Do you ever wake with an “occupational” dream? In Deke’s case, he dreams of creating cool techniques. Problem is, they’re rarely any good. This dream effect is an exception: In involves painting a squiggly line with Photoshop’s Brush tool, duplicating that lines in circular pattern, converting those lines to a smart object, applying the Radial Blur filter, and adding a few gradients. The result is a dream come true.
Now, I don't know about you but every once in a while … I wake up with what I call an occupational dream. … Like I'm assembling a project file. … Then I'll wake up and I'll try to go back to sleep … and if I do, I end up having that same dream again. … It's not restful, it's maddening. … It's not like I wake up thinking, … because we're going to be painting some lines … with the brush tool. … You do not have to be an artist however, … and we will be creating this artwork from scratch. … So let's start things off by going up to the File menu … and choosing the New command here inside Photoshop. … And you want to go ahead and switch to Art & Illustration … so that you're creating an RGB image. … I'm going to go ahead and set the width … of my image to 2,940 pixels by the way. … And then I'll set the height to 1,960, … and the reason I'm doing this is because … that happens to work well in our videos. … You'll want your background contents … to be set to transparent. … And you may have to scroll down in order …
Author
Deke McClelland
Updated
1/21/2020Released
1/13/2011Note: Because this is an ongoing series, viewers will not receive a certificate of completion.
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
Views
Q: Why can't I earn a Certificate of Completion for this course?
A: We publish a new tutorial or tutorials for this course on a regular basis. We are unable to offer a Certificate of Completion because it is an ever-evolving course that is not designed to be completed. Check back often for new movies.
-
New This Week
-
2020 Techniques
-
2019 Techniques
-
791 The White Walker begins9m 25s
-
849 Hand turkey 20191m 56s
-
2018 Techniques
-
679 Decorating your illusion9m 47s
-
680 Adding more and more gizmos11m 52s
-
737 Shift-P for Puppet Warp!2m 59s
-
2017 Techniques
-
641 Enhancing your wrapped logo10m 50s
-
2016 Techniques
-
515 Dressing up your logo star10m 17s
-
2015 Techniques
-
392 Adding a chiseled border6m 29s
-
421 Easter Island7m 19s
-
464 Cartooning the moon!10m 22s
-
2014 Techniques
-
290 Painting happy little trees13m 46s
-
303 Using Photoshop 1.05m 45s
-
314 Creating a 3D bump map12m 7s
-
320 Restoring repeating details13m 43s
-
2013 Techniques