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Photo: Alice Koh |
Realistic Pin Effect
Written by AliceKohDesigns
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With the latest trend that seems to lean towards realistic elements on digital layouts, I am going to show you how to use pins and safety pins in your design and making them looking realistic with shadows and burn tool. The graphic program I will be using is Adobe Photoshop CS3 but this tutorial will work for most software. |
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Before working on the straps, compose your layout and know where you want to have your strap positioned. This is important when you are using a grunge or patterned background paper because we are going to copy and paste portions of the paper on top of the pin. Moving the elements around will disrupt the pattern of the paper as the cut out portion won't match the background paper anymore.
Instructions:
01) Start by choosing your pin. In this tutorial, I am using a safety pin set from my Pins & Straps. It comes with a separate shadowing so I will apply both on to my layout.
02) Using a Pen Tool, draw rectangular shapes covering the part where the pin is supposed to pierce through the paper. I've colored the shapes blue here.
03) CTRL+click (ALT+click for Mac) mouse on the blue rectangular layer to get the running ants.
04) Click to the paper layer. Go to Edit - Copy, Edit - Paste. The running ants copied the exact rectangular shape from the red paper and create a new layer from it. Bring that layer (cut out red paper) to the top of the safety pin layer. You have now the small pieces of paper covering the pin. Remove the blue paper layer. (click image on Step 2 to see detailed instruction)
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Step 1: Add safety pin and shadow |
Step 2: draw rectangular using pen tool
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Step 3: cut out shape & apply burn
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Step 4: A finished strapped cluster
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05) Choose a darker color red from the color pallette, set the Burn Tool brush to 18% opacity or lower and begin drawing a line following the shape of the pin on the cut out paper layer. Shape it slowly and if you make a mistake, just go to Edit - Undo. (click image on Step 3 to see detailed instruction)
06) When you are happy with the way it look, go to the background paper layer and using the same Burn Tool, apply around the edge of the cut out paper to get an even coloration.
07) Arrange a cluster of elements under the straps, add shadows and your done!
CREDITS:
Pins & Straps from AliceKohDesigns.com.
Flowers & papers from imagine:create:share at Pickleberrypop.com
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