Tutorial 7: Colourful Shapes on Dark Background in Photoshop

Hello world! Welcome to a new tutorial. Have you ever wondered how people make colorful clouds and smoke patterns in their edits? They use colorful patterns to attract viewer’s eye using different colors in same shapes. It is a need of time that you learn making such edits so that your viewers get more beautiful images to see.

Images like this:

OK with enough words said, let’s get started with it.
Open your software i.e. Adobe Photoshop CS2 or basically any other version. Your screen will look like the picture below:

Now start a “New Project”. For that, just go to File Menu and in dropdown menu click New. A window will open on your screen asking you about the resolution, pixel rate and etc. See the following picture and fill the window according to the shown values (Follow the steps numbered as 1, 2, 3 and 4)

Now a window is opened on your screen where you can paint or write or make anything. We call it Canvas. Next thing you have to do is to “Add a Layer”. To add a layer click on small Add Layer Button on right bottom of your software screen. Following picture will show you where that button is:

Now a new layer called “Layer 1” will be added by the computer over the Background layer. At first the Layer 1 will be transparent so you would see just background white layer on canvas.

Go to Tools Tab and choose Paint Bucket Tool and choose the foreground color as Black. Now click on any place within the area of canvas. Remember! Paint black only when Layer 1 is in focus and don’t paint black on “Background layer”. Following picture explains this step so follow the numbered steps:

Next you have to make Layer 1 invisible. Click once on Layer 1. Do you see a small icon that looks like “an eye” just at the left of the layer? Click that Eye icon to make the layer invisible. You would see the background layer (which is white colored). Click on background layer to bring it in to focus. We will work on it for a while. See the following picture on how to make a layer invisible:

Now focus on background layer and press G on your keyboard. Gradient Tool will be selected automatically. After pressing G on your keyboard, go to the top and select the type of gradient. Select the Spectrum Gradient from the menu and double click it. Following picture explains how to do this all:

Next you have to make the gradient on your canvas. Click anywhere on you canvas. Say “point a” and drag you mouse towards “point b” and leave the click button.

A colorful spectrum would be formed on your canvas on background layer. See following picture on how to apply gradient on canvas. Now make Layer 1 visible. Click on the empty box with layer 1 to make it visible. After making it visible and your canvas will look black. Don’t worry! This is part of the edit. See the following picture, you screen would look like this:

Now click on layer 1 to bring it in focus and go to Tools Tab and select the Brush Tool. Go to the brush menu on top and select the shape on the brush and adjust the size of it. Come to the bottom of Tools Tab and click “Quick mask” button. Now click on any place on canvas just once and it will be painted red no matter what color you choose in color tab. Don’t worry coz that’s the part of edit too.
See the following picture, which will explain more easy way:

Now after this, you got to the bottom of Tools Tab and click the button mentioned in the picture below. The red area on the canvas will become “A SELECTION”. If you notice this selection will include all the area on canvas but the area inside that shape. So to fix that, go to Select Menu and in drop down menu click Inverse. This way your shape will be selected only. Not your whole canvas. See the following picture:

After this just press “Delete button” on your keyboard and your shape will be removed and bright colors would fill the place of that shape. Just like the following picture:

Now add text anywhere and you will have screen like following picture:

Now save it in .jpg format and also in .psd format. You will have a picture like following:

Same technique can be used to make this:

Similarly, you can make this

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Tutorial 5: How to Place Colours on Black n White Picture

Hello! Today you will learn how to make this:

From this:

OK let’s get learning. For this type of edit you need a “black and white picture”. I am using one of the pictures of “Sami Yusuf”. He is a British singer, song writer and music composer with a beautiful voice.  Ok first step will be opening the picture. If you do not know how to open any picture in Photoshop, please see the link: https://learntoedit.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/tutorial-2-opening-a-document-in-photoshop/

Your initial screen would look like this:

Now Open a picture from “File Menu” and click “Open” or directly press Ctrl+O. From the new window, open any Black and White or Grey scale picture. See the Red Box in following picture:

Now the picture is opened and you screen would look like following picture. I used picture of Sami Yusuf but you can use any picture you want but use black and white picture.

Do you see a small Red Box in “Tools tab”? Grab that tool by just clicking it once. Click on the picture anywhere to bring it into focus. You would see a Layer in “Layer Tab” called Background with a small icon looking like a Lock. That is the background layer, as cleared by its name. The background layer is locked so it cannot be edited but to make it a normal editable layer you just have to double click it and in new small window you just click OK button. The Background layer would convert into “Layer 0”.

Now Add Guides on the picture. For that go to “View” and in the new menu click “New Guide”. Following picture shows where you can find this option so look at the Red Box:

A new small window will appear. Click on the option named Vertical and set the Position 33%. Then press OK button. Repeat this step 1 more time with the Position 66%.

Follow the step numbers in above picture.

Now your screen (with 2 Vertical Guide Lines i.e. 1 at 33% of picture and 2 at 66%) would look like the picture below:

Now Take “Square Shape Tool” from Tool Tab and after choosing a color from the bottom of Tool Tab. Now draw a rectangle in first section of picture. Like the following picture:

If you notice, when you start making the rectangular shape on picture, a new layer called Shape 1 is created automatically.

Next add a layer yourself. You will find a New Layer button right at the bottom of Layer Tab. And make another shape with different color. Then make another layer and also a shape but with different color. Just like following picture:

You can follow the numbered steps in above picture. That will make it easy for you.

Now press Ctrl and click all shape layer i.e. Shape 1, 2 and 3 and right click them. In the menu, click Rasterize Layer. All three layers will turn into normal layer but names would be same.
Now Press Ctrl and click all shape layer i.e. Shape 1, 2 and 3 and right click them. In the menu, click Merge Layers. All three layers will merge into a single layer. This would make it easy for you to change the settings of layers.

Now click on Shape Layer and change it from Normal to Softlight. You will find this option on the top of “Layer Tab”. Just like in following picture:

Now click it again and go to “Filter” and click “Blur” and then click “Motion Blur”.  In new small window named “Motion Blur” adjust the Angle to 0, Distance to 341 and then click OK button. Just like following picture:

Now you have to change the setting of “Layer 0” from Normal to Hardstyle. See following picture for that:

Now you have to add text in the picture. So click the icon looking like “T” and click on picture where you want to add text. A new “Text Layer” will be added in Layer Tab automatically. Now write something on the picture. See following picture:

Now Save it in .jpg format.

Final result:

That all for today! Hope this tutorial helped.
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