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1: Let's start with something
for our dolphin to leap out
of that you don't usually see
dolphins leaping out of-- a
floor. Select an oval section
of it with the marquee tool,
and open the Zigzag filter. |
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2: Select an amount of around
50 percent, 3 or 4 ridges, and
"Around center" for the style.
This will give you a pretty
cool-looking ripple effect. |
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3: Now we need a dolphin. I
drew a clean path with the Bezier
pen. I didn't draw a path around
each and every drop of water
at the bottom, though-- instead,
I just grabbed a hunk of pixels
to edit later. |
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4: Copy and paste the dolphin
into the floor art, and put
him right over the ripples.
The sharp edge looks great
on top, but we need to get
rid of some of the water at
the bottom. Create a layer
mask by clicking on the layer
mask icon at the bottom of
the "Layers" palette |
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5: Here's where the Intuos Pen,
with its 1,024 levels of pressure,
comes in handy. To erase, just
paint black in the layer mask
with the airbrush. Press hard,
and you erase everything. Press
softly, and you can get a smooth
transparent feather. Switch
your foreground and background
colors by typing the letter
"x", and bring back in your
artwork with white |
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6: Now, let's take care of that
pesky green water. Tap on the
"Preserve Transparency" button,
and set your rubber stamp tool
to "Color", "Use All Layers."
Sample from the floor, and you
have a pressure-sensitive way
of coloring the green water
to a matching gray. |
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7: Sample a part of the yellow
wall behind the dolphin, and
you can even add a little reflected
color to the dolphin's back. |
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8: Last step-- let's use the
pressure-sensitive smudge tool
to bring some of the floor up,
as if the dolphin was really
leaping. Press hard for a big
smudge, lightly for a gentle touch. |
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Not
bad at all-- if you feel like
a real challenge, paint in a
drop shadow to really make this
dolphin leap off the page. |
