Fiery Darts

Star Sign Symbols - GEMINI

Fiery Darts — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:35:57 +0000

Star Sign Symbols - GEMINI

Start by applying a solid color to the background layer.

Double click this layer in layer window to unflatten it. Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.

Using custom shape tool create a preset 5 pont star shape.

Populate the background with stars of different sizes.

Rasterize the layer. Hide the background layer. Create a rectangular selection of the whole area using rectangular marquee tool.

From edit menu select define pattern. name the pattern "stars". We’ll use this pattern regularly in later steps.

Change the layer mode of stars layer to overlay.

Using custom shape tool create a preset 5 pont star shape.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown. We’ll use star pattern that we saved in pattern overlay this time.

Create an ellipse using elliptical shape tool. Press Ctrl+T. Right Click and select Warp. Adjust the nodes to get the shape as shown.

Enable “subtract from shape area” at the top bar. Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool.

Enable add to shape area from the top bar. Create a rounded rectangle using rounded rectangle shape tool.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.

Create a circle using elliptical shape tool. Warp it and place as shown. Enable add to shape area from the top bar. Create two small ellipses for the ears. Apply the same layer style we used in previous step.

Create a rectangle for the body using rectangular shape tool. Enable add to shape area from the top bar. Create a rectangle for the hand using rectangular shape tool.

With add to shape area still enabled create an ellipse for the shoulder and then create a rectangle for the arm. Place them as shown.

Create a shape as shown using pen tool.

Create a new layer. Select brush tool with 2 pixels settings. Now create eyes and lips.

Create a line using line shape tool. Place it as shown. Create two stars using custom shape tool . Place the star shapes on the each corner of the line.

Select all the character layers and duplicate it. Press Ctrl+T. Right click and select Flip Horizontal and place on the other side.

Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool and type the star sign name over it.

Techno Metallic Web Button

Fiery Darts — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:10:29 +0000

Techno Metallic Web Button

Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.

Duplicate the layer twice. Scale down and place one on top and another on bottom as shown. Move these layers below all the layers in layer order in layer palette.

Create some lines and circles using basic shapes. Apply same layer style and place as shown.

Select and merge all the layers. Duplicate twice and place as shown.

Create some circles and apply same layer style. Select a 1 pixel solid brush and create two connecting wires as shown.

Select and merge all the layers. Press Ctrl+L to open level settings. Apply settings as shown.

Type link name over this button.

Animated Star Galaxy Effect

Fiery Darts — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:45:34 +0000

Animated Star Galaxy Effect

Start by creating a six points star shape using polygon shape tool.

From “Filter” menu select “Distort>>Twirl”. Apply settings as shown.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.

Create a new layer and select brush as shown.

Press F5 to open brush settings. Apply settings as shown.

Apply the brush randomly as shown. Move this layer below all the layers in layer order in layer palette. Duplicate the layer. Press Ctrl+T. Right click and select Flip Vertical. Hide this layer.

Create a new layer. Select brush tool with feathered settings. Select violet as foreground color and apply brush strokes randomly as shown.

Select the star layer and change the layer mode to "color dodge".

Duplicate the layer. Press Ctrl+T and rotate it 15°.

Create two more duplicates of this layer and rotate each layer further by 15°.

Select all the twirl layers. Press Ctrl+T. Right Click and select distort. Adjust the nodes to get the shape as shown.

Open animation window. For the first frame hide three duplicates off twirl layer. Also hide one of the stars layers.

Duplicate frame. Hide the first twirl layer and unhide the second duplicate. Also hide the first stars layer and unhide the flipped one. Similarly duplicate frames and repeat the above steps to reveal the rest of the duplicates of twirl layer with stars layer hide/unhide every alternate frame.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized animated GIF.

Cool Product Description Box

Fiery Darts — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:43:59 +0000

Cool Product Description Box

Create a rounded rectangle using rounded rectangle shape tool.

Enable “subtract from shape area” at the top bar. Create a rounded rectangle using rounded rectangle shape tool.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.

Duplicate the layer and remove layer styles. Enable “intersect shape areas” at the top bar. Create some rectangles using rectangular shape tool.

