A Work in Progress: The colorful chessbox



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The colorful chessbox
In Contest:
chess figures


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In this case of a clear white background i'll use the magic eraser tool to remove the background.

Creation of The colorful chessbox: Step 1
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Make a square of the ratio 2:1. I took 600 x 300 pixels.

Creation of The colorful chessbox: Step 2
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fill 1 half with white and the other half with black.
then I used I gray brush with a feather on it and brushed the sides a bit inwards.

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I filtered it with filter effect 'ocean ripple'

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make the canvas size twice as high and copy the two blocks into 4 blocks. horizontal flip it on the copied part

Creation of The colorful chessbox: Step 5
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Select all en save it as a pattern. make your workspace 3 times bigger.
in my case I ended up with a file of 2400 x 2400 pixels. Then I filled it up with the pattern I made in step 5

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We end up with a chessboard.

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Make a copy of the layer and scale this new layer 50%

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Use the original layer to make the walls. Cntl + T(ransform).
Then hold cntl-key down while picking up the top corners and move them down under the 50% layer in step 8.

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Copy the layer 3 times and rotate each layer to it's position.
by holding the shiftkey while rotating it you will keep everything in angles of 0,45,90,etc degrees

Creation of The colorful chessbox: Step 10
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I used the spotlights from the rendering filtermenu to create the spotlight colors.
filter - render - lighting effects

Creation of The colorful chessbox: Step 11
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Put the chess pieces in the box on different layers

Creation of The colorful chessbox: Step 12
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To create the chess pieces of the opponent í get rid of the saturation and put the lightness on +35

Creation of The colorful chessbox: Step 13
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Rotate and scale each piece at your desire in the box.
After placing them. put them all in one layer and recall the colorsettings from the lightning effects.
The ones in the back I created by using the combination of a circle from the bishops head and the round knob of the pawn.

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Cut out the hand

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Place the hand in the box. Also select the chess piece from the hand and make it also white like I did in step 13.
Also for the hand layer recall the colors and filer the hand with the lightning settings from step 11. Done

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Hand photo; own photo

Creation of The colorful chessbox: Step 17
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Final result

Creation of The colorful chessbox: Final Result

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