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Making colorful Easter eggs without getting your hands dirty. It’s that time of year again when you have to get your paints out and start painting…eggs. This year though, keep your hands clean and do it the photoshop way. You’re going to learn how to warp an image, bring it into your scene, and with the help of an image mask blend it smoothly together.

Preview:

Step 1:

Ok, our first step to to make the egg design. SHIFT+U a couple of times to cycle through the different path objects. Stop when you get to the Ellipse tool. Now drag from corner to corner to create your basic egg shape. Don’t worry about it being perfect as we are going to modify it. CRTL+T to enter transform mode, and drag the handlebars that have appeared around the edges until it resembles something like this:

Step 2:

Good. Click the ‘paths’ panel then CRTL+click the work path to make a selection. Then go Edit->Stroke and from the pop up screen choose black as the color and around 4 pixels as the thickness (although it doesn’t really matter what you put). CRTL+D to deselect.

Step 3:

SHIFT+CRTL+M to make another layer and repeat step 2, only this time using a rectangle. You can see here that I have transformed it to fit with the egg shape.

Step 4:

Stroke again. What we are about to do is use the rectangle as a guide to make our egg design, then use the egg shape to act as another guide for the distortion.

Step 5:

SHIFT+U again and cycle through to the custom shapes. This time I have the ‘Shape Layers’ option chosen which will automatically fill our shape with color. Now click the little arrow where it says ’shape’. You get a drop down list of a whole host of shapes. Oh look, a rabbit. Very Easter-ish.

Step 6:

Click the shape you like best then SHIFT+ drag on the canvas. Using the SHIFT key keeps it in its original aspect ratio. Here you can see that I have made four in a row. To change their color, simply click the colored layer thumbnail on the layers panel.

Step 7:

Right, another new layer, then use the Marquee tool (M) to select the top of the rectangle guide. Change the color by clicking the Foreground color picker and then fill it using the paint bucket tool (G).

Step 8:

Here you can see that I have moved the blue rectangle down while holding the ALT key. This makes a copies. I then pressed CRTL+E to merge the two blue rectangle layers together.

Step 9:

Here we have more custom shapes made in exactly the same way as the rabbits.

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