Ancient Future Designs
Tutorial
Shape Shifter Jaggies
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This tutorial requires
the use of Kai's
Power Tools 5.
The preset used to make
this particular ball can be found at Bejewelled.
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Finished
Product
I've
put this on deep blue to show the lack of jaggies :)
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| 1. Open new image
- 100x100, Transparent, 16 Million Colors. |
| 2. Create a new layer, name
it shape if you like. |
| 3. Click 'o' to open your
tool palette. |
| 4. Choose your selection
tool and set the feather to 2 and make sure antialias is checked. |
| 5. Draw a circle and fill
with white. Notice how the white doesn't reach all the way to the edge. |
| 6. Go to ShapeShifter and
add either the Bejewelled preset (if you have it) or create your own ball.
Click the tick to go back to PSP. |
| 7. Go to Selection>Modify>Contract
and contract by 1. |
| 8. Invert your selection
(Selections>Invert) and press the Delete key on your keyboard twice. Alternatively
you can press Crtl+X twice. |
| 9. That's it, that nasty
white edge has gone! |
| 10. The reason I placed
this on a new layer was so I could add my background underneath it! |
| *HINT* To add a drop
shadow to this ball, draw a rectangle (with antialias on) around the outside
of the ball, then click on the ball itself. Open your layer palette (click
l on the keyboard) and choose the original layer. Go to Selections>Modify>Contract
and contract by 1. Add your drop shadow, then go to Layers>Merge>Merge
Visible. Then when you paste your ball it will have a nice little drop. |
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