Photoshop 7.0 Making Soccer

Many books have introduced the use of Photoshop to make football, but many friends still do not grasp the essence of the method of making football. Photoshop7.0 Since the advent of the use of their own powerful filters can do a lot of wonderful results, the author here with the help of the production of football examples to introduce some of the most commonly used filters and several commonly used techniques, I hope you can extrapolate, make more beautiful pictures. (in order to facilitate readers to read, the author uses the Photoshop7.01 Chinese version)

The effect of this example is shown below:

To facilitate the study, please click here to download the PSD source file.

1. Create a new file (shortcut key: Ctrl + N), named "Football", width 400 pixels, height is 400 pixels, RGB mode, background select "White". Click OK to create a new file.

2. Click on the "Create New Layer" button on the level version of the image, and create a new layer, which the system automatically names as "Layer 1". For the next step better positioning, we use the "guide line" to locate, press the shortcut key ctrl+r The tick bar, and then click the right button on the tick bar, select "Pixel" to accurately locate. Then press and hold the left mouse button on the top and left tick bars, respectively, drag the horizontal and vertical two guides to 200 pixels to form a cross reference line that sinks into the center of the canvas, as shown in Figure 1:

Figure 01

3. Make sure that Layer 1 is selected, select the Polygon tool in the toolbar, and then in the Tools tab above, confirm that the Fill pixel button is selected, and set the edge to 5 pixels. Press Accelerator D to restore the foreground and background colors to the default black and white, and then start with the intersection of the guides to draw a 5-side shape. (Try to keep the 5 sides symmetrical), as shown in Figure 2:

Figure 02

4. On the layers panel, pull layer 1 onto the Create new Layer button and copy another identical layer, which is automatically named "Layer 1 copy." Then confirm that "Layer 1 copy" is selected, press the shortcut key Ctrl+t free transform pattern shape, click on the 5 side of the right mouse button, select "Flip vertically", and then enter, we can see "Layer 1 Copy" in the 5-side shape has been flipped vertically. Then hold down the SHIFT key and pull the flipped 5-side shape vertically to the top, with a distance of about 5 corners of the radius of the tangent circle. As shown in Figure 3:

Figure 03

5. Select the Line tool on the toolbar, set the line thickness to 2 pixels on the Tools Options bar, and then connect the two 5-edged vertices with a straight line. Then press Ctrl+t to do the free transform, move the center point of the free transform to the intersection of the two guides, rotate the pattern 72 degrees in the tool options bar, as shown in Figure 4:

Figure 04

6. In the Photoshop7.0, there is a "smart copy" function, that is, after the free transformation of the image, you can use the shortcut key ctrl+shift+alt+t the last free transformation of the operation of the transform image, and the transformation generated by the image of a separate layer. In this example, we have rotated 72 degrees of the image in the previous step, so we can connect all 5 vertices of the center five corners in a continuous press ctrl+shift+alt+t 4 times, and the attached figure is shown in Figure 5:

Figure 05

7. Link all the layers with 5-side patterns and merge them into one layer, and named "Football pattern", select the "line tool", the line thickness set to 2 pixels, the surrounding 5 5 edge of the closest vertex with a straight line connection, the attached image as shown in Figure 6:

Figure 06

8. Select the "Elliptical Marquee Tool" on the toolbar, press and hold the Alt+shift, take the reference line intersection as the starting point, pull out a circle, and the radius is approximately equal to 5 5-side radius. As shown in Figure 7:

Figure 07

9. Select the menu "edit-Stroke", in the pop-up "Stroke" setting box, set the width to 1 pixels, color selection black, location selection "Center", click "OK" to confirm the stroke operation. After the stroke, the image effect is shown in Figure 8:

Figure 8

10. Click the Menu "Filter-twist-Spherical", the image of the spherical filter operation, in the pop-up "spherical" setting box to set the "Number" box to 100%, the effect of the spherical surface as shown in Figure 9. In this step, do not cancel the selection, click the "Select-Save Selection" menu, pop the "Save Selection" dialog box and enter "football pattern constituency" in the name bar.

Figure 09

11. Switch to the "channel" panel, confirm that the "red" channel is selected, and then pull the channel below the "Create new channel" button to copy a new channel, the system automatically named "Red copy" channel, we will be the three-dimensional operation of this channel. Select the menu "Filter-Blur-Gaussian blur" to open the Gaussian Blur setting box and set the blur radius to 8 pixels, as shown in Figure 10:

Figure 10

12. Then click "Filter-style-Emboss", pop-up "embossed" dialog box, as shown in Figure 11, set the parameters, the effect of the relief filter operation as shown in Figure 12:

Figure 11

Figure 12

13. Click the menu "image-adjust-levels", Pop the Levels dialog box, then click the "Set Black" button in the lower right corner of the dialog box, and then move the black pen to the pattern to select the gray part of the image, click OK, and the channel image is shown in Figure 13:

Figure 13

14. Ctrl-click the "Red Copy" channel, select the white part of the pattern, return to the Layers panel, confirm that the "football pattern" layer is selected, then click the Menu "image-adjust-brightness/contrast", pop "brightness/contrast", adjust brightness to +52, adjust the contrast to +62, click "OK" Complete the brightness and contrast adjustment. The adjusted image looks like Figure 14:

