Thursday, January 10, 2013

Logo Design 5 - Mirosoft logo


1. Open a new document with 500*500 px dimensions.
2. Create a new layer and select elliptical marquee tool to drag out a circle on the canvas and position it in center and fill it with dark blue color.
3. Use transform tool to make another circular selection inside the circle created above (very near to the above) .
4. Create a new layer and make a white to transparent gradient from top to 3/4th of the circle. Create another layer and make another white to transparent gradient from bottom to 3/4th of the circle. Merge the two layers.
5. Use rectangular marquee tool to make a rectangle within the circle and fill it with orange-yellow radial gradient from bottom right to center . Similarly make 3 other rectangles using marquee tool and fill
   them with radial gradients as follows :
   a. top 2 rectangles - orange-yellow , lime green-cream
   b. bottom 2 rectangles- blue-white , yellow-light yellow
6. Use warp transform tool to make the rectangles wawy like a flag and then tilt the rectangles a little to right.



Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Text Design 10 - Reflection



1. Create a new document with 500 * 500 px dimension and fill it with black.
2. Select type tool and type it on the canvas and reposition it on the document. Press ctrl J to make a copy of the text.
3. Select the transform tool and right click and select flip vertical. Press shift and drag the text down until there is a little space between the two texts.
4. Click on layer mask. Select the gradient tool and select black to white thumbnail and drag a  linear gradient from 3/4 of the bottom to the top  where the bottom text begins. Reduce the opacity of the layer mask to 50%.
5. Go to layer->rasterize type . Select the blur tool and press shift and drag the cursor on the canvas to blur the bottom text.

Text Design 9 - Displacing text


Photo Editing 1 - Rainbow effect




1. Create a new document with as 1000 *1000 px dimensions and copy and paste a photo with the same dimensions.
2. Create a new layer . Go to gradient ->special effects and select russels rainbow built in rainbow gradient.
3. Drag out a radial gradient from the bottom end of the canvas to where you want the rainbow to end.
4. Change the blend mode to screen. Go to filter->blur->gaussian blur and select 50px radius and change the opacity of the layer to 50%.
5. Click on the layer mask and select black to white linear gradient and drag out the gradient from bottom of the arc where the rainbow is to end to the top of the canvas.