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Photoshop Tutorial

Tribal Art

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Description: Learn how to create these wonderful tribal type arts that are excellent for site logos.

Written by: Imusion

Step 1

Create a new document. Take your pen tool, now here comes the hardest part of the tutorial, you make or break the tutorial here. Make something similar to what I've shown below in the animation below.

I'll explain it in words too if some of you haven't figured out how to do it yet.
- With the pen tool click once on an area on the canvas.
- Then move over roughly like what it shows in the animation.
- Get this part, click AND DRAG the pen tool so it creates a sort of "hump", then release your click.
- Move over some more and a little above then click and drag it so it creates an "upsidedown hump"(You shouldn't have to do much as the first hump will automatically curve the upsidedown hump).

Step 2

Take the brush tool then go to the Paths palette.

Step 3

Reset your colors then create a new layer. Right click on the "Work Path" and select Stroke Path. Right click again on the path and click on delete.

Step 4

Here comes the most "Artistic" part so to say in this tutorial. So you have a transparent layer with the curvey line. This step is up to your creativity.
But most of you will start off by duplicating this layer with the curvey line. For the sake of this tutorial I'll explain how I created mine, but your not limited by these steps.

Step 5

So now with this duplicated layer we're going to flip it horizontally. If you haven't touched it previously your image should look roughly like this.

Step 6

Now create a new layer set by linking the 2 layers that have the curvey lines on them. Now duplicate this layer set.

Step 7

Now flip the newly duplicated layer set vertically.

Final Product

>Voila! There you have it folks! There are just so many differnet ways to do this that you can come up with something different everytime and by changing just the slightest of things you can change the whole look of the image. Below are examples of a few final products.

- In this example I moved the duplicated layer set up like a couple of inches.

- In this example I moved the duplicated layer set up like a couple of MORE inches.

- This is getting a little ridiculous but YES, I moved it up even MORE to create this one, like I said changing the slightest of things can change the whole apperance of the image.

- Finally, this time I moved it down more from its original position.

- Wow, look at this, in this one on the first step I created a boomerang shape instead of that curvey line and instead of putting the thing in a layer set I just duplicated the transparent layer with the boomerang shape then rotated it 90° about 4-5 times.

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Comment #1

BreadSlicer

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Let's try this again... (damn spam code)

I'm lost in steps 2 and 3 (path options appear grayed out) using PS CS. This is a great tut and I would love to figure out how to create shapes more efficiently.

Any thoughts on what this newbie is doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

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Thursday July 7th, 2005 at 3:39 PM

Comment #2

Guest: Viperium

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Damn man cant get it right brush tool and Paths palette. right because got diffrent langues and dont know what it means :S

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Sunday October 23rd, 2005 at 5:19 AM

Comment #3

Guest: Dies-Irae

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Haha, wow, you saved my ass, I promised my friend a tribal picture a while ago and I've been looking for one for a while now! Thanks! :D

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Thursday October 27th, 2005 at 7:05 AM

Comment #4

Johnathan

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BreadSlicer: It shouldn't be much different I'm imagining. If you follow the steps I'm assuming it should work. If not I'm sorry but I don't use PS CS version. :( Hopefully someone can assist him?

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Thursday October 27th, 2005 at 8:20 PM

Comment #5

Guest:

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I have version 7.0, and the options appear greyed out for me also

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Saturday November 12th, 2005 at 4:13 PM

Comment #6

Guest: LOL

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LOLL!!!

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Saturday December 10th, 2005 at 3:39 PM

Comment #7

Guest: Cris

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@ breadslicer do the following do that stuff with the pen toll and than select all strg+a the u can rightclick at the thig drawn on the canvas and select stroke path then it works... i figured it out by trying for about an hour ... i got ps cs too by the way i like this tut too

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Wednesday December 28th, 2005 at 7:33 PM

Comment #8

Guest: Cris

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what i wrote was plain bullshit sorry this wasnt ment as a spam

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Wednesday December 28th, 2005 at 7:45 PM

Comment #9

Guest: romanu

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hmm, aren't you supposed to use size jitter in brush size dynamics to get the fade out? i couldn't get it to come out as nice, i just got a curvy line.

