Greek painting - part 1

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Tutorial goal:

Create your own ancient greek painting. Make a border like you see on Greek vases and match your portrait with the border.

author:
avatar hilleke
hilleke

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step 1

Here you see what we are going to create.


step 2

Make a gradient background.
Use black and very dark grey and fill the background with the gradient tool. Set it on radial gradient.


step 3

Make a new layer.
layer>new>layer
Make a circle with the elliptical marquee tool + shift.
Fill it with orange with the paint bucket tool.


step 4

Make a new layer.
Make a smaller circle and move it with the move tool to put it in the middle of the bigger circle. Make sure the move tool is on the dotted line.


step 5

Click on layer one and erase everything in the dotted circle with the erase tool. (or cut it)




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comments on this tutorial:

freejay [lvl 31] [vp 1000] [vote medals 228]:
avatar freejayNice tutorial but the green font is hard to read when its over orange
(281 days ago)
Claudiolky [lvl 41] [vp 986] [vote medals 90]:
avatar ClaudiolkyFantastic.... when the book : painting using Photoshop, will be released

congratulations!!!

(281 days ago)
hyperorbit [lvl 34] [vp 1000] [vote medals 577]:
avatar hyperorbitSweet technique! I'll have to try this.
(280 days ago)
SoftDream [lvl 5] [vp 1000] [vote medals 5]:
avatar SoftDreamWow, really good tutorial hilleke
(280 days ago)
Amal [lvl 2] [vp 0] [vote medals 0]:
no avatarvery well done! nice work
(280 days ago)
kyprolific [lvl 1] [vp 0] [vote medals 0]:
no avatarcorrect man
(241 days ago)
nayan.b [lvl 1] [vp 0] [vote medals 0]:
no avatargreat

(148 days ago)




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