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Creating and Animating A Jack In the Box

Filed under: Drawing — Fiery Darts @ 8:49 am

Creating and Animating A Jack In the Box
We’ll start by creating a 3d box. Create a rectangle in a new layer.
Press Ctrl+T. Right click and select perspective.
Duplicate the layer and fill with black color. Move the layer below the first layer.
Create another rectangle. Using similar steps create the other sides of the box.
Duplicate this layer and fill with black color. Place it on the other side. Move this layer below all layers.
Create top lid of the box similarly.
Press Ctrl+T. Right click and select warp. Adjust nodes and handles to create a shape like this.
Fill this shape with orange color.
Duplicate this layer. Fill it with brown color. Move this layer below previous layer. Move this shape towards right a few pixels.
Apply stroke layer style to all box layers.
Using custom shape tool create some cool flowers and patterns on front sides of the box.
Our box is complete. Now we’ll create jack. USing elliptical shape tool create a few ellipses and place as shown.
Create eyes, nose lips etc. using 2 pixel brush. Create 2 springy antenna and place on top of the head.
Create arm and hand using pen tool.
Duplicate the arm layer. Flip horizontally and place it for the other arm.
Our jack and box, both are done. Link and merge all jack layers together. Time to animate jack. Open animation window. Select first frame and in layer window hide jack layer.
Duplicate this frame. Unhide jack and adjust it’s position as shown.
Duplicate this frame. Adjust jack’s position as shown. At this frame jack is mostly out of the box.
Duplicate this frame. At this frame simply move jack just a couple of pixels down.
Select frame 3&4. Duplicate it three four times. This will add a springy motion to jack.
Press Shift+Ctrl+Alt+S to save an optimize animated GIF.

Creating Pop Art

Filed under: Effects — Fiery Darts @ 10:17 pm


Creating Pop Art

We’ll create a popart design using an image of the singer shown below.

Create girl selection using lasso tool press Ctrl+Shift+I to inverse the selection. Press delete to remove the outer area. Now duplicate the girl layer twice.
Select top laye. From image menu select adjustments>>threshold.

Apply settings as shown.

Since the t-shirt of the girl is white color we can’t see much effect in t-shirt area. For that we’ll remove the t-shiet area from this layer and apply threshold again on the layer below. Create selection of the girl’s body using lasso tool.

Press delete to remove t-shirt area.

Select the second layer from top. From image select adjustments>>threshold. Apply settings as shown.
Fill the background with yellow color.
Hide the girl layers. Draw tile shape using custom shapes.
Duplicate thihs layer many times. Scale and rotate randomly.
Unhide the girl layers.
Fill the tile layers with different colors.
Play arround with the layer modes of the different tile layers to get an interesting background effect.

Creating Water From a Tap

Filed under: Photo Effects — Fiery Darts @ 11:34 am

Creating Water From a Tap
Start by opening an image of a tap. We’ll create water flowing from the tap.
Using pen tool create path of a water.
Create a new layer and Ctrl+click the path layer to get the path selection.
Fill the selection with white color.
From select menu apply modify>>contract.
Contract the selection by 2 pixels.
Fill the selection with black color.
Similarly contract again and fill it with white and then with black color.
From filter menu select distort>>glass.
Apply settings as shown.
Dupliacte the layer and change the color mode to color burn.
Select blur tool from the main tool bar.
Select both the water layer and press Ctrl+E to merge. Blur the merged water layer.
Press Ctrl+U to open hue/saturation window. Apply settings as shown.
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