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Creating a dog tag

Creating a dog tag

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Creating a dog tag

What we're going to do today is create a dog tag. A military ID. You can use it for just about anything. And keep in mind, it's techniques that are important not the actual content that's being created. But how it's being created because, a little modification here and there could solve other problems you might be faced with. Let's go in here and start to create our dog tag. I'm going to create a new layer. And I'm going to call that layer Tag. I can get my Elliptical tool. Right here. And I have it set to paths. Because I wanted to create a couple of different effects with the same shape. I'm going to go in here and create a shape. We see that the corners aren't rounded enough, so let's undo that. And, I'm going to change the radius. I'm going to bump it up to say, 30 pixels. And, let's see what that looks like. That looks much better. That looks more like what I want. Now, keep in mind this is pixels and it's set to the resolution of my particular image here, so yours might vary…

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