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Begin by drawing a path using the
Pen tool. Keep the curves smooth,
avoiding tight turns and corners. When
you’ve finished, save the path and
duplicate it before continuing – we’ll
need this half of it later.
1
We’re going to fix this photograph
to the wall using sticky tape. Begin
by tracing the outline with the Lasso
tool, holding O A to draw the
straight lines between the sides. Keep
these sides parallel!
2
We don’t need to make this tape
solid, since it’s made of translucent
plastic. Let’s fill the selected area with
50% gray. (It would also be possible to
fill with solid gray, then reduce the layer
opacity.)
2
Now make a second path by
selecting the original, and holding
O A as you offset it. Join the two
starting points to make the two paths
into one (holding O A again, this
time to force a corner at the join).
Ribbon and tape
T
HE ILLUSTRATION
above is part of
a much larger montage
for .net magazine about
online stalkers. Dozens of
photographs had to be fixed
to the wall; shading on each
one helped it look like it sat
in place. The tape across the
corner of some of the photos
helped fix them to the wall in
the reader’s eye.
Ribbons can be used for
a variety of purposes – from
festooning partygoers to
wrapping birthday presents.
They’re easier to draw than
you might think; the trick is all
in duplicating the Pen path.
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When the ribbon
path was offset in
step 4 of the first
workthrough,
I didn’t align it
precisely with
the right edge
of the ribbon. By
offsetting it by
just a pixel or two,
it was possible to
use the shading
to give the ribbon
a slight thickness
simply by
leaving the edge
unshaded.
3
Now add a little random shading,
once again using Dodge and Burn.
This is only a preliminary stage before
we apply the Plastic Wrap filter. I’ve
shown the tape isolated as well at the
side, for extra clarity.
4
The Plastic Wrap filter makes that
shading look convincingly like
reflective plastic. This useful filter is
covered in more depth in Chapter 9,
Shiny surfaces. Change the layer mode
to Hard Light to make it transparent.
5
Now color is added using Color
Balance, which I find useful for
subtle color effects; a lot of yellow and a
little red does the trick. Brightness and
contrast are increased slightly to make
the tape shinier.
3
Turn the path into a selection by
pressing CE LE. The
ribbon will have some bumps where the
paths crossed; these need filling by just
painting across them. Dodge and Burn
add some basic random shading.
4
We now need to add shading in
the hollows. Activate the original
path and turn it into a selection: nudge
the selection down, and you’ll find that
the areas beneath the folds are selected
ready for Dodge and Burn.
5
All that’s needed now is a bit of
color. The Hue/Saturation dialog,
set to Colorize, is one of the best ways to
add dense color to a gray image.
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