Teach you to use PS to make crystal moist pearls

Photoshop can achieve the effect that you can not imagine, can you imagine an ordinary small circle will become a crystal moist pearl? Photoshop layer styles can be easily implemented without any other tools or filters! Isn't it incredible? Let's take a look at how it is achieved.

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Create a new document, select the Ellipse tool in the toolbar, and select "Creating a fresh shape layer" in the toolbar. Open the Information Panel, hold down the SHIFT key, drag a positive circle on the screen, while dragging the mouse, pay attention to the observation information Panel and see that the circle is 24 pixels long and wide, relaxing the mouse. In this way, a small circle with a previous view of a fill color appears on the canvas, and a layer named "Shape 1" appears on the Layers panel. Here, the foreground color and our final result can be said to have not much relationship, so don't bother.

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If you're not used to this layer clipping path, you can also use the old method: Create a new layer, because we want to use the layer style to achieve this effect, so the new layer is certainly not less. Use the elliptical marquee tool to draw a 24x24-pixel circle, with the same method as above, to remove the selection after filling the color.

If you're using the second method, double-click the layer thumbnail and pull up the Layer style menu. If you use the first method, like me, double-click the layer name to bring up the layer style menu. We add a style to the layer. First is the shadow, click the projection style, change the distance to 3 pixels, the size of 6 pixels, the other remains the default.

Next is the inner glow, which is to emphasize the rounded edges. Change the glow blending mode from screen to multiply, opacity to 40%, light to Black, and to 1 pixel in the cable; in quality, the range is increased to 75%, and the other remains unchanged.

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Here is the bevel and emboss, note: In our example, this is the most important step, the pearl form most of it to show. In the Structure panel, select the style as an inner bevel, which means "carving clear", the depth is 610%, in the direction, the size is 9 pixels, softened to 3 pixels; in the shadow panel, the angle is 60 degrees, the global light is canceled, the height is 65, and in the gloss contour type, the preset roll ramp-decrement mode is first selected, And then click the diagram.

Modify the mapping curve, deselect the anti-aliasing option, and maintain the default high and darkened colors and modes, but change the opacity to 90% and 50%, respectively.

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Click on the Contour panel, click on the High Line, show the Contour editor, and set the waterline curve to resemble the figure 06, you can select "Record" in the contour type, and then change it slightly.

The contour function is very obvious, it gives the pearl the strong reflection function, simultaneously, the Pearl's mellow also is very good expression.

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After applying the emboss and contour, the image has a great relationship with your background. If you start with a dark fill, so now your image does not look like a pearl, but like a metal ball, the deeper the background, the more obvious the metal effect; If you use a light-colored fill, your image may look close to our purpose, and if it starts with white, So you've almost got a perfect white pearl. If you want to change the color, just double-click the layer thumbnail and pop up the Photoshop color picker, where you can choose to change the colors of the layer. The following procedure is set for those colors that are too deep.

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General Light pearl with special pearl luster, crystal and soft, dark pearl will have a metallic luster, but still not without losing the soft color, so we use color overlay to eliminate excessive color. Select the color overlay style, set the blending mode to bright, color white, and opacity to 52%.

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The color overlay effect is especially noticeable for dark pearls. Because of the different mineral elements in seawater, pearls can have many colors. If you want to get some color pearls, here you can get, milk yellow, lilac, pink, rose, bronze, dark blue, black, it depends on what you like. But to get the best pearls, there are some tasks that need to be done.

People who like pearls know that the light pearl with a white rose-red pearl is the best, below we will make this pearl. Select the gradient overlay style, and by default, the result may be somewhat discouraging--it looks like a little steel ball.

But do not worry, we can use another layer style for it to find the luster, by the way, that is the "gloss" style. Select "Overlay" in the mix mode of the structure, RGB (225,159,159), opacity 72%, angle 135, distance 8 pixels, size 9 pixels, select "cone-invert" in the contour style, select anti-aliasing option. In this way, we will be able to show the pearl surface through the reflection of refraction and interference mixing effect, produced by the * color.

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So far, our pearl style is all done. You can click the New Style button in the style panel to save it and name it "Pearl." It is best to use the preset manager for permanent storage so that you don't have to worry about losing it because you're reloading Photoshop.

Now let's examine the effect. Create a new layer, click the style you just saved, and apply this style to this layer. Select the Airbrush tool, set the brush size to 24, hardness set to 100, try to spray on the canvas, a string of pearls appear. Photoshop will redistribute the styles within the layer so that our pearls will transition from light to dark. To draw a pearl necklace, you also need to increase the brush spacing, in the example below the brush spacing is 107%, plus a chain, you can. If you feel monotonous, use the dark blue as the background, plus some noise and blur effect, imitation velvet substrate, so that the pearl foil more streamer color.

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What if you want bigger or smaller pearls? When you zoom out or enlarge a brush, you draw on a layer that is set to a style, but you find that the style is distorted and the pearls become unrecognizable.

Can we only make pearls of a single diameter? Of course not. Photoshop provides a way for us to apply layer styles flexibly. On the layers panel, right-click the icon that indicates the layer effect and choose zoom Effect from the pop-up menu.

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The diameter of a small brush is 12 pixels, so we set the scale to 50% so that the layer style fits perfectly with the image. Similarly, the larger brush diameter is 48 pixels, and the zoom value is set to 200%. In this way, you can get a Da dong bead with no difficulty.

All right, so far, our pearl style is all done. Do you think it's amazing? Come on, try it, you can do it.

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