Photshop - A cool American Flag Tutorial


Photoshop is probably the best design packages on the market and some of the work that can be created using Photoshop is remarkable. Photoshop is used by, photographers, graphic artist, game designers and more, its applications are many. Here you will find links for many tutorials I have found useful.







Here is a realistic flag tutorial that even gives the flag a bit of a fabric look.
Before
 After
  • Copy the flag from the top of this page.
  • Create a new workspace about 25% larger than the flag image.
  • Paste the flag in the middle making sure the background is black.
  • Save this workspace flag.psd.
  • Create another new workspace the same size as step 2 and save it as displace.psd.
  • Use the Marquee Tool to make a tall rectangle about 1/5 the width of the workspace and full height. Use the Gradient Tool left to right to fill the Marquee area. Move the Marquee to the right and repeat until you've filled the entire workspace. Now blur using Gaussian Blur at around 9 or so. It should look like the example below.
  • Once blurred press CTRL+A, CTRL+C, the entire document is now on the clipboard.
  • Go back to the flag workspace and click the channels tab, at the bottom of the layers box click Creat new channel and press CTRL+V to paste the document save to the clipboard into the channel.
  • Click Filter, Distort, Displace, Set Horizontal Scale to 0 and click OK.
  • Browse to the displace.psd file created earlier.
  • Click Filter, Render, Lighting Effect, Change Texture Channel to Alpha 1.
  • Click Edit, Transform, Distort and use the mouse to manipulate the image to you liking. That's it! Browse the links below for more great tutorials.
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