Christmas is coming, and the streets and alleys are filled with festive atmosphere. Christmas lights make every city become as beautiful and warm as a fairy tale world. Friends will send gifts to express blessings and love. Let’s use Photoshop to make a Christmas glass music box. I wish everyone a happy holiday!
Production tool: Photoshop CS, the steps are the same for other versions.
Production process:
1. Create a new file, switch to the channel panel, and create a new channel Alpha 1. Set the foreground color to white, select the "Ellipse Tool" in the toolbox, select the "Fill Pixels" button in its property bar, hold down the Shift key and draw a white perfect circle, as shown in Figure 01.
2. Select the "Elliptical Marquee Tool" in the toolbox to draw an elliptical selection, as shown in Figure 02. Click the "Save Selection as Channel" button to get Alpha 2.
3. Use the Rectangular Marquee Tool and hold down the Shift key to draw a rectangular selection. Hold down the Ctrl+Alt+Shift key and click on the thumbnail of Alpha 1 to get the intersection of the two. Then switch to the Layers panel and create a new image. Layer "Layer 1", and use the rectangular marquee tool to place the selection in the middle of the file, set the RGB of the foreground color to 22, 151, and 143, press Alt+Delete to fill the selection, and press Ctrl+D to cancel the selection. , the effect obtained is shown in Figure 03.
4. Click the "Add Layer Style" button, select the "Inner Shadow" command in the pop-up drop-down list, and set the pop-up dialog box as shown in Figure 04.
5. Open a material picture of Santa Claus, as shown in Figure 07.
6. Set the blending mode of layer 2 to "Screen" and click the "Add Layer Mask" button to add a layer mask to it. Set the foreground color to black, use the "Brush Tool" in the toolbox, set the appropriate brush size in its property bar, and paint on parts other than the character. The effect is as shown in Figure 09.
7. Create a new layer "Layer 3", set the RGB colors of the foreground color to 67, 184, and 172 respectively. Execute the "Filter", "Render" and "Clouds" commands in the menu bar, and press the Ctrl key to click on the image. Select the layer thumbnail of layer 1 to bring up the selection, select layer 3 and add a layer mask to it. Set the blending mode to "Screen" and the "opacity" to 20%. The effect is shown in Figure 10.
8. Create a new layer "Layer 4", press Ctrl key to click the layer thumbnail of layer 1 to bring up its selection, use the rectangular marquee tool to move the selection up a certain distance, press Ctrl+Alt Key-click the layer thumbnail of Layer 1 to get the subtracted selection and place it as shown in Figure 11.
9. Set the foreground color to white, press Alt+Delete to fill the selection, press Ctrl+D to cancel the selection, and set the "Opacity" of layer 4 to 65%.
10. Click the "Add Layer Mask" button to add a layer mask to "Layer 4", set the foreground color to black, and use the "Brush Tool" in the toolbox to smear on both ends of the graphic to hide it. The effect is shown in Figure 12.
11. Create a new layer "Layer 5" and follow the above steps to add the highlight effect on the right as shown in Figure 13.
12. Enter the action panel, select and play the action of "Patterned Redwood 2" in the "Texture" action sequence, as shown in Figure 14.
13. Drag layer 6 above the background layer and hide the layer. Switch to the channel panel. Press the Ctrl key and click on the thumbnail of Alpha 2 to bring up its selection. Execute "Select" in the menu bar. Use the "Transform Selection" command to adjust the free transformation control frame, hold down the Shift key to enlarge the selection to the effect shown in Figure 16, and confirm the operation.
14. Copy layer 6 as "Layer 6 Copy", display and select "Layer 6 Copy", click the "Add Layer Mask" button to add a layer mask to it, and get the effect as shown in Figure 17.
15. Press the Ctrl key and click the layer mask of "Layer 6 Copy" to call up its stored selection, use the Rectangular Marquee Tool to move it down a certain distance, and select the "Select" "Transform Selection" command Call up the free transformation control frame and transform the selection as shown in Figure 18.
16. Display and select "Layer 6", click the "Add Layer Mask" button to add a layer mask to it, and then apply the color level command. The dialog box that pops up is shown in Figure 19.
17. Select the gradient tool and open the "Gradient Editor" dialog box. The settings are as shown in Figure 22.
18. It seems that the content of the music box is still a bit monotonous, so add a few Christmas trees and some snowflakes, and set its blending mode to "Screen". The effect is shown in Figure 25.
