Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Good Use of Dissolve Layer Blend Mode

  1. With file open that contains an object on a layer in my case it is the Ferrari.
  2. Create a new layer and set the foreground color to a dark blue and the background color a darker blue.
  3. With the Gradient tool set to reflected gradien drag from the center up about half way.
  4. Load car (object) as a selection by clicking on the layer icon with the Ctrl key pressed.
  5. Select Menu > Modify > Border > 50 pixels
  6. Create new layer and Fill selection with white – Note the edges are soft
  7. Change Blend mode to dissolve
  8. Create new layer beneath dissolve layer to make the dissolve layer an normal blend.
  9. With dissolve layer active Merge down the dissolve layer to the blank layer
  10. Filter > Blur > Radial Blur > Zoom > 100
  11. This is still grainy so Ctrl+F to apply Zoom again
  12. Create a duplicate layer and drag under the car so we have light beams in front and behind the car.
  13. On the copy layer Add Outer Glow effect and change blend to Overlay
  14. Select top layer and change to Overlay
  15. Add text
  16. Add drop shadow or other layer styles
  17. Reduce Fill in Layers to 0

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