Create a Family Tree: Paint, Edit and Prepare for Print

1. Introduction: Hi. Hello. My name is Anya and welcome to my new sculpture class. I'm a graphic designer and also illustrator. For the last few years, I'm working on becoming a professional illustrator. In my work as an illustrator, having a graphic design skills was very helpful, because I could use graphic design programs and I could project all by my own, and also prepare my files to print. I will be very happy to share all my knowledge and experience I have achieved with you. In this class, we will create a family tree and I will guide you through all the process from sketching, painting, then editing it in Adobe Photoshop, and preparing your art to print. This way, you will not only create a beautiful handmade gift, but also we will learn several digital tools to edit and print your art. This class is for everybody. Just beware that I won't get into the details about watercolor techniques that I will use. You can jump into my two classes about watercolor techniques. Also, I wanted to tell you that you can use your own technique. If you use some other art supplies, other art mediums, then go for it. I will use Adobe Photoshop software, so be sure to have it installed on your computer. If you're a beginner and if you don't know this software, then don't worry, I will use just the basic tools. I'd really love to have you in this class, and I really can't wait to share all my knowledge and skills with you. Jump into this class and in the next lesson, we will see what's this class's project. See you there. 2. Class Project: [MUSIC] This class' project is to create a family tree. There are two reasons why I prepared this class. First of all, I really love to create by my own creative gifts. A second reason is that my friend asked me to prepare a family tree for her family, and I thought it is a really great idea for a gift. The process will be divided into two major steps. The first one is a traditional one and the second one is the digital. [MUSIC] The first step is to paint our tree. We will start with making a plan, a basic layout, and then a sketch of our tree. Then I will show you two ways of transferring the sketch into the final illustration, and then we will paint the tree. I will use watercolors. But as I mentioned, feel free to use your favorite techniques and art supplies that you usually use. The second step, once we've finished to paint our tree, we will scan it and then transfer it into Adobe Photoshop, where we will do some basic editing, adjusting, then we will insert our photos and names. Finally, I will show you how to prepare your file to print. If this class seems for you a little bit complex, then don't worry, I will divide all the process into tiny steps, and I'm sure you'll be able to follow all the lessons. If you have any problems and questions, come back to me in this classes discussion, I will be happy to answer all your doubts and questions. Also, I will provide helpful materials and resources, and I will attach all the files in the classes resources and project section so you can go there and check what I've prepared for you. You can also jump into this classes description and see the single steps that I described there. If you're ready, let's go into the third lesson, which is Art Supplies. 3. Art Supplies: Let's see the art supplies that we will use in this lesson. As I've already told you, I will use watercolors and I also told you that you're free to use whatever art supplies and techniques that you prefer. If you're new to this channel, then just be aware that I've already prepared two classes about watercolor techniques when I specifically explain how to use watercolors. For the first part where we will create a sketch and layout, I will use just the pencils, eraser, and a normal copy of printing paper. It will be just enough. I will also use colored paper and scissors to cut out the shapes for my layout, but you can use another type of paper. It's really the same if it will be a normal paper. For the final illustration, I will use watercolor paper. In this case, this is Arches watercolor paper with cold pressed texture. You can use another type of paper. It doesn't have to be so expensive one. For example, if you have at home mixed media paper or other watercolor paper, then you can use it. The important thing is that it should be at least 300 grams or maybe even 250, but not lower. To transfer our sketch, I will use the light box. I ordered this online. It's not expensive. You can find it on the Internet. But if you don't have one, don't worry, I will show you alternative way to transfer your sketch to the final illustration. To paint, I will use watercolors. This is one of my watercolor sets. As for the brushes I will use round synthetic brushes for watercolors. If you don't have one, then you can buy maybe three or four sizes, small, medium, and large one. Also the scissors, I already said, and this white ink that I often use. I will use it for the details. Also, I will use the masking tape, the adhesive of tape, to fix my illustration while I will copy to the final sketch. As I already said, you can use your favorite art supplies or you can add some mixed media to your watercolors. For example, colored pencils, brush, or acrylic, or inks. It's certainly up to you. Let's recap the list of art supplies. Here's the list of what I've used for the sketching and the painting part. Remember that if you have any doubts or questions about the art supplies or the technique, you can also ask me questions in this class' discussion. I will be very happy to answer to you. In the next lesson, we will plan our tree, so see you there. 