March 2007

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3D Basket

3D Basket. 2 hours project

This time I will share with you, dear Photoshop lovers, secret of creation willow weave. Though, I am not redneck and my last visit to countryside was about 5 years ago(somewhere near Phoenix, AZ), I am in a desperate passion to folk stuff. You know, those baskets, clay pottery and plaid blankets…

1. On the corresponding picture you can see pattern I made for basket Body. Pretty siple, huh? And then I applied mentioned pattern into rectangular selection.

2. I created path and cut off outer part of basket Body. Then, using Edit -> Transform -> Warp tool(quite a helpful edition to Photoshop), I shaped basket Body regarding to needed perspective view. After that I created inner part of the basket, duplicating part of outer part of basket Body. In order to follow basket design I had to flip inner part vertically. To complete Body creation, shadows were added.

3. In the followinf steps I made basket Handle and Rim. First I made Brush(you can see it on the picture). Then I customized it. and applied it to pre-made Paths. To make these things look dimensionally, I applied some Bevel from Layer Styles.

4. In the final step I added plaid nepkins and a bottle of my favorite Chardonnay(you can find 3d Bottle lesson here ). I brought basket, full of yummy things(unfortunately you can’t see fresh vegetables, Abbaye de Belloc fromage and plate of “Gold” Korkunoff chocolate, because these are inside of a basket, :-l ) to the green grass, which was also made with Photoshop’s default Brush set. Some final touches and voila! Bon appetite, my friends!

Written by okgrafix on March 7th, 2007 with no comments.
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3D Violin

3D Violin. 3.5 hours project

Last night I felt kinda lonely. To fill those lonely hours I decided to re-read "Baskerville Hound" by famous Sir Arthur K. Doyle. After a while my melancholy went away – I understood what I need. Paganini concerto #2 De La Primavera was my choice! Dunno, if Mr. Holmes ever played maestro’s themes, though I am sure, he’d like it*

1. First of all I created Paths for my future shapes. Pen Tool is definitely best weapon to do so. I carefully outlined halves of violin’s Body, Neck, Head and those parts elements.

Violin

2. When I finished with Paths, I loaded each of them onto New Layer and fill in black. Since violin is a quite simmetrical thing, I duplicated each of filled in black shapes and flipped them horizontally with Transform Tool. My following step was crate texture for violin Body. Fiber Filter(you can find it under Filter -> Render) is quite unused and forgotten tool in my arsenal, was perfect match to make realistic wooden texture. I created New Document of a huge size(4in by 22, with 300 dpi resolution) and applied Fiber Filter to it. Then I copied result to my violin project. I resized fibered texture to meet violin shape dimensions, applied Hue/Saturation to match color of a wood and cut off violin shape.

3. In last two steps I mostly beveled violin Body and Body parts with Photoshop’s Layer Styles.

4. Very similarly to previous proceedures I applied Layer Styles to violin Head and Neck.

5. In last step I assembled all violin parts together. Made drop and perspective shadows. Finalized this project with highlight touches. BTW: Background drapes were made with Gradient Tool(multiple grayscaled bends), distorted with Liquify Filter and colorized with Hue/Saturation and saved as a separate drapes.psd file. Crumpled violin drop shadow was made with Filter -> Distort -> Displace, where source was taken from drapes.psd file… That’s all, folks!

Written by okgrafix on March 5th, 2007 with no comments.
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3D Cocktail

3D Cocktail. 20 min project

Summertime… and your life isn’t easy
Sweat is dripping, Though you’re drinking coktail…
Your image’s dull and have no meaning
So, stop doing bs, prompt to send us your mail

1. Using Pen Tool create future glass shape. Making guides will be useful.

2. Then create “inner” glass shape, copying “outer” shape.

3. Fill shapes in grey color. Remember shapes suppose to be on separate Layers.

4. Image -> Adjust -> Threshold to round triangles corners.

5. Apply Layer Style to “inner’ and “outer” shapes(download from here).

6. Fill segments in lime color

7. Create two circles on underneath Layer.

8. Apply Filter -> Artistic -> Sponge(0, 20, 0)

9. Merge Layers

Written by okgrafix on March 2nd, 2007 with no comments.
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3D Lemon

3D Lemon. 30 min project

1. Using Polygon Tool(Path) create polygone object of 10 sides. It will be your guide to create lemon segments.

2. Create additional points on a path and remove small segments and create some kind of a path “flower”. Load selection and fill it with any color. Flatten received result onto Background Layer