May 28, 2005 | Pen Tool Techniques, Photoshop Tutorials
1. Here’s a simple style effect to create a candy cane effect combined with the ‘Pen Tool’ to create the shape. 2. Start with the ‘Pen Tool (P)’ and roughly draw in the shape of the cane. Then use the ‘Convert Anchor Point...
May 28, 2005 | Pen Tool Techniques, Photoshop Tutorials
Here’s a simple style effect to create a Christmas tree ornament combing ‘Shape Tool’, Blending Styles and an Christmas motif image. Create a new document (File > New) preset of your choice with a background color other than white. (I used grey...
May 28, 2005 | Pen Tool Techniques, Photoshop Tutorials
1. Here’s a detailed look at how to achieve an Open Magazine Effect. Some basic shapes, a photo, some ‘Pen Tool’ manipulation and the Liquify Tool helped achieve this. So follow along to see how. 2. In a new document, set the foreground color #C1C3C0...
May 28, 2005 | Pen Tool Techniques, Photoshop Tutorials
Here’s a detailed look at how to achieve the Polaroid Effect. Some basic shapes, a photo and some ‘Pen Tool’ manipulation which help achieve this. So follow along to see how. 1. In a new document, foreground color #D9D9D9 then select the...
May 28, 2005 | Photoshop Tutorials, Web Techniques
Picking up from the previous lesson, I added more vector components and more transition tween’s to beef up this animation. As noted in the previous lesson, the premise of creating these animations as compact as possible relies solely on Vector shapes within...