4. Planning Your Tree: Before jumping into painting your tree, you will have to plan a few things. For example, how many generations you will have to include? How many people? My tip for you is to not make it too big. For example, I've included three generations, including grandparents. It's up to you, but my suggestion is to keep it simple. I will provide you a link to my Pinterest Moodboard, where I've paint examples of family tree artwork. I will share with you my process, my ideas or how I figured out how to layout the tree. Of course, if you have other ideas, I'm curious. Share with us your process. I will show you how I did it. First, I've counted the number of people that will be in my tree. It could be couples, it could be single people. Then I've cut out their shapes. I decided that my photos will be circles. Here, I am preparing the number of circles that will be needed for all my tree. Once I had all my circles, then I drew the trunk, and I've put the first circle, the first couple. Afterwards, all the other circles. I also signed the circles. I find that it can be helpful during the process. Once I've put all the circles, once I've planned all the layout, then I drew the branches between the circles. Afterwards, I put aside all the circles and connected the gaps between the branches. In this way, the scheme of my layout is ready. Here's the brief sum up of this lesson of how I designed the layout of the tree. Once you've planned and prepared all the information, we can jump into sketching our family tree. 5. Making a Final Sketch: [MUSIC] In this lesson, I will show you two ways how to transfer your layout draft into a final sketch. I've decided to divide the sketching part into two steps. I found it more simple for me to make the initial layout and then to transfer it into the final illustration. But obviously, you can skip the first step and plan your tree layout directly on your executive art piece. I will show you two ways of transferring the sketch. If you have a lightbox at home, you can use it. I think it's a very useful tool, especially if you work with sketches before you go into the final illustration. For me, it depends. Sometimes I prefer to make initial sketch, especially if I work with children books illustrations, and then I transfer the initial draft into my final art's piece. Give it a try to a light box. You can find it, not very expensive online. [MUSIC] If you don't have a light box, then don't worry, you can use just your window during the daylight. Fix your illustration, your draft underneath the paper that you will use. Then probably you can see underneath your draft. Maybe it's less comfortable than lightbox, but still works really well. You've made it. We've created the basic of our family tree. Finally, we can dive into the next lesson and start to paint. See you there. [MUSIC] 6. Painting The Trunk And Branches With Watercolors: [MUSIC] In this lesson, I will define my color palette and then I will jump into painting the wooden part of trees, which are trunk and branches. I will use watercolor, wet on dry techniques. I will also show you some tips that I use to create a tree bark texture. Before you start painting, it's a good thing to create your color mode, your color palette. I think it's a good habit whether you're painting something as a gift or commission, or even if you paint something for yourself to think ahead of your colors. It doesn't have to be super defined or specific, sometimes you want to just create some mood. You play with tones, warm tones, or should it be cool tones, or maybe you want to create contrast of cool and warm tones together. Then it's good thing to play and experiment before you jump into paint. I decided to use very classical color palette for trees with greens and arithmetic brown, warm tones for the wooden part. Here I grabbed my green watercolors and also I played to create brown tones. Once I prepared my colors, I started to paint. For the trunk and branches, I use wet and dry technique, it means that I don't wet the paper before painting. Then paint with quite a lot of watercolor, creating a paddle that I will push around. In this particular technique where if you use watercolor, my tip for you is to never let your paint to dry. Once you would turn to the paint where I left it, it won't create the borders, but it will blend smoothly because the color will be still wet. I'm working quite fast because I don't want to let my color to dry. You can see that I use the same brush to create also the tiny branches. That's because if you have a good quality brush, you can use it to create different strokes. When you