On the occasion of Arbor Day on March 12 every year, people go to the fields and hills to fulfill their citizen’s obligation to plant trees. Many people plant commemorative trees and create commemorative forests to commemorate the trees and express their feelings for the forests. Now I would like to share with you how to use Photoshop to create tree planting illustrations.
Let’s take a look at the final rendering:
final renderings
1. Execute menu: "File"/"New" (shortcut key Ctrl+N), create a new blank file, set the name: tree planting painting; width: 640 pixels; height: 480 pixels; resolution: 72 pixels, as shown in Figure 1 shown.
Figure 1
2. Execute the menu: "Layer"/"New"/"New Layer" (shortcut key Ctrl+Shift+N), create a new layer and name it Draft, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2
3. Select the brush tool, pay attention to the brush setting of 2 pixels brush style, draw a draft on the screen, and arrange the composition reasonably, as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3
4. Select the gradient tool, click the editable gradient color icon on the tool options bar, and the gradient editor dialog box will pop up. Customize the gradient color, from light blue to white, as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4
5. Use the gradient tool, set a linear gradient in the tool options bar, drag from the upper right corner to the lower left corner of the screen, and drag out the gradient color effect in the screen, as shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5
6. Execute the menu: "Layer"/"New"/"New Layer" (shortcut key Ctrl+Shift+N) to create a new layer, name it boy's head, select the pen tool and set the path in the tool options bar mode, according to the outline of the draft layer, outline the boy's head, as shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6
7. Set the foreground color to R: 253, G: 239, B: 213, press Ctrl+Enter to load the selection, press Alt+Del to fill it, and then press Ctrl+D to cancel the selection, as shown in Figure 7.
Figure 7
8. Execute the menu: "Layer"/"New"/"New Layer" (shortcut key Ctrl+Shift+N) to create a new layer, name it Boy's Hair, and set the foreground color to R: 42, G: 21. B: 8. Use the pen tool, press the outline of the draft layer, outline the boy's hair, then press Ctrl+Enter to load the selection, and press Alt+Del to fill it, as shown in Figure 8.
Figure 8
9. Execute the menu: "Layer"/"New"/"New Layer" (shortcut key Ctrl+Shift+N) to create a new layer, name it Boy's Clothes, and set the foreground color to R: 127, G: 127. B: 178, use the pen tool, press the outline of the draft layer to outline the boy's clothes, then press Ctrl+Enter to load the selection, and press Alt+Del to fill it, as shown in Figure 9.
Figure 9
10. Execute the menu: "Layer"/"New"/"New Layer" (shortcut key Ctrl+Shift+N) to create a new layer, named the boy's hand and neck, and set the foreground color to R: 254, G: 234, B: 197, use the pen tool, press the outline of the draft layer, outline the hand and neck, then press Ctrl+Enter to load the selection, and press Alt+Del to fill it, as shown in Figure 10.
Figure 10
11. Execute the menu: "Layer"/"New"/"New Layer" (shortcut key Ctrl+Shift+N) to create a new layer, name it Boy's Pants, and set the foreground color to R: 79, G: 116. B: 158, use the pen tool, press the outline of the draft layer, outline the pants, then press Ctrl+Enter to load the selection, and press Alt+Del to fill it, as shown in Figure 11.
Figure 11
12. Execute the menu: "Layer"/"New"/"New Layer" (shortcut key Ctrl+Shift+N) to create a new layer, name it Boy's Shoes, and set the foreground color to R: 126, G: 114. B: 124, use the pen tool, press the outline of the draft layer to outline the shoes, then press Ctrl+Enter to load the selection, and press Alt+Del to fill it, as shown in Figure 12.
Figure 12
13. Execute the menu: "Layer"/"New"/"New Layer" (shortcut key Ctrl+Shift+N) to create a new layer, name it Shovel, and set the foreground color to R: 208, G: 173, B :140, use the pen tool, press the outline of the draft layer, outline the shovel, then press Ctrl+Enter to load the selection, and press Alt+Del to fill it, as shown in Figure 13.
Figure 13
14. Execute the menu: "Layer"/"New"/"New Layer" (shortcut key Ctrl+Shift+N) to create a new layer, name it Shovel Head, and set the foreground color to R: 169, G: 183. B: 194, use the pen tool, press the outline of the draft layer, outline the shovel head, then press Ctrl+Enter to load the selection, and press Alt+Del to fill it, as shown in Figure 14.
Figure 14