Graphics Programs Reference
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3 Using Roughen for grass, then warping it to make a broomstick.
To construct the grassy
hill, Cressy drew a half-oval with the Pen tool, then applied Effect> Distort & Trans-
form> Zig Zag. He next applied Roughen with a low setting, and added another in-
stance of the Roughen effect, this time with a high setting for Details to create the
tall, thin strands of grass. To create the bristles of the witch's broomstick, he used
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F/Ctrl-F to paste a copy of the grassy hill in front, and applied an Envelope warp us-
ing the Shell Upper preset. He then edited the envelope with the Direct Selection tool
and Free Transform until he had shaped the broom end.
3
Creating the bristles of the broomstick from a duplicate of the
grassy hill, then running Envelope Distort>
Make with Warp, and choosing Shell Upper
for the preset, then further transforming the
envelope
4 Adding layers to coordinate scenes for different times of the day.
Cressy maintained con-
sistency from one scene to the next by adding tinting layers that could be turned on
or off, each representing a different time of day. For midday, he added a layer with a
light brown rectangle, then clicked
Opacit
y in the Control panel to lower the Opacity
to 50% and chose Screen for the Blending Mode. For early evening scenes, he used a
white-to-dark brown radial gradient on a layer set to Multiply at reduced Opacity,
and for night shots, he used a lavender-colored rectangle set to Multiply at 100%
Opacity. He later reused these tinting layers with other scenes he created.
