Design a Colorful Illustration

November 2nd, 2009 by ART-D Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Designing, Photo Editing

Try to make a shape on the right side of the girl’s head, applying the Pen Tool (P) and using the Convert Point Tool you can adjust path segments as shown.

Go to Layer Style > Gradient Overlay

Gradient Editor settings:

Click on the same layer on the bottom part of the layers’ panel on Add a Mask icon and use here a brush of black color to clean out that shape’s zone, crossing the girl’s hair.

Let’s attach other shapes too to the main element, applying the same tools – the Pen Tool (P) and the Convert Point Tool.

Set Fill to 0% for this layer and go to Layer Style by clicking on this layer on the Layers’ panel.
Add Gradient Overlay

Gradient Editor settings:

Represent another shape using Pen Tool (P)

Set Fill to 0% and go to Layer Style > Gradient Overlay

Gradient Editor settings:

Make another shape

Set Fill to 0% for this layer and go to Layer Style by clicking on this layer on the Layers’ panel.
Add Gradient Overlay

Gradient Editor settings:

Combine in a group all the layers composing the ornament on the right side of the girl’s head (press Ctrl button to select the corresponding layers and then hold on the left mouse’s button while dragging the selected layers on Create a new group icon on the bottom part of the Layers panel). Make a copy of the new group and apply Free Transform option to turn over the copy, placing it on the left side of the girl’s head.

Fill the ornament with new elements. In this case we’ll apply the already known instruments – the Pen Tool (P) and the Convert Point Tool. Each element should have the Fill on 0%. Place the layers of the new elements lower than the earlier made ornament on the Layers panel.

Set Fill to 0% and go to Layer Style > Stroke

Apply Layer Style > Stroke for all the layers of the transparent ornament’s shapes

Combine in a group all the layers composing the transparent elements of the ornament (press Ctrl button to select the necessary layers and hold on the left mouse’s button while dragging the selected layers on Create a new group icon from bottom part of the Layers panel). Make a copy of the new group and choose Free Transform option to turn over the copy, placing it on the left side of the girl’s head.

Create a new layer which must be processed with the brush of black color (Opacity 15%) to represent a shadow under the ornament. Place this layer under the ornament’s layers in Layers panel.

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