Title: Green Metal Pipe
slick - June 22, 2005 09:04 PM (GMT)
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Author:Me (Slick)
This tutorial will show you how to make a steel green pipe like this one:
1.Create a new document sized 200x400.
2.Grab the rectangular marquee tool and make a box like in the picture and fill it with a gradient of your choice (when using the gradient tool hold down shift to make it straight).
3.Make Sure the recangle with the gradient is still selected and go Edit>Tansform>Distort, hold down shift and alt and grab one of te corners and bring it to the center
like this:
4.Make sure you unselect the rectangle the go Filter>Distort>spere.Make it like this:
5.Now go and create a new document 200x25, fill the top half with grey and the bottom half with white.
6.Now go Edit>Define Pattern, Call it Stripe.
7.Now go and create a new document 5x5,Zoom in as much as you can, grab the pencil tool and make it like this:
8.Now once again go Edit>Define Pattern, Call this one dots.
9.Now we want to go back to the pipe and Ctrl click the layer with the pipe on.
10.With it selected go Edit>Fill, use these settings and make sure you select the dots pattern and click ok.
11.Right click on the layer with the pipes and use these:
12.Move it up to the top:
13.Crop the image so it looks better:
14.Create a new layer and go Edit>Fill, This time use these and make sure you select the stripes pattern:
15.Now on the stripes layer go Layer>Group With Previous.
16.Change the stripes layer to soft light.
17.Add a color ballance to give it some color.
This is what i got:
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Author:Me (Slick)
This tutorial will show you how to make a steel green pipe like this one:
1.Create a new document sized 200x400.
2.Grab the rectangular marquee tool and make a box like in the picture and fill it with a gradient of your choice (when using the gradient tool hold down shift to make it straight).
3.Make Sure the recangle with the gradient is still selected and go Edit>Tansform>Distort, hold down shift and alt and grab one of te corners and bring it to the center
like this:
4.Make sure you unselect the rectangle the go Filter>Distort>spere.Make it like this:
5.Now go and create a new document 200x25, fill the top half with grey and the bottom half with white.
6.Now go Edit>Define Pattern, Call it Stripe.
7.Now go and create a new document 5x5,Zoom in as much as you can, grab the pencil tool and make it like this:
8.Now once again go Edit>Define Pattern, Call this one dots.
9.Now we want to go back to the pipe and Ctrl click the layer with the pipe on.
10.With it selected go Edit>Fill, use these settings and make sure you select the dots pattern and click ok.
11.Right click on the layer with the pipes and use these:
12.Move it up to the top:
13.Crop the image so it looks better:
14.Create a new layer and go Edit>Fill, This time use these and make sure you select the stripes pattern:
15.Now on the stripes layer go Layer>Group With Previous.
16.Change the stripes layer to soft light.
17.Add a color ballance to give it some color.
This is what i got:
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slick - June 25, 2005 07:03 PM (GMT)
no comments?
Terra - July 1, 2005 04:33 AM (GMT)
It looks ok, but i dont really like the stripes :P I could use it at the bottom of a sig or such, just rotate and yeah... i dunno, but its ok... its kinda hard to use though...
jesuses left leg - July 1, 2005 10:50 PM (GMT)
wud be nicer if it was a bit smoother but gj !
Infection - July 6, 2005 01:25 PM (GMT)
Good job. Would make a nice finishing touch to a sig backgroud.