English Tea Caddy Effect Photoshop Tutorial
An English tea caddy is a box used for storing tea. It is frequently ornately embellished. Many are black lacquered with flower inlays. If you are setting up a site devoted to tea, you might decide that you would like to have an English tea caddy graphic to use on your site, perhaps as part of the background for your banner. While you could take a picture of a tea caddy and use that, you also can use Adobe Photoshop to create this image from other elements.
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Instructions
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Load a photo of some flowers onto your computer. You can obtain public domain images of flowers from many online sources, including the federal government.
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Open Photoshop. Select "File" and click "New." In the dialog box that pops up. Make the pixels the height and width you need for your graphic. Click "OK."
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Select the "Paint Bucket" tool from the toolbar and use it to fill the canvas with black.
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Select "File" from the menu and click "Open." In the dialog that opens, browse to the image of flowers that you loaded onto your computer and open it. Click on the "Quick Mask" icon at the bottom of the toolbar.
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Use the "Brush" tool to paint over the area around the flowers. Click the "Quick Mask" icon again, and the flowers are selected.
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Use the "Copy" and "Paste" functions found under "Edit" to place the flowers in the other document.
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Select "Filter," then "Artistic" and click "Rough Pastels." Go with the defaults and click "OK." Then right-click on then top layer and choose "Merge Down."
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Select "Filter," then "Artistic" and click "Plastic Wrap." In the dialog that pops up, make the "Highlight Strength" 4, the "Detail" 12 and the "Smoothness" 3. Click "OK."
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Select "File" and click "Save." In the dialog, name your file and save it as a JPEG.
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References
- Photo Credit gold blue pink tin tea caddy chinese style image by Barcabloo from Fotolia.com
