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Post by Jen on Oct 3, 2009 18:23:41 GMT -6
Here's the signature we will be making...
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Post by Jen on Oct 3, 2009 18:24:11 GMT -6
Start with a new file 5" x 2" at 100 ppi with a transparent background. Open your picture file and click and drag the Background from the layers palette over your siggy file and release. Name this layer complete pic. Reduce or enlarge your picture. Take your lasso tool and make a selection around your pup. Choose Select>Modify>Smooth>1 and then Select>Feather...>1. Now from the menu bar choose Layer>New>Layer via Copy. Deselect and name this new layer (your pup's name) cutout so mine is wood cutout. Lock the two layers.
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Post by Jen on Oct 3, 2009 18:24:42 GMT -6
Click on your cutout layer and choose Filter>Sharpen>Sharpen.
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Post by Jen on Oct 3, 2009 18:25:31 GMT -6
Take your brush tool and pick a large size brush from your brushes palette. Now in the options bar set the Mode to Color. Click on the lock that I've added a blue outline to in the layers palette (lock transparency). This is the color I used to paint over Woody. To get this color click inside your foreground color's box. In the Color Picker window enter the settings I have outlined in red and click ok. Now paint over your pup. To add this color to your swatches palette check out the thread Swatches Palette.
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Post by Jen on Oct 3, 2009 18:26:16 GMT -6
Click on your complete pic layer and using the same settings and color you used for the cutout layer paint over your picture.
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Post by Jen on Oct 3, 2009 18:27:09 GMT -6
To the cutout layer add this effect to it. You do that by clicking the tiny f in a circle at the bottom of the layers palette. You might choose to use a different setting than I did it will depend on how the bevel & emboss looks with your picture. All I did was click and drag the tiny cross, see purple arrow, until I found a setting I liked. You will see as you drag the cross you will be changing the Angle and Altitude settings.
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Post by Jen on Oct 3, 2009 18:28:06 GMT -6
Make a new layer. Now click on the cutout layer and link and merge the new layer with it. Add this drop shadow to the cutout layer. Now in the original picture of Woody there was already a drop shadow so I set the angle for this drop shadow effect so it matched the one already in my picture. You might choose to have your drop shadow's angle at a different setting. To change the angle just grab the dial and move it around. To get the color click on the color box in the Layer Style window, blue arrow, so your Color Picker window pops up. Go to your picture and sample a dark color by clicking down on your file. I used the color where the yellow circle is. Click OK in the Color Picker window.
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Post by Jen on Oct 3, 2009 18:29:02 GMT -6
Make a new layer and place it under your cutout layer in the layers palette. Take your eyedropper tool and click on a dark color from your picture. Now with the rectangular marquee tool make a selection like you see in the picture and choose Edit>Fill... with foreground color selected. Deselect.
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Post by Jen on Oct 3, 2009 18:29:32 GMT -6
Make a copy of this layer by clicking and dragging it to the new layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette. With your move tool drag one of the bars down. To constrain your move hold the shift key while you drag it. You can also use your arrow keys on your keyboard to move it in place. Once you have a top and bottom bar link and merge the two bar layers together. Name this layer bars.
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Post by Jen on Oct 3, 2009 18:30:01 GMT -6
Change the opacity of the bars layer to 45%.
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