| Now we are going to finish off the center of our interface. Go to the top of our pile of layers and create a new layer. Using the Selection tool, starting at 150x150 pixels draw a circle that fills up the center of our doughnut. |
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| Choose whatever color you want for your circle. Using the Flood Fill tool - Sunburst Gradient, settings the same as we used on all the other Sunburst Gradients, flood fill your circle. Do not deselect. |
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| Now go to Image-Effects-Blinds Using the settings to the
left, |
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| Create yet another new layer Using the Selection tool set
to Ellipse, |
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| Now with our ellipse selected, using the Flood Fill tool - Linear
gradient, same options as before, fill our ellipse, this will give
it an inset look in the middle of your circle. Deselect.
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| Create another new layer (the last one!) Place an image or text in the center of our ellipse. I used the Webdings font the exclamation point (!), which is a spider, as a vector and stretched it to fit my ellipse. Convert the layer to Raster (if you used vector text) and we're done!
You can use these techniques to create lots of different things like the logo on my own site at http://www.covingtononline.net/debs.htm Play with it and have fun!! |
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