Delicious Fruit Flavor! A fresh strawberry grown in Photoshop

Alpha channels play a unique role in Photoshop, using alpha channels to produce rich and unique effects, but most beginners are less aware of how the alpha channel is used and what they do, by following these steps to make a realistic strawberry like the right one, Enables you to understand some of the ways in which alpha channels are used.

Finish effect:

Production steps:

First, make a new brush

The strawberry is characterized by the uneven pits and the seeds in the pit, and if we are going to paint a little bit of trouble, we can easily draw neat dots by making new brushes.

1, open Photoshop, a new high 10 pixel, 10 pixel, resolution 72 pixels of the file, with a pencil tool to draw the figure shown in figures (Figure 1), in the Edit menu, choose "Define brush", the new pattern saved as a brush, and then exit;

2, create a high 100 pixel, 100 pixel, resolution 72 pixel file, select the Pencil tool with just the new brush point out as shown in figure (Figure 2), also save it as a brush, exit.

Second, draw strawberries

1, a new height of 700 pixels, 700 pixels wide, resolution 300 of the file, using the Pen tool to draw the path shown in figure (Figure 3) (first by a few points to connect, after the conversion Point tool to adjust to the figure shown), right-click the path, select "Create a Selection" to convert it to a selection

2, open the "channel" panel, create a new alpha channel (click on the lower right corner of the new channel button can be created), the foreground color to white, with the paint bucket tool fill the selection (either in the layer or channel created in the selection, can be converted to each other), select the Airbrush tool Use the second brush you just created to point to the picture as shown (Figure 4);

3, the alpha 1 will be copied out of 2, respectively, Gaussian blur, fuzzy values of 6 and 4.6 respectively, and the two channels are calculated. (Figure 5)

4. Back to the layer, create a new layer, fill the selection with a crimson, open the lighting effect filter, set the texture channel to Alpha 2, and set the values as shown. (Figure 6)

5. Create a new channel, process it with a cloud filter, then compute it with alpha 2, then plastic wrap the Alpha 4, and then apply the channel and Layer 1 for image processing.

6, the alpha 1 copy again, the relief effect processing.

7. Create a new layer, fill the selection with white, copy alpha 1 to 3 and apply the image processing, and then set the layer to multiply.

8, set the selection in Layer 2 below, feather radius of 30.

9, the adjustment curve is as follows:

10, the layer 1 and Layer 2 after the integration of the spherical processing (when you want to cancel out of the selection)

11, at the top of the strawberry selection ellipse selection below, feather radius set to 40, color/saturation adjustment is as follows:

12. Select the ellipse selection again on the biased position and color/saturation adjustment after the feather radius.

13, the high light and the dark part of the color/saturation adjustment, the results are as follows. The main elimination of excessive black, improve the brightness of high light.

Note: Increasing the saturation in the color/saturation adjustment reduces the black in the shadow, which can be used to adjust the strawberry's light and shade.

14, a new 900*1000 large file, the strawberry will be pulled into this file, become layer 1. After you rotate the layer, pull the gradient tool out of the background layer with the following effect:

15, to the people concerned about the production of leaves, but this is not much of the skill of things, to rely on the brush to draw. To open a new layer, set the pen pressure on the number 65th Pencil tool, set the size to fade, and the value 60 to make the following figure.

16, with the spray gun tool on the above gush out the general color below (can be selected and then sprayed)

17, control the completion of the picture, with the application of the tool blade texture patiently smear until the following results are obtained.

18, in the leaf and strawberry between a layer, set to multiply the bottom of the way, draw the leaves of the shadow, and then the three layers and copy, to its vertical flip, layer opacity set to 26, move it to the appropriate position, it completed.

As for the production of water droplets, is to use the path tool to draw the selection after the use of spray gun spraying edge, with the smudge tool smear out, open a few more layers, set the transparency of the layer, with pictures or simply point a drop of water on the table observation, must be able to make a real sense of the waters to: