I will be using
the same basic steps as in my How
to Create a Simple Plaid tutorial
Choose the red white
and blue gradient pattern or a similar solid stripe pattern.
Place your graphic on
top of the stripes.
For this example I used
a graphic from: A
Boy's Outing by Kate Merkley
Next choose a selection
of stripes - example: select with your Magic wand all the red stripes.
Using the Effects menu
> Fill with Texture or Color >> Select More color selections
then put eye dropper
tool over area of graphic you want to fill selected stripes with.
You will see color chosen
fill in the stripe. Keep moving eyedropper tool around graphic to choose
shade of coloring that you want. Click done when satisfied with color.
Back on workspace, click
on graphic, then again on Magic Wand, and pick another group of stripes
(hold down your shift key to select more than one area at a time) choose
all the white or all the blue ones.
Then again Fill stripes,
this time choose another color from your graphic.
Continue to fill remaining
stripes with a 3rd color.
Back on the workspace
- Delete the graphic you used to select the colors for stripes. Follow
steps you did to create your first Plaid.
Once plaid is created
>> Place your graphic(s) back on top of background, and apply any effects
such as Drop Shadows.
Name and save your graphic
compilation.
Using 2 different graphics
& 2 layers of different color stripes
for this example I used
graphics from the creatable :
Welcome
Spring by Debbie Crabtree
For this - I placed
the word Spring on top of my stripes and chose 3 colors from it.
Next when I duplicated
the striped layer (to place horizontally on top of vertical stripes), I
placed the Butterfly graphic on top of it, and using my Magic Wand, I reselected
the stripes and filled with 3 colors from the Butterfly.
I then proceeded to create
my Plaid using the 2 different color striped layers.
When complete I added
my Graphics back and applied drop shadows to them.
I named and saved my
graphic compilation.
To create another color
variation - I selected bottom layer from the Stack, and using my magic
wand I again selected stripes and filled with different colors - selecting
again from the word Spring graphic & Butterfly. This changed the graphic
coloring without having to use the transparency tool.
**You can use the
transparency effect to produce more fading or create a coloring that you
want.**
I saved this new plaid
color variation graphic compilation with a *new* name.
