12 M. Challenge

Mere Christianity

Mere Christianity is a book by the famous author and academic medievalist C.S. Lewis. The book was adapted from his three BBC radio broadcasts on the Christian life during World War II. In this book he defends and explains the mere Christian faith...His goal was not to produce and exhaustive study on Christianity but to talk about what it essentially is, what its basis is.

Premade Layouts

Tutorial: Clouds

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Cartoon Clouds

1. Make a new image the size 640×400 and fill it with #339bc6

2. Now make a new layer and name it ‘Cloud’ Change your foreground color to white and select the circle brush
(Circle 11) and set the scale to 5.00 Make a clump of circles as shown in the next two pics. Make sure that when you are done the middle is filled completely as these are circles so some background may be showing through when you are finished.

3. Change you foreground color to #494242 Right click on the layer in the layer’s dialog and then click on ‘Alpha to Selection.’ Make a new layer called ‘Stroke’ and then go to Edit > Stroke Selection. Chose ‘Stroke Line’ and set the pixels too 4.0 After stroking the selection move this layer under the cloud layer by click-and-dragging it in the layers dialog.

4. If you don’t see the marching ants anymore right click on the cloud layer again and ‘Alpha to Selection’ Make a new layer and name it ‘Lines’ Take the Eclipse tool and then click ‘Subtract Mode’

Make a circle but exclude part of the bottom of the cloud.
Now select the drop bucket and select pattern fill. Select one of the black and white stripe patterns you should have in your pattern selections. Fill the selection with that pattern you have chosen.

5. The first step for a finishing touch is to merge all the layers, ‘Cloud’, ‘Stroke’ and ‘Lines’, together. You can do this by right-clicking on the top layer and then clicking merge down. Then right-click again on the merged layer and say merge down again. This merges all the cloud layers.

6. Now duplicate this merged layer () take the move tool () and move the new cloud away from the old one. Scale it down with the scale tool () to a smaller size. After this go to Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur Set the blur to 2.0

You can make some more clouds of different shapes and do the same to them.

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