I will give you a detailed analysis of the Illustrator software and share with you a tutorial on creating an ultra-beautiful guitar string and letter effect with photoshop.
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Photoshop and Illustrator are two excellent tools on the final graphic. They can help you create things that only exist in your imagination. In this tutorial, we will create letters from the closed guitar string. Let's get started! Tutorial resources the following resources are used to create Wood textures Wood Texture1. use Illustrator to create strings. Step 1 starts with Illustrator. Create a new file (file-new (Command/Ctrl + N). I used the following file size. The width is 250mm, and the height is 175mm.
Select the Line Segment Tool, and press Shift to draw a horizontal Line through the width of the file, roughly at 1/4 in the upper part of the file. Now set: color to none (X) stroke to 5pt cover Cap to Round cover Corner to Round Join
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Use the rotation tool (R) to rotate the horizontal line to 11 degrees.
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Copy four lines (as long as the object-rotate-then rotate (or Command/Ctrl + D), so you will eventually create six lines.
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Step 2 now we will start to draw letters. Use a scissors tool (C) to cut the first line so that the distance between the two ends of the line can accommodate the length of the next word. Use the direct selection tool (A) to select the middle of the line and then delete it. (Do not forget to press the Pen Tool (P), click the mouse at the right end of the first line diameter to continue the path, and then start to draw the first letter. You 'd better check the path (Command/Ctrl + Y) on the operation interface to make your finished product more accurate and meticulous.
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These letters can be composed of different paths, especially because some paths need to be copied ("The two bends of m are similar, so they are also" u "bending, etc, but they also need to be adjusted until they are perfectly connected to another letter .)
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At this stage of the tutorial, some work may be included, such as twisting and changing paths, to make the bending look flawless, but this is the basic work of our work, so be careful and do the best.
Add all letters to a string and adjust the left end point of the second line diameter. Therefore, the end point of the last letter is its start point.
Step 3 Let's create all the letters on all the six strings. The same letter can be copied. After all the paths are drawn, the following figure shows the style of art we see on the operation interface.
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1 @ 1 ~ 4 o5 S8 l $ M now we have to connect all the wire paths, so we have to eventually change each string to a path. Make sure that the path to be connected is in the same position. If not, use the direct selection tool (A) To adjust the position.
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Once they are all in the correct position, use the direct selection tool (A) to select two endpoints and average them (object-path-average, Command/Ctrl + Option + J ). If you are sure that their end matches perfectly, you can leave this link. Connect them (Command/Ctrl + J ). The entire file is connected to all adjacent line paths. Therefore, only six lines are left.
Step 4. Next we will create colors for the strings. Go to the color palette (window-color) and add values. · C: 55 · M: 60 · Y: 65 · K: 40 to create a brown color. (I will use the CMYK value, because this file was created for printing .) Drag the color palette so that we can easily use it when needed next time. Next, let's define the gradient slider (window-gradient ). The first and last slide of the drag gradient are brown, and the color is white in the middle of the gradient. Therefore, a new slide is created. The slide in the middle should be at 50%, and drag the gradient to the color palette. Select all six paths and set the gradient we just created for The Strokes.
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In the gradient palette, click apply gradient to walk through the line to create the piano string.
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The direction of each path should be from left to right, otherwise the letter will be inconsistent with the written direction.
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In case your path has no direction set, use the pen tool to click at the right endpoint of your path to change the direction of the path.
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Step 5 use the illustration painter. We only need to do the last thing for the piano strings: Be sure to use the pen tool to draw a new path around the second piano string to ensure that what you missed is hidden. Make sure that you close the path.
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Next, make sure that it is in the front of the string path (object-arrangement-set before), but this is generally the case because it is created later. Select all paths (new ending paths and String Paths) and make a cut mask (object-cut mask-making, Command/Ctrl + 7 ), now a small part of the letter "K" should disappear behind the lower part of the letter C.
Repeat this step on the fourth string with the letter "f.
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The lower part of the letter "e" in "me" should now overlap with the top of "f.
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Now we need to make a vector mask for the strings. It should look similar to the following figure. Then, save the file as "string" strings '.
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2. Use Illustrator to create a sound bar Frets step 6 still use Illustrator to create a new file (size: 350x350); otherwise it will be the same as the last setting. Use a line segment tool to draw a vertical line, holding shift, about 240mm long. Set fill color (X) to none and stroke to 6.4pt. Press the selection key, and use the selection tool (V). shift to drag Shift-drag to the right (about 35mm ). Repeat this step for the second line, but this time we need to increase the line spacing slightly (about 45mm ). Repeat it again and set the distance (55mm) for a larger point (you can also use the Move Tool in these steps ).
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Select the four lines and use a rotation tool to rotate them for 11 degrees. Set the stroke color to white. Save the file as the sound bar 'frets'. It's time to go to Photoshop.
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3. step 7: create a new file in Photoshop (file-new) Command/Ctrl + N) and set the width as follows: 175mm · height: 250mm · Resolution: 300 Pixels/Inch · Color mode: CMYK color background color is black by default (C: 91 M: 79 Y: 62 K: 97 or #000000 ).
Open the Wooden Texture from the resource, and drag its layer image to the new file to create a new layer. Use the free transform tool (edit-free transform, Command/Ctrl + T) to rotate and use shift-to reduce the size of the Shift-reduce texture, as shown on the palette. Double-click the name of the layer and rename it "wood" 'wood '. Set opacity 83%.
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Now we will add a layer mask (click layer-layer mask-show all ). Use a large, soft edge brush (B) (about 0% PX, hardness) to paint on the mask. Click the mouse at the left of the top side of the wood pattern, hold down shift, and click the right to draw a straight line. Make the same settings at the bottom of the wood image.
