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Start by creating a new document. This one is 521 X 837 @ 150
dpi (because of the source document I copied from).
You are automatically on the background layer. Now go to the
gradient tool “G”. Double click on the gradient window to bring up
the gradient editor. You are going to create color stops here
that are similar to these colors. Click below the bar to
create a new color stop or double click to edit a current one.
This technique is taught in video in my
Basic Photoshop DVD Training.
Note that I usually don’t give you exact color
coordinates. This is because I want you to be thinking as a
Photoshop designer and it also helps develop your eye if you want to
go exactly off of me (hehe). Remember you can open a document in
Photoshop and use the eyedropper tool in the color chooser for your
gradient stops to get the exact color your looking for from any open
document in the workspace. After you have chosen your color
stops to look something like this (4-5 of them in slightly different
light purple shades) name your gradient and click New.
Now go ahead and swipe at an angle across the
background layer.
Now that you’ve created the nice pink gradient and
swiped it at a diagonal on your background layer; go ahead and get
your main character. This is going to be a nice portrait design and
the better the quality of your original source images = the much
better end quality potential of the design.
On the source image document you’ll need to get a
selection of your star character. You can use many methods within
Photoshop. Here I’m using the magic wand (‘W’) on a medium tolerance
of 20. This will select the background maroon pixels.
Now you can right click and choose select inverse to
close in on the desired image. The art of the selection is a worthy
endeavor because I myself an still striving to perfect it. It
really depends on what situation you are in because there are a
multitude of tools that you can use to get a perfect selection.
These are covered in the
Basic
Photoshop training program from BasicPhotoshop.com
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