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Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Make seven copies of the line’s layer and choose the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to place the copies as in the picture below, getting a kind of net.

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Combine in a group all the layers containing the lines (press CTRL button to select the necessary layers and hold on the left mouse’s button while dragging the selected layers on Create a new group icon from bottom part of the Layers panel).

Insert the mask on the group by choosing Add layer mask on the bottom part of the Layers panel and choose the Soft Round brush of black color.

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Paint in the mask to change the visibility of the lines as on the next picture it is shown. Set Opacity to 70% for this group.

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Apply the Line Tool (U) with Weight – 1px try to represent a line of grey color.

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Using the same tool we should represent one more line of the color #DED2BF.

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Insert the mask on the layer by choosing Add layer mask on the bottom part of the Layers panel and choose the Soft Round brush of black color.

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Paint in the mask to change the visibility of the line’s layer as shown.

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Apply also the Line Tool (U) with Weight – 1px to add three more white lines.

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Insert then the mask on each layer containing the white lines (Add a Mask) and apply on the mask the Soft Round brush of black color (brush Opacity – 20%) to hide the lines’ edges, crossing the spheres.

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Create a new layer and select the Soft Round brush of white color (brush’s Opacity – 30%).

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Use this brush to make lighter the top part of the canvas.

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Set Fill to 30% for this layer and change the Blending mode to Linear Light.

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Next we have to make a copy of the layer containing the spheres. Place the copy’s layer above all the spheres layers. Apply on several spheres Smudge Tool to get the effect of their motion. Set the Blending mode for this layer to Luminosity.

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Create a new layer where we’ll use the Soft Round brush to insert more shadows on the spheres.

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Apply the brush using different colors and Opacity value:

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and click between the brush’s layer and the previous layer in Layers panel to create a clipping mask.

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Set Fill to 50% for this layer.

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Insert the mask on the layer by choosing Add layer mask on the bottom part of the Layers panel and choose the Soft Round brush of black color (set Opacity to 20% in Options bar).

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Paint in the mask to hide the top parts of the made spheres.

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Create a new layer and choose the Soft Round brush mentioned above to paint the top parts of the spheres with different colors and Opacity values.

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Set Fill to 50% for this layer and change the Blending mode to Linear Dodge.

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Click Create new fill or adjustment layer from bottom part of the Layers panel and click to Curves to adjust the curve shape as shown to make a little color corrections.

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

Creative mixed-media composition in Adobe Photoshop CS5

We’re done!

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Download free Layered PSD file.

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