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Creating A Cutout Effect

The document provides instructions for creating a cutout effect in Photoshop. It describes using a selection shaped like letters on a flower image, then creating a new layer from that selection. It explains adding a pattern overlay layer style and selecting a pattern from the Effects.pat file to replace the default pattern inside the selection. It also describes adding an inner shadow layer style and adjusting its settings like blend mode and size to create the cutout effect.

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Creating A Cutout Effect

The document provides instructions for creating a cutout effect in Photoshop. It describes using a selection shaped like letters on a flower image, then creating a new layer from that selection. It explains adding a pattern overlay layer style and selecting a pattern from the Effects.pat file to replace the default pattern inside the selection. It also describes adding an inner shadow layer style and adjusting its settings like blend mode and size to create the cutout effect.

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Creating a Cutout Effect

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Creating a Cutout Effect


Next, you'll use your selection and some layer styles to create the illusion of a cutout in the orange flower image. Make sure that the letters-shaped selection is still active. If you have accidentally deselected, you'll have to start this process over, beginning with "Moving a selection" on the previous page. 1. 2. In the Layers palette, select the Orange Flower layer. Choose Layer > New > Layer Via Copy to create a new layer above the original Orange Flower layer, based on your combined selection. The new layer, named Layer 1, automatically becomes the active layer in the Layers palette, and the letters-shaped marquee disappears. You can quickly create a selection marquee around a layer by Ctrlclicking (Windows) or Command-clicking (Mac OS) the layer thumbnail in the Layers palette. You can try this with the new Paint layer to make the letters marquee reappear. Before you continue with this lesson, choose Select > Deselect.

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At the bottom of the Layers palette, click the Add Layer Style button ( choose Pattern Overlay from the pop-up menu.

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Drag the Layer Style dialog box aside, as needed, so that you can see both the dialog box and the image window. Next to the Pattern thumbnail, click the arrow to the right of the thumbnail to open the pattern picker. The picker displays smaller thumbnails of an assortment of patterns. Click the arrow button ( Load Patterns. ) to open the palette menu for the pattern picker, and choose

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In the Load dialog box, go to the Lessons/Lesson11 folder and select the Effects.pat file. Click Load. Notice the new pattern that appears as the last thumbnail in the pattern picker. Select the pattern thumbnail you added in Step 7. The pattern replaces the default pattern inside your Letters selection. At this point, you can drag the pattern in the image window to adjust the area of the pattern that appears in the selectioneven with the Layer Style dialog box open. On the left side of the Layer Style dialog box, under Styles, select Inner Shadow to add that effect to the selection, and adjust the Inner Shadow options to your liking. (The example uses Multiply for Blend Mode, 100% for Opacity, 120 for Angle, 5 px for Distance, 0% for Choke, and 5 px for Size.)

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10. Continue to experiment with other styles and settings until you create results that you think are interesting. When you are satisfied with the results, click OK.

11. Choose File > Save to save your work.

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