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| There are times when
it is just better to Paint from scratch your own Objects. This Tutorial
will show you how to paint a convincing Solar Total Eclipse. |
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Go to File > New. Make it 600
X 600 at 150 dpi in RGB Mode on a White Background. Press D
on the keyboard to set the Foreground Color to Black. Now, press
Alt+Backspace to Fill with Black. |
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2.)
Select the Rectangular Marquee tool  .
Go to the Options bar and change Style to Fixed Size and enter 150
px for Width and Height. |
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Click the Create
a new layer button 
(located Bottom) of the Layers palette to generate
a New blank layer. Now, click once in the Center of the work area
to Create a Selection. (You can Drag from Inside the circle to position
if need be.) |
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3.)
Go to Select > Inverse. Click
the Foreground Color swatch and choose a light pink. (I used #FFCCCC.)
Now, Select the Brush tool  .
Right-Click on the work area to Open the Brush Library. Select the
Soft Round 65 pixels
brush then press Enter on the keyboard to close the library. |
(If the library is
different, click the blue arrow 
(Top Right corner) and a Pop-out menu will appear. Select Reset
Brushes. A dialog box will appear, just click OK and the correct
library will load.) |
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| Go to the Brushes
tab (located Top Right) of program and click it to Open the Brushes
palette. Click the Shape Dynamics tab on the Left
to Open it's controls, then Select Fade and Enter 50 at the input
box to the Right. Also check the Airbrush and Smoothing boxes. |
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| Next, go to the Options
bar and set Opacity and Flow to 30% each. |
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| 4.)
With All the perimeters now in place... go to the work area, click
Inside the Circle and Drag Outward repeatedly until you have a good
soft edged Corona Created to the Circle. (Only the Outside of the
Circle will paint in this Mode.) |
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| 5.)
Next, go to the Layers palette and adjust Opacity to this layer
Down to about 50%. |
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| This will soften
the edges by Blending with the Background layer. |
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| Click the Create
a new layer button
(located Bottom) of the palette to generate a New blank layer. Continue
painting along the edge of the Selection to add more Density of
Color now as shown below. |
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| 6.)
Next, click the Create a new layer button
to generate another blank layer. Go to Select >
Inverse. (This will Return the Selection Back to
a regular one. Press Ctrl+Backspace and the Selection will Fill
with White. Now, on the keyboard... tap the Down arrow twice and
the Right arrow twice. (This will Move the Selection Down to the
Right.) |
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| Now, go to Edit
> Clear. Press Ctrl+D now to Deselect
Selection. (A small Crescent will be Left Behind.) |
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| 7.)
Click the Foreground Color swatch and change Color to a Light Blue.
(I Selected #00FFFF.) Right-Click on the work area to Open the Brush
Library and change brush to the Soft
Round 100 pixels brush, then press Enter on the keyboard
to Close the library. Go to the Options bar and change Opacity to
100%. |
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| Position brush as
shown below and click once to Create a glow. |
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| 8.)
Press X on the keyboard and the Foreground will change to White.
Change brush to the Soft Round
27 pixels and click twice in the Center of
the blue glow, then change brush again to the Soft
Round 13 pixels brush and click once or twice again. |
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| Changing the brush
library to the SD-Stars
pak (supplied from the CD) I finished the base image. |
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| Now, for the finishing
touch. Save the file... go to File > Save
As and name it as you wish. (This will retain the layers
in the Document as the next step will remove them.) |
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| 9.)
Go to Layer > Flatten Image.
Next, go to Layer > Duplicate layer.
When the dialog box appears, just click OK and a Duplicate will
be Created. |
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| 10.)
Go to Filter > Render >
Lens Flare. Click curser in the Preview window
over the Center of the Star to position Flare, then Select the 35
mm Lens and adjust Brightness
to about 62%, then click OK to apply. |
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| The Filter pushes
more blue into the Bottom Right of the image, but the Camera Lens
Flare itself leaves alot to be desired. |
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11.)
Simply, Select the Erasure tool 
and using the Soft Round
100 pixels brush, Erase the Top half of the image
giving you the Best of both worlds, so to speak, for the completed
image. |
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Copyright © 2006-2007 Glenn Schemenauer - Spacific
Designs™ - All rights reserved. |
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