This tutorial uses Photoshop's basic function "Path" to create images. The steps are very simple and the results are great.
Final effect:
1. Create a new document in Photoshop. The file size is 500×500, the image mode is RGB, and the background is black. Create a new layer and use the pen tool to draw a petal shape. The effect is as shown below:
2. Right-click the drawn path and select 'Create Selection'. The feathering radius is: 0, check: Anti-aliasing, and then fill the selection with white. The effect is as follows:
3. Press Ctrl+Alt+D to feather the selected area. The feathering radius is: 5 (you can set the feathering radius according to the size of the graphics you create). Press the DEL key to delete the white in the selected area, as shown in the following figure:
4. Copy 4 more copies of the newly created layer, and rotate the copied layer to make it smaller, as shown in the figure below:
Tip: When you press Ctrl+T to rotate, you can move the rotation center point to the control point in the lower right corner. In this way, the rotating objects will rotate around the same center point.
5. First copy the first petal into two layers, and then apply motion blur to the two copied layers (Filter - Blur - Motion Blur). The blur angle range is between -100---+80 degrees. , the distance can be within 50. The other petals are also processed as above. It should be noted that in the dynamic mode, the blur angle range is between -10 and +10 degrees of the tilt angle of the object on this layer. Distance: within 50 meters. The effect after the five petals are completed is as follows.
6. Hide the background layer, press Ctrl+Shift+E, and merge all other layers except the background layer together. Create a new layer and fill the new layer with the gradient tool (choose the color you like for the gradient color). , and change the composition method of this layer to overlay. At this point, the butterfly is finished, and the effect is as follows.
7. The image below is a butterfly that has been transformed, copied and added with other elements...
