December 26th, 2009 by ART-D Posted in

Adobe Photoshop

,

Designing

Final Image Preview

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Create a new document (

Ctrl+N

) in

Adobe Photoshop

with the size

1920px

by

1200px

(

RGB

color mode) at a resolution of

72 pixels/inch

. Select then the

Paint Bucket Tool (G)

to fill the new background layer with black color.

rainbow background in Adobe Photoshop CS4">

Next we’ll select the

Rectangle Tool (U)

, to represent many colored lines of different size. The colors are indicated bellow:

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We’ve got the next lines:

Using the same tool, continue representing the colored lines, keeping the same image as below (leave the same intervals between the lines as it is demonstrated below).

We’ve got the next composition:

Take the same

Rectangle Tool (U)

to draw several more lines.

For this line click on

Add a layer style

icon from bottom part of the

Layers panel

and select

Gradient Overlay

:

Click in the color bar to open the

Gradient Editor

and set the color stops as shown. Click

OK

to close the

Gradient Editor

dialog box.

We’ve got the next gradient on the line:

Represent another 2 lines:

Apply for these lines the same settings for

Layer Style>Gradient Overlay

:

Click in the color bar to open the

Gradient Editor

and set the color stops as shown. Click

OK

to close the

Gradient Editor

dialog box.

We’ve got the next gradient on these lines:

Using the

Rectangle Tool (U)

, try to make two more lines.

For the upper line click on

Add a layer style

icon from bottom part of the

Layers panel

and select

Gradient Overlay

:

Click in the color bar to open the

Gradient Editor

and set the color stops as shown. Click

OK

to close the

Gradient Editor

dialog box.

Add

Layer Style > Gradient Overlay

for the lower line:

Click in the color bar to open the

Gradient Editor

and set the color stops as shown. Click

OK

to close the

Gradient Editor

dialog box.

We’ve got the next gradient on the lines:

Using the same mentioned tool above, try to represent two more lines.

Apply the next

Layer Style > Gradient Overlay

settings for the upper line:

Click in the color bar to open the

Gradient Editor

and set the color stops as shown. Click

OK

to close the

Gradient Editor

dialog box.

Add

Layer Style > Gradient Overlay

settings for the lower line:

Click in the color bar to open the

Gradient Editor

and set the color stops as shown. Click

OK

to close the

Gradient Editor

dialog box.

We’ve got the next effects on the lines:

Next we’ll combine in a group all the layers containing the colored lines (press

CTRL

button to select the appropriate layers and then hold on the left mouse’s button when dragging the selected layers on

Create a new group

option).

Merge Down

the group layers by pressing

CTRL+E

. Next we need to warp this layer, select

Free Transform

command by pressing

Ctrl+T

, click the

Switch Between Free Transform And Warp Modes

button in the

Options bar

and use the control points to distort the lines the same way as it is shown below:

We’ve got the next result:

Click the eye icon next to a layer containing the lines to hide its content for a while and choose the

Rectangle Tool (U)

to represent several more lines. The colors are indicated bellow:

We’ve got the next lines:

Click on

Add a layer style

icon from bottom part of the

Layers panel

and select

Gradient Overlay

settings for the lines’ layers (from top to downwards by turn). Start with the red line:

Click in the color bar to open the

Gradient Editor

and set the color stops as shown. Click

OK

to close the

Gradient Editor

dialog box.

We’ve got the next gradient on the line:

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