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This is the fifth lesson in a series designed to teach basic functions in Photoshop. In this lesson we will create the watchband. The goal is to better understand the filters used for creating textures and 3D surfaces. For those of you who do not have the Eye Candy plug-in, we have provided a template file will all of the stuff we created with Eye Candy. <click here to download> This lesson has been designed to help you create textures similar to the Eye Candy metal tools using the filters included with Photoshop. If you don’t have Eye Candy, and you want to do the whole thing yourself, follow this tutorial and then recreate the bezel and case (created in the last lesson) using what you have learned in this lesson. Simply follow the same steps used to create the band and fiddle with the lighting and levels a bit. In the last lesson we created the watchcase and bezel. You should have an image that looks like Fig. 1.
Fig. 1
The first thing we are going to do is to make the watchband. First, create a new layer underneath the two layers with the bezel and case, by selecting LAYER > NEW. Select a medium gray color from the case by using the eyedropper tool. Load the ‘Band’ selection and fill it in with the paint bucket. You should now have a gray square extending from the watchcase to the bottom of the page. Right-click on the layer with the band on it and select ‘Effects’ from the menu that appears. A dialogue box will appear and a drop shadow (the default effect) will be created. But we don’t want the drop shadow, we want a beveled effect. There is a check box next to the drop-down menu, and it has ‘Apply’ written next to it. Uncheck this box to get rid of the drop shadow. Use the drop-down menu at the top of the dialogue box to find the effect called ‘Bevel and Emboss’. Check the apply box next to the dropdown, and the watchband should now have a beveled effect. Adjust your settings to match those shown in Fig. 2. While we’re doing effects, we should make the case stand out from the band. To do this we will use a drop shadow. Right click on the layer that has the large outer portion of the case, select ‘Effects’ from the drop down menu and set Distance and Blur both to 3 pixels.
Fig. 2
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