use it in a light way, it's within and when you push your brush and paint then it creates larger strokes. As you can see, I've painted in the zone that I left for some time, but it was still wet, so it blended nicely. Another tip that I have for you is to play with colors. I don't use only one brown, but I mix it while I'm painting. Sometimes I will use a darker brown, then I will add some lighter brown. You can start with one color and then add some tone, some different colors into it to create different tonalities of the same color, in this case, it's brown. Here I'm starting to create the wooden texture. To do that, I put a little darker brown into my still wet brand underneath. That's because I want to create a little bit of gradient, a little bit of lovely, crispy texture. Once again, the color must be still wet if you're using watercolor and if you want to follow this particular technique. Once I'm happy with the result, I grab a tissue or paper towel and dab into the paint while it's still wet. This way you create lovely textures. Let's recap briefly this apart of painting. First I defined my color palette, then I painted the trunk and branches using the wet on dry watercolor technique and I mixed more colors, then I created the wooden texture by dabbing the paper tissue into the wet color. When you finish, let's your illustration dry. In the next lesson, we will paint leaves. 7. Painting The Leaves With Watercolors: [MUSIC] Probably you've already chosen the type of the tree that you want to paint. When it's about painting leaves, you can both use realistic shapes of leaves, a search for some photos reference, or maybe you can just bring some leaves from outside and try to paint them. Or you can use your imagination and paint whatever strange shapes you like to. Maybe add some flowers or some fruits. It's totally up to you. You can be as creative as you wish. Maybe you could do some investigation and search for some elements that represent the family, maybe some fruit, maybe a color, maybe it will be a tree itself. What type of the tree? Maybe the family has some tree in the garden or somehow they like some kind of trees or plants. I think you know what I mean. So try to think about it. Be as creative as you wish. The shape of my leaves will be quite traditional and I will also use different greens to paint them. I will play with different shades of green, and also I will dilute the color in the way that sometimes it will be more dense and sometimes it will be more translucent. In this way, I will play with different tonalities and shades of green. I will also use the transparencies. It means that I will paint diluted color above the more dense and more opaque color. It creates a really nice effect of a crispy and transparent color. I will also paint floral details for this, I will use the tiny brush with a really sharp tip because I like to paint really thin and tiny lines, and that. So this will be my imagination playing around. I won't paint flowers or fruits. [MUSIC] In my work, I often use white ink to create final details.So also, this time I will use it for the leaves. You can use other white colors, for example, acrylic or maybe white pencil, but you can also use other colors and other mediums to create your final details. As a very final touch, I decided that I would paint additional wood texture, so I used for that very diluted brown color. It would be darker color than the one that is underneath. Then just paint above and create additional wood texture. You can skip this if you don't want to or create your own wood effect. Here's the final result. At this point, I decided that I won't add anything else and that my tree is ready to be scanned. Let's do a small recap of all the step that we took during this lesson. Yay. Your tree should be ready at this point. In the next lesson, I will show you how to scan your illustration into Photoshop. See you there. [MUSIC] 8. Scanning and Importing into Adobe Photoshop: [MUSIC] Let's talk about scanning. In this lesson, I will show you the scanner that I use. I have my own scanner at home. I will show you that and I'll also show you the file settings that you should use to achieve a high-quality scan of your artwork. I will show you how to import your scan files into Adobe way. If you have multiple scan files, then I'll show you how to merge them into unique file. At the beginning, just a short notice, I will show you how to scan at home. But if you don't have a scanner or it's not a good quality one, then obviously you can scan elsewhere. For example, in a professional printing point or maybe a photographer, it's a good solution. Always ask for a good photography scanner though. You can both ask staff of your printing point to set the file and scan for you or you can provide the settings, for example, the one that I will show you in this lesson. That's because my experience is that not always staff is aware of the proper settings. First, I will show you the scanner that I use. This is Epson Perfection V600 Photo. This is the photo scan and it is really high-quality. I can really recommend it to you. There are other models, 500, 550. They are