Acoustic Guitar - Textures and Vector Play

1. Open the Guitar Project from Part1 if you haven't done so already.

2. Draw a guitar bridge in the area shown on the upper figure on the right. While still in Vector Form, use the same method used for the body in Part1 to add the wood texture. Use #242A28 for the bottom solid color and use #4A463E for the top texture color with the wood grain in horizontal orientation.

3. When done, convert them to Raster Layer, and highlight the solid layer with the Dodge Brush, as shown on the lower figure on the right. Add Drop Shadow to finish the Bridge off.

4. For the String Saddles, use the Vector Tool (Pen Tool) with Width=7, Stroke Color=#ECECE4 to draw a line on the Bridge area shown on the lower figure on the right. Use the Vector Tool (Shape Tool) with Width=6, Stroke Color=#ECECE4, and Fill Color=#000000 to draw the String Pins.

On to the next step....

Bridge1

Bridge2

5. Draw the Neck of the guitar as shown in the figure on the right. Using the same method as the Bridge and Body, use #CECEA4 for the Stroke Color and #342F2B for the Fill Color.

6. Add the wood grain texture using transparent for the Stroke Color and #64564C for the Fill Color. Scale up or down the texture to the right proportion if the wood grain is too big or too small.

7. When finished, add a Drop Shadow effect on a separate layer and cut the part that is not on the body of the guitar. Then Merge Visible the Neck and Bridge to the Body.

8. For the Fret wires Use a Linear gradient using these colors: #6D6149, #B5B092 and #6D6149. Follow the rest of the settings in the figure below.

9. Using the Vector Tool (or Pen Tool), draw a line across the neck with width=5.00. Convert this to Raster Layer, copy and paste it as a New Selection, carefully placing each at an increasing distance from the body to the end of the neck.

10. Cut all the portion that are sticking out using Reverse Selection, as described in Part1.

11. Duplicate the Fret Wire Layer and apply Cutout Shadow with the following settings: Vertical/Horizontal Offset=2, Opacity=100, Blur=2.5, Color=#FFFFFF, Fill Interior..=Unchecked.

Neck1

12. Again, make the necessary adjustments and then Merge Visible everything. Take a look at the poject again. Is it starting to look like guitar? On to the next part...