Drawing a Fruit - Pears

Though considered as very simple, it takes a little practice to draw a fruit
in photoshop. In this tutorial we’ll draw a pears .

Select elliptical shape tool.

Drag this tool on canvas area by pressing shift to create a circle.

With Ellipse tool selected, enable add to shape area from the top bar. Drag a small Ellipse on top of the previous Ellipse.

Make sure “add to shape area ” is still enable at the top bar, Using pen tool create a shape as shown below.

Similarly create another shape on the other side.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.

Click on the gradient picker. It will open gradient editor from where in you
can choose a default gradient or create your own. Create a gradient as shown below.

Select line shape tool.

From options bar at the top change weight to 5 pixels.

Drag a vertical line as shown below. Make sure Shift key is pressed while creating the line so that it’s drawn straight.

Select pen tool.

Using pen tool create a shape as shown below.

Select custom shape tool (U).

From preset custom shape fly out at the top bar select Leaf 3 shape .

Draw a leaf by dragging the tool where ever you want to place the leaf.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.

Click on the gradient picker. It will open gradient editor from where in you
can choose a default gradient or create your own. Create a gradient as shown below.

Press Ctrl+J to duplicate the Leaf layer. Duplicate it several times. Rotate and place randomly.

Select brush tool.

Click to open brush preset fly out and select a soft mechanical 300 pixel brush.

Select a very light shade of green as foreground color. Just click once over the fruit.

Select eraser tool.

Erase the portion as shown below.

Only remaining will be the highlight on one side of the fruit.

Repeat the steps to add highlights on the other side.

Select brush tool.

Click to open brush preset fly out and select a soft mechanical 100 pixel brush. .

Create a new layer, select brown as foreground color and create a brush stroke at the bottom of the fruit.

Select eraser tool and erase outside area as shown below.

Create one more darker stroke on top of it just by using same steps that we use earlier.

Now we’ll add some reddishness on one side of the fruit to make it look
ripe. We’ll use same technique that we used to add highlights.

Take red as foreground color and using a big brush setting create a brush
stroke in a new layer. Using eraser tool erase the outside area.

In layer palette reduce the opacity to 19%.

Select all the pears layers and duplicate them to create the copy of fruit.

Press Crt+T to get the transform handles.

Rotate the fruit and place as shown below.

Move this layer below all the layers in layer order in layer palette.

Select the group of first pears in layer palette. Right click and select merge
group. Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.

By creating a subtle drop shadow we created the illusion of one fruit behind the other.

Designing an Ebook cover

As the number of Ebooks on net grows, the need for attractive Ebook covers also expand. An attractive Ebook cover catches the eye of a visitor and draws him towards your site. In this tutorial we’ll create a nice Ebook cover and then convert it into 3D look Ebook.

Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool.

Create another rectangle as shown below. This time use a darker shade of the same color.

Create a rectangular strip using rectangular shape tool. Place it on the top as shown below.

Now Create a square using rectangular shape tool. Just press shift while
creating this so that all sides are equal. Fill it with white color.

Again using rectangular shape tool create many thin vertical lines. This will serve as a simulation of bar-code.

Create a circle using elliptical shape tool. Place it on the top right.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.

Select custom shape tool (U). From preset shape fly out menu at the top, choose “Seal” shape.

Drag the tool above the circle to create seal shape.

Create another circle using elliptical shape tool. Draw it right above the seal shape.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.

Type text using nice font and bright color.

Type the title of Ebook using nice big font so that its very clear and visible.

Press Ctrl+J to create the duplicate of this layer. Press Ctrl+T, Right click and select Rotate 90° CCW.

Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool. Insert cut out of a thinking man and place it on bottom right.

Insert an image of world map. Make sure that this image layer is right above the rectangle layer in layer palette.

Press Ctrl+Alt+G to create a clipping mask. Creating a clipping mask let us show the image through the shape layer right below.

Select all layers in layer palette. Press Ctrl+E to merge the layers together.
Create a rectangular selection using rectangular marquee tool.

Press Shift+Ctrl+J to cut paste the selection in a new layer. Press Ctrl+T. Right Click and select perspective.

Adjust the handel’s as shown below.

Select the other layer Press Ctrl+T. Right Click and select Perspective again.

Adjust the handel’s as shown.

The idea is to create a 3D look as shown in the image below.

Create a rectangular selection using rectangular marquee tool. Press delete to remove the unwanted area of seal shape.

Select Polygonal lasso Tool and select the unwanted area at the top by
dragging the tool from one end to the other and then coming back to the starting point to close the selection.