also very good. I have 600 and it's really, really good. It's A4 format. As you can see, it has glass a scan. So this is how it's big. This is the power button. Yeah, it's really good. I can highly recommend it. I will show you how I scan the illustration since it's bigger than the scanner so I will divide it into two parts. You can push this button or later I will show you how to do it from the software. My tip, remember to align your illustration with the signs that are in the scanner. So I can push the button. Once the scan is ready, I will turn upside down my illustration. I will rotate it in order to scan the second half. Let's see where's the scan software. I have this icon over here on my bar, and to activate it, just click it. My scanner now will make some noises because it's connecting to my computer. Just remember that your scan have to be on. If it's switched off, then it won't connect to your computer. Here it is. This is the panel of the of Epson software. If you have another scanner, then it might be slightly different. The important thing is that all the settings you have. Here and here you can have your preview. Right now my settings are in Italian but I will try to translate. The most important thing every scanner has those settings is to set the bits of your image and resolution and also the type of the format of the file that you want to save your image. Also probably this mode, modo foto, it means it will be in color not in black and white. Bit, you should select 24 or 48. It depends. If you have better scanner, you can have 48 and maybe higher as well. I will select 48 because it gives bigger range of colors but 24 is good as well. So 48 bits, then the resolution, if your artwork will be printed in the same size as it was made, for example, if you draw on A4 format and your points will be A4, then 300 DPI is enough. If, for example, you want to print your tree on a bigger format, then you should probably choose something between 400 or even better at 600 DPI and then it's a double number so you can print it on the double size of the format that you use or even bigger because it's really high and good resolution. Also, I suggest you to use a TIFF format. That's because it's better than JPEG, and TIFF is also for print and it's really high resolution. It's better than JPEG. Before scanning, you should probably see the preview which is here, anteprima in Italiano, in Italian language, sorry, just to see if your illustration is straight and all right. So I will push this button. It doesn't make a scan at this point, it just makes you the preview. Okay, so I'm quite happy. As you can see, it's straight. Here, maybe it's cut a little bit but I think that's my illustration was like that. So I will just leave it like this and with 600 DPI and TIFF format, I will push the scan button. It takes a little while because the bigger the format and the higher quality you ask, so more data the scan must elaborate. All right, great. So here it is. It is the first scan of my tree. As you can see, I've already made them. So this is the first part, first half, then I rotated the image and scanned the second half and this is the second image. So I will merge those two in the next step. Right. Let's import our illustrations, our scans into Photoshop. We will have to merge two scans, and I will show you the really easy and quick way where Photoshop will do all the work for us. So to do that, go to Photoshop file, then automate and photomerge. Next, search for your files, select all the scans that you have. In my case, it's two. You might have three. It's depends. Anyway, select all of them and click ''Open'', then click ''OK'' and just wait a little bit and let Photoshop do the work for you. Okay. Voila. Here it is. In my case, I will have to rotate my image. So I will go to image, image rotation, and then search for the layer panels. It should be on the right bar of your Photoshop. Open it, and as you can see, there are two separate layers with our scans. Keep them selected. I'll select both of them and click merge, right-click ''Merge Layers'', and voila, our illustration is ready to be edited. Let's do a small recap of all the steps that we took during this lesson. [MUSIC] In this lesson, I showed you how you can scan your artwork and what file settings you should use once you have your files ready. In the next lesson, I'll show you how to open them and edit them in Adobe Photoshop. See you there. 