Photoshop Draw the lucky clover Tutorial

To commemorate St. Patrick's Day, I'm going to post a tutorial on making four-leaf grass. Perhaps you do not need to celebrate the festival, perhaps you think the four-leaf grass is useless, but still please take a look at this tutorial. This tutorial includes some useful tips for learning to split, transform, and add distortion effects. These techniques help to create a work easily using AI.

On St. Patrick's Day in the United States, people usually hold parades, church services and dinners. Irish people in the United States like to wear clover, with the Irish flag color-green and yellow to decorate the room, wearing green clothes, and to give guests a three-leaf clover ornaments.

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Tips

This tutorial example is made by CS 3. But all CS versions can implement these effects.

This article only displays Windows system shortcut keys

Step 1: Create a blade shape

First, use the Ellipse tool to draw a circle. Select the circle with the selection tool, hold down the ALT key (used to copy the selected object) and the SHIFT key (used to constrain the object position), and drag and drop a copy of the circle. Select two circles and press the set and expand in the Pathfinder.

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Using the direct Selection tool, select the anchor point at the bottom of the two circle to drag down and roughly drag to the twice-fold length position of the merged circle. Make sure the anchor point is selected, and then convert it to a smooth anchor in the control Panel. Next, use the Delete Anchor Point tool to remove the other 2 anchor points, which are located on either side of the anchor point that you just dragged.

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Now a little bit of the appearance of the leaves, but also need to add color. Before filling the color, you need to cut the blade shape into two objects. Use the line tool to draw a line in the center of the blade shape. Select all the objects, align the points horizontally in the alignment panel, and then click the Split button in the Pathfinder panel and then solve the group.

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Select one of the shapes to create a radial gradient from the gradient panel. Use a shallow, deep two green swatches in the gradient palette. Use the gradient tool to drag from the top right of the shape to the bottom left hand side. Use the same radial gradient to fill and adjust the other blades.

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Step 2: Transform

One of the blades is done, and we need another three. Repeating these steps 3 times is too tedious. It doesn't matter, there's a rollover effect available. Select two blades and then group. Then, effect-distort and transform-transform, Pop the Transform dialog box. In the dialog box, change the number of copies to 3, rotate 90 degrees, and then point 9 to indicate the bottom center point of the graph (9 indicates that the chart is above the random check box).

Now Clover has four blades. Using objects-expanding appearance is a good idea. If you do not expand, you may get unwanted results the next time you want to rotate the blades. Then make the stems of the clover.

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Step 3: Stem

Use the rounded Rectangle tool to draw a stalk of equal size. Then, with the effect-deformation-arc. In the Transform Options dialog box. The bending is set to 20%, the horizontal twist is set to 40%, and the other options are unchanged. Then, object-expands the appearance. Using a deeper green than the blade, select a linear gradient from the gradient panel to fill the gradient with the stem. Rotate the leaves and stems to the right place and finish the call!

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Give it a try.

As I said earlier, you don't have to use these features to create four blades. The transformation effect can be very good to achieve this function. Use different angles, sizes, replicas, and 9 points to indicate the different locations in the diagram to try more. Deformation effects making a uniform shape is useful and available everywhere. Don't forget to split it is the begotten that creates multiple objects from a single object.

Note: The "Tools", "Menu" and "Options" translation using the "CS 5 official Chinese version" default keyword, in the text bold display.

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