Duplicate both the layers. Press Ctrl+T. Right click and select Flip Vertical and place on the other side. Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.

Create two more rectangles as shown.

Populate the content box by adding image, details and product name. Add some small dots using pencil tool.

Abstract Square Pattern Text Effect

Fiery Darts — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:21:49 +0000

Abstract Square Pattern Text Effect

Start by typing your text using a bold font.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.

Duplicate the layer. From layer menu select layer style>>create layers. Select and merge all the resulting layers. Select black as background and orange as foreground color. From “Filter” menu select “Stylize>>Extrude”. Apply settings as shown.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.

Change the layer mode to “Difference”.

Duplicate the first original text layer. Move this layer above all the layers in layer order in layer palette. Right click the layer and select convert to shape.

Enable “subtract from shape area” at the top bar. Create some rectangles of random sizes.

Change the text color to red.

Change the layer mode to "Soft Light".

Drawing a Cute Cartoon Cat in a Basket

Fiery Darts — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 03:19:45 +0000

Drawing a Cute Cartoon Cat in a Basket

Create an ellipse using elliptical shape tool.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown. We’ll apply this layer style to every layer.

Enable add to shape area from the top bar. Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool. Press Ctrl+T. Right Click and select Warp. Adjust the nodes to get the shape as shown.

Similarly create another rectangle, warp and place as shown.

Create a shape as shown using pen tool.

Similarly create more shapes and place as shown.

Create a circle using elliptical shape tool. Fill it with the same color we used for the face. Enable add to shape area from the top bar. Create another circle using elliptical shape tool.

From layer menu select layer style>>create layers. Select and merge all the resulting layers. Select eraser tool and remove the top part as shown.

Create an ellipse for the nose using elliptical shape tool.

Create “Shield” shape using custom shape tool. Move this layer right below the mouth layer in layer order in layer palette.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.

Create eye brows using pen tool.

Create a big black circle using elliptical shape tool. Create a white circle and press Ctrl+Alt+G to create a clipping mask. Create a small black circle for the eyeball and place as shown. Select all three eye layers. Duplicate the layer. Press Ctrl+T. Right click and select Flip Horizontal and place on the other side.

Create an ellipse using elliptical shape tool. Enable add to shape area from the top bar. Create another ellipse using elliptical shape tool. This will create an ear of the cat.

From layer menu select layer style>>create layers. Select and merge all the resulting layers. Select eraser tool and remove the bottom part as shown.

Repeat the above steps to create ear details.

Select eraser tool with soft brush settings and remove the bottom part as shown.

Duplicate the ear layers. Press Ctrl+T. Right click and select Flip Horizontal and place on the other side. Create two ellipses for the cheeks using elliptical shape tool.

Create some ellipses as shown. Create some lines using 2 pixel solid brush tool.

Now the cat is complete, we’ll create the basket. Create a rounded rectangle using rounded rectangle shape tool. Press Ctrl+T. Right Click and select Warp. Adjust the nodes to get the shape as shown. Place it as shown.

Create an ellipse using elliptical shape tool. Enable “subtract from shape area” at the top bar. Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool.

Create another rounded rectangle with some darker shade of brown using rounded rectangle shape tool. Press Ctrl+T. Right Click and select Warp. Adjust the nodes to get the shape as shown. Press Ctrl+Alt+G to create a clipping mask.

Similarly create more rounded rectangles, wrap and place as shown.

Select and merge all the layers. Duplicate layer. Enable lock transparent pixels from layer palette. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select distort. Fill it with dark blue color. Adjust nodes to create a perspective shadow. Move this layer below all the layers in layer order in layer palette.

Creating a Horror Face

Fiery Darts — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:24:58 +0000

Creating a Horror Face

Start by opening an image of a model.

Select burn tool with the settings shown. Now apply the brush on the face area to create bruise marks.

Create some lines as shown using line tool. Select and merge all the line layers.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.

Select the burn tool again. Select image layer and apply the burn tool on the corners of the lines.

Create some blood strokes using brush tool.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.

Similarly create more blood spots on the face.

