PSD Download Of Radar Image

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Below you’ll find the download link for the PSD of the tutorial written about creating a radar image.

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Making A Radar Signal Image

Filed under Photoshop Tutorials - Head Nerd @ November 14th, 2005

Making a Radar

Make a new document, 1000×1000 pixels, white background.

Set your foreground color to #2c8e01 and background color to black. Using linear gradient tool, make a gradient from lower right corner to upper left corner, like this:

On a new layer, create some lines, 8-10 pixels thin and position them like in the example. Choose for them a mid-range color, let’s say #1b5901. With the lines layer selected, press CTRL+E (command+E on Macintosh) to merge layers.

Now go to filters>distort>polar coordinates and choose “Rectangular to Polar” Now you have the basic radar. Let’s enhance it a little.

Using the eliptical marquee tool, make a circle araunf the image, invert the selection and fill it with black. Your image should look like this:

Invert again the selection, in order to have the radar selected. Right clcik on selection and choose “free Transform”. Now rotate the selection like in the example:

Further enhancements: create a new layer and make a crosshairusing a brighter green: #257801. Take care that the

crosshair should intersect the middle of the radar.

Using the brush tool, make some “targets” with the same bright green.

Using the Type tool, write “Target 1, Target2, Target….” near each “target” with a real small font and red color. I have chosen Arial, 9pt, red color. Add some more text in another corner. That’s it.

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Creating An Ice Texture

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Ice Texture

Make a new document, 500×1000 pixels, white background.

Fill the selection with a “black to white” gradient starting from the top of image to the bottom like in the example.

Now go on “Filter - Render - Difference Cloud”, then hit CTRL+F (Command+F on Macintosh) until you have something like this:

Now go to Image>Adjustments>Invert or just hit CTRL+I (Command+I on Mac) to invert the colors.

Now go to Image>Adjustments>Levels or hit CTRL+L (command+L on the Mac) to bring up the Levels dialogue. In the level panel magnify the white zones moving the left pointer to right and the right pointer to left. Hit OK.

Bring up the Hue/Saturation dialogue, so go to Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation or hit CTRL+U (Command+U on Mac). Set the values like in the example below.