From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)
799 Adding cold and brittle snowflakes
From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)
799 Adding cold and brittle snowflakes
- [Instructor] All right. Now as recently as Deke's Technique 764, which was just a few months ago, I showed you how to create high-resolution snowflakes, but those were big, juicy, fluffy snowflakes. The White Walkers don't like those snowflakes at all. They like cold, brittle snowflakes like these right here. And so let me show you how to create them. I'll go ahead and switch over to our document so far, and I'll scroll up to the top of the Layers panel right here and I'll go ahead and click on the Eyes group, so that I'm creating my snowflakes in front of everything else. And now I'll create a new layer by pressing control + shift + n, or command + shift + n on the Mac, and I'll go ahead and call this guy Snow, and I'll press the enter key, or the return key on the Mac, that's going to be option + delete on the Mac. Now we want these to be high-resolution snowflakes. So we need to start with a small layer are achieved using the Mezzotint filter. And to get to that, go to the Filter menu, choose Pixelate, and choose this guy right here, Mezzotint, and then you want to work with ones of these dots right here. Now if you choose fine dots, you're going to have way too many flakes. If you choose something like coarse dots, then you're going to end up with big, juicy, fluffy snowflakes, which is not what we want. So I'm going to go with medium dots instead, which is going to keep things cold and brittle. All right, now I'll click OK in order to apply that effect. Now we want to magnify those little flakes. And so I'll press control + 0, or command + 0 on the Mac, to zoom back out. Then I'll return to the Edit menu and choose Free Transform once again, or again, you have that keyboard shortcut of control + t or command + t on the Mac. Make sure the Link icon is turned on. Then select either the width or height value and change it to 500%, which is going to look terrible at first. Now by the way, you can experiment with the interpolation method if you'd like. My favorite for this kind of thing is Bicubic, but if you want sharper flakes, you can experiment with Bicubic Sharper. But I'm going to stick with Bicubic, and then I'll press the enter key or return key on the Mac in order to accept that change. All right, now obviously, if I zoom back in on this guy, you can see that these flakes look terrible. They don't look like snowflakes at all. Now I don't expect every one of them to be a perfect little six-pointed snowflake, but they should look better than this. And so what we're going to do is apply some editable smart filters to this layer, which means we first need to convert it to a smart object. You can see that my lasso tool is still selected from the previous movie; that's just fine. I'll go ahead and right-click inside the image window and choose Convert to Smart Object. and choose Convert to Smart Object. And then I'll go up to the Filter menu, choose Noise, And then I'll go up to the Filter menu, choose Noise, and choose this command that gets rid of noise, and choose this command that gets rid of noise, which is Median. which is Median. What Median is going to do is average those pixels. What Median is going to do is average those pixels. And it's just like Dust & Scratches from a week ago, And it's just like Dust & Scratches from a week ago, except that it doesn't have a tolerance value. except that it doesn't have a tolerance value. Anyway, as you can see here, Anyway, as you can see here, I've taken this thing up to seven pixels, I've taken this thing up to seven pixels, but you can experiment with this value as you'd like. but you can experiment with this value as you'd like. As you can see, if I take the value down, As you can see, if I take the value down, I get more snowflakes, but they're also rougher, I get more snowflakes, but they're also rougher, whereas as I take the value up, whereas as I take the value up, I end up making them smoother, I end up making them smoother, but I also end up with fewer snowflakes. but I also end up with fewer snowflakes. Anyway, it's seven pixels, I like what I see, Anyway, it's seven pixels, I like what I see, so I'll go ahead and click OK. so I'll go ahead and click OK. And if you want to see what these snowflakes look like And if you want to see what these snowflakes look like against their background, against their background, then go ahead and drop out the blacks then go ahead and drop out the blacks by changing the blend mode from Normal to Screen, by changing the blend mode from Normal to Screen, and you're going to get this effect right here. and you're going to get this effect right here. Now, once again, I don't need this filter mask, Now, once again, I don't need this filter mask, so I'm going to right-click on it and choose Delete Filter Mask so I'm going to right-click on it and choose Delete Filter Mask to get rid of it. to get rid of it. Now we want a little bit of motion Now we want a little bit of motion associated with these snowflakes, associated with these snowflakes, and to make that happen, return to the Filter menu, choose Blur, and then choose Motion Blur. And I don't want nearly this high of a distance value, so I'll change it to 10 pixels instead, but that's going to make the snowflakes appear to move horizontally. It's not quite that windy, so I'm going to go ahead and reduce this value to negative 60 degrees. Looks pretty great. But you can experiment with different values as well. Something like 45 degrees might look better to you, but again, I'm going to go with negative 60, and then I'll click OK to accept that change. All right, now as you can see, my Layers panel is getting very, very full. To tidy things up, just go ahead and press the alt key, or the option key on the Mac, and click one of these up-pointing arrows, like the one to the right of the Gloom layer, and notice that'll go ahead and collapse all of your smart objects and layer effects. All right, now I'll press shift + f in order to switch to the full-screen mode, and I'll go ahead and zoom on in as well. And I want you to see that if I compare this image to my original, that a lot is different. So this is my original image. Notice the background and the snow and the shading and all that jazz. Because the shading is hand work, Because the shading is hand work, it of course is going to appear different. it of course is going to appear different. But notice that the background, But notice that the background, which relies on the Clouds filter, which relies on the Clouds filter, as well as the snow, which relies on the Mezzotint filter, as well as the snow, which relies on the Mezzotint filter, are both random. are both random. So every time you try this stuff, So every time you try this stuff, you're going to get a different result. you're going to get a different result. And that is how you create the cold and brittle snow And that is how you create the cold and brittle snow that you would see north of the wall here inside Photoshop. that you would see north of the wall here inside Photoshop.
