Monday, 30 September 2013

How to make a sticker ☺


1. Go to File> New to create a new file put in the size of the work you want I’ll go buy 500x500 px
2. Select an “Ellipse Tool” (If it doesn’t show up hold on to the rectangle tool and the ellipse tool will show up
3. Select a foreground colour you want your sticker to be for me it would be navy blue

 4. Press “shift” on your keyboard and make a circle
 5. Click the “effect button”  on your layers panel and click “stroke”


 6. Set up the size and colour of an outline as you like.
 7. Click “Inner glow” change the setting as mark in this picture, but change the colour to any colour that is slightly darker than your original sticker. Press OK

8. In your layer panel drag the circle layer to this button “" to copy the layer (shortcut is ctrl+J or command+J on mac)

 9. Press this button “ ” to create new layer

10. press the eye button to hide one of the layer
 
11. press shift while selecting the copied layer and the new layer that press Ctrl+E or Command+E on mac to merge the layer
 

12. Use the “polygonal lasso tool”and make a selection around the corner of your sticker






13. Click Edit>Cut or use to shortcut ctrl+x or command+x on mac to cut it
14. Press shift+ctrl+v to place it in place
 15. Press ctrl+t and then rotate and adjust the part so it could look like this
16. Now you’re done your sticker but you can go to the next step to decorate it
17. On the layer panel press  to make a new layer between the part and the sticker

18. Use the “type tool” to type down anything and adjust it. Then press press ctrl+enter or command+enter on mac to finish it
 
 19. Press the effect button  on the layer panel and add an effect to the text, have fun with it! Here’s what I used.



20. Add a few pictures and you’re done!


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