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Drawing a Cute Lion

Filed under: Drawing — Fiery Darts @ 7:57 pm

Drawing a Cute Lion
Create a circle using elliptical shape tool.
Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select warp. Select shell lower from the preset warp shapes at the top bar.
Create a rounded rectangle using rounded rectangle shape tool.
Duplicate, rotate and place for the both ears.
Using pen tool draw lion’s hair in random zig zag manner. Move this layer below the face layer in layer order in layer palette.
Press Ctrl+T and squeeze down the shape vertically.
Create a rectangle for lion’s body using rectangular shape tool.
Create two ellipses using elliptical shape tool. Rotate and place for the legs on each side of the lion.
Select face and ear layers and merge together. Select body and legs layer and merge together. apply a two pixel stroke to the resulting layers. Apply stroke on hair layer too.
Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool.
From custom shape tool create a talk 3 shape.
Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select rotate 180 degrees. Overlap this shape with rectangle. select and merge both shapes. apply stroke.
Duplicate the layer. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select select flip horizontal. Place both legs as shown in the image below.
select both leg layers and merge together. select eraser tool and remove the upper lines of the legs.
Using brush tool with a 2 pixel width create a shape that connects legs with lions body in a new layer.
Create eyes and nose using elliptical shape tool.
select the nose layer. Enable subtract form shape area form the top bar. Draw a rectangle in upper half of the nose ellipse.
Using brush tool create lips and ear details.
Using pen tool in path mode create an arc shape.
Create a new layer. select brush tool with 2 pixel setting. In path window click on stroke path with brush. Duplicate and rotate to complete lion’s whiskers.
Using pen tool create lion’s tail. Move this layer below all the layers in layer order in layer palette.
Duplicate hair layer. scale it down and place at the end of the tail.

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XP Style Playback Controls

Filed under: Web Graphics — Fiery Darts @ 6:17 pm

XP Style Playback Controls
Start by creating a small rounded rectangle.
Double click the layer and apply layer style as shown.
Using custom shape tool draw a triangle ( preferable shape sign3 as it has rounded edges ) . Rotate so that it points to the right like a play button sign.
Apply following layer styles to the triangle layer.
The play button will like this after applying the layer styles.
Create a duplicate of the play button layers and replace the triangle with two vertical rectangles to create pause button. Just copy layer style from triangle layer and paste on pause shape.
Similarly create other buttons for rewind, forward and stop using basic shapes and pasting layer style copied from triangle layer.

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Designing a Travelogue

Filed under: Designing — Fiery Darts @ 6:23 pm

Designing a Travelogue

Start by applying a gradient in radial mode to the background.

Insert a big size clouds image, big enough to cover the entire space of the file.
Change the layer mode to color burn and opacity to 50%.
Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool.
Select the rectangle using direct selection tool. Select add point tool and click on the top center of the rectangle.
Drag the node upwards using direct selection tool.
Insert a relevant image. Make sure this layer is above the rectangle layer.
Press Ctrl+Alt+G to create a clipping mask.
Select the shape layer we used as clipping mask. Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.
Similarly create more shape layers. Insert images and mask them with the shape layers. Apply same layer style to these.
Create a few rectangles for content using rectangular shape tool. Apply the same layer style.
Create thin black color slits between the content rectangles.
Insert company name along with punch line.
Type travel package highlights and other details suitably.

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