9. Editing Your Illustration in Adobe Photoshop: [MUSIC] In this lesson, we will start to use Adobe Photoshop software, so be sure to have it installed in your computer at this point. We will make some basic editing on our artwork. Let's create new document that will be our work document. To do that, go to File, New. I will choose a print format A3. That's the format that I want to print on and it will be horizontal. I choose horizontal over here. Three hundred DPI pixels per inch of resolution is enough. Right now, I will leave RGB color and then I will click "Create." Let's take our illustration into our new document. To do that you can simply just drag it, so click it, don't release it and just drag, drag and release it in your new document. As you can see, the illustration is much more bigger than the document and that's because it was scanned in 600 DPI because in case I would like to print it on the bigger format, it's always possible. But I will print it on A3. I will simply resize it to my file size. If you scanned it in 300 DPI, it should be the same as your final format. If you scanned A4 in 300, then you can print it easily on A4 and if you scanned A4 with 600 DPI, then you can print it on A3 or even larger documents. It's up to you. Now I would like to work on whites. As you can see, it's a little bit yellowish and it's not so bright and also I would like to on the vibrancy of the colors and increase the contrast between white and colors. I will leave the white background because I will print on the white sheet. Later on I will print on the white paper and I also worked on white paper so I don't really need to delete the white background. I will just delete the imperfections, stains and happy accidents like this one later on. Let's start from increasing our whites and contrast. To do that, go to Image. You have to click on the "Layer" and have it active otherwise it won't be possible to select this layer adjustments. Go to Image, Adjustments, Levels. To increase whites, go to this section. This section is responsible for whites, this one is responsible for a dark and black colors and this one is responsible for the mid tones. I will just increase whites by dragging this white arrow. Let me zoom a little bit, a little bit farther but not too much. Also, I will increase mid tones, just to work on the contrast a little bit. As you can see now the whites are much more brighter and my colors have much more contrast. You can switch off the preview to see how it was before and how it is right now. Just be careful not to burn the whites and the bright colors like this one. If I go much more further, it would burnt my bright color so I don't want to do that. Just decide what's best and then click. Let me just check this once again, I think it's perfect, click "Okay." The last thing is to work on vibrancy. Go to Image, Adjustments once again and choose Vibrance, just a tiny little bit because if you exaggerate then maybe it's not so good. Also saturation, if you exaggerate, as you can see now browns are much more red saturated so I will just leave it maybe five vibrance just a little bit. As you can see the greens are more vibrant. I would advise to keep those numbers low, not too high. Click "Okay." Here it is. This is my basic routine. Once I scanned my illustrations, first I work on contrast and then I adjust a little bit the saturations of color. Let's start to clean our illustration. Even if you increased your whites, there will be still some imperfections. For example, I tend to make a lot of stains and dots and that's okay because later on I will clean them with Photoshop. To clean those, grab your Erase Tool which is on the left bar with the tools of Photoshop and here's the Eraser Tool. You can click it and you can also decide the shape of your brush. Right now, I will use this normal round brush but you can also choose one soft edge brush. Maybe this one will be even better especially if you work only with mouse. If you work with graphic tablet, then it's more comfortable and easy to use the erasers and the brushes. Let me try this shape because right now I'm working with my mouse. What I usually do before I do any changes with my layer, any modifies, I do the copy of my layer and I will work on the copy and leave the original just in case. You can just simply copy the layer and work on and leave the original. I will click with my eraser wherever I need it. To make step backwards, use Command and Control Z, you can decrease or increase your brush in here and here we go. [MUSIC] I won't be too accurate. As you can see, I forgot to delete the pencil with eraser and that's not so good but hey, there are many things that you can adjust with Photoshop. Good thing to do is to clean your desktop before this work because when your desktop is not clean and you can see some stains sometimes, it's on your desktop, not on your illustrations actually. That's a good habit to clean your desktop. I will speed up a little bit the process. Let me just check out with you some other stains. You can also try the Hard brush. It's also okay. See what brush shape is good for you. [MUSIC] Here is the small recap of all the steps that we took in this lesson from creating new document, through editing the colors and vibrancy and contrast and lastly through the cleaning of our image. If you're new to Photoshop, then you made your first steps into the software. I hope it was easy for you and if you're not new to this software, I hope you've learned something new. In the next lesson, we will see how to import the photos to our file. See you there. [MUSIC] 10. Importing and Working with Photos: In this lesson, I'll show you how to transfer all the photos into your project. First, I'll show you the settings, how you should set your photographs to print, and later I will show you the tools that I use to create