Graphic Design : How to draw custom rainbows in photoshop tutorial by SweetBeat.
March 3, 2008
Filed under PHOTO RETOUCHING, PHOTOSHOP, TUTORIALS

Bram from Sweetbeat.be tells you how he got the rainbow in the photo above using photoshop :
- Open new document 20×20cm.
- Make a new layer and select it.
- Select the pen tool en draw a bowed line.Make sure when you have the pen tool selected to have the paths icon selected and not shape layers or fill pixels
- I select the brush tool and on the top right-end corner of the window I open the brush menu (brushes).
- Select a hard basic brush of 28px and at the lower part of the window you put spacing on 1%.
- On the top left-end corner in same the window I choose ” Shape dynamics “.
- I ensure that the size jitter, angle jitter, roundness jitter stands on 0%.
- At size jitter I put the control on fade, give in the number 400 and choose 10% minimum diameter (dependent of the size of the document you must play with this).
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- Now I select the pen tool.
- Click rightbutton and choose stroke path.
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