Monday, March 4, 2013

Yin-Yang Symbol Design



1. Create a new document with  720 * 720 as px dimensions. Press ctrl 0 to fit it into screen.
2. Select the gradient tool and open the gradient editor and click on the lower left stop and select ff0000 color and click on lower right stop and select 870303 color.
3. Press shift key and drag the gradient from bottom of the screen to middle of the document.
4. Press ctrl T and drag out the guidelines to the center for the vertical guide and little above the center for the horizontal guide.
5.Open up elliptical marquee tool and drag out a circle from the center of the cross. Create a new layer and fill the circle with black.
6.Click on the layer mask to make a layer mask of the selection and then select the original black circle layer to make it active and open rectangular marquee tool and drag out a rectangle on the left side of the circle and fill  the selection with white and delete the selection . Ctrl click on the layer mask to make a selection and go to select->transform selection and press and hold shift and drag the lower right end of the selection towards the upper left crosshairs.
7.Click inside the transform and press and hold shift as you drag the transform to the right until it snaps to the center.
8.Create a new layer and fill the selection with white . Again open the transform tool and press and hold shift and alt and drag the selection inwarda to make a smaller circular selection and fill it with back and delete the selection. Make a copy of the layer and invert it (ctrl I) and drag it below the top layer . press and hold shift and drag it down until it snaps in to place. Resize it if  needed.
9.Hide the guidelines and hide the base layer and make a snapshot of the screen using ctrl-shift-alt-I. Hide all the layer and unhide the base layer. Make a copy of the snapshot layer and select transform tool and drag the copy layer down . Go to filter->blur->gaussian blur and blur it by 5px and lower the opacity to 30.
10.Make a layer  mask next to the reflection layer . Select the gradient tool and open the gradient editor and select black to white thumbnail and drag out a gradient from bottom of the reflection to the bottom of the symbol .
11.Make the symbol snapshot layer active and click on inner glow style : color-black , blend mode-normal , opacity-75, size-250.
12.Ctrl click on the symbol to make its selection and make a layer mask of the selection . Click on the selection of the symbol select transform selection and move the selection a little to upper left. Go to select->modify->feather and feather it by 20px and invert the selection and fill the selection with white.
13.Open a brush tool and select a large brush with 30 opacity and click in the center of the symbol .
14.Create a new layer above the symbol layer and merge the two layer . Go to the layer mask of the layer below and press and hold alt and drag the copy of the layer mask to the symbol layer. Make the symbol active and change the foreground color to red and open the brush tool and brush the bottom of the symbol with red (blend mode-overlay and opacity-30 .



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