A Work in Progress: take a ride



This guide was made for entry:
take a ride
In Contest:
toy motorcycle


Original image


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I started out with a blank canvas. I pasted the bike as a new layer and pasted my photo (selected just the two of us) as a new layer. I resized the bike.

Creation of take a ride: Step 1

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I brought the opacity down of my photo and started to erase where the handle bar is so that it is in front of him.

Creation of take a ride: Step 2

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I cropped the image and then smoothed the edges.

Creation of take a ride: Step 3

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I colorized the bike layer and then my photo layer.

Creation of take a ride: Step 4

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I put an elliptical shape in and rotated it.

Creation of take a ride: Step 5

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I then used my text tool on the shape so that the text would take the shape of the "shape". I then deleted the vector shape.

Creation of take a ride: Step 6

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I then rotated my text layers to where I wanted them.

Creation of take a ride: Step 7

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I added a hot pink triangle shape as a vector and edited the nodes.

Creation of take a ride: Step 8

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I added a gaussion blur and brought the text layers above the pink.

Creation of take a ride: Step 9

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I added shadows to the text and then erased the pink over the handlebar. I didn't like the way the text looked so I then added an innerbevel to them and they became a bit darker and I liked the result.

Creation of take a ride: Step 10

step 11 of 11

oops, forgot this :) This is my own photo

Creation of take a ride: Step 11

Final result

Creation of take a ride: Final Result

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