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Drawing the ultimate specular sparkle - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Drawing the ultimate specular sparkle
All right, here I am looking at the final version of the magazine cover called Pout magazine.psd, and we are zoomed in on this detail of the necklace that's curling around the model's finger. And in this exercise I'm going to show you how I made this sparkle as a combination of a couple of shape layers working together. Now, one of the things I was trying to do is emulate a real-world specular highlight. So I went ahead and found an image lying around, actually handful of images. This was one of them that had some real-world sparkles inside of it. These are some photographically captured sparkles, in other words, I didn't do anything to this image. And the name of the image is Sparkles.jpg, and this is just a detail of a larger photograph of course, just actually a little bit of a junkie detail really. But what I wanted to do was simulate this effect right here to the degree that it serves the purposes of the image. In other words, this sparkle would be too big and glumpy to actually…
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Photoshop's vector exceptions1m 11s
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Making text in Photoshop6m 18s
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Creating and editing a text layer6m 56s
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Font and type style7m 35s
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Type size and color7m 52s
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Combining layer effects and type10m 57s
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Drawing a custom shape layer8m 34s
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Side bearing, kerning, and tracking10m 36s
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Point text vs. area text8m 26s
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Selecting and formatting a paragraph5m 19s
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Copying and pasting unformatted text7m 45s
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Creating text inside a custom path6m 26s
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Creating text along a path8m 13s
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Adjusting baseline shift6m 16s
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Drawing a fading arrowhead7m 29s
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Fading a shadow with a layer5m 32s
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Logo creation and Fill Opacity7m 44s
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Stretching a background element6m 9s
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Drawing with shape outlines6m 18s
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Combining vector-based shapes6m 42s
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Masking vector-based shape layers6m 7s
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Correcting spacing problems7m 44s
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Drawing the ultimate specular sparkle8m 45s
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Preparing text for commercial output5m 9s
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Saving a high-resolution PDF file7m 11s
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Inspecting the final PDF document7m 8s
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Saving large poster art9m 32s
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