circle-shaped photos, and then we will paste them and create layout on our branches. All right, so let's put the photos into our illustration. As you remember, during the sketching phase, I've already planned and decided where to put my photos so right Right it will be quite easy task to do. I will create the circles in this file, and try to reproduce my photo scheme. So to select your shape tool, go to left bar of the Photoshop. Here you have several shapes to choose, depends on which one you want to use for your own project. I will go for the circles. To create a circle, you can just simply drag, but then you will create not a perfect circle. You can decide the shape, so it will be more like elliptic shape. So I wanted to create a circle. I want to create a perfect circle so to do that, I will click ''Shift'' while dragging the circle so press the ''Shift'' on your keyboard and then drag the circle. I think this size is okay. To decide which color you want to use it. It's not important because it will be just a mask for our photos. No colors will be seen so you can decide it or here on the upper bar or in the properties panel, so I will deselect the stroke. And as for the color, I will choose some bolder color just to see well my shape. So to copy the circle, you will have to press ''Alt'' key on your keyboard, and while you see those two arrows, just click and drag. Once again, click and drag, click and drag, and click and drag. So I will finish the process. For the parents, for the couples. I will make them a little bigger. Once I copied it, you can see there's the selection free transform tool. Once you see the arrows, click ''Shift'' on your keyboard and drag. So a little bit bigger, not too big. And once again, copy, copy, copy and last but not least most important couple of grandparents. Here it is. So while you are deciding the layout of your photos, be mindful that you should leave some space for the names so I will just put them. Having this in my mind, then at the end when we will put the names, we can also move our photos around freely so yeah, just more or less. Once you're happy with your layout. As you can see, there are many layers. I will group them to not have such cows in my layer panel. Select all the layers to do that, click all the layers you want to with ''Shift'' pressed on your keyboard, and then click this little icon and here it is. We've created our group. I will rename it, double-click on the Group 1, and I will write photos. So let's drag our photos into our file. To do that, you will have to find your folder with photos. Open it. And once you have it, track your photo into Photoshop. But wait before you do that, be sure that all of your photos are scanned or shoot at with 300 DPI resolution, print resolution. Unless if you want to just have it for your Internet and you want to print it, it doesn't matter. But if you want to print it, just check your photos. To do that, open them with Photoshop. Go to image. Image size. This one is okay. This one is 300. Let's see the other photos. This one, for example, is 72. It means it is too low for printing. Re-size it. Deselect this resample here. You don't want to have it selected and write 300 then click ''Okay.'' That's it. Save it. And do that with all your photos. Just one thing I wanted to tell you is that I won't use my personal photos only the for purpose of this lesson of this class, I will use the photos I found on Internet. Those are photos from Unsplash site found on Internet. There's a great site, website, Unsplash, where you can find free copyright resources, free copyright photos. There are free to use for commercial and non-commercial use. You will have to just credit the artists, the photographers. I will leave all the credits in this class' description. Once your photos are ready, go to insert them to your file. To do that, just track them like this. This photo is really big, so it's cool. I will re-size it a little bit. This is the photo of our grandparents, so they will be here. You will create a clipping mask with the circle, and to do that, you will have to put the photo above the circle layer. Just see where is your circle on the layer panel, then take the photo and drag it above your circle shape. Then put it above the circle more or less where it should be located. To create a clipping mask, press Alt on your keyboard and have your photo layer selected, press Alt. When this little arrow appears, I hope you can see it, click with your mouse the left pattern, and here it is, the clipping mask was created. The really good thing about clipping mask is that you can drag your photo inside this shape. You can re-size it or edit it just as you want. I will leave it like this. To have a little bit of order in your panel, I suggest you to create a group for every photo so you won't be lost and searching where is your photo, where is your shape. I will select those two and click My Group icon, and just name them, grandparents. I will repeat this process once again. Choose a photo, another couple, re-size it, then find your layer with the shape, drag the photo above this layer, and click Alt. Click the left button on your