Red lanterns hung high with Photoshop to make lanterns

Photoshop is arguably the leader in graphic design, and filters are the most functionally and most exotic tool in Photoshop, although Photoshop can use filters designed by other software vendors to give itself wings to fly, but with its built-in filters, We can also make a wonderful image, the following example is the use of the Photoshop 6.0 Chinese version of the application of spherical, rotation distortion, lighting effects and lens halo filter made of red lanterns.

1, start Photoshop 6.0, the background color set to red, a new document background color of the background of the RGB image text
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2. Change the background color to black brown, select the Single column Marquee tool in the Toolbox, click on the left side of the picture, and then press the DELETE key to set the selection to the background color.

3. Press SHIFT while moving the key in the right direction one at a time, translate the selection to the right by 10 pixels, and then press the DELETE key to fill the selection with the background color, repeat the selection right and fill the selection operation, until the vertical bar is evenly covered with the entire canvas.

4. Use the ellipse selection tool to pull an ellipse in the middle of the picture.

5, the implementation of the "filter/Twist/Spherical" command, its parameters set to "Quantity: 100, Mode: normal", one effect is not obvious, can be repeated several times (here I repeat the operation three times), so that the ellipse presents three-dimensional effect.

6. Perform "Edit/copy", copy the selection contents to the Clipboard, and close the file.

7. Create a new RGB mode image file with a white background.

8, the implementation of "edit/paste", the newly copied image paste as a new layer, the layer name to "lantern", the implementation of the "Edit/Free Transform" command, the "lantern" Layer for free transformation, the lantern flat, as shown in Figure 1.

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9, the new layer, and named "Lantern Foot", on the layer with "elliptical marquee tool" pull out a small flat oval, executes edit/stroke with the parameter set to width: 1.5 pixels, color: red, Position: Outside, rest unchanged, press OK to stroke the oval selection.

10, press 〈ctrl〉 key and click on "Layers board" in the "Lantern foot" layer, the red Oval circle selected, press "Ctrl+alt" and the UP ARROW key, the selection of the content moved up several times, get as shown in Figure 2 (left).

11, cancel the selection, in the "Layers Board" drag the "Lantern foot" layer, drag the Lantern foot layer below the lantern layer and move the layer's contents to the location shown in Figure 2 (here), where you can freely transform the layer based on the effects of the display, adjust the layer size appropriately, and change the layer shape. At this time to complete the bottom of the lantern foot production.

12, on the Layers panel, drag the "Lantern foot" layer to the "new Layer" button, copy the "Lantern Foot" layer as a "lantern foot copy" layer, with the same method as the bottom of the lantern foot to complete the production of the top of the lantern foot, as shown in Figure 2 (right).

13. Click the eye icon in front of the background layer in the layers panel to hide the background layer, then follow the layer/merge Visible Layer command to merge the layers except the background layer and name the merged layer "lantern".

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14, the following begins to make the grain of the lantern, the new layer on the background layer, named "Tassel", with "pen tool" under the lantern to draw a vertical path, as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3

15, set the foreground color to yellow, click the Pencil tool in the toolbox, and select the solid circle 1 pixel brush (that is, the smallest brush).

16, click the triangle on the right side of the path panel and execute the Stroke path command in the pop-up menu. Tool Select Pencil to stroke the path, then use the direct selection tool to highlight the entire path, and then press the RIGHT ARROW key 5 times to move the path 5 pixels to the right and stroke the path in the same way. Repeat the path movement and stroke until the width of the tassel is slightly smaller than the width of the foot of the lantern.

17, the foreground color is orange, and then move the path 2 pixels to the left each time, move and stroke the path in the same way (just move the direction to the left and move at 2 pixels each time) until you return to the original path's original position (approximate value), execute the Delete path command in the path panel, and delete the path. Then use the Eraser tool to erase a radian at the bottom of the tassel.

18, then the tassel is still very rigid, not angry, here we will filter it, perform "filter/twist/Rotate Twist", angle is:-150, press "OK" button, can produce the effect of the tassel to the left, if the ears appear thin, the "tassel" layer can be copied into two or three copies, and adjust its position appropriately, the effect is shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4

19. Click the eye icon in the "background layer" and "lantern layer" in the "layers board" to hide the two layers, then follow the "layer/merge visible layer" command, and the merged layer is named "Tassel".

20, the next production of the Lantern rope, a new layer, named "Rope", the foreground color set to green, with the "Brush tool" and select the appropriate brush in the lantern above a curve, the "rope" layer moved to the "Lantern" layer below.

Figure 5

21, at this time the whole lantern basically finished, in order to make the effect more realistic, we can add lighting effects to the lantern, the "lantern" layer as the current layer, to perform "filter/render/Lighting effect", the Lighting Effect dialog box as shown in Figure 5, press the "OK" button, if the effect is not obvious, we can repeat it again, A lantern can produce a feeling of yellow light from the inside (like a lantern with lights), as shown in Figure 6.

Figure 6

22, finally to the lantern plus lens halo, the implementation of "filter/render/lens Halo", its parameters are set to: Brightness "100", Lens type "105 mm focus", and the center of the Halo moved to the center of the lantern, press the "OK" button.

Figure 7

23, such a red lantern from scratch to make a successful, and finally do not forget to merge all the layers, so you can save the file as a compressed format to reduce the size of the image file.

Summary: Throughout the operation, the "lantern" layer needs to always be at the top level, otherwise, it should be set to the top level (by moving the layer order), where the filter parameter settings can be flexibly changed according to the effect, while we can also write on the lantern, the specific operation is the 3rd step after the completion of the use of "Text Virtual Box tool" Enter the word "FU" in the center of the canvas and fill it with black  if you enter text with the Type tool, the text layer will be generated. You must combine the text layer with the background layer , just add this step, and in the 4th step to pay attention to the text should be located in the center of the ellipse, the rest of the steps are unchanged, you can create a written word of the lantern ( As shown in Figure 7). In Photoshop, as long as we can get it, we can do it, friends, do you have a little heartbeat? Come on, move it!