Pastel Flowers Design
Resources:
White Flower (.png format)
Spiky Swirls Brushes from brusheezy.com
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This will be the finished result:
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Open a new file, 800 x 800, 72px resolution
Fill the background with black
Open the White Flower picture
Select>All, Edit>Copy (Ctrl + C)
Make your project active
Create a new layer
Edit>Paste (Ctrl + V)
*Duplicate the layer by right clicking on the layer in the layers palette and clicking on Duplicate Layer.
Turn off the visibility of the original flower layer
Working on the copy layer, using the eraser tool or your chosen method, erase all of the flower except one petal**
Repeat from * to ** until you have 5 layer copies, one petal on each
Restore visibility to all layers
Make this petal layer active:
Double click on the layer in the layers palette to bring up the blending options and apply the following Gradient Overlay settings:
Make this petal layer active:
Double click on the layer in the layers palette to bring up the blending options and apply the following Gradient Overlay settings:
Make this petal layer active:
Double click on the layer in the layers palette to bring up the blending options and apply the following Gradient Overlay settings:
Make this petal layer active:
Double click on the layer in the layers palette to bring up the blending options and apply the following Gradient Overlay settings:
Make this petal layer active:
Double click on the layer in the layers palette to bring up the blending options and apply the following Gradient Overlay settings:
Turn off the visibility to the background layer and the original flower layer
Right click on any visible layer in the layers palette and click on Merge Visible
Set the layer mode to Color Burn
Restore the visibility to the original flower layer
Right click on one of the visible layers and click on Merge Visible
Restore the visibility to the background layer
Make the flower layer active
Ctrl + T to transform the object
Hold down the Shift key while reducing the size of the flower as required
Duplicate the layer about 16 times and arrange the flowers as required, or as shown below:
Turn off the visibility of the background layer
Right click on any visible layer and click on Merge Visible
Restore visibility to the background layer
With the flowers layer active
Image>Adjustments>Levels – apply the following settings:
Double click on the layer in the layers palette to bring up the blending options and apply the following Color Overlay settings:
Duplicate the layer
Working on the original flower layer
Ctrl + Click on the thumbnail in the layers palette to select the pixels
Make the foreground colour white
Edit>Fill – select Foreground Color, click OK
Reduce the opacity of the flower copy layer to around 75%
If necessary, open the White Flower picture again
Select>All, Edit>Copy (Ctrl + C)
Make your project active
Edit>Paste (Ctrl + V)
Ctrl + T to transform the object and reduce the size a little, to fit nicely with the flowers
Create a new layer above the background layer
Select the Brush Tool and Spiky Swirls brushes
Place a swirl on the canvas
Create a new layer and place another swirl
Create a new layer and place another swirl
Shown below are the brushes I used:
Double click on one of the swirl layers to bring up the blending options and apply the following Gradient Overlay:
Apply the same Gradient Overlay to the other 2 swirl layers
Create a new layer above the background layer
Set the foreground colour to red #B81B1B
Select the Brush Tool and a soft round brush, 300px
Place the circle over the middle of the large flower and click 4 times
Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur – set to 50, click OK
Filter>Blur (at the top of the drop down box – this will apply the Gaussian Blur again)
March 23, 2010 at 10:50 pm
Nice one