mouse. Re-size the photo just as you wish , and group it. Some problem. I selected the wrong layers. Couple1, and repeat the process. I will speed it up a little bit. Our photo layout is ready. As you can see, I put all my photos. They are here in this folder. What I could do if you like your photos the way they are, it's perfectly fine. I like those colorful photos. But for example, if you'd like to uniform the photos, make them look more similar. You can apply a filter to all of them, black and white, or some other color filter. I'll just show you the quick way to do that. Go to Layer, New Adjustment Layer. Let's say, for example, that you would like to have black and white photo. Choose black and white. Click Okay. Right now it's applied it to all my documents. I will create a clipping mask to only photos. To do that, keep your Adjustments layer selected, click Alt, and left mouse click. Maybe it's a little bit sad. I would like to maybe more sepia or some other warmer filter. I can play around and see what happens. Just play around with adjustments layers. I will add, let's say, photo filter. I will put it above the black and white filter. As you can see, there are different filters you can apply, let's say, sepia. You can also make just sepia without black and white, but it's up to you. I just wanted to let you know there are few options to uniform all your photos if you'd like to have them similar. Then there is a quick and easy way. Here's the brief summary of all the steps that we took in this lesson. In this lesson, you saw how to import the photographs into the project. I showed you the tools and the settings that I use to work with photographs and to use in this specific project. I hope it was useful for you. In the next lesson, we will see how to create names for our family tree. See you there. 11. Writing the Names: [MUSIC] This lesson is the final step in the creation of our project, which is writing names for your family members. I will show you how to use text tool in Photoshop. I will also provide you the shape that I have designed, shape of the ribbon that you can use also for your project if you like to. Feel free to use it, I will leave it in this class's resources. Let's jump into our lesson. Once your photo grid is ready, we will type our names. To do that, go to type tool on the left of your toolbars, select the type tool and just click and then drag and the text box will appear. Also, in the upper bar you will see the panel with font options, from here you can choose some font. Remember to use a font that you like, there are a lot of free fonts to download, free to use, the fonts available on the Internet. You can choose calligraphic font or just whatever you like. Here you can choose the size of your font and also the color. I picked the color from my tree. Here you can see there's a panel so you can choose whatever color you like. But I wanted to use one of the colors that I used to paint the tree, so it will be a brown, darker brown. I think this one is perfect, so click Okay and type your names. I will write a Polish names, and i is for and, so Ania and Maciej for example here. You can also block your layer just to keep it untouched. As you can see in some places it won't be visible even if it would be white so I decided to create shapes to highlight the names. You can do it just by using a simple shape tool that I explained you to create the circles. Or I prepared for you customized shapes and discuss its resources, so you can download them and use them for this project. I will show you those shapes. Here they are. This is ribbon shape, and simple rectangle shapes. If you like them, feel free to use them for your project. I will choose this ribbon shape. You can resize them and put them under your text layer. Here it is, I will proceed. Here's the brief summary of all the steps that we took in this lesson. You made it. You've made it. You made it. We finished our tree. In the next lesson, I will show you how to set your file and export it to print. See you there. 12. Preparing Your Tree to Print!: [MUSIC] In this lesson, I will show you the settings that you should use for your color or for your resolution to create high quality file to print. Let's go. The last part of our project will be saving our tree as a print file. There are few simple steps to do that. First of all, you have to decide the format of your file. My advice for you is to hear with your print service, prints point wherever your print, ask for all the required settings. They will tell you what file you will have to provide. Usually it will be a JPEG file or maybe a TIFF. I will show you how to export into those two formats. To save our illustration as a JPEG file, go to "File", "Export," "Export As" then you can select different formats. Ours is JPEG, and we should choose the best quality as it is the print file. I will choose great then we will see the final size of our file and click "Export", select your destination folder, I've already created the folder for print files and click "Save." Once you've exported your JPEG, you will also have to change the color mode. Most parts of printing points will