Although it is already the mid-winter season, there are still many kinds of fruits in today’s supermarkets. Let’s use Photoshop to draw cantaloupe. It’s very tempting!
Final effect:
Production tool: Photoshop CS
2. Set the RGB of the foreground color in the toolbox to 159, 182, and 115 respectively, fill the selected area, and the image effect is as shown in Figure 02.
3. Switch to the channel panel and save the selection as Alpha 1. The effect is as shown in Figure 03. Cancel the selection.
4. Double-click the melon peel layer to pop up the layer style dialog box, select the "Inner Glow" option, set the parameters as shown in Figure 04, and the image effect is as shown in Figure 05.
5. Create a new layer on the background layer, and merge the melon layer and the new empty layer link downwards into a normal layer. Select the "Pen Tool" in the toolbox, create a selection on the upper part of the ellipse, switch to the Path Panel, click the "Load Path as Selection" button to convert the path into a selection, the effect is as shown in Figure 06, and then Press the Delete key to delete the selected part, the effect is as shown in Figure 07.
8. Switch to the channel panel, create a new Alpha 2 channel, execute the "Edit" and "Fill" commands in the menu bar, and set the parameters in the pop-up dialog box as shown in Figure 12. The effect after filling is shown in Figure 13. 
9. Execute the "Filter", "Noise" and "Add Noise" commands in the menu bar, and set the parameters in the pop-up dialog box as shown in Figure 14. The image effect after execution is as shown in Figure 15. 
10. Execute the "Filter", "Pixelize" and "Lattice" commands in the menu bar, and set the parameters in the pop-up dialog box as shown in Figure 16. The image effect after execution is as shown in Figure 17.
11. Execute the "Filter", "Stylize" and "Find Edge" commands in the menu bar. The image effect after execution is as shown in Figure 18. Then press the Ctrl+L key to pop up the Levels dialog box. Set the parameters as shown in Figure 19. Display, the screen effect is shown in Figure 20.
12. Select the "Magic Wand Tool" in the toolbox, select the black color in the picture, return to the layer panel and create a new layer 1 on the background layer, set the RGB of the foreground color to 200, 179, and 154 respectively, and fill layer 1. Cancel the selection, the effect is shown in Figure 21.
13. Load the Alpha 1 selection, execute the "Filter", "Distort" and "Spherization" commands in the menu bar, set the parameters in the pop-up dialog box as shown in Figure 22, then deselect it, delete it, and cancel the selection, the effect As shown in Figure 23.
14. Create a new layer 2 on the background layer, load the melon skin selection, set the RGB of the foreground color to 89, 110, and 60 respectively, fill layer 2, and cancel the selection. The effect is as shown in Figure 24, and then move down a few pixels, select layer 1, also move down a few pixels, load the selection of layer 2, invert the selection and delete. The image effect is as shown in Figure 25.
15. Create a new layer on the melon rind layer, name it melon flesh, load the melon rind selection, set the RGB of the foreground color to 236, 171, and 95 respectively, fill the layer, and the image effect is as shown in Figure 26.
17. Create a new layer 3 on the layer panel, press the D key to reset the color, and use the "Filter", "Render" and "Clouds" commands in the menu bar. The image effect after execution is as shown in Figure 29.
18. Use the "Filter", "Stylize" and "Find Edge" commands in the menu bar. The image effect after execution is as shown in Figure 30.
19. Press Ctrl+L to pop up the Levels dialog box. Set the parameters as shown in Figure 31, and set the image mode of the layer to Color Burn. The effect is as shown in Figure 32.
20. Press Ctrl+G to group the layers and merge them downward.
21. Select the "Pen Tool" in the toolbox, draw a path in the image window as shown in Figure 33, convert it into a selection, select the "Burn Tool" in the toolbox, and paint on the selected part, the effect is as shown in Figure 34 Then select the "Dodge Tool" and apply in the selected area. The effect is as shown in Figure 35.
22. Press Ctrl+Shift+I to invert the selection and process the rest of the melon segment. Then use the "Blur Tool" in the Selection Toolbox to blur the edges and add moisture to the melon. Create a new layer 4, select the brush tool in the toolbox, set the brush in the tool options bar, use the brush to draw white points as reflections, and set its transparency, and then merge it into the melon flesh layer. The image effect is as shown in Figure 36 , finally put the finished cantaloupe on the plate and it will look very realistic. The effect is shown in Figure 37.
