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PHOTO TUTORIALS 2

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Added to avoid PHOTO TUTORIALS 1 becoming too long to navigate.

This thread will be for the current photo tutorial, please do not post in here unless you are the person running the tutorial.

Any questions, answers, or examples of your work should be posted in the TUTORIAL DISCUSSIONS thread or threads. :D


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TUTORIAL 5

Making a picture with Creased Lines (Part 1)

Open a NEW file and set the sizes to 3450 pixels wide by 2300 pixels high and make it TRANSPARENT.

Make sure that your GRID is turned ON

Go to EDIT then > PREFERENCES then > Guides Grids & Slices and set the GRIDLINES at 50 PERCENT and SUB DIVISIONS at 40. This should now show a cross equally spaced on the vertical and horizontal planes of your NEW file and small division lines as shown on my picture (Grid-1).

Picture Grid-1
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You will be using these gridlines as guides for the next operation.

Make sure that you have your FOREGROUND and BACKGROUND colours set to be Black (colour code 000000) and White (colour code FFFFFF) respectively.

From your TOOLS menu choose the Rectangular MARQUEE Tool.

Now working in the lowest right hand quarter of your GRID, click your left mouse button on the intersection of the HORIZONTAL and VERTICAL main grid lines, then while holding down your left mouse button, drag the dotted line to the bottom of the picture and three (3) squares out to form a rectangle that is 3 by 40 small squares.

With the Marching Ants still active, go to LAYER then > NEW FILL LAYER then > GRADIENT

The next menu that appears normally does not require any changes making, but it should look similar to this, if not, change it to match this as closely as possible, See my picture (Gradient Fill-1)

Picture Gradient Fill-1
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Click OK to continue and another menu will show, see my picture (Gradient Fill-2)
Look to see that the colour gradient showing in the GRADIENT box is Black, fading to Clear.

Picture Gradient Fill-2 (showing settings for the first gradient fill)
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Next look to see the CIRCULAR shape with the text ANGLE alongside it. Note the small line similar to a clock finger inside the circle and a number in the box alongside, possibly defaulting at 90 with the finger in the vertical position. If so then the GRADIENT will be fading from Black at the bottom of your screen towards Clear on the centre line.

We need to change this GRADIENT so that it fades from LEFT to RIGHT in a vertical plane.
To do this either type 0 (zero) in the ANGLE box, or click and hold your left mouse button on the finger and drag it around until the number in the box reads 0. The number in the SCALE box is always set at 100%. Now click OK and the GRADIENT will be seen to the right of the menu box in the above picture, in a Vertical position and fading left to right.

Now select your Rectangular MARQUEE Tool again, but this time you are working in the LEFT HAND LOWER QUARTER of your screen.

Again starting at the intersection of the HORIZONTAL and VERTICAL main grid lines, draw out another rectangle similar to before, but this time go to the left hand side of the picture and Four (4) squares down, forming a rectangle that is 4 by 40 small squares. This increase in squares on the HORIZONTAL rectangles is to keep the proportions the same in both directions.

With the Marching Ants still active, repeat the go to LAYER then > NEW FILL LAYER then > GRADIENT procedure as done previously.

Again the GRADIENT will need changing to flow from TOP to BOTTOM. Do this by either typing -90 (minus 90) in the box or by using the dragging method to rotate the finger point down. In some cases you can use the option REVERSE to flip the GRADIENT in the opposite direction.

Next draw the vertical rectangle in the top left quarter of your screen, remembering that this is only a 3 square wide shape and set your GRADIENT angle to 180 or use whatever method you like to do so.

Finally draw the last Horizontal rectangle (4 squares deep) and make your GRADIENT 90

You should now have something similar to this., see my picture (Gradient Fill-3)

Picture Gradient Fill-3
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Notice that you now have 4 layers in your stack, only when you are happy that everything looks the same as mine, we will merge all these layers together by going to LAYER then > MERGE VISIBLE and all your layers should collapse into one layer.

IMPORTANT, now flip your colours so that WHITE is the FOREGROUND colour.

Using exactly the same method as described above, create a mirror image of your Black GRADIENT on the opposite side of the GRID lines, only this time they will be WHITE fading to CLEAR.

Remember to use 3 wide on your Vertical lines and 4 wide on your Horizontals. This should create a rotating propeller blade effect of solid Black and White back to back and fading to clear away from each other. The settings will be 180, 90, 0 & -90 for your Gradients, take care as the White GRADIENT is more difficult to see.

Now switch off your GRID lines and again merge down all the Layers, using LAYER then > MERGE VISIBLE. Your screen should now resemble this picture, see (Gradient Fill-4)

Picture Gradient Fill-4
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Finally we need to save this to use in our project, so we must save it as a Photoshop (*.PSD;*.PDD) file and not as a Jpeg, so give it the file name CREASE-LINES and save it as a PSD file to someplace you can easily find it again.

This completes Part 1 of this tutorial.
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Done! :D
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