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Bond… James Bond

 

Corey reproduces the famous Bond logo in this tutorial.

 

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

48 Comments

  1. Stevo said on — March 20, 2009 @ 3:59 pm

    hey nice.

    and 1st comment

  2. Houston Brown said on — March 20, 2009 @ 4:34 pm

    Great tutorial but what where I am loosing you is when you put the gradient above the cloud layer. You don’t seem to be using any transparency or blending mode but yet in your tutorial, it doesn’t cover up the underlying layer of the cloud layer. Why? It does when i try to follow along. I had to change the blend layer of the gradient layer to Multiply to get it to look like yours. What am I missing?

    Thanks,
    Houston

  3. Jens said on — March 20, 2009 @ 4:45 pm

    Thanks for the turorial :) it looks so easy to make when you explain it.

  4. Gman said on — March 20, 2009 @ 7:41 pm

    Houston,

    Make sure you are using a foreground (black) to transparent gradient. If you look closely, it does apply some darkness over the top of the cloud layer, and gradually becomes more transparent. Make sure you start the gradient below the bottom of the image and go straight up. If you begin the gradient above the bottom of the image, it will make it completely black, then gradually transparent.

  5. Riccardo said on — March 21, 2009 @ 6:50 am

    simply awesome.
    Tks for your teachings

  6. Martin said on — March 21, 2009 @ 12:34 pm

    Nice tutorial!
    Thanks

  7. judee said on — March 21, 2009 @ 4:16 pm

    I’m having the same problem as Houston.. and I read Gman’s response, and tried it, and I still get a completely black cover, no gradient…. I have the right gradient selected, but still no black to transparent shows up… can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong. Could my gradient file be corrupted, although I tried to create my own and still have the same problem. I’m working in CS2, could that be the problem.. any help would be appreciated, it’s very frustrating when I follow step by step and can’t get it to work.. In fact I’ve tried all the gradient that have transparency in them and none of them work.. maybe I have some setting that isn’t right

  8. Narendra.s.v said on — March 22, 2009 @ 12:50 pm

    @Houston & Judee: It’s just because you have to select the Foreground to Transparent (which is positioned in the 2nd place) gradient instead of normal Foreground to Background gradient. Hope it helps! ;)

  9. Narendra.s.v said on — March 22, 2009 @ 1:02 pm

    lol now i was stuck :D as there is no Twirl option in my cs3 :( i guess corey used cs4 for this this tutorial!

  10. Photojunkie said on — March 23, 2009 @ 4:19 pm

    One of the things that impress me about you and your tut’s is your ability to think up ideas that appeal to the many. I also of course like you teaching technique.
    I too am a armature tutorial make for Photoshop and know how hard these things can be, I only hope to match your standard one day.
    Thanks.

    PJ

  11. paul said on — March 24, 2009 @ 5:13 am

    good tutorial !
    full screen button doesn’t work .
    be even better tutorial if it did work.

  12. Rashid Younus said on — March 27, 2009 @ 6:43 am

    Amazing !

  13. judee said on — March 28, 2009 @ 6:29 pm

    Narandra… I am grabbing the 2nd gradient, foreground to transparent… but the sample in the bar window when selected shows solid black.. and no matter where I place my gradient icon to draw the gradient from, it still comes up solid black.. that’s why I think my gradients are corrupted or it’s because it doesn’t work in cs2… I really don’t know, all I know is that I’m doing it exactly and selecting the correct options and it’s not working… sigh…but thanks for trying…

  14. jian said on — April 1, 2009 @ 10:34 am

    owh..nice one.i want to make it.but i don’t have much time to do it.wish i can. is sit easy??hope it is..by the way. where can i get adobe photoshop CS4 for free??well.. i have my CS3 here. :D

  15. jian said on — April 1, 2009 @ 10:35 am

    :D

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  17. leroy said on — April 7, 2009 @ 5:51 pm

    great tutorial, another one i can most def show off to my friends……………………..thanks again Corey your the best.

