Photoshop Special effects: Ring Peel Orange peel

With Photoshop can do a lot of interesting creative processing, today we have an example to explain how to use Photoshop to make a complete orange image of the effect of the ring peel, through this example can be a glimpse of Photoshop to make pictures of some common methods of effect.

This article takes Photoshop CS2 Chinese version as an example, the other version of Photoshop may be slightly different in the procedure.

The specific steps are as follows.

1. After starting Photoshop, press CTRL + N (or double-click the gray space while holding down the CTRL key) to open the New dialog box, enter the document name "ring Peel", set width and height to 600 pixels, resolution 72 pixels per inch, and other options with default settings, as shown in Figure 1. Set Finish Click OK.

Figure 1

2. Right-click the orange picture below and select "Save Picture as" from the pop-up menu to save it to a location on your hard disk.

Figure 2

3. Press Ctrl+o in Photoshop, and from the Open dialog box, hit the orange picture you just saved, and then use the Move tool to drag the orange picture to the Ring Peel document window, as shown in Figure 3. This orange image appears as a new layer in the "ring Peel" document.

Figure 3

4. Confirm that it is now in the "Ring Peel" document window, press Ctrl+t to the orange layer free transformation, when the adjustment handle occurs while holding down the Shift+alt key while dragging the handle on the diagonal, appropriate amplification of oranges, as shown in Figure 4. When you are done, press ENTER to confirm the transformation and use the Move tool to move the orange position appropriately.

Figure 4

5. In the Layers palette, rename the orange layer, layer 1, to orange, confirm that the layer is now selected, select the Magic Wand tool in the Toolbox, click anywhere in the white area around the orange, select the white part, and press Del to delete it.

6. Select menu command "Layer | new | by copy layer" (or drag the layer in the Layer palette to the "Create new Layer" button below the palette), copy a layer so that you get a layer called "Orange Copy", as shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5

6. Click the eye icon on the left side of the "Orange copy" layer thumbnail in the Layer palette to temporarily hide the layer. Select the orange layer in the Layer palette and we'll make the orange in the layer darker. Select menu command Image | adjust | brightness/contrast, lower the brightness value (such as-40), increase the contrast (such as +23), as shown in Figure 6, and then click OK.

Figure 6

7. Select the Orange copy layer, select the Eraser tool in the Toolbox, select an edge-clear brush in the options bar, press the [or] key to resize the brush appropriately, and then carefully rub out the way shown in Figure 7.

Figure 7

8. Then select the "Orange" layer, carefully wipe out as shown in Figure 8, to complete the ring peel effect of the production of orange peel. This step is more critical, determines whether the final effect is true, if not well, you can in the history of the palette back and rub. Original Address