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Design a Colorful Illustration

Make another ellipse

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Change Fill to 0% and go to Layer Style > Drop Shadow

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Add Gradient Overlay

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Gradient Editor settings:

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
And the last one ellipse

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Set Fill to 0% for this layer and go to Layer Style by clicking on this layer on the Layers’ panel.
Add Drop Shadow

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Set Gradient Overlay

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Gradient Editor settings:

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
On the circles’ edges mentioned with the arrows we’ll represent half-transparent transitions. In this case we’ll click on the necessary layer on the bottom part of the layers’ panel on Add a Mask icon and after that choose a brush of black color (Opacity 20%) to clean out the chosen circle.

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Let’s represent the highlights on the circles. Create a new layer and choose a brush of white color (Opacity 30%).

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Set Blend mode to Overlay for the layer with the highlights:

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
On the next new layer apply the same brush, but with a smaller diameter to give more shining effect to certain highlights.

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Create a new layer again and use here the brush to represent a lot of colored spots around the circles. Take a sample of color out of the circles, using the Eyedropper Tool (I).

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Set Fill to 70% for this layer

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Take the Pen Tool (P) to represent a tattoo on the girl’s cheek. The tattoo’s color is black.

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Put together the shape’s layers composing the tattoo into a rasterized layer (press Ctrl button to select out these layers in Layers panel and then press CTRL+E to Merge Down). Make a click on the bottom part of the layers’ panel on Add a Mask icon and choose a brush of black color (Opacity 20%) to erase the tattoo’s edges.

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Try to represent several bubbles under the girl’s neck, choosing in this case the Ellipse Tool (U).

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Set Fill to 0% for this layer and go to Layer Style > Gradient Overlay

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Gradient Editor settings:

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Add Stroke

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Make several copies of the last made layer and choose Free Transform option to change the copies’ sizes, placing them the same way demonstrated below.

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4

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