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So this is the Photoshop One and on this one we’re have a look making this cool sort of X. Its glossy, it's got this texture and it's kind of cool. I'm going to you guys how you can think have some ways of using this in your work. So without further ado let's begin. Go to file, new and imagine this might be used in some sort of movie maybe a title screen. I'm going to make it 1280 x 720 and 300 pixels per inch. Press OK.
First, we’re just going to create the background. So just go to our gradient tool and just pick out some blues, maybe a dark blue hands slightly lighter one here, just going to drag it out and maybe we’ll make it a little bit darker so hold Control and press U. We just drag down the lightness make it a little bit darker maybe a lot darker, and that’s better. Then cretae a new layer and the way we’re going to create that X is using the pen tool.
And we’re going to create four X, four sort of spikes. So, using pen tool down here, so I'm currently on the convert point tool just click and hold of your flyer, grab the pen tool. You should click up here and then click and hold down here, drag out, click up here and then click and hold up here. And then we can just go back to convert point tool click on here and drag this in. So we have our first sort of spike. So if you turn this into a selection that we can fill, hold Control and press Enter that will turn into a selection and then making sure white is the foreground color hold Alt and press Backspace and then hold Control D to deselect.
So then what we can do is grab our move tool and we’ll name this spike, spread the layer in that, hold Control and press J to duplicate the layer and hold Control and press D to going to free transform, there's a lot of hot keys to remember here but you’ll get used to it over time. Then just right click and choose flip horizontal and then holding your Shift key to constrain to horizontal and vertical movement, drag along into a position you want and that looks good, press Enter.
Then to merge these two layers together, hold Control and press E to merge it down and we’re going to repeat the process, we’re going to hold Control press J to duplicate, Control press T to enter free transform, right click only this time we’re going to chose flip vertical. And then we’re going to hold our Shift key and drag down so it's about here that looks good then Press enter. And we might want to merge it up a bit, that’s better, then hold Control and press E to merge the two layers. And just t get rid of that gap in the middle we can just go to our brush tool, I can go to hard edge brush and just paint it with white.
There we go, that is our X so I'm just going to name it X. And now we can just center it so I hold Control and press A and then just click these boxes in here. You need to be in the move tool I think. The center one here and the center one here and we got this nicely centered in the middle and hold Control and press D to deselect that selection. Okay, now we need to add the texture and the effects, etc. So double-click on the part of the blank area here to open up your layer styles. Then we’re going to start off with the bevel emboss. So I just click here to open up a bevel and we want to uncheck use global light because if interact bevels to other shapes you’ll not really going to want to use a global angle with this. And the angle we really want is about -25, to save me from dragging around, not -25 sorry. It’s up here somewhere so I must have got the angle wrong, it must be about -45, maybe it was -25. We can always try in a minute. Then push up the size, we’ll have the size of about 45, we’ll try that. And then we’ll boost our depth up to about 400%.
There we go, and then what we’re going to do is we’re going to add a texture. So go to pass and over lay out and then what we’ll d is from the drop down the want you want it's called craft waffle, you should just click this arrow if you haven’t got it, it's one of the patterned ones I think just have a look through them. There’s some great textures in there, click that and then we want to take the opacity down to 60.
Then we’re going to add some color to it. We’ll click color and we want to change the color blend mode to multiply. We’ll then take the color opacity down to 70 and we’ll click on the color and maybe make it a bit green. And there we go, that’s pretty much it. Our X is finished.
That was really quick to make, I think and it looks really good. So maybe you might want to scale it up a bit. And there you go, that’s how you create these sort of cool glossy texturized X’s in Photoshop.
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