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Design a Colorful Illustration

Try to make a shape on the right side of the girl’s head, applying the Pen Tool (P) and using the Convert Point Tool you can adjust path segments as shown.

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
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

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Click on the same layer on the bottom part of the layers’ panel on Add a Mask icon and use here a brush of black color to clean out that shape’s zone, crossing the girl’s hair.

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Let’s attach other shapes too to the main element, applying the same tools – the Pen Tool (P) and the Convert Point Tool.

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4

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 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
Represent another shape using Pen Tool (P)

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Set Fill to 0% 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

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Make another shape

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 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
Combine in a group all the layers composing the ornament on the right side of the girl’s head (press Ctrl button to select the corresponding layers and then hold on the left mouse’s button while dragging the selected layers on Create a new group icon on the bottom part of the Layers panel). Make a copy of the new group and apply Free Transform option to turn over the copy, placing it on the left side of the girl’s head.

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Fill the ornament with new elements. In this case we’ll apply the already known instruments – the Pen Tool (P) and the Convert Point Tool. Each element should have the Fill on 0%. Place the layers of the new elements lower than the earlier made ornament on the Layers panel.

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Set Fill to 0% and go to Layer Style > Stroke

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Apply Layer Style > Stroke for all the layers of the transparent ornament’s shapes

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Combine in a group all the layers composing the transparent elements of the ornament (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). Make a copy of the new group and choose Free Transform option to turn over the copy, placing it on the left side of the girl’s head.

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Create a new layer which must be processed with the brush of black color (Opacity 15%) to represent a shadow under the ornament. Place this layer under the ornament’s layers in Layers panel.

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4

How to design a colorful illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS4

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