options for rotation. Set it to 180 degrees. |
| Again, let's do some Polar Coordinate action. From the menu bar: Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates. Again, set it for "Rectangular to Polar" and click OK. |
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Now you can start to see the fountain we have going here. It is at this point that, if you don't like the way it looks, you can hit undo. You can change the plastic wrap options, as well as the film grain, to make it look just the way you want. When you are ready, come back to this step and keep going. |
| Well, since it's in the title of this tutorial, we'd better give this fountain some color. Open up the Hue/Saturation menu by pushing Ctrl+U on the keyboard. Make sure to check the box in the bottom right-hand corner marked "Colorize". Then slide the bars around to get the right color. For the rest of this tutorial, I will be working with a blue, gree, and red fountain. |
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OK, here is my blue single fountain. As mentioned above, I will be using three fountains for the rest of this tutorial. What you need to do is go through all of these steps in three seperate Photoshop files and then save them in the .psd file type. When we start the next part, you'll have to open all three of those files and use those layers. So, why don't you get cracking on that and I'll see you in Part II. |
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