This is really nice work, do you think you could do a short tutorial for all of us please?
Thx Paul. I would love to say yes, but I sort of hashed most of it
. It was a case of
drawing the shapes I wanted, then just playing around with masks & blending modes, & layer FX. If something didn't work, I tried something else.
Most of the pen tool work was done in Ai, then imported. The cogs required 3 layers to get the desired look I wanted, so I just applied different layer fx to them.
The
scan lines is a small repeating pattern, with a gradient mask on to lighten the centre. There is a flat blue layer behind the screen with 2 further clear layers on top given a Bevel & emboss with varying blend modes & contour settings. The scan lines are masked over the top. I added the highlight on a layer above the rest of the screen, then used Overlay to blend it.
The outer rim of the screen is on the bottom flat blue layer, and is just an outer bevel, colored gold, with a very busy contour setting.
The background I used had an adjustment layer over it to change the color. I also ran an unsharp on it to bring out the shadows.
Basically, I created all the separate elements then put them together on 1 image.
I'm not quite ready for in depth tutorials yet, but that was the basics. I linked a couple of basic tuts I refered to while working on it.