Figure 14

15. Deselect the selection (shortcut key ctrl+d), create a new layer on the layers panel, the system is automatically named "Layer 1", select the menu "SELECT-Load Selection", in the pop-up "Load Selection" dialog box in the "Channel" column select the selected "Football pattern constituency", OK, Then press the shortcut key Ctrl+delete to fill the selection with white, and then pull layer 1 below the soccer pattern layer, linking the two layers and merging them into one layer, named soccer. As shown in Figure 15:

Figure 15

16. Confirm that the "football" layer is selected, using the Magic Wand tool to select all the white areas on the soccer ball by holding down the SHIFT key. Then switch to the channel panel, select the "Red" channel and pull to the "Create new channel" button below, copy another channel, the system automatically named "Red Copy 2" channel. As shown in Figure 16:

Figure 16

17. Then the "Red Copy 2" channel Relief, select the menu "filter-style-embossed effect", angle of 135 degrees, 15 pixels high, the number of 80%, set the channel image effect as 5 Figure 17:

Figure 17

18. Then click the Menu "image-adjust-level", the "Level" dialog box, select the lower right corner of the "Set Black Field" button, click on the image of the gray area, we can see the gray area is replaced by the Black field, as shown in Figure 18:

Figure 18

19. Hold down the CTRL key to select the "Red copy" channel, load the white portion of the channel to make a selection, and then switch to the Layers panel, confirm that the "football" layer is selected. Click the Menu "image-adjust-brightness/contrast", the brightness to 42, the contrast to 39, determine the image effect as shown in Figure 19:

Figure 19

20. Cancel the constituency. At this point, the basic effect of football has almost finished, the following we will be the color of football and other details of the treatment. Back to the Layers panel, confirm the "football" layer, click on the bottom of the panel "create a new fill or adjust Layer" button, select "Hue/Saturation", pop-up "hue/Saturation" dialog box, select the lower right of the "coloring" check box to color the football. Here everyone can set their favorite football color, or reference to the author's settings also line, as shown in Figure 20 "hue/saturation" of the parameters, figure 21 to adjust the hue/saturation image after the effect:

Figure 15

16. Confirm that the "football" layer is selected, using the Magic Wand tool to select all the white areas on the soccer ball by holding down the SHIFT key. Then switch to the channel panel, select the "Red" channel and pull to the "Create new channel" button below, copy another channel, the system automatically named "Red Copy 2" channel. As shown in Figure 16:

Figure 16

17. Then the "Red Copy 2" channel Relief, select the menu "filter-style-embossed effect", angle of 135 degrees, 15 pixels high, the number of 80%, set the channel image effect as 5 Figure 17:

Figure 17

18. Then click the Menu "image-adjust-level", the "Level" dialog box, select the lower right corner of the "Set Black Field" button, click on the image of the gray area, we can see the gray area is replaced by the Black field, as shown in Figure 18:

Figure 18

19. Hold down the CTRL key to select the "Red copy" channel, load the white portion of the channel to make a selection, and then switch to the Layers panel, confirm that the "football" layer is selected. Click the Menu "image-adjust-brightness/contrast", the brightness to 42, the contrast to 39, determine the image effect as shown in Figure 19:

Figure 19

20. Cancel the constituency. At this point, the basic effect of football has almost finished, the following we will be the color of football and other details of the treatment. Back to the Layers panel, confirm the "football" layer, click on the bottom of the panel "create a new fill or adjust Layer" button, select "Hue/Saturation", pop-up "hue/Saturation" dialog box, select the lower right of the "coloring" check box to color the football. Here everyone can set their favorite football color, or reference to the author's settings also line, as shown in Figure 20 "hue/saturation" of the parameters, figure 21 to adjust the hue/saturation image after the effect:

Figure 20

Figure 21

21. Careful friends must have found that there is already a "hue/saturation" mask layer on the layers panel, which is the intention to create a new fill or adjustment layer in 21 steps, thus avoiding the direct modification of the "football" layer, destroying the image of the original layer. Another advantage is that if you want to change the hue/saturation, just double-click the mask layer to modify it.

22. The reality of football is not very smooth, so we can use the "noise" filter to deal with the point of noise, it is a more realistic football. In the layers panel, confirm that the soccer layer is selected, click Filter-Noise-add noise, pop the Add Noise dialog box, set the number of noise in the Quantity dialog box to 7%, and use "Gaussian distribution" to determine the image effect as shown in Figure 22:

Figure 22

23. In the final step, we add a shadow effect to the football, click the "Add Layer Style" button at the lower left of the layers panel, select the "projection" option, pop the Layer Style dialog box, and the various parameter settings for the specific projection are shown in Figure 23:

Figure 23

24. So far, our football has been completed, if you are still not satisfied with the final effect of Figure 24, you can add some noise, lighting and other effects up, so that looks more lifelike.

Figure 24

In fact, it is not difficult to make football, it is important that some of the key steps and techniques, such as the use of guides, intelligent reproduction, spherical effect, the complex use of channels, shading adjustment, Gaussian blur, emboss and add noise filter operations, and so on, these techniques do not look complex, However, to achieve the level of ease of use, we need to imitate learning, practice makes perfect.