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How to achieve this flower effect?


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JamesCurtis24

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I don't necessarily consider myself a "noob" when it comes to photoshop. I do a lot of things in photoshop that I know shouldn't be done in photoshop lol...

Anyways, I wanted to recreate something like this

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Except I just want to make one flour, not four. I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the shape/the color blend.

If anybody could give me some help, I'd super appreciate it! Thank you!
 
Oh no the grammer police are going to ruin your day!:mrgreen: that just looks like a bunch of shapes on top of each other with the layer modes altering around.. That's about it, maybe satin layer style on a few?
 
The shape is like a curve with a upward inflection on the tale end I think, and a heart shape on the end on one side. I just can't seem to replicate it in photoshop, with the pen or free form tool. Any suggestions?
 
This is a labor of love. This was not created in an hour or two. There are only a couple basic shapes used as you can tell, duplicated and transformed. You use the shape tool for the hearts and probably create what you call the tail using the pen tool, then merged the two layers.

Like iDad said, there are some blend mode changes, opacity changes, probably some masking. There may indeed be some satin effects. It looks like there are some ghost images created either by painting or using the shape of the flower, I would guess rotating it and making it a very low opacity. I believe what you are seeing is a lot of layers of the created flower and /or individual shapes and possibly masking out parts of those shapes.

All guessing on my part. Lovely piece. I do hope you find a way to reproduce it to your satisfaction. Be prepared for lots of experimentation. And if you don't exactly reproduce it, don't worry, you'll probably get something really cool anyway. I hope you'll share your results with us.

This could make a good challenge! Try to recreate the flower. :mrgreen:
 
Will do, is there any way you could do just a quick low res drawing of what the shape you think being used it? I see and get the heart, but the other stuff I'm not sure about. After that I'll just have to take it and try to do what I can.
 
James, attached is a psd file that contains a 5 second impression of a basic path that can be used to generate lots of shapes like these just by pulling the anchor points (and their handles) around.

I also filled in a couple of these paths with gradients starting from two different colors and fading to transparent. Obviously, you can change the colors, the distance over which they fade, whether they fade to transparent or to some other color or to black, etc.

The attached jpg shows the result of moving just three of the filled shapes around, playing with the blending modes, etc.

This should get you off to a very good start.

Cheers,

Tom M
 

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Hope this helps to specify the shapes
shapes.jpg
the red shape is copied and rotated on it's axis, while the blue line is also copied and rotated on it's axis, then flipped and rotated on it's axis to overlap the two directions of the lines, and create a shape that connect the heart shape end to the circle at the centre. The shapes it makes are then filled, and obviously this is done using gradients and blending modes,

the gradient would probably be the selected colour to the black at the center of the flower

hope this helps, it's a real nice artwork
 
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