Metal and Chrome Effects: Continued ... Still - Page 4
August 16, 2001
| FIXING THE
EDGES OF A MOTION BLUR BACKGROUND In the last step
of the effect at the right, I have you quickly create a brushed
metal back-ground using Noise and Motion Blur. The only drawback
is the left and right edges of the background: you can see the
Motion Blur streaks start to fall apart at the edges, and they
look a bit cheesy and artificial. Here s a quick fix: Make a
rectangular selection all the way around your image about 1/2"
from the outer edge of your document (so you have a big
rectangular selection taking up most of your image). Press
Command-T (PC: Control-T) to bring up Free Transform. Grab the
right center point and drag past the right edge of your document
to stretch the good part of your blur to the right edge. Then
grab the left center point and drag left past the left edge of
the document to do the same. When your edges look good, press
Return (PC: Enter). |
QUICK TIP: If you click on the Fore-ground color
swatch and your Color Picker doesn't look like the one shown
here, you might have inadvertently switched your Color Picker.
Press Command-K (PC: Control-K) to bring up Photoshop's General
Preferences dialog. Under the Color Picker pop-up menu, make sure
the chosen picker is "Adobe." (Note: in previous versions of
Photoshop, the chosen picker was called
"Photoshop.")
STEP NINE: Click on the Background layer, then click on the
Foreground color swatch (at the bottom of the Toolbox) to bring
up the Color Picker. In the CMYK portion of the box, change the
C, M, and Y values to zero, and enter 40 for K. Click OK to
change your foreground color to 40% gray.
STEP TEN: Press Option-Delete (PC: Alt-Backspace) to fill with
40% gray. Go to the Filter menu, under Noise, and choose Add
Noise. Choose between 20 and 30 pixels of Gaussian, Monochromatic
noise and click OK. Go under the Filter menu again, under Blur,
and choose Motion Blur. Choose a distance between 20 and 30
pixels and set your angle to 30°. Click OK to complete the
brushed metal-looking background.
Metal and Chrome Effects: Continued - Page 3
Photoshop 6 Down and Dirty Tricks
Arched Cutout Type - Page 5
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