Skillfully using Photoshop batch processing to draw exquisite folding fan

With the full use of Photoshop's Action batch tool, we can easily do a lot of repetitive design steps, and today we use it to draw a piece with a fan theme.

The production of fan skeleton

1. Create a new 700*700 pixel in Photoshop, with a white background color, and name it "fan."

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2. Create a new layer-1 and drag a long selection over layer-1. Press G to select the paint bucket in the toolbox and select the pattern in the selection bar and fill it with a wooden pattern.

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3. Fan skeleton In addition to the wood surface, but also should be a slight thickness of the thin sheet, therefore, we have to design a three-dimensional sense of sex. Then look down.

To keep the selection, click the Layer Style button under the Layer floating palette to emboss and chamfer the selection, and adjust the parameters, at the same time, because the fan after the production of the overall setting of its projection effect, so here is not set the projection effect.

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4. A fan has more than 10 slices, one by one production will be very troublesome, but also to carry out the arrangement around the center, it will be very cumbersome. Fortunately Photoshop has action (action) features that make this complex operation simpler.

The action function is similar to our home recorder, when the recording key is pressed, it can be recorded, and then it can play the sound that just recorded (of course, including the murmur) truthfully. Only, in Photoshop, we "record" not the sound but the action. That's a series of actions from your point of "recording," which Photoshop will play out and, of course, include the error. Because Photoshop is always a factual record of the action, but not proficient in the minds of the operator.

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Next we'll do this step together:

Remove the selection and adjust the slice size to moderate.

Create a new action command, name it "fan skeleton," Click the recording, and begin the recording action.

Copy Layer 1, press ctrl+t key, drag center point to side, set rotation angle of 10, press ENTER to determine. After recording, every time you click the mouse, the slices are automatically copied as required. Click the mouse 16 times to complete the fan skeleton. (Well, it's convenient.) ）

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Second, sector design

1. Merge the skeleton layer, create the sector selection using the ellipse and the set element tool, and copy the selection to the new layer-2. Fills the selection with white and sets the opacity to 85%. In this way, we can use the following bone for reference when we operate on Layer 2.

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2. Fan is not a simple plane, but there are many logical creases, that is, it should have three-dimensional feeling. Photoshop makes stereo graphics often with the help of layer styles, lighting effects, and color gradients. Here we use the gradient tool to characterize the folding of the fan. Select a long selection with a Polygon lasso box, select the black and white gradient, and the gradient mode to a linear gradient to fill the selection. In turn, the whole slice.

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3. Only black and white fans of two colors are too monotonous, you absolutely do not want that such a work for others to see, the following will beautify it. Find a picture of yourself like flowers and birds (or else, as long as you are optimistic about the line.) ), load the current file, and trim to the appropriate size. Set the layer mode to multiply, with a transparency of 85%. Then add a faint projection.

As you can see, a fan is so fresh out of the oven. It was still quite mysterious to see before, but now it's not the same, because read here you've cracked the mystery and try it yourself.

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(Enlarge the work.) The edge of the fan is treated with 100% opaque eraser, and the small screws on the fan handle are made with relief and chamfer effects.

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