Hello, I try to make this work I try to make a book effect in CS6 I found a tutorial but I cannot post the link here. I make the path , made a selection but as soon as I have to make the first shadows I do I think something not right. In the layer palette I see only one layer named background and no layer of the path. On the path I see one path called temporary layer. So I wonder where I did go wrong. I apolize that I typed everything at this way but the enter key makes no repons here.
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How can I make this work on CS6
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I can try: The tutorial can be found at cs5.photoshopatoms dot com / basic / creating-a-book-effect-in-photoshop-cs5 Roelof
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Hey roelof, I did the tutorial word for word and I cold not get Step 4 to work! I think the original author left out some key steps. So I changed them................
STEP ONE:
We will start with a new blank, white canvas. CREATE A NEW LAYER. Then, with the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) make a selection for a page in the book, like so:
STEP THREE:
Go to the PATHS palette (Window > Paths) and right-click the Work Path, choose Make Selection. We do not want to Feather Radius (0), MAKE SURE ANTI-ALIAS IS CHECKED, click Ok. We should now have a selection of our Path:
STEP FOUR:
GO BACK TO YOUR LAYERS PANEL. FILL THIS SELECTION WITH WHITE. PRESS COMMAND/CONTROL + D TO DESELECT. Now open up the Layer Style by double-clicking the layer. Choose Drop Shadow, and reduce the Opacity to 45%, Distance to 3px, and Size to 5px.
This should work for you!
STEP ONE:
We will start with a new blank, white canvas. CREATE A NEW LAYER. Then, with the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) make a selection for a page in the book, like so:
STEP THREE:
Go to the PATHS palette (Window > Paths) and right-click the Work Path, choose Make Selection. We do not want to Feather Radius (0), MAKE SURE ANTI-ALIAS IS CHECKED, click Ok. We should now have a selection of our Path:
STEP FOUR:
GO BACK TO YOUR LAYERS PANEL. FILL THIS SELECTION WITH WHITE. PRESS COMMAND/CONTROL + D TO DESELECT. Now open up the Layer Style by double-clicking the layer. Choose Drop Shadow, and reduce the Opacity to 45%, Distance to 3px, and Size to 5px.
This should work for you!
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Hey roelof,
You should have two layers by this point. The original white background layer and a new layer you are creating the book page on.
In order to bring up a layer style, double click in the body of the layer or right click and choose "blending options" then drop shadow.
You can also go the bottom of the layers panel and mouse click the FX icon and select "drop shadow".
You should have two layers by this point. The original white background layer and a new layer you are creating the book page on.
In order to bring up a layer style, double click in the body of the layer or right click and choose "blending options" then drop shadow.
You can also go the bottom of the layers panel and mouse click the FX icon and select "drop shadow".
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Hey roelof,
As before, the original author left out important instructions!
In step 8, you should have two page layers, a left page layer and a right page layer. In this step your selecting one page and then adding the other page selection to it.
Your layers panel should be similar to this one. Place your cursor where the black arrow is pointing (this is called the thumbnail), then press Control + Click to make a selection.
Your page in the canvas should look like this.....
Then place your cursor where the red arrow is pointing, and press Shift + Control + Click to add this layers new selection to your previous selection.
Your pages in the canvas should now look like this........
As before, the original author left out important instructions!
In step 8, you should have two page layers, a left page layer and a right page layer. In this step your selecting one page and then adding the other page selection to it.
Your layers panel should be similar to this one. Place your cursor where the black arrow is pointing (this is called the thumbnail), then press Control + Click to make a selection.
Your page in the canvas should look like this.....
Then place your cursor where the red arrow is pointing, and press Shift + Control + Click to add this layers new selection to your previous selection.
Your pages in the canvas should now look like this........
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roelf, you should have several layers/pages of both right and left sides! This is not a problem!
What I showed you above was the instruction from step 8 only! I did not include the extra pages to save time. (I'm very sorry, I thought you understood this!)
You still have to follow the instructions of the tutorial.
Step 5. Tells you how to create the extra pages.
Step 6. Tells you how to create the left side of the book by duplicating and flipping the right side.
Step 7. Tells you how alter the layer styles of the left side to match the right.
Step 8. Tells you how to choose the TOP pages/layers only of the right and left side to make a selection.
tutorial said:
What I showed you above was the instruction from step 8 only! I did not include the extra pages to save time. (I'm very sorry, I thought you understood this!)
Tutorial said:
You still have to follow the instructions of the tutorial.
Step 5. Tells you how to create the extra pages.
Step 6. Tells you how to create the left side of the book by duplicating and flipping the right side.
Step 7. Tells you how alter the layer styles of the left side to match the right.
Step 8. Tells you how to choose the TOP pages/layers only of the right and left side to make a selection.
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