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Tied Ribbon Tutorial PDF Print
Written by Brenda Miller   
Monday, 22 May 2006
Tied Ribbon in Photoshop Elements Ribbon Courtesy of Stacy Carlson

I was just getting ready to post this and see that someone else just posted a similiar tut, but hey, never hurts to try it different ways, so heres another version of a Tied Ribbon tut.

Open a new transparent canvas of 8 inch by 8 inch, 300 dpi. This gives you plenty of room to maneuver, and you can crop it down later.

Open a ribbon that you want to knot, and using the Rectangular Marquee Tool, select a 3 inch length of ribbon.
(To know exactly how much you are cutting, go to Window/Info, and make sure the Info Palette is open. If you look at that as you are cutting, it will show you the size you are cutting. See below)



Go to Edit/Copy, then select the 8 x 8 inch canvas, and Edit/Paste it there.

Now go to Filter/Distort/Liquify.



Select the Pucker Tool



and adjust the brush size so it is twice the height of the ribbon. Set the brush pressure to 100. Put the cursor so the circle is half on and half of off the end of the ribbon. Click- 2-3 times to pinch the end of the ribbon. Click ok.





Go to Image/Rotate/Free Rotate Layer. Set the angle to 20. Click the check mark to set the changes.





Go to Layer/Duplicate Layer and duplicate the layer. Then go to Image/Rotate/Flip Layer Horizontally. You should have two pieces that look like this:



Now go back to the ribbon you cut a piece out of , and using the Rectangular Marquee Tool, select a small area of ribbon. This selection must be roughly the same width as the height of your ribbon. In my example, the height of the ribbon is .33 tall, so I cut a piece that is .33 wide. You can now close the original ribbon.




Go to Edit/Copy, then Edit/Paste onto the new canvas with the two pieces that you pinched.

Now go to Filter/Distort/Liquify, and choose the Bloat Tool.



Make the brush just big enough to go around the square, and set pressure at 100. Click it once to punch the ribbon a bit. Click ok.




Next go to Image/Transform/Perspective. Move the bottom corners out just a tiny bit, to make the bottom edge just a little bit longer than the top edge.




Now go to Image/Rotate/Layer 90 degrees right. Move that piece so it sits on the pinched end of the right piece of ribbon.



Making sure the small knotted piece is selected, go to Layer/Duplicate Layer. Drag the duplicated knotted piece under the original one. Using the Transform Tool(Ctrl T), rotate the duplicated piece 25 degrees to the right. Click the checkmark to confirm the changes.




Now position the left piece of ribbon under the bottom knotted piece.

The knot parts may be a little too big or too small. You may have to use the transform tool to make the knotted pieces a tiny bit larger or smaller so that they fit snugly against the ribbon. The result should look like this:




Now select the top piece of knot, and add a Drop Shadow Low to it.



Double click the f next to the layer in the layer palette.



Turn the Angle and shadow distance to zero. Click ok.



Go to Layer/Layer Style/Scale Effects and change it to 20. Click ok.



Next select the bottom piece of knot , and following the same steps as above, add a Drop Shadow Low to it. Set the Angle to -25, and Shadow Distance to zero. Click ok. Go to Layer/Layer Styles/Scale Effects and change it to 20. Click ok.

Merge Visible, and you are done !!

If done correctly, your finished product should look something like this:


Crop it down and save it as a png file, and you can use it over and over again !!


After you get the hang of it, you can adjust the settings to fit your ribbon size, or to make the angles of the ribbon to suit you. You can make the tails wavy or cut notches on the ends. Hope you enjoyed this tut !!
 
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