This tutorial will help you make your images a little more advanced, though I am really only talking about the output. You can do some cool stuff with the callouts we talked about by adding opacity to them.
First, let’s talk about opacity. This term simply means how see-through something is. When it is opaque you cannot see through it. As opacity decreases the object becomes ghostlike.
What is cool about opacity is that you can make glass or metal types of surfaces, as well as play with shadows. If you look near the bottom of the number 13 on the ball you can see that I used a nearly transparent object to make the shadow on the ball. I meant to leave the edges rough so that you could see what I had done. Honest.
Using this opacity you can put objects behind other objects to create some interesting effects:
Well, I mean you could if you are an artist. Sometimes I get lucky and sometimes not. I will let you decide whether I did or not:
Anyway, you get the idea. The opacity slider bar is near the button for the drop shadow on the Image Editor tool panel’s left side. Play around with percentages and colors and shadows. Shadows are important because they can show through the transparent image.
Opacity is something you can experiment with. I know I have done a monitor in all of the tutorials so this time I did something totally different. A TV.
The opacity helps to make some interesting shading on the different objects, one layer showing through the others. Play around with it and you will see that you can come up with some ‘neat’ stuff.
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