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767 Mandala patterns in Photoshop CC 20191m
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768 Painting a free-form mandala pattern9m 5s
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769 Painting mandala-style dot patterns6m 56s
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770 Coloring your mandala pattern7m 48s
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771 The final full-color mandala6m 27s
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772 Illustrator CC 2019 new preview mode1m 1s
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773 Illustrator CC 2019 presentation mode3m 21s
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774 Global edit in Illustrator CC 20196m 30s
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775 Applying a global edit from the control panel4m 8s
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776 Freeform gradients in Illustrator CC 20198m 29s
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777 Freeform gradients: Points versus lines8m 10s
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778 Freeform gradient limitations6m 29s
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779 Crop and develop a great white shark8m 54s
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780 Sharpening your great white shark6m 11s
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781 Low vibrance and high saturation9m 3s
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782 Vibrance, saturation, and sharpness9m 11s
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783 Actioning a full-color hedcut in Photoshop1m
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784 Recording an action to play all actions9m 37s
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785 Draw something, color the outlines8m 46s
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786 Combining multiple works of line art7m 3s
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787 Group your line art, clip to the group4m 9s
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788 Coloring outside your line art in Photoshop6m 32s
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789 Flip horizontal view in Photoshop CC 20191m
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790 Creating a White Walker in Photoshop1m 59s
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791 The White Walker begins9m 25s
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792 Giving a guy a digital shave in Photoshop3m 58s
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793 Carving deep wrinkles or scars into skin8m 37s
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794 Shading the White Walker’s deep-set brows6m 21s
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795 Creating pale, lifeless lips in Photoshop5m 57s
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796 Giving your White Walker glowing blue eyes10m 46s
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797 Adding some creepy lifeless pupils6m 40s
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798 Adding a cold and gloomy background12m 18s
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799 Adding cold and brittle snowflakes6m 25s
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800 Using the Transparency Shapes Layer option5m 29s
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801 Combining a radial filter with a range mask8m 35s
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802 Flipping a photograph in Camera Raw6m 20s
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803 An actual dream effect, in Photoshop14m 37s
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804 Augmenting your Photoshop dream8m 45s
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805 Applying distortions as Smart Filters6m 37s
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806 Combining distortions with blend modes10m 5s
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807 Drawing a 24-sided star in negative space12m 48s
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808 Making your star a repeating hex pattern8m 27s
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809 Shading your star pattern in Illustrator6m 57s
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810 Creating a gradient pattern in Illustrator4m 31s
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811 Making one pattern fade into another6m 23s
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812 Welcome to my seamlessly repeating summer1m 35s
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813 Drawing a cubical gobstopper in Illustrator14m 55s
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814 Creating a pattern of gobstoppers7m 23s
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815 Aligning your many gobstoppers5m 54s
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816 Blending line textures in Illustrator12m 58s
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817 Combining object blends with a pattern8m 40s
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818 Carving cubical holes into cubical objects9m 52s
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819 Nesting gradients inside a pattern5m 36s
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820 Drawing 3D isometric arrows in Illustrator7m 33s
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821 Positioning the tips of your arrows7m 17s
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822 Filling in the gaps in a repeating pattern8m 50s
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823 Drawing cartoon teeth aligned to the hair5m 50s
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824 Drawing a triangular cartoon eye8m 6s
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825 Adding windows to the houses pattern10m 46s
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826 Creating a perfectly tessellating pattern4m 32s
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827 Op art experiment 4: Triangle tunnels6m 58s
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828 Expressing your triangles as a hex pattern7m 18s
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829 Adding color to your triangle tunnels7m 55s
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830 Recoloring your triangle tunnels3m 20s
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831 Creating rainbow gradients with blends6m 18s
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832 The downside of using blends in patterns3m 35s
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833 Drawing an impossible trident in Illustrator9m 49s
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834 Shading an impossible trident with gradients4m 3s
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835 Painting paths with opposing gradients13m 51s
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836 Adding impossible shadows in Illustrator6m 42s
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837 Drawing an impossible hex object14m 8s
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838 Creating impossible latticework5m 46s
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839 Painting like Joan Miró in Adobe Sketch9m 46s
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840 Painting a watercolor wash background8m 23s
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841 Signing your artwork like Joan Miró4m 17s
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842 Opening your Sketch artwork in Photoshop9m 1s
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843 Enlarging your Miró to poster size11m 5s
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844 What if Joan Miró had met Jordan Peele?14m 10s
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845 Coloring your terrifying Miró/“Us” scene11m 47s
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846 Painting a Rorschach background9m 22s
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848 What to do when Content-Aware Fill fails?10m 4s
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847 Finishing your “Us” artwork in Photoshop10m 35s
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849 Hand turkey 20191m 56s
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850 Tracing your actual hand on an iPad10m 6s
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851 Drawing a highly articulated hand9m 50s
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852 Adding color to your hand-drawn hand12m 33s
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853 Painting your hand-drawn fingernails9m 3s
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854 A hand becomes a Thanksgiving hand turkey9m 6s
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855 Painting the turkey’s tail feathers13m 30s
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856 What’s wrong with this drop shadow?11m 14s
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857 Introducing Photoshop for the iPad13m 6s
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858 Photoshop for the iPad: Part 29m 13s
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859 Photoshop for the iPad: Part 310m 17s
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