Turning Illustrator Paths Into Photoshop Shapes - Video Tutorial

Turning Illustrator Paths Into Photoshop Shapes - Video Tutorial: In last week's free episode Deke showed you how to create a shiny star-spangled superhero shield from scratch in Adobe Illustrator. This week, Deke will show you a different approach to the project that brings your illustrator paths into Photoshop as shape layers, and uses Photoshop to give your shield a more realistic, beveled-edge effect. (You can now download a free 30-day trial of Illustrator CS6 directly from Adobe.)

Creating the shapes in Illustrator then importing them into Photoshop allows you to exploit Illustrator’s shape-creating strengths, and then enhance your perfectly aligned star and circles with Photoshop’s layer effects. Once you have the shapes set up properly in Photoshop, a careful application of some Bevel and Emboss effects create a sense of depth and the illusion that your shield is built up from individual discs of evil-resistant metal.

For members of lynda.com, Deke’s also has another member-exclusive movie this week called Creating a photorealistic superhero shield in which he shows you how to continue this Photoshop portion of the shield project using Smart Filters and adjustment layers to take the dimension and realism of your shield to a more photorealistic level:

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(posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com)

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