Drawing a Halloween Cartoon - The Witch

Fiery Darts — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:00:54 +0000

Drawing a halloween cartoon - The witch

Start by creating a hat shape using pen tool.

Create a rectangle using rounded rectangle shape tool. Press Ctrl+T. Right Click and select distort. Adjust the nodes to get the shape as shown.

Create a rounded square frame using custom shape tool. Rotate and place as shown.

Create lower part of the hat using pen tool.

Create a circle using elliptical shape tool. Move this layer below all the layers in layer order in layer palette.

Enable add to shape area from the top bar. Create some circle shapes using elliptical shape tool.

Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool. Press Ctrl+T. Right Click and select Warp. Adjust the nodes to get the shape as shown.

Apply 1 pixel stroke layer style.

Create an ellipse using elliptical shape tool. Move this layer below all the layers in layer order in layer palette.

Create eye brows using "1 pixel" solid brush.

Create hair using pen tool. Fill it with black color.

Duplicate the layer and fill it with gray color. Move this layer below all the layers in layer order in layer palette.

Duplicate both the layers. Press Ctrl+T. Right click and select Flip Horizontal and place on the other side.

Create some circle shapes to create eyes.

Create an ellipse using elliptical shape tool. Enable add to shape area from the top bar. Create two circles using elliptical shape tool. Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool. Apply stroke layer style.

From layer menu select layer style>>create layers. Select and merge all the resulting layers. Select eraser tool and erase the top edge.

Create lips using pen tool.

Select a 1 pixel solid brush. Add details on her face.

Apply a nice gradient to the background layer.

Star Sign Symbols - AQUARIUS

Fiery Darts — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:53:29 +0000

Star Sign Symbols - AQUARIUS

Start by applying a solid color to the background layer.

Double click this layer in layer window to unflatten it. Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.

Using custom shape tool create a preset 5 pont star shape.

Populate the background with stars of different sizes.

Rasterize the layer. Hide the background layer. Create a rectangular selection of the whole area using rectangular marquee tool.

From edit menu select define pattern. name the pattern "stars". We’ll use this pattern regularly in later steps.

Change the layer mode of stars layer to overlay.

Using custom shape tool create a preset 5 pont star shape.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown. We’ll use star pattern that we saved in pattern overlay this time.

Create a circle using elliptical shape tool. Press Ctrl+T. Right Click and select Warp. Adjust the nodes to get the shape as shown.

Apply same layer style as we applied on star shape. In next few layers we’re going to apply same layer style.

Create an ellipse using elliptical shape tool.

Duplicate the ellipse layer and scale down a bit. Change the color.

Create blob 1 shape using custom shape tool.

Apply same layer style.

Change the layer mode to “Hard Light”.

Create a few small ellipses for droplets of water.

Create a rectangle on top and type star sign name over it.

Gift Shop Site Logo

Fiery Darts — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 21:30:17 +0000

Gift Shop Site Logo

Start by creating a rectangle using rectangular shape tool.

Enable “subtract from shape area” at the top bar. Create a line using line shape tool. We used a pixel width of 2 pixels.

Press Ctrl+T. Right Click and select distort. Adjust the nodes to get a shape as shown.

Duplicate the layer. Press Ctrl+T. Right click and select Flip Horizontal and place on the other side.

Press Ctrl+T. Right Click and select distort. Adjust the nodes to get a shape as shown.

Create a rectangle for ribbon using rectangular shape tool.

Again press Ctrl+T. Right Click and select distort. Adjust the nodes as shown.

Similarly create ribbon on the other side.

Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool.

Rotate this rectangle to align with the side below.

Press Ctrl+T. Right Click and select distort. Adjust the nodes as shown.

Select custom shape tool. Select Whole Note shape from the preset shape menu at the top. Create as shown.

Press Ctrl+T. Right Click and select distort. Adjust the nodes as shown.

Place this shape for the ribbon knot at the top of gift box. Duplicate the layer. Press Ctrl+T. Right click and select Flip Horizontal and place on the other side.

Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool.

Enable “subtract from shape area” at the top bar. Using pen tool create a shape as shown to create ribbon end.

Place below the knot as shown.

Type gift shop / gallery name at the bottom using a nice font.