Photoshop to create copper engravings of the Chinese Valentine's Day Magpie Bridge Festival

Let’s take a look at the renderings first:

Production process

1. Create a new file with a width of 12 cm, a height of 9.6 cm, a resolution of 300 pixels, a color mode of RGB color, and a white background.

2. Create a new layer "Layer 1". Select the "Pen Tool" in the toolbox and draw a selection as shown in Figure 01 on the screen.

And fill the selection with black, as shown in Figure 02.

3. Create a new layer "Layer 2". Draw the selection again on the screen as shown in Figure 03. In order to distinguish the different filling colors, keep the selection.

4. Create a new layer "Layer 3". Select the "Select", "Modify" and "Shrink" commands in the menu bar, set the shrink to 15 in the pop-up dialog box, and draw another layer. Use the same method to draw another layer in "Layer 4". The effect is as shown in Figure 04.

5. Create a new layer "Layer 5". Select the "Pen Tool" in the toolbox to draw a wavy-shaped selection as shown in Figure 05, and fill it with color

6. Create 4 new layers and use the graphics as shown in Figure 06 on the screen as the water surface.

7. Create a new layer and draw graphics as shown in Figure 07-08 on the screen, as mountains and bridges respectively.

8. Select the "Pen Tool" in the toolbox to draw a selection as shown in Figure 09, then select the "Edit" "Stroke" command in the menu bar, and set the stroke in the pop-up "Stroke" dialog box. Make the side width 3 pixels, the color white, and the position centered. Click the OK button.

9. Create a new layer. Select the "Custom Shape Tool" in the toolbox, activate the "Fill Pixels" button in the property bar, then open the "Shape" option panel in the property bar, select the shape shown in Figure 10 and draw it into the screen as a cloud. .

Build another layer, draw the moon shape, and place the moon layer under the clouds, as shown in Figure 11.

Stroke the clouds according to the above method, as shown in Figure 12.

10. Create a new layer. Draw some stars and birds, as shown in Figure 13-14.

11. In the layers panel, link the "Bridge", "Clouds", "Moon", "Stars" and "Birds" layers, and then press the "Ctrl+E" keys to merge the linked layers together. Select the "Select" "Color Range" command in the menu bar, the "Color Range" dialog box will pop up, move the mouse cursor to the black graphic position in the screen, click to absorb the color, and then set the parameter color tolerance to 200, as shown in Figure 15 As shown, click the OK button to generate a selection in the image, then invert the selection and press the "Delete" key to delete the white stroke graphics in the selection.

15. Double-click the layer to bring up the "Layer Style" dialog box, select "Projection", set the angle to 120, the distance to 17, the size to 24, and the rest are default. Select "Bevel and Emboss", the setting method is "Sculpture Clear", the depth is 181, the size is 5, the highlight mode is "Linear Dodge", and the rest are default. Click "OK", the effect is shown in Figure 18

16. Fill patterns from layer 1 to layer 4 respectively. And add a layer style, select "Bevel and Emboss", set the method to "Sculpt Clear", the depth to 181, the size to 2, the highlight mode to "Linear Dodge", and the rest are default. Click OK, the effect is shown in Figure 19


17. Merge layer 1 to layer 4 to generate layer 1. Copy Layer 1 to create a copy of Layer 1 and move it to the position as shown in Figure 20.


18. Fill the other layers with patterns and add layer styles according to step 16. The effect is as shown in Figure 21.


19. Follow steps 14 and 15 to fill the pattern and add a layer style to the "mountain", merge and copy it, move it to one end of the bridge, and adjust the size and position, as shown in Figure 22.