How to Make a Branding Iron in Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop has a broad range of tools and features that are used both by professionals and amateurs for a variety of projects. Often, this graphic design software is used to make changes to existing images, such as cropping and retouching a photo, or restoring a damaged photo to a semblance of its former appearance. Photoshop is also often used to create custom graphics entirely within the program. One impressive graphic that can be created in Photoshop is a branding iron, which may be useful to enhance western themes or those related to livestock.
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Instructions
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Open Photoshop. Select “File” and click “New.” In the dialog that opens, choose the pixel width and height for your document. Then change the "Background Contents" setting to "Transparent" and click “OK.”
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Change the “Foreground” color at the bottom of the toolbar to brown. Then select the “Elliptical Shape” tool from the toolbar. Hold down the “Shift” key and draw out the head of your branding iron.
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Click on the “FX” icon at the bottom of the “Layers” panel and choose “Bevel and Emboss.” In the dialog, choose “Inner Bevel” and click “OK.”
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Use the “Text” tool to type a letter into the middle of you branding iron head. Right-click on the text layer and choose “Rasterize.” Apply the “Bevel and Emboss” again. Right-click on the layer and choose “Merge Down.”
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Select “Edit,” then “Transform,” and click “Distort.” Use the handles that appear next to the object to alter its shape so it looks like it is at an angle.
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Select the “Pen” tool and in the options at the top set it to “Shape.” Draw in a handle extending from the center of the head, matching the angle of the head. Select “Layer,” then “Rasterize,” and click “Shape.” Drag this layer under the other one.
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Select the head layer. Click on the “FX” icon and choose “Outer Glow.” In the dialog that opens, set the “Noise” to 33, the “Color” to red, the “Spread” to 50, the “Size” to 20, the “Range” to 100 and the “Jitter” to 50 and click “OK.”
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Select “File” and click “Save.” In the dialog, name you file and save it as a JPEG or GIF.
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References
- Photo Credit Ciaran Griffin/Lifesize/Getty Images
