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| Basic Gem - PSP X; Intermediate/Advanced | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 13 2008, 01:53 PM (47 Views) | |
| Sajestic | Apr 13 2008, 01:53 PM Post #1 |
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Program Used: Paint Shop Pro X Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced Notes: Should be familiar in working with preset shapes and vector properties Written By: Julie Russell Creating a Gem One of the most requested tutorials in Digital Scrapbooking is the Gem. While there are several tutorials out there I decided to show you just how I create my gems here at SD without the use of third party filters. Tip: Now the idea to creating a realistic object is that no real object is absolutley perfect. For example a piece of wood will have grooves and dents. A gem will have several bounced light reflections. So keep these in mind when your creating "realistic objects". The less perfect they are the more realistic they will be to your viewer. Let's get started! Create a new image 200 X 200 with res at 200. Unless your creating your gems for use online then you can set your res anywhere from 72 - 94. You may also want to choose a colored background, anything other than white. Step One: I chose the preset shape Dodecagon for this tutorial because it has alot of sides and when creating gems the more points you have the better the results. Once you get the basics down, you can turn any shape into a gem. Stroke and Flood Fill I chose white for now. If you want to go ahead and choose a pattern for the stroke & fill at this point, then you can jump to the next step. The nice thing about Vectors is the ability to create your shape with anti-alias on or off. We want smooth edges so make sure this option is checked.  You will end up with a shape like this.  Step Three: If you decided to choose your pattern in the previous step then you can move on to the next step. The pattern I chose is the Liquid Satin, angle 0 and scale at 200. Which ever you choose besure to do the same for the stroke.  Convert to Raster once you have your pattern. Now we are going to colorize it to a good ruby color. Adjust>Hue & Saturation>Hue/Saturation/lightness with the following settings. Feel free to use any color you wish.  Step Four: Now we are going to bring our flat vector shape to life with the inner bevel effect. Effects>Inner Bevel with the following settings below. Tip: I suggest you use the arrows to slide to the settings needed so you can see how the change takes effect as you work through them. The idea we want for our gem is lots of detail. So we want less smoothing to preserve that. We want our cuts to be visiable so by adjusting the Depth and the Ambience levels. Shininess will give us the overall cast of light to the gem.  Step Five: Our gem is starting to look really good but now we want to make it look more transparent and not so opaque. If your thinking we do that by adjusting the transparent levels to the layer that -would be a way- but it loses color and detail. To do this effect we adjust the contrast level. It will brighten up colors in our gem to give it that "gem" see-thru look.  Step Six: Create a new vector layer and repeat steps 1-4 to make the top part of our gem. For step 3 choose these Bevel Settings:  Step 7: You should now have the bottom part of your gem and the top part of your gem. Duplicate each part so you have a three layers of each peice. Arrange them like I have bellow:  Now to finish our gem. You will notice that for each layer I renamed them to what I did to each one. I mirrored and flipped each layer so that they were randomly rotated in all directions. Now working your way through each layer, play with the transparency levels. The goal is to see each layer through the top of your gem as you see in my finished gem to the left. You can see each layer just slightly making my gem bounce light from various sides along with the detail and the shape. Done! Now that you know the basics of creating a gem, you can play with these techniques to create many different looking gems. Try using different preset shapes!  ©Sajestic Designs |
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