This is the work progress

First of all, create a page with black background and create a text layer as the title, HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR as the pic shown.
the 2 other picture is take from internet and go through Illustrator live trace and put into photoshop.

this is the other picture from internet and it is a chinese lion head. use lasso tool and magnetic lasso tool to trace the lion head and cut into our main page.

the lion head is flip horizontally by Free Transform (ctrl + T)
using blur tool to blur the lion head outline and it will show more real.

this is the firework picture and i select the lasso tool with 10 px feather and choose which i like.
after i choose, i cut and paste to main page

i do same process as well and i can choose anyone of this firework

i choose some of the firework and arrange as the picture shown. arrange the layer that behind the other layer, 

adjust their opacity. 

create a rectangle shape at belowand the colour is brown.

use the eraser tool and adjust the flow and opacity to almost 50% and erase the upper part of the rectangle shape.

 

after that arrange the rectangle layer behind the other layer except background layer.

after some arrangement....the wallpaper is form...XD

the 1st design of ewallpaper..

i show the 1st design of ewallpaper.. later i will show the work progress of it.
be patient~

this is my 1st design of E-wallpaper

About Chinese New Year Festival

Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese holiday. It is often inaccurately called "Lunar New Year", because - as part of the lunisolar Chinese calendar - the date is partially determined based on lunar phase. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first month in the Chinese calendar and ends with Lantern Festival which is on the 15th day. Chinese New Year's Eve is known as chú xī. It literally means "Year-pass Eve".
Chinese New Year is the longest and most important festivity in the Chinese Lunar Calendar. The origin of Chinese New Year is itself centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and traditions. Ancient Chinese New Year is a reflection on how the people behaved and what they believed in the most.

Information from Wikipedia.

I did something on some of the picture and i transfer it into Vector file through Adobe Illustrator.
I use Live trace to trace some of the unique picture for my further progress.
 Why i use illustrator to convert pic into vector file is because i need a clear and sharp image for my further e-wallpaper.

The picture i convert into vector is shown:

the source of this picture is from internet and i will edit and combine together them into new artwork.

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THE E-Wallpaper

I choose some of the picture to do my E-Wallpaper as my title is Chinese New Year Festival, i decide to have a festival in coming next year. So my main idea is from rabbit and something

this are the picture that i may use to getting some idea 

patch tool and healing brush tool

this is the original picture, u can see that the ocean is unclearly now i goona remove all the dirty spot on background of this picture

 using patch tool 

i select the fish and move to the clear spot and the effect will appear as below picture

the fish is gone. i do this on other dirty spot as well to remove and clean the background

 i also use healing brush tool to remove all the doted spot. press ALT and click a clear spot, and u can remove the dirty doted as well

i also use the tool to remove the title on top of the picture

after i remove it i create a text layer

so this is the picture as below

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Using lasso tool to cut some picture easily

the qualities of the picture is not so well because I download from web and do it in just a few minuteXD

 first of all I take this girl~~~~~~~ anime to act as a main object to cut..XD

this is the back ground i choose

using magnetic lasso tool and lasso tool to select the main object

using feather after select the object, this tool is to blur the selected object outline...something like that, hard to describe very well..= ="

paste on the background I selected, and I also change the colour balance of the background.

I also use the blending option on the 'anime' layer and muse drop shadow effect on the layer.

 this is the photo in jpeg file. 

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E-wallpaper

I'm planning to do Chinese New Year wallpaper
I will do all about the CNY event in wallpaper~~~

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The Working With Layer

Hi, today the lesson,
The Working With Layer
first of all I'm sorry about my English not so good and please do not feel fustrated to my Poor English...>.<

lets us start from begin, i find a original picture from web

This is the original picture from web, let us start make this picture in Photosop.

first of all use rectangular marquee tool at the selection tool bar

at the upside bar, there is a Feather that soften the edge that ur selection, then select it. u will see a curve rectangular shape of doted line after u select.

after u select , u right click the image and select SELECT INVERSE.

You will see the doted line change direction into the inverse, that mean u inverse your selected place.

after that u set ur background colour, i choose black colour is just for the my favourite, and have a better graphic...XD

after this, u select Edit -> CLEAR. clear away ur selection. or u can just press delete button.

u will see ur selection place become black in colour. because of the background colour that i choose is black in colour. after this u create a new layer at the right bottom at the layer side bar.

it time that u using the new layer to create title. Select Horizontal Type Tool at the tool panel and u can create a word layer.

as i type, i type THE LAYER in this picture, although this picture title is THE LAYER but actually not so many layer as though. i think nevermind because it make up of 2 layer. XD
the layer will name as THE LAYER !!
u can choose ur font type at control panel.

so, this is the picture and i save it in psd and jpeg file. 

 now is the opacity of the layer. U can set the master opacity for the layer. the lower the opacity, the lower the visibility of the layer.

 if the opacity is 100%, then the layer is fully visible in picture.

 there is a indicate layer visibility of the layer just beside every layer, it is a eye icon, if u off the icon, the selective layer will invisible..!!! see the text layer, it's GONE!!!!...gone gone...XD

so now this is the picture in jpeg file.
thank you.
Miss Lydia if i done anything wrong, or i miss out anything, please give some helpful comment here..
~THANK YOU~


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