Thursday, January 10, 2013

Wax Seal Design



1. Create a new document with as 1920 * 1080 px dimensions. Paste a old parchment style texture on the canvas.
2. Select elliptical marquee tool and drag out a circular selection in the middle of the document and fill it with a dark red color.
3. Press ctrl d to undo the selection and go to filter->distort->wave and select no. of generators-1, wavelength (1-214), amplitude-(1,117), scale-100, type-sine , repeat edge pixels and click on randomize to select an appropriate shape.
4. Drag out another circular selection inside the original shape created above and press ctrl J . Hide the wax seal shape and go to filter->distort->wave and change wavelength to 660 .
5. Make original wax seal layer active and hide the inner part and make a selection by holding down ctrl and clicking on the layer . Press ctrl-alt and click on the inner part layer to subtract the shape and press ctrl j to cut and copy the shape . Rename the original layer as shadow, middle layer as shape and top layer -center.    Make the shape layer active and open layer styles window :
   a. Bevel and Emboss ( style-inner bevel,technique-smooth,depth-100,direction-up, size-50,soften-0,angle-
      90,altitude-60,highlight mode-screen,opacity-85,shadow mode-multiply,opacity-30)
      contour-half round
Make shape layer active and open layer style:
   a. Drop shadow ( blend mode-linear burn,opacity-75, angle-90, distance-5, size-18
   b. Outer glow (blend mode-linear burn,opacity-17, size-25)
6. Make center layer active and open layer style:
   a. Bevel and Emboss (style-inner bevel,technique-smooth,depth-100,direction-down,size-16,highlight
       mode-screen,opacity-90,shadow mode-multiply,opacity-50)
       check contour
7. Create a new layer and fill it with red . Select type tool and choose white color and type some text on the
    document. Make a selection of the text and hide the text layer and the layer below it and go to select-
    >transform selection and resize and reposition it on the seal.
8. Make red layer visible and active and click on layer mask . Go to fill and slide it to 0. Open the layer style window:
   a. Bevel and Emboss( style-emboss, depth-200,size-16, shadow mode opacity-40)
   b. contour-half round.
9. Make a copy of this layer and click on the chain link to unlink it with the layer mask and delete the layer mask.
10.Open custom shape tool and select a shape from list of custom shapes available . Drag out the shape on the seal. Open paths panel and right click on the work paths and click on make selection and make feather radius 0.
11.Click on the layer mask and open bevel and emboss and reduce the size to 11.
12.Make a copy of the layer and click off the chain link and click on the layer mask to make it active and move the ornament to another location on the seal.



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