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Gift Shop Site Logo

Filed under: Web Graphics — Fiery Darts @ 3:30 pm

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.

Drawing a Cartoon Rocket

Filed under: Drawing — Fiery Darts @ 6:48 pm

Drawing a Cartoon Rocket
Start by creating a triangle using polygon shape tool.
Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.
Create an ellipse using elliptical shape tool. Apply stroke layer style.
Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool.
Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.
Create an ellipse using elliptical shape tool. Apply stroke layer style.
Create a vertical line using line shape tool. Place as shown.
Create a path for the exhaust stroke as shown using pen tool.
Press Ctrl+Enter to covert the path into selection. Press Shift+Ctrl+D to feather the selection. Feather the selection by 10 pixels. Create a new layer and fill it with orange color.
Ctrl+Click the layer thumbnail to get the selection. From select menu apply modify>>contract. Contract the selection by 5 pixels.
Create a new layer and fill it with yellow color.
Create some stars shapes with different colors using custom shape tool.
Select and merge all the layers. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select warp. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown.

Magician Performing Magic Tricks Animation

Filed under: Animation — Fiery Darts @ 7:36 pm

Magician Performing Magic Tricks Animation
Start by opening an image of a magician, holding something in his hand.
Create selection of the magician using your favorite technique. We used polygon lasso tool. Press Ctrl+J to copy paste the selection in a new layer. Hide the layer.
Select the image layer. Clone the copied area using clone stamp tool.
Unhide the magician layer.
Create selection of the rabbit using polygon lasso tool. Press Ctrl+Shift+J to cut paste the selection in a new layer.
Cone the arm of the magician using clone stamp tool.
Create selection of the magician excluding the left arm. Ctrl+Shift+J to cut paste the selection in a new layer.
Create selection of the lower arm using polygon lasso tool. Ctrl+Shift+J to cut paste the selection in a new layer. Now we have five layers in all. Background, body, upper arm, lower arm and rabbit. Let’s select body, upper arm and lower arm layers. Press Ctrl+g to create a group of these layers.
Duplicate group twice. Rotate arm layers and place as shown. Use eraser tool to delete any unwanted areas.
This is our 3rd group with a different position of arm layers.
Create selection of the hat as shown. Press Ctrl+J to copy paste the selection in a new layer.
Move this layer above all the layers in layer order in layer palette.
Now we have three poses of arms. Unhide both poses which are out of hat. Unhide rabbit layer. Duplicate layer and place both the rabbit layers according to the arms position.
Similarly you can import some more images and place them like rabbit layers.
Create some stars with different colors, angle and sizes using custom shape tool. Select all the stars layer and press Ctrl+G to group.
Duplicate the star group twice and change their position randomly in each group.

Open animation window. For the first frame hide the rabbit and other object layers. Let only first group of arms be visible.
Duplicate frame. Unhide the second group of arm and hide the first one.
Duplicate frame. Unhide the third group of arm and hide the second one.
Duplicate frame. Unhide the first star group.
Duplicate frame twice and for each frame let the other star group be visible.
Duplicate last frame. Hide the star group and unhide the corresponding pose of arms as shown below. Unhide the watch layer.
Similarly keep duplicating frames. Again show star frames and then rabbit coming out.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized animated GIF.