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Disassemble the mask, and then blur the mask (filter-Blur-Gaussian blur) to a radius of PX.
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Press the Command/Ctrl key and click the mask to load the options. Then create a new brightness and contrast adjustment layer (the icon is on the footer or layer tab) and set the following values. Brightness:-27 contrast: 52
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Again, press the Command/Ctrl key and click the mask to load the option. Then, create a new color and saturation adjustment layer and set the following values: · set the color to-3 · set the saturation to + 41 · set the brightness to-10 · select the three layers (wood layer and two adjustment layers ), and use them as a group (Command/Ctrl + G )., name Group wood bg.
4. Add the audio bar to your work. Step 8: go back to Illustrator, copy the four audio bar lines, and paste them into the Photoshop File (you can choose to put the file "audio bar" in Photoshop ". I usually paste vector data as a smart object to keep it editable in future use, but now you can also paste it as a pixel. Make sure that you paste or place the sound bar as 100% (view the color palette ). Place a straight line as shown in the following figure. The naming layer is the sound bar ('frets '.)
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Command/Ctrl click the mask of the layer "wood" to load the option and add a layer mask (to the "fret" layer. Now we will add the following three layers: Slope and relief, color superposition and shadow, and perform the following numerical settings.
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Our work should look like this now.
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(B # m'b7 u m x1 I $ c #} OK. Now we can see that the side of the guitar is not well integrated with the background. Use the (U) elliptic tool to create an elliptic that exceeds and overwrites the file width.
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% S 'J: '7 n w % n use the free conversion tool (Command/Ctrl + T) to rotate the oval for 11 degrees, and then move it up a bit.
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1 H, n4 v & S % E (? 3 N1 w load selection (Command/Ctrl click on the ellipse layer), and turn off the layer (click the eye icon on the left of the layer image), but you can even delete this layer. Press Shift + F6 (select-modify-) and set the ing radius to 250 pixels.
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Press Command/Ctrl + Shift + I (select-> reverse) to reverse select, press D to ensure that your fill color is set to black, create a new layer (layer-new layer) and fill the selection area (click Option/Alt + Backspace ). Set the blending mode of the layer to the front pane, and the opacity of the layer to 30%. Press and hold Option + D to cancel the selection. The layer is named 'darken '.
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5. Copy the Layer (drag it to the Create a New Layer Icon on the Icon that creates a New Layer Icon) and set the opacity to 73%, then it is expanded to 148% (using the Free conversion Tool Free Transform Tool ). Name this layer as darker 'darken more'
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5. Add the music string to the work. Step 10: Now you can place the music string. It is a method (copy-paste or place it with us. We will need to enlarge it to 120%. The layer name is strings '.
Now we will add two layers: Slope and relief and projection, as shown in the following figure:
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+ C4 t4 B M6 ~ 0 u to modify the layer order. Therefore, place the string 'Strings 'under 'darken more.
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In step 11, we will create a light effect to show the three-dimensional effect of the strings. Command/Ctrl click on the layer and zoom out the selection area 3px (select-modify-contract ). Press and hold Command/Ctrl + Shift + I to reverse select, and then click bend adjustment layer. The following settings:
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Re-load the string 'Strings 'option (Command/Ctrl click the layer), reverse the selection, and fill the mask of the adjustment layer with black. Blur the mask to a radius of 1.5 pixels.
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Set the blending mode of the layer to fade, and the opacity to 35%. Name the layer as light 'Lights '. Select the string layer and curve adjustment layer, and name them as a group named 'text '.
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Step 12 add another curve adjustment layer in the group to make the entire work darker. Set layers, as shown in the following figure.
On the 'Strings 'layer of the string, click the mouse to add a brightness, compare and adjust the layer, and set the following values. Activate the cut icon (or create a cut mask from the layer palette, Command/Ctrl + Option/Alt + G) will adjust the limit to the following layers (only the string 'Strings ').
Our work should look like this.
4. Create wear and tear for wood step 13. Let's temporarily put aside the strings and create wear and tear for the wood part. Command/Ctrl click on the layer, and add and select the sound bar 'frets' layer (Command/Ctrl + Shift click on the layer rather than the mask ). Expanded the selection by 50 pixels (select-modify-expand ).
& Y/_ 7 V7 K (E now sets the feather radius (Shift + F6) to 40 pixels, and adds a color tone and saturation adjustment layer to set the following values.
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Step 14 we create the loading options for the last layer (tone, saturation adjustment layer), and the reverse options use the loose tool (L) to reduce the top and bottom sections of the selection.
Select (select> modify> contract) to keep it to 50 pixels.
{Add a color balance adjustment layer, as shown in the following figure.
W3 B ++ ~. W $ e $ ^ 0 Y. We can further improve the mask: click the improved mask edge in the attribute palette. Make sure that the view mode is the overlay mode, which makes it easy to see the changes in your mask.
Y/Y: set as shown in the following figure.
Now the abrasion on the Wood looks like this:
5. Create mosaic step 15. Let's use Elliptical Marquee Tool (M), an Elliptical box selection Tool, to make a circle selection (press shift to make a regular circle ). Set the diameter to 0.8mm (you can view the width and height of the info Palette in the Info Palette ).
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Set the foreground color to · C: 39 · M: 37 · Y: 36 · K: 16. The background color is · C: 51 · M: 51 · Y: 52 · K: 46. Set the Gradient Tool (G) for the foreground to the background, and then set the linear Gradient in the selection bar, the opacity should be 100%. Create a new layer and fill it with gradient. It is named as the inlay dot '.
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'{"E 4 M3 g1 k3 F/A" l Add colors (filter-colors-add colors), then opacity is 68% (edit-colors-add colors, command/Ctrl + Shift + F ).
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Let's add two layers: Slope and relief and projection. Apply the following settings.
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