Peanut butter cookies from the Photoshop Gourmet series

Cookies have always been one of the most popular snacks. In recent years, as the global weight loss appeal has been on the rise, the market for biscuits has increased, which shows how much people love it. In my opinion, those who do not have the core of biscuits is to eat, the role of the equivalent of "dry food", and the stuffing of biscuits is a delicious snack, is a nest on the sofa watching TV good companion. Of all the cookies, my favorite is chocolate and peanut butter sandwich, both of which are nutritious and delicious for me to resist! Last time we made some chocolate dessert for the afternoon tea snack, this time to make some peanut butter biscuits to solve the Jiejie bar!

1. Open Photoshop, create a new document, select RGB mode, white background. Select the Type tool, and select a rounded font, set the font size larger, and use black to write text on the background. After you adjust the text, flatten the text layer and the background layer. (Figure 01)

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If you do not want to be so troublesome, you can also use the Marquee tool to select the Square or circle as the basis for the following process. Then the completion of the time, is a piece of complete biscuits. But we always want it to be chic when we bake our own snacks, don't we?

2. Go to the channel panel, copy a channel at will, name the copied channel copy as orig. Reverse-phase the channel. Copy channel orig, name the replica channel cracker, select Filter > Pixel > Grid, set cell size to 3, we make a selection of cookies in this channel. (Figure 02)

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3. The following is a selection of peanut butter painted on the cookies. Create a new channel, named Peanut butter, load the channel orig, and shrink the selection by 6 pixels (if you like more peanut butter, you might as well reduce the shrinkage, it depends on your taste!) ), reset the color swatch, and then deselect after filling the selection with white. The Gaussian fuzzy fuzzy channel is used to set the radius to 6.0 pixels and then adjust with the level tool to set the input color order as 164,1.00,190. After blurring--color-level processing, the image in the channel is now more sleek. Use one more grid filter, this time setting the cell size to 8. Next, we use the stamp filter in the sketch filter to simplify the black and white image in the channel, set the clear/dark balance to 25 and the smoothness to 5, so that the image appears to be uneven. Let's just use the same method to smooth the edges of the image: Select the Gaussian blur filter, set the RADIUS to 2.0 pixels, and slightly blur the image; Then set the input level to 176,1.00,217 in the Level dialog box. This is the range of peanut butter we need. (Figure 03)

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In many cases, we all need to get a smooth image, and you can use the Modify > Smooth commands under the command to get rounded corners of the selection. Although this method is simple, but the effect is not first to the image appropriate blur, and then use the color scale to increase the contrast to the good. And the latter method has greater control over the image.

4. If you love to eat cookies and watch them, you will find that there are traces of cookie molds on some cookies. So, before making cookies, let's make a mold. Is it going to be complicated? Don't worry about it at all! We solve this problem by means of pattern filling. First make the pattern. Creates a new document with a size of 25x25 pixels, a white background, and a resolution that is consistent with the previous document. Select the elliptical marquee tool, hold down the SHIFT key, select a positive circle, and then remove the selection with a black fill and define it as a pattern. And then close the document. (Figure 04)

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5. Return to the working document in the RGB channel, fill the background with white. Create a new layer, name it holes, open the Fill dialog, select the pattern in the fill type, and select the black circular pattern we just defined from the custom pattern Drop-down list to fill in normal mode. (Figure 05)

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6. Hide the holes layer, select the background layer, create a new layer on it, name it cracker, and fill it with white. Load the channel cracker as a selection, then remove the selection by filling it with black. Here we are going to make the cookie stereo effect. The Gaussian blur layer is used first, with a radius of 6 pixels; then use the embossed relief filter in the style to add a stereo effect, set the angle is 135 degrees, height is 4 pixels, the number is 150%; load the channel cracker selection, reverse the selection, soften the selection with the feather command, feather the radius to 3 pixels, and fill the selection with black, Immediately executes the fade Fill command under the Edit command, subtracting the opacity by 50%, the mode as normal, and canceling the selection. (Figure 06)

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7. Display layer holes, load the channel cracker selection, shrink the selection, shrink to 6 pixels, feather the selection, radius 4 pixels, reverse the selection, two consecutive white fill selection, deselect. We used the method to add three-dimensional effects to these dots: Gaussian blur, radius 1.0 pixels, and an embossed filter with an angle of 45 degrees and a height of 2 pixels, and a number of 50%. Load the channel cracker selection, shrink the selection, expand to 2 pixels, delete the excess gray area after the selection, deselect. (Figure 07)

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8. Now, we want to holes layer and cracker layer better blend together, eliminate the blunt feeling. Select the holes layer and change its layer blending mode to overlay so that the jagged edges are removed and the inner shape is fully rounded, and then the opacity of the layer is lowered to 60%, with the Gaussian blur filter slightly blurred, The radius is 1.0 pixels; Finally, select the Cracker layer, link the holes layer, and flatten the link layer. (Figure 08)

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9. Now our cookies just take shape, we have to do a progressive processing. The first is to remove the extraneous background. Load the channel cracker selection, deselect after deletion.

Nowadays, we might as well catch fashion and add bran to our cookies. We can easily do this with noise filters. Before adding noise, let's make a little change, and in the Layers panel, click on the transparent pixel that locks the cracker layer so that the range of noise we add is limited to the cookie range. Then execute the noise filter, the number is set to 20, Gaussian distribution, select monochrome, so that the Bran's rough feeling came out.

