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In this tutorial I will show you how I created a new blue sky, enhanced a building with color and light and created a mockup sign which I then applied to it. In my freelance business as an illustrator and graphic designer I also get to work with photographs, creating both sign- making mockups and image editing in general. I took this photo while I was out with my bicycle, cycling around a brand new neighborhood in Stockholm, Sweden which is just being built.
I dragged the slider handles to give the facade of the building a darker tone. Basically, more black. It also made it very easy for me to get a cleaner white sky, making it a bit easier to create a proper mask of the sky, as my aim was to make this blue. For the blue sky color I picked a brighter blue color that I like to use as a base for a blue sky. By selecting the color swatch and hovering over the blue color swatch in the Document Palette , I picked one of the darker blues next to the brighter blue and added this to the palette or you can drag the darker blue from the default Color Palette down to the Document Palette.
This way, I had the two blue colors set to create the effect I was aiming for. I created a new object in the Objects Manager Docker by clicking on the New Object icon in the bottom left corner of the docker.
With Mask still active, I used the Fill tool from the Toolbox to fill the selection of the sky with the brighter blue color. To change the fill color, double-click on the Fill icon at the bottom of the Toolbox. In the Edit Fill window, grab the Eyedropper tool and pick up the lighter blue from the Document Palette. Or you can also just drag the lighter blue from the default Color Palette over to the Fill icon.
I kept the mask with the marching ants active and created another new object in the Object Manager Docker. With the Paint tool from the Toolbox , I used the darker blue I selected to paint in the upper part of the mask. To change the foreground color to paint with, just drag the darker blue from the Document Palette or default Color Palette over to the Foreground icon at the bottom of the Toolbox.
I next created a third new object, while the mask was still active, and painted in the bottom of the mask with white color. I selected the second object with the darker blue , and used the Object Transparency tool from the Toolbox you can find this under the Drop Shadow fly out menu on the Toolbox , and dragged down from the top right to the bottom left, to apply a transparency.
And as you can see in the picture below, it gave a very nice feel to it. I did the same with the white object, but instead applied the transparency the opposite direction, from the bottom left and dragged upwards to the right, see final image , in the same diagonal direction as the blue - which gave a very nice feel to it as well. Basically touching up with blue so that no white was shining through. It is so much easier for detail work, to use a pen tablet. Colors from the original photo, the Background object , started to reappear.
I used a soft round nib and gently erased grayscale lens object effects from the people, the ground, the street signs and many of the windows. To show the client how their sign would eventually look on the facade, I later made this mockup in three mockup versions.
To make this easier and faster, I used the New Font list features to quickly divide the three types of fonts I was going for, by simply selecting the Filter type variations in the Font list. To access these features, select the Text tool from the Toolbox and on the Property bar , open the drop-down Font list. You can quickly find the open type font features available within a certain font by clicking the black little arrow that appears when the text is selected.
This will open up a drop-down list that shows the alternative style sets. Toggle navigation. And with that the sky was finished. I applied an effect behind the text, saved the entire image and then sent it to my client.
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