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JANUARY 09, 2003 Jumbo Jillions Part 1
With the properties of your gradient brush set, you are now free to paint in the canvas. Incidentally, if you are interested in how to create your own custom brushes, and what all of the other settings do, be sure to check out David Nagel’s series elsewhere on this site. Set the foreground color to white and the background color to a color that is not pure black but not totally gray either. A total black color will mess up our wipe later on in the process. For my background color I used a mid gray with a RGB value of 137, 137, 137.[an error occurred while processing this directive]Create a new layer by clicking on the Create New Layer icon in the Layers Panel. Beginning in the upper left hand corner of the canvas, create a single stroke that mimics the way you would scratch a lottery ticket. You will notice that as your brush moves across the canvas that it indeed undergoes a color transformation. Create something that looks similar to the following image.  The nice thing about this method is that if you create a closed path, you can stroke a gradient along the path to create more complex shapes and figures that you can use later as other custom wipes.  When you are finished, delete the background layer and save the file as a Photoshop file. Name it something you will remember, and close Photoshop. Related sites: • Animation Artist • Animation Supplement • AV Video • Broadcast Newsroom • Content Mastering • Corporate Media News • Creative Mac • Design Supplement • Digital Animators • Digital Media Designer • Digital Post Production • Digital Producer • Digital Video Editing • DV Format • Hollywood Industry • Mac Supplement • Production Supplement • Siggraph News • The WWUG Related forums: [an error occurred while processing this directive] 
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