The following task is to color cookies. Open the Hue/Saturation dialog box, first select the color, the general hue first set down, the hue set to 40 or so. According to experience, as we make this thicker biscuit, the taste is generally not very crisp, and the thicker the biscuit, the color will be deeper, based on these two points, we will be saturation set to 34, the lightness of-16, so that the natural flavor of biscuits is very good performance.

Next, we'll use the layer style to tweak the cookies and refine the details. The first is the inner glow style, which changes its blending mode to multiply, the color is black, the range is 100%, the rest remains unchanged, which will deepen the edge to make it appear baked appearance; then use the outer glow, the blending mode to a positive stack, opacity to 30%, color black, range of 100%, other by default , the edge is slightly blurred, the final projection mode, the angle of 135 degrees, the use of global light, distance of 5 pixels, the size of 8 pixels. After three layers of layer styling, our cookies are partially finished.

For the convenience of the latter, we need to make cracker a normal layer with no layer style impact, which can be implemented using the method of merging layers. Create a new layer above the cracker layer, select the cracker layer, link the new layer to it, and flatten the linked layer. Because the transparent layer does not have any effect on the image, the image has not changed, but the cracker layer becomes the normal layer again, the lock transparent pixel is also lifted, and the effect of projection and luminescence is preserved. (Figure 09a,09b)

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10. After the biscuit is partially finished, we are going to paint it with a thick layer of peanut butter. Create a new layer, named Peanut butter. Load the channel peanut butter as a selection, then remove the selection by filling it with black. Also use the method just to add stereo effect: Gaussian blur, the radius of 4 pixels, relief filter, angle of 135 degrees, height of 3 pixels, the number of 150%; again with Gaussian blur, radius of 2.0 pixels, further blur the image; load the channel peanut butter, select the selection, and then the selection, The radius is 3 pixels, the black is filled with the opacity 50%, Normal mode, deselect. (Figure 10)

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11. We started adding color and luster to peanut butter. Open the plastic wrap filter in the art Effects filter group, set the high light intensity is 15, the detail is 9, the smoothness is 7; then, using the implicit command of the Edit command fade plastic packaging effect, opacity is 25%, normal mode; load Channel peanut butter, deselect, delete, cancel selection. (Figure 11a)

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Remember, we do peanut butter instead of butter, so the tiny particles in the sauce are not to be ignored. After you lock the layer transparent pixels, add noise with the noise command. The number is 1.2%, Gaussian distribution, monochrome. (Figure 11b)

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Color with hue/saturation command for a living sauce. Select shaded mode, set hue to 41, saturation to 35, and lightness to-5. Use the projection in the layer style to add three-dimensional icing to the sauce body, set the angle to 135 degrees, use the global light, the distance is 3 pixels, the size is 3 pixels, the rest by default. Then remove the layer style with the merge layer method: Create a new layer above the peanut butter layer, link it to the peanut butter layer, and merge. You should now have only three layers in your layer, from bottom to top: background, cracker, and peanut butter layers. (Figure 11c)

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12. Hide the peanut butter layer and create a new layer above the cracker layer, named sugar. We're going to sprinkle some powdered sugar on this layer of cookies. Fill the selection with white, add noise, the number is 24%, Gaussian distribution, monochrome. Then use the color order adjustment contrast, set the input color order as 112,1.00,153, subtract most of the gray area, blur the image with the Gaussian fuzzy command, the radius is 2 pixels, then use the color order adjustment, set the input color order as 231,1.00,238, and only keep very few small pieces of irregular black region. Go to the channel panel, copy the Blue channel, and name the copy channel sugar. (Figure 12)

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13. Back to the RGB channel of the sugar layer, with two consecutive blur filter slightly blurred image, with embossed filter to add stereo effect, angle of 135 degrees, height of 3 pixels, the number of 150%, loading channel sugar selection, delete after the selection. Then load the channel cracker the selection, reverse, remove the biscuit outside the range of excess sugar particles, deselect. Merge the sugar layer into the cracker layer. (Figure 13)

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14. If you think the effect of powdered sugar is not obvious enough, you can do the following steps: Create a new layer on the cracker layer, named Sugar, and fill it with white. Load channel sugar selection, fill with black, deselect. After a blur process, load the channel sugar selection, and then deselect the selection image two times. Perform an embossed filter with an angle of 45 degrees, a height of 3, and a quantity of 150%, which is loaded again into the channel sugar selection, deleted, and deselected. Load channel cracker selections, deselect, remove unwanted images, cancel selection. Merge the sugar layer into the cracker layer. You can see that the sugar particles have been strengthened. (Figure 14a,14b)

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14. Finally, we use color balance to adjust the color of peanut butter: Select peanut butter layer, open the Color Balance dialog box, select the middle harmonic to keep the brightness, the color order is set to +37 (red), 0,-10 (yellow). Does the silky peanut butter make you have a big appetite? (Figure 15)

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In fact, in the final step, you just change the color of the sauce, the peanut butter cookie to chocolate, vanilla, or peach, but here, the color is the key to create a sense of reality, a lot of experiments to deploy appropriate tones.