Intertwining Objects
A few months ago, I was working on a project for a child. The lady wanted it to have letters (ABC's) and Ribbons in the theme. After trying various combinations of these, I decided the best way to go would be to tie the ribbon around the letter.. I only had to figure out how to create the illusion that the letter went through the ribbon. This is a simple but useful technique. In this tutorial I am going to use Rings because they are easier to work with.
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Creating the rings.
to create the rings I started with a new image 400 X 200 pixels resolution 72
RGB background white.
2.Select a large circle with the elliptical marquee tool about the size shown in the illustration below,and save the selection as a new channel . The channel will be alpha 1 in version 5, (or channel 4 in version 4)
3.Contract the selection by 15 pixels (select, modify, contract) And save the result as a new channel . This channel will be alpha 2 in Photoshop 5 (or channel 5 in version 4)
4.Click on the layers tab and create a new layer (you can do this by clicking on the new layer icon, the middle one that looks like a dog eared page at the bottom of the layers palette.). then load alpha 1 channel (channel 4 in Photoshop 4) as a new selection. select>load selection>alpha1 ( or channel 4)
5. Load alpha 2 channel (or channel 5) and subtract it from selection .select>load selection>alpha2 (or channel 5)>subtract from selection. (see the illustration below) This will make a ring..if you wonder why I went through all this instead of just used the modify border command, it is because the modify border command will leave you with heavily blurred edges.
6. fill it with any color you like. I then used eye candy chrome filter, wood grain, bands 1 ,softness 15 , but it isn't necessary to complete this tutorial.
7.Now you should have a "ring" on layer 1. Deselect it. Select>deselect (or select none if you are using version 4) and Duplicate this layer by dragging it to the new layer icon.
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* The red text on the illustration has an error in it. It should say Drag layer 1 to new LAYER icon (not new channel icon) |
8. Now you should have two rings on 2 different layers. It wont look like anything happened, because the new ring will be directly on top of the first one. Click on the pointer tool (the top tool on the right of the toolbar) and click on the ring. Hold the mouse down and pull it to the right to move layer 1 copy to the right so that it is so that it overlaps layer 1 slightly, like the ones below.
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