Creative Effects Challenge No. 47 - A Triptych Wave
Feb 25, 2017 4:01:17 GMT
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Post by fotofrank on Feb 25, 2017 4:01:17 GMT
Greetings all!
As this is my first attempt at this, I ask for your forgiveness in advance.
This Creative Effect Challenge will show you how to create a Wave shaped Triptych.
You can use this image or one of your own. Above all Have FUN!!!!!!!
The Steps to create it are as follows:
A couple of helpful notes, make sure that Auto select is turned OFF on the move tool. After step 11 it may be helpful to turn off the visibility of the Background layer (click on the eye).
1. Open the supplied image or open and resize your image to 5” by 7” (HxW).
2. Add a new blank layer.
3. On the new blank layer, Make sure your rulers are visible Figure 1
a. To place a Guide, click and hold on the ruler while dragging it into place.
b. Place a guide a half inch from the top, a half inch from the bottom, a half inch from the left
and at the 2 inch mark from the left.
4. Press “m” on your keyboard to select Marquee Tool. Make sure the Rectangle and New are selected on the tools option panel.
5. Make a selection from the top left of the guide to the bottom Right.
6. Fill the selection with any color (Alt/Option+Delete). Your layer stack should look like Figure 2
7. Press Command/Ctrl+d to deselect
8. With the new layer selected, Go to Filter>Distort>Shere
9. Create an “S” curve as shown in Figure 3 or create your own, then click OK.
10. Go to Styles and add a bevel and/or drop shadow to your liking
11. Duplicate (Command/Ctrl+j) the background layer and move it to the top of the layer stack.
12. Create a clipping mask (see NOTE 1) between the Background copy and layer 1.
13. Select the two top layers and Duplicate (Command/Ctrl+j)
14. Select the layer 1 copy layer and with the move tool move the created shape to the middle of the layer.
15. Select the two top layers and Duplicate (Command/Ctrl+j)
16. Select the layer 2 copy layer and with the move tool move the created shape to the right side of the layer.
17. Select the background layer. Don’t forget to turn the visibility back on if you turned it off.
18. Duplicate the background layer (Command/Ctrl+j)
19. On the newly created layer, Goto filter>Blur>Gaussin Blur and blur the background copy.
20. Final Layer stack shown in Figure 4
Note 1 (Shameless stolen from one of Sepiana’s great tutorials)
Go to Layer>Create Clipping Mask. (NOTE: In earlier versions of Elements, the command will be Layer>Group With Previous.)
OR
Press Ctrl-G/Cmmd-G. (NOTE: Starting with Elements 15, the shortcut is Alt-Ctrl-G/Opt-Cmmd-G.)
OR
In the Layers panel -- Hold down the Alt/Opt key and then move the cursor over the line which separates the two layers you want to group. The cursor will turn into a down arrow with a small box . When this happens click once; Elements will group the two layers together (with a clipping mask).
Final Image
As this is my first attempt at this, I ask for your forgiveness in advance.
This Creative Effect Challenge will show you how to create a Wave shaped Triptych.
You can use this image or one of your own. Above all Have FUN!!!!!!!
The Steps to create it are as follows:
A couple of helpful notes, make sure that Auto select is turned OFF on the move tool. After step 11 it may be helpful to turn off the visibility of the Background layer (click on the eye).
1. Open the supplied image or open and resize your image to 5” by 7” (HxW).
2. Add a new blank layer.
3. On the new blank layer, Make sure your rulers are visible Figure 1
a. To place a Guide, click and hold on the ruler while dragging it into place.
b. Place a guide a half inch from the top, a half inch from the bottom, a half inch from the left
and at the 2 inch mark from the left.
4. Press “m” on your keyboard to select Marquee Tool. Make sure the Rectangle and New are selected on the tools option panel.
5. Make a selection from the top left of the guide to the bottom Right.
6. Fill the selection with any color (Alt/Option+Delete). Your layer stack should look like Figure 2
7. Press Command/Ctrl+d to deselect
8. With the new layer selected, Go to Filter>Distort>Shere
9. Create an “S” curve as shown in Figure 3 or create your own, then click OK.
10. Go to Styles and add a bevel and/or drop shadow to your liking
11. Duplicate (Command/Ctrl+j) the background layer and move it to the top of the layer stack.
12. Create a clipping mask (see NOTE 1) between the Background copy and layer 1.
13. Select the two top layers and Duplicate (Command/Ctrl+j)
14. Select the layer 1 copy layer and with the move tool move the created shape to the middle of the layer.
15. Select the two top layers and Duplicate (Command/Ctrl+j)
16. Select the layer 2 copy layer and with the move tool move the created shape to the right side of the layer.
17. Select the background layer. Don’t forget to turn the visibility back on if you turned it off.
18. Duplicate the background layer (Command/Ctrl+j)
19. On the newly created layer, Goto filter>Blur>Gaussin Blur and blur the background copy.
20. Final Layer stack shown in Figure 4
Note 1 (Shameless stolen from one of Sepiana’s great tutorials)
Go to Layer>Create Clipping Mask. (NOTE: In earlier versions of Elements, the command will be Layer>Group With Previous.)
OR
Press Ctrl-G/Cmmd-G. (NOTE: Starting with Elements 15, the shortcut is Alt-Ctrl-G/Opt-Cmmd-G.)
OR
In the Layers panel -- Hold down the Alt/Opt key and then move the cursor over the line which separates the two layers you want to group. The cursor will turn into a down arrow with a small box . When this happens click once; Elements will group the two layers together (with a clipping mask).
Final Image