Press delete to remove the area inside the selection.

Select the layer containing front side of the Ebook. Double click the layer to
open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.

Also apply the same layer style on the left hand style. Create a rectangle
using rectangular shape tool. Fill it with white color and place it on
the top.

Create another thin rectangular strip using rectangular shape tool. Fill it with black color.

Select and merge both rectangle layers. Press Ctrl+T. Right Click and select distort.

Adjust the handel’s as shown.

Select magic wand tool, click on white area. Create a new layer.

Double click the gradient tool to open gradient editor. Create a gray to transparent gradient.

Drag the tool from top right towards left to create a subtle gradient effect.

Drawing a girl (Detailed Tutorial)

In this tutorial we’ll explain step by step how to draw a girl. Since most
of the work is done through pen tool we have included flash clips where
you can see how to work with pen tool.

Lets start by creating a new file and selecting ellipse tool.

Drag the tool on canvas area to create an ellipse.

Select pen tool.

At the top bar make sure its in shape layers mode. just keep in mind whenever you want to use pen tool to draw something
“shape layers” should be enabled. The other mode is used when you want to use path tool to create a path for making selections.

Enable add to shape area at the top bar.

Using pen tool draw the girl’s torso as shown below.Iif you are new to pen tool,
have a look at the flash clip below. Also notice a few instructions below the flash clip.

After creating the torso you may want to adjust a few nodes. For this, Select direct selection tool.

Click on a node and adjust the position of node to get it correct.

Select rounded rectangle tool. Drag on canvas to create a thin rounded rectangle.

We’ll turn this into waist band.

Press Ctrl+T to get the transform handles. Right click and select “warp”

From preset warp shapes at the top bar select Arch.

Apply arch settings on top bar as shown. Having a negative Bend value bends the shape in downward direction.

Again select pen tool and draw girl’s skirt.

If you are new to pen tool, have a look at the flash clip below. Also notice a few instructions below the flash clip.

With pen tool again draw girl’s legs.

Draw two small shapes for the hair/head portion.

Draw girl’s pony tails on both sides of the head as shown below.

Select custom shape tool.

From the preset custom shape fly out at the top bar select the bow shape.

Drag on canvas to draw the shape.

Press Ctrl+T to get the transform handles. Right

click and select distort.

Squeeze and distort it. Place it on the pony tail. Duplicate the layer and place the ribbon on the other tail too.

Select torso layer. From layer palette, reduce  the opacity to 40%.

We reduce the opacity temporarily so that we can draw her top above it. use pen tool and draw the top as shown below.

Once you are done with the top select the torso layer again and change opacity to 100%.

Select the skirt layer. From the bottom of the layer palette click on fx and select “Gradient Overlay”

Styles window will open with many options to choose from.

Click on gradient bar to open gradient editor.

Select the small triangular shape and then click on color swatch to create the color you want for

the skirt gradient. I selected a dark blue color. similarly select the small triangle on the other side and create the second color of the gradient.
Press OK.

The gradient is filled in the skirt.

Right click the skirt layer and select copy layer style.

Right click the layer where we created girl’s top. Select paste layer style.

The same gradient is applied to the top too.

Now repeat the same steps to apply gradient on body parts. Here i create dark to light skin color gradient.

Keep selecting various parts of girl’s body and applying gradients. For hair I used black to dark brown gradient.

Select blue color as a foreground color. Select ribbons layer and press Alt+Del to fill a solid blue color in ribbons. Similarly fill the solid black color in waist band.

Now we’ll add a thin outline to all the layers. Select skirt layer. Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.

Lets add some pattern to the girl’s dress. Select brush tool.

From the top bar click brush preset picker.

Select scattered Maple Leaves brush.

CReate a new layer. Select light blue as a foreground color. Apply the brush randomly over the dress.

Select skirt layer. press Ctrl and click on vector mask thumbnail to get selection of the skirt.

Press Shift and Ctrl and click on vector mask  thumbnail of top layer to add the top selection to the selection of the skirt.

Press Shift+Ctrl+I to invert the selection.

Make sure the maple leaves pattern layer is selected. Press delete to remove the pattern outside the dress area.

From layer palette change layer mode to soft light.

Using pen tool create the pleats in her skirt. Take a darker shade of blue as the foreground color before drawing.

Draw more pleats in her skirt. Or duplicate the previous one and rotate and scale it to create more pleats.

Lets draw the facial features. using pen tool draw one eye. You can see the flash clip below to find out how exactly draw an eye.

Similarly draw the other eye, lips and finger lines with pen tool. to complete the girl.

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