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This tutorial is an alternative version of and is adapted from Tephra's PSP tut
for making faceted gems using SuperBladePro, which you can find at: http://psp.tephras.com/tutorials/gems/index.html
This tutorial was written using Photoshop 7, but other versions should
work as well.
PLEASE NOTE: The SuperBladePro presets provided for this tutorial, and
the templates for using them, are the creation and property of Karen Stimson/Wool Sweater Street. They are free
for your personal use only. If you want to use them commercially, contact me at karen@woolsweaterstreet.com about purchasing a
commercial license.
For this tutorial, you will need to download two zip files: one contains the base and crown gem templates for the
round, oval, pear, square and teardrop-shaped gems. You can download this file by clicking here. The second
zip file includes my SBP presets for creating the faceted ruby, which can be used to create any color gem. Click
here to
download this file. After unzipping both files, copy the bitmaps to your Environments and Textures folder, place
the presets in your SBP folder, and open the .psd file named "ks_faceted gem template round" in Photoshop.
Control-click on the layer labeled "base" to select that shape. Apply my SBP preset "ks_ruby base
round" to the shape. Your image should now look like this:
Now, Control-click on the layer labeled "crown" to select the shape
and apply my preset "ks_ruby crown" to it. Your image should now look like this:
Go to Select >Deselect, then click on the blur tool in the toolbox to select it. Pick a round brush size 13
with blurry edges, and use the settings of Mode=Normal, Strength=50% and "use all layers" unselected.
Go around the edge of the crown shape three times to soften it (it's easier to see what you're doing if you turn
off the base layer). Your image should now look like this:
Then turn off the crown layer and turn on the base layer, and use the blur tool on the same settings to soften
the area just around the edge of the inner solid-colored section of the base. Your image should now look like this:
Turn the crown layer back on and go to Layer > Merge Down to merge the two
shapes into one gemstone. Go to Image > Image Size and reduce the size of the image using these settings:
Your image should now look like this:
Go to Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast, and increase the contrast by +50. Your image should now
look like this:
Control-click to select the gemstone. Go to Select > Modify > Contract and
contract by 1 pixel. Go to Select > Inverse, and then to Edit > Clear. Go to Select > Deselect. Turn the
background layer on, add a simple drop shadow, and your ruby is ready to shine!
To change the stone's colors, use the Hue slider by going to Image > Adjustments
> Hue/Saturation...
The following adjustments will give you these colored gems, which are just a sampling of the colored gems you can
create by changing the hue, saturation and lightness values and sometimes the brightness and contrast values as
well:
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-72 Hue
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+65 Hue
+100 Saturation
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-121 Hue
+100 Saturation
+ 50 Lightness
+50 Brightness
+35 Contrast
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+35 Hue
+100 Saturation
+10 Brightness
+40 Contrast
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+125 Hue
-20 Lightness
+20 Contrast
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