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Monday January 9th, 2006 at 10:22 AM

Comment #10

Guest: jem

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well i got mine to work fine!! although if anyone can tell me how to upload it to the net can you pls email me at heylookabluecar@hotmail.com thanx!!

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Monday January 9th, 2006 at 11:16 PM

Comment #11

Guest: MATRIX2689

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Very cool tribal art tutorial...But i would like to know what brush you used and/or what effects to get the image in step 3 with the black/white fade and sharp ends. Any help people? I have read the posts on this topic but none seem to be clear about it. Excellent tut. in any case :)

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Tuesday February 7th, 2006 at 7:44 PM

Comment #12

Guest: MATRIX2689

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Oh yeah...For reference on helping me out, i am using Photoshop CS2. Cheers

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Tuesday February 7th, 2006 at 7:47 PM

Comment #13

Johnathan

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I just used a regular soft rounded brush. Pick a smaller size and test to see.

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Tuesday February 7th, 2006 at 9:17 PM

Comment #14

Guest: Amadaun

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This question has actually plagued me for a while...

How do i get pen tool to not fill in empty space? as in ill make the curve, then it fills in the inside of the curve with black (or whatever else the foreground color is) is there a way to get empty space as foreground, or change brush style, or something?

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Thursday May 25th, 2006 at 6:34 PM

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Guest: ...............

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doesnt explain how to copy and paste and fliping

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Friday June 16th, 2006 at 1:02 PM

Comment #16

Guest: vaibhav.mehta

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my comment is that you send me some different types of logos of friendship because i want to make one site so i want to make logo.i want to make tamatochutny.com so i want to have some logo so please send me some logos.

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Wednesday September 6th, 2006 at 3:11 AM

Comment #17

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OK i figured out the Problem!!! When you select the Pen tool, a set of options appear at the top where you can select the type of Pen Etc, back sure the 2nd of three options on the far left is slelected, It should look like a Box but the one with the pen icon in the middle!

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Saturday September 9th, 2006 at 5:04 PM

Comment #18

Guest: Herb

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When I follow this tutorial, when i do the stroke path, all i get is the normal brush look not the faded effect as in step 3, (i do have stimulate pressure checked as well) Any one help?

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Friday November 10th, 2006 at 4:33 PM

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haha ... oh .. haha .. oh k ...

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Wednesday May 23rd, 2007 at 1:17 AM

Comment #20

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go through yr tutorial word 4 word and u wont come out with this result m8

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Friday August 3rd, 2007 at 3:21 PM

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gaziya

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Saturday October 20th, 2007 at 4:52 PM

Comment #22

Guest: JerichoHM

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Great tutorial. Something so simple is trivial most of the time. This however has permitted me to create tribal elemental "icons" that live inside an appropriate colored glass orb and then placed in a game that uses the elements!

Thanks again.... you've made me bookmark this site as well.

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Sunday July 6th, 2008 at 5:31 PM

Comment #23

Guest: Viewer

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Hi,

First of all: Great tutorial.
I have been using Photoshop for couple of years now and I'd say I'm not an amateur. I guess I have the same problem as some other posters, not managing to get the stroked curve to fade out. Could you maybe go through it step-by-step and think what common mistakes could be at fault?

I'd be very glad, as I would need this for a album release due very soon.

Greets
Philipp

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Tuesday July 29th, 2008 at 11:13 AM

Comment #24

Guest: Patrick

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fairly easy and useful tut

HERES HOW U DO THE PATH THING

select the pen tool

in the top part of the screen there are 3 types of pen: choose the middle one called "Paths"

draw the curvy line

select the brush tool and choose a preset of your liking (a soft not very big brush should do the trick)

now rightclick the layer under the paths tab (on the right side of the screen) and select stroke path

select the brush (not pencil as defaulted) and check the pressure button

voila!

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Sunday March 1st, 2009 at 5:16 AM

Comment #25

Guest: imtiaz

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though im new i think i can make it right

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Friday May 15th, 2009 at 7:58 AM

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