How to Make It So Art Looks Like Its From the Phb
How-do-you-do People,
As per asking I will explain how to create an official looking folio for your homebrew material. This tutorial is non fabricated by me but by /u/Skybug12.
Besides this tutorial you will need these two things:
Resource zilch file. This contains the brushes and fonts yous volition need.
Photoshop Homebrew Template. This contains templates for about everything, this includes Class Tables, Monster Stat Blocks, Formatted Titles and Text, and more.
Other Templates. This site contains more than resources such as templates for InDesign.
/u/Skybug12′south tutorial is nether the cutting,
Starting time by opening the example PSD in the file and grabbing the parchment background layer, copy it, and paste it into a new document.
The next thing I did was find a background image to place as the header on top. Effort to detect something that fits in thematically and artistically with the residual of the images in the PHB. Paste in the movie, so switch to the eraser tool using one or multiple brushes included in the pack to requite it a rough edge.
Next I began to try to blend the background into the page, giving information technology a watercolor edge type of look like in the PHB (With express success :P ). Make a new layer, and then Hold the command primal and select the preview paradigm of your previous layer (the one with the forest in my paradigm). This should highlight the outline of that layer, matching the squiggles and such of your paradigm. Press and hold Control - Shift- "I" (without quotes) to invert the pick. the highlighted section should now include everything Only your forest/whatever epitome.
On the new layer you lot had made, Now that your area is highlighted, take a brush from the brush pack and start painting in the area at the border of your image. Try to get a color close to the colors found at the border of the image to help fade it in. You lot can use the Eyedropper tool to select colors virtually the bottom. I set the opacity of my layer at 22%. If your paint goes too far down the folio, take a big soft brush and gently fade the pigment into a manageable area.
Exercise this a couple of times on a few layers until yous find a decent expect. All my layers here are about 15-25% opacity, using colors selected from my epitome.
Here I found the prototype for the artwork I wanted to use for the race. I merely cropped it out of some other prototype and pasted it into here on a new layer. The edges around the scarf were a picayune crude, so I took a soft brush and gently faded them. The pictures in the PHB all have shadows underneath them, so I added a shadow under my image on a separate layer.
Personally, my forest epitome was likewise bright towards the top, then I added a layer of black on soft light 48% opacity, so erased what I didnt want to be darker.
From the example PDF, copy the layer called "Margins" and paste information technology as a new layer into your prototype. This is an outline of the text part of your paradigm. It shows how wide the text can go, and how far downwards information technology can go.
This is where it begins to get technical. This isn't an verbal science, and I only did my all-time to try and make information technology wait alright. My way may not be the best or right way, it'south only what I did. I fabricated a new text layer for the name of my race. It's important to note that the titles of every section of your image are in all capital letter letters, with the beginning alphabetic character of the discussion beingness in a bigger font size than the rest. The font I used (which is included in the pack) is called "Bookmania". I used the regular version of it, in a xiv point font, with the first alphabetic character being 18 font. The titles in the PHB are in a cherry color, so I grabbed a color I thought looked shut to information technology ( 94, 18, 0 ). All the other titles will accept a yellowish underline, but non this one. Place the title on the on the lefthand side of whatever cavalcade yous put information technology on.
Every PHB race has a little story in the beginning. The first sentence in written in all upper-case letter letters, like the title, with the beginning letter of the starting time word being in a college font. I happened to use Bookmania Regular in a seven.5 font for the outset judgement (the "O" in obscured is 10 betoken font). The next line of the story is written in Bookmania Regular Italics in 7.5 font. This part of the story is written in normal case, unlike the first judgement. Place the cake in line with the race proper noun on the left hand side of any column you chose to put it in. An important affair to notation here, is that the spacing between the letters in this beginning story is dissimilar that the entire rest of the document. I highlight the story I wrote, then changed the spacing to xi points and metric (no idea what this ways, I clicked until something worked).
The adjacent few portions just detail the physical aspects of the race and give a full general look at their identify in the world and their customs. Go back to regular Bookmania with no weird spacing and write some cool stuff. Be sure not to become further than the cherry line at the bottom of the outline. Font color is black.
Once you finish your start segment, make your side by side title for the adjacent segment. mine is "Furry and Nimble", written in the aforementioned red color as the previous championship, all capital letters, I chose 8 point font with the first letters of the major words being in 12 point font. Place it to the left side of the column you are working in. From now on, your titles are going to have these yellow lines underneath them. In your selection tool, where the dotted line square is, there is a tool to make a single line across the page. I made 1 line, painted it with a yellow colour (206, 179, 31). I so copied this layer a few times, spread them out into a thicker line, and merged the layers (convoluted, simply information technology worked for me).
at this point, I merely filled in the rest of the information about the race. Acme, weight, color, season and worldbuilding (their communities, how the fit into and react to the world, etc…) again, don't become past the red line at the bottom.
Now hither is some more than techinal stuff that I handled un-technically. The spacing betwixt each department. For the space between Mousefolk and the beginning story, I used the niggling ruler on the side of the screen. There is about 6 lines of space betwixt the two titles.
For the space between the story and the first paragraph, there is nearly 10 lines of infinite.
Between "Furry and nimble" and the yellowish line, about 1 ½ lines of space. Betwixt the bottom of the line and the beginning of the next paragraph, virtually iii lines of space.
And that'south really it for the starting time page! Another matter to annotation. When working on a section, the showtime line of the starting time paragraph is NOT indented. The beginning lines of subsequent paragraphs in the aforementioned section, nonetheless, ARE indented!
Source: https://dnd-5e-homebrew.tumblr.com/post/134421010799/phb-homebrewing-tutorial
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