ask you to print in CMYK profile, which is normal printing profile color mode. To do that, go to "Image", "Mode" and select this color amount, and then to save it, go to "File", "Save" or the shortcut is "Command", "Control", "S" once again you should choose the biggest quality option and then click "Okay." The reason why I didn't transform my file at the beginning in the CMYK profile is because it increases the size of the photoshop format and usually I just do it as the last step. Here is my JPEG format. To save it as a TIFF format, probably you will be asked to save as a TIFF format when you print in a larger scale or if you do a really high quality art print. To do that, go to your original file, photoshop file, and then go to "File", "Save As" and select the TIFF format. Once again, I will choose my destination folder, click "Save." I will leave all the default settings and here it is. The last two things that we should do is to merge all the layers. To do that, just select older layers and click "Right Mouse" and select "Merge Layers", click "Save." Again, if your print service needs another color profile, the print color profile then go to 'Image", "Mode" and select "CMYK mode." and once again save it and here it is. As you can see, the TIFF format is a really big one. This one has 70 megabytes. It's really high, but that's because this format doesn't lose information and keeps most of the color and quality data in your file. Once you've prepared your file, you're probably asking yourself where to print. You have two options. If you have a good printer at home, you can use it. I do it. I have a really good quality printer. But I won't to include the process of printing, it should be subject of a different class or you can just use your trusty printer from your hometown. You can search online for some good printers and also you can choose the material on which you will print. It could be just a good quality paper, or it could be a Canvas. For example, my friends printed it as a Canvas as it was painting. It's up to you to be creative. If you print online, just beware of the settings required from the company. Usually they provide you the settings that you should use. If you have any questions, remember to come back to me in the classes discussion. If you have also experienced where to print online, if you can provide some names just to help other students from the class, we can help each other, inspire one another. I encourage you to share your knowledge with us. We finish the digital part of this point. You should finish all the project and have your file ready to be printed. Here's the brief summary of all the steps that we took in this lesson. I'm happy to follow to me until this final step. Let's go into final lesson where we will share some final thoughts about all the project and try to recap all the process and experience. See you there. [MUSIC] 13. Final Thoughts: [MUSIC] If you're watching this lesson, probably you finished your project. Wow, Congratulations. I'm aware that this class was complex and a little bit long, but I hope I've divided it into easy steps and that you followed it without any problems. To recap all the steps, we covered all the process beginning from art supplies, then making draft layout, we transferred the draft as a final sketch, we've painted, and then we jumped into the Photoshop where I showed you all the tools to edit and prepare your file to print. I also showed you how to use tools to insert the photographs and names into your project. There are two things I hope you took away from this class. One is the idea. I think creating a family tree is really great idea of making a really valuable gift for your friends or your family. The second one, I hope that you've learned new skills in the process of digitalizing your artwork. I know it's a very complex stuff and I just wanted to show you some basics and in the future, let me know if you'd like to learn some more about tools regarding digitalizing your art, working with Photoshop to edit your artwork. I hope you've learned a lot and that it will be useful for you, and that you will use all the tools that I showed. I'm really curious about the family trees that you created. Please share it. I'd really love to see all the trees that you've created. Share it in this class' project. You can share it in both ways. You can make a photo of the file, print it out, please. On your wall, it would be really great to see it or you can just upload the file, the photo that you exported without printing. Both ways are really fine. It is a great way to inspire one another. Share it with me and with other students. It would be really great to see what you've created. I really hope you found this class really useful and helpful. I ask you to leave a review of this class. It will help my channel to grow. Also follow my channel and my profile here on Skillshare. It will also help me to grow and also you will be updated with a new upcoming content. Thank you once again for taking part in this class, for participating, for following me, for all your projects that you will upload, and see you in my other Skillshare classes. Bye.