SITE DESIGN TIPS
Recently I had a need for some bubbles on a site, in order to convey something bubbling in the background. Here’s what I came up with.
1. Create a new canvas in Photoshop, 200 x 200 pixels, with a black background.SITE DESIGN TIPS
Recently I had a need for some bubbles on a site, in order to convey something bubbling in the background. Here’s what I came up with.
1. Create a new canvas in Photoshop, 200 x 200 pixels, with a black background. Create a new layer above the background by pressing the “Create new layer” button , and name this layer “Outer Sphere”.
2. Select the Elliptical Marquee Tool and drag out a perfect circle, about 165 x 165 pixels (holding down [SHIFT] while you drag the marquee will ensure that the selection is a perfect circle).
3. Press [D] to reset your foreground and background colors to pure black and white, then press [X] to swap the colors round. Your foreground color should now be white. Select the Paint Bucket Tool and left click inside your selection to fill it with white. Keep this selected.
4. Now go to the “Select >Modify >Contract” menu command. Choose to contract the selection by a value of 20 pixels. Now press [CTRL] + [ALT] + [D] to bring up the “Feather Selection” window. Choose a value of 20 pixels and press enter.
5. Hit the “Delete” key 5 times (no more, no less). You can deselect now, by pressing [CTRL] + [D] and you should end up with something like this:
6. Create another new layer, called “Left highlight”. Select the elliptical marquee tool, and make a selection about 30 x 40 pixels, in the position shown below:
7. Now fill this with pure white, using the paint bucket tool. Deselect, and go to the “Filter >Blur >Gaussian Blur” menu command blur the highlight by a value of 4 pixels.
8. While still working on the left highlight layer, press [CTRL] + [T] to enter free transform mode, and rotate the highlight slightly clockwise, only about 7 degrees. Move it into the same position as below:
9. Duplicate the “Left Highlight” layer by dragging it into the “Create New Layer” button and rename this layer quot;Top Highlight”. Using the same method as above, rotate and move the second highlight into the position below:
10. Now activate the “Outer Sphere” layer (the first layer you made) and press [CTRL] + [U] to adjust the hue/saturation of this layer. Make sure the “Colorize” box is checked, then change the Hue to 191, the Saturation to 39 and the Brightness to -23. This will give the bubble a slightly blue tinge.
11. Almost there, just turn down the opacity of the Outer Sphere to 50% to make the bubble transparent. This has made the bubble very dull, so we can easily fix this by going to the “Image >Adjust >Brightness/Contrast” menu command, and entering in a value of +27 for brightness. and +85 for contrast. Activate the “Top Highlight” layer, and press [CTRL] + [E] twice to merge all of the bubble’s layer together, leaving the black background alone.
So now you can make your own bubbly scenes with ease…
Blue Design Studios have been providing high quality Adult site and other graphics designs for over a year. Their prices are some of the most reasonable on the adult net, with complete tours for as little as $999. Their low prices don’t mean low quality, check them out for yourself at http://www.bluedesignstudios.com.