  18. Jake said on — April 9, 2009 @ 1:24 pm

    Great job!!! I think I messed up on mine though :D

  19. Jake said on — April 9, 2009 @ 1:37 pm

    When ever I try to use the Gradient at about 3:32(video time) something pops up saying
    “Could not use the Gradient tool because the affected area is empty or does not overlap the canvas” Could someone help with this please :D Thanks!

  20. Beth McBeth said on — April 21, 2009 @ 5:17 pm

    This looks great and I want to do it too but, I am also having the same problem as Jake, I can’t seem to get past the gradient part either. Any tips would be great! Thank you!

    -Beth

  21. Kevin said on — May 1, 2009 @ 7:21 pm

    your stuff rocks man i appreciate it alot

  22. Evan said on — May 3, 2009 @ 2:53 pm

    Hi! Great tutorial, and fun!
    I did it, and it looks cool. But I have a doubt. I’m from Argentina, and my English it’s decent but there’s something I didn’t get it: when you put the Clouds Filter, and hold it to obtain more contrast, which is the key you press?
    Maybe someone could help me.
    Thanks in advance! :)

  23. dreamless said on — May 26, 2009 @ 5:14 pm

    great solution for the transparasy would be to lower the opacity and keeping the transparasy selected helpt for me

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  25. Michael Greenberg said on — June 1, 2009 @ 10:03 pm

    Thanks for the tutorial,

    I am having a problem around the 2:02 mark of your video. I am using Photoshop CS2. When I try to select the thin rectangle around the top of the image using the rectangular Marquee tool, photoshop is unable to do this because “No pixels are more than 50% selected.” Am I missing something. Any input would be appreciated.

    -Mike

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  27. Chimp J said on — June 2, 2009 @ 1:54 pm

    Great tutorial.. even a duffer like me was able to do it pretty quickly :)

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  29. Lars sjo said on — June 8, 2009 @ 12:59 pm

    hey.
    thanks a lot for the tutorial!
    thumbs up from Norway

  30. Brent C. Davis said on — June 9, 2009 @ 5:39 pm

    Hey what a great tutorial. Was very easy and the end result was awesome! Thanks :)

  31. Avraham Saltoun said on — June 16, 2009 @ 8:38 pm

    Very Good, creative.

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  33. Robin said on — August 21, 2009 @ 3:51 pm

    I get stuck at the Filter->Distort->Polar Coordinates part.

    When I go to Filter->Distort, the only option I have that’s active to select is Lens Correction. Any ideas?

  34. Sebastian Jachec said on — September 1, 2009 @ 11:44 am

    Great tutorial but where did you get the graphic of the spy from?

  35. Alex b said on — September 7, 2009 @ 6:34 pm

    really cool stuff there

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  37. thx alot said on — May 27, 2010 @ 6:34 pm

    Thanks! A helpful tutorial and it work’d perfectly! Thanks and btw that was my first photoshop and i got it rite even tho i have diff version than in the vid :)

  38. Jim M. said on — May 31, 2010 @ 4:16 pm

    Really decent post… I love it. Keep ‘em coming… :)

  39. nik said on — June 10, 2010 @ 5:18 am

    awesome!! So simply explained and to do!

  40. cole said on — June 15, 2010 @ 2:05 pm

    i really love this its amazing i wold do it all night

  41. superlearnmathngentot said on — July 2, 2010 @ 6:37 am

    hello guys

    I just want to say hi

  42. joellenktromburgk said on — July 3, 2010 @ 10:18 am

    hello guys

    I just want to say hi

  43. mark h said on — July 7, 2010 @ 7:54 pm

    Another great tutorial. Thankfully my final imagine looks like the end product…

  44. Caz said on — November 16, 2010 @ 5:44 am

    Great, easy to follow tutorial. Not an expert but was done within timeframe of the video.
    Here’s mine :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/minx_phillips/5180935845/

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  46. Thiago Gonçalves said on — January 14, 2011 @ 12:39 pm

    As a James Bond fa, I couldn’t miss this tutorial hahau

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