Photoshop Design course for the Festival of the Dead in Mexico

To the users of Photoshop software to explain the detailed analysis of the design of the Mexican Dead Festival marigold text effects of the production tutorial.

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First of all, what is the day of the dead, the Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos) is one of Mexico's most important traditional festivals. On this day, the Mexicans will celebrate the drums, greet the living, reunite with the dead, and cherish the memory of the deceased loved ones. In the eyes of Mexicans, Marigold is the symbol of the Festival of the dead, often used in the sugar skull decoration and so on.

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1. Create guides

Step 1

Creates a new document with a width of 500 pixels *500 pixels. Select the line tool, set the foreground color to red, and set the width to 1 pixels in the options bar. Draw a straight line in the middle of the canvas, running up and down the canvas.

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Step 2

Copy the vertical line layer and rotate the line 60° clockwise.

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Step 3

And then copy the vertical line layer, this time counterclockwise rotation line 60°.

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Step 4

Select the three shape layers you just created, select Layers > Merge shapes, and rotate the shapes 30 ° clockwise after merging. When you are finished, lock the layer.

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Step 5

Select the Ellipse tool to create the 366*373 pixel ellipse at the center point of the canvas. In the options bar, set the fill color to white, the stroke color to black, click the Stroke option button, and change the alignment to outside alignment, as shown in the following figure.

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2. Create Petals

Step 1

Select the Pen tool, select shape mode in the options bar, set the fill color to white, the stroke color to black, and the width to 7 pixels.

So the next step is to design the basic shape of the petals. With the Pen tool and the auxiliary line in front, feel the choice to increase the anchor point, click Add, then drag. If the shape is not very good-looking, it does not matter, the following continue to improve.

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Step 2

Once you've created the basic shape, click the Direct Selection tool, and then click Move to change the anchor position.

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Step 3

You can also control the shape of the curve by clicking on both ends of the anchor point control bar. It takes a little time to get familiar with the operation of the anchor points.

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Step 4

Select the Add Anchor Point tool and add four anchor points to the outer edge of the petals below.

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Step 5

Select the direct Selection tool, and then move the second and third anchor points that you just added down, and change the shape to design a jagged edge of the petals.

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Step 6

After the shape of the first petal is well designed, you can copy the rotation to make sure that you have five petals left, and move through the auxiliary line. When all the petals are ready, select "Layers > Merge Shapes" and merge them into one shape layer, named "Petals."

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3. Create Petal folds

Step 1

Select the Pen tool to set the fill color to black with no stroke color. Draw a straight line with two points, click the line's starting point, and then drag it up so that you can draw an arc of the following figure. The more curved the curve, the wider the folds.

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Step 2

So on, use the above method to draw the rest of the stack, and then choose to merge and name the overlay.

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4. Coloring Flowers

Step 1

Double-click the petal shape thumbnail in the Layers panel to fill the favorite color, where you can fill in the #fa387f.

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Step 2

Double-click the overlay shape layer, in the layer style, apply a drop shadow effect, set opacity 100%, distance 0 pixels, size 7 pixels.

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This can make the folds a bit feather effect.

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Step 3

Double-click the ellipse, and in the layer style, apply a gradient overlay, set the style to radial, zoom 110%, and the gradient color to the left #ff9b2c to the right #ffe64a.

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Here is the paint effect.

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5. Create a raster layer

Step 1

Combine petals, ellipses, and stacked layers in a group, then name it "pink." Copy the group, then name Purple, and fill the petal color with purple #a63a9d, which is similar to the previous.

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Step 2

Copy the layer group, then select the merge group, and each group is merged. Each group represents a color of marigold, which is handy for decorating the text behind.

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6. Design leaves

Step 1

Create a 1000*1000 pixel canvas and download the floral brushes 2 brushes from the tutorial footage. Set the foreground color to #41a340, create a new layer at the top of the layer, and click Add Brush.

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Step 2

Double-click the new layer, apply the stroke, set the size 5 pixel, color black #000000.

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Right-click the layer thumbnail and select the grid layer style in the pop-up menu.

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7. Add text

Step 1

Create a 1024*845 pixel canvas and fill the background with color #372535.

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Step 2

Download the fonts in the tutorial footage, and then type the text you saw at the beginning, setting the text color to #f2d27f. Sets the size of the first line of text to 150, the second line of text to 170, and the word spacing set to 50.

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Step 3

Copy the type layer, and then create the copy and drag it to the bottom of the original. Right-click the thumbnail and select Change to shape.

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Step 4

Double-click an existing type layer to set stroke options: size 5 pixels, color black #000000.

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After setting, the effect is as follows. Or you can't see the stroke effect, but you can see it clearly when you apply other strokes later.

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8. Create Stroke shapes

Step 1

Select the type shape layer, and then click the Direct Selection tool. In the options Bar Rollup, set the fill color to none, the stroke color is #b77113, and the size is 6 pixels. Click the Stroke option button, and then click More Options.

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Step 2

Set the central alignment, the endpoint is a dot, the corner point is miter, tick the dotted line, set the dotted line of the option box 4, the gap is 2.

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Step 3

When you are done, you can see the creation of the virtual point strokes. Here Select the Move tool to move the virtual point stroke slightly to the lower left corner.

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Step 4

Copy the virtual point stroke layer, and then place the replica below, setting the stroke color to black and size 7 pixels.

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9. Add flowers and leaves

Step 1

Copy the purple flower layer to the text canvas and press Ctrl+t to resize it.

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Step 2

Right-click on the flower layer thumbnail and select Create clipping mask from the pop-up menu.

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Step 3

After you finish a flower, you will get the rest. Select the Move tool, then make sure to select the purple flower as the action layer, press ALT, press the left button to move, and then release, you can copy a flower. You can only copy selected layers here, while reserving some space for pink flowers and green leaves.

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Step 4

Add the pink flowers, just like the operation above. Put the position well, like it.

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Step 5

To add leaves with the same steps, be careful to place the leaf layer underneath the flower layer. If you want to make it look better, try adjusting the angle of the flowers and leaves.

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10. Add Texture

Step 1

Import the grunge texture footage provided by the tutorial and place it above all layers. Resize to fit the canvas size, set blending mode to overlay, and opacity to 65%.

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Step 2

In the Layers panel, click on the Add Adjustment Panel Layer button to select the color level adjustment layer.

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Step 3

Click on the color level to adjust the thumbnail, the following figure set values: 0, 1.70, 245. This will make the texture a little brighter.

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That's pretty much it. We can also design different effects by setting different shapes, colors, and sizes.

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In this PS translation tutorial, we used Photoshop pens and other tools to design simple marigold, and color. Then use the leaf brush and apply it to the raster type layer. Next, create the text, copy the copy, and design the virtual point strokes. Finally, add flowers, leaves, textures, and create a final effect chart.

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