Create a new image... 500x500 pixels.
Create a new layer, and name it 'crust'.
Use the circular marquee tool and drag from the very upper left-hand corner down to the lower right, and before letting go, hit and hold shift, then let go.
Now, while holding ALT, select another circle within this, while the other is still selected.
Set the foreground color to a golden-tan color.
Shift+Backspace to fill.
Filter>texture>grain
Settings:
Intensity: 40
Contrast: 50
Grian type: clumped
Next, select the airbrush, and a medium-sized brush that fades at the edges.
Mode: normal
Pressure: 15%
With the crust still selected, draw some cheese on the crust with medium-sized strokes, so it looks like cheese.
Select a dark brown and do the same as you did in the last step. This will give it the 'burnt' look. I used color= #877004.
Layer>Layer Style>Bevel and Emboss
Match these settings:
Now you should have a good-looking crust:
Select the magic wand tool, and click inside the big white area enclosed by the crust.
Create a new layer, and name it 'inside'.
Select red for your forground color and white as your background color.
Edit>Fill [OK]
Filter>Render>Clouds
Filter>render>difference clouds (hold CTRL and hit F to repeat the last filter you did, which in this case would be Difference Clouds. Do this about 3 times.)
Create a new layer, and name it 'cheese'.
Select the foreground color as yellow, and the background as white.
Edit>FIll [OK]
Filter>Render>Clouds
Now, look on the platte that has the tabs Layers, Channels and Paths. You will see all your layers here, if you have the 'Layers' tab selected. Click on the tab just to make sure that you're on the right platte. Now, see where it says 'Opacity'? Type in '30' and press ENTER. This will make the cheese layer (the one you're currently on) transparent, so you can see all the layers behind it.
Filter>Texture>Grain
You will have the same settings as before, which is good. Hit OK.
Meanwhile, your pizza should look something like this:
Hold CTRL and hit D to deselect the circle.
Create a new layer, and name this one 'pepperoni'.
Now, within the enclosed circle, which would be the toppings, we're going to add some pepperoni, unless you absolutely despise the stuff... Anyways, select the circle marquee tool, and drag a small circle where you want a pepperoni to be. Now, hit and HOLD shift. Thiss effect will make this current circle a round circle, not some funky oval-shaped organism.
Here's the tricky part; keep holding shift, and drag the shape of another circle, but DON'T LET GO. You will now notice that it's all oval-shaped, and it's not perfectly round. Hopefully, you're holding SHIFT down... Keep holding down the mouse button, let go of SHIFT and then press and hold it again. This will make that outline of a pepperoni perfect. Repeat this until you're pleased with the amount of pepperoni outlines.
Select a deep red for your foreground color, preferably #AC0505. For the background color, a deeper red: #530000.
Edit>fill
Aaah, that's-a nice-a pepperoni!
...But not too nice yet!
Let's add some texture.
Filter>Render>difference clouds
Hit CTRL+F about 3 times.
Filter>Distort>Ocean Ripple.
Settings:
Ripple size: 9
Ripple Magnitude: 9.
Filter>Texture>Grain
Once again, it will have all our settings. Hit OK.
Select>Modify>Contract
type 4 and hit ENTER.
CTRL+D
Layer>Layer style> Bevel and Emboss
Match these settings:
Aahh, looks pretty good, huh?
But something's missing... TOPPINGS!!!
Create a new layer and name this one "toppings".
Next, hold down CTRL and click on the "cheese" layer. This will re-select that little circle again. Click on the 'toppings' menu now to make sure it's the one you're working on.
Filter>Render>3D Transform
Click on "Options".
Settings:
Resolution: High
Anti-Aliasing: High
Now, click the box tool and start making some boxes that closely resemble chopped-up toppings. try to do something like in the following picture.
Now you will notice 2 peculiar buttons on the left, on the platte. Click on the one that has
Next, click on the 3D work area, and drag the mouse so that it will turn the whole 3D scene around. Make sure it looks good and it's not at any funky angle, or this won't really work.
Hit OK.
Wow, look! all kinds of little 3D boxes have now magically appeared on your pizza.. but... They're all white!
Don't worry, our friend, Mr. Hue/Saturation is here to save the day!
Hit CTRL+U. This will bring up our good friend, the Hue/Saturation table... Yipee!!
First off, check the box on the right that says 'colorize'. Now, match the picture, or to whatever makes your toppings look pretty good.
Hit OK.
Kinda boxy now... we'll fix that next.
Filter>Blur>Gaussain Blur
Type in 1.0 and hit OK.
Now, we're going to do a quick little fix-up.
Back on the layers platte, click on the 'crust' layer, and drag it to the very top.
Now, click on the 'inside' layer.
Layer>Layer style>bevel and emboss
Match these settings:
Looks pretty good now, huh? What next...
SAUSAGES!!
Alright, this isn't that stressfull....
First off, Click on the "toppings" layer.
Create a new layer, and name this "sausages".
Select the circular marquee tool.
Outline a small little sausage, and then let go of the mouse button, in case you're still holding it down.
Press and hold SHIFT.
Now, select the outlines of more little sausages, while HOLDING DOWN (don't let up!) SHIFT.
Here's my example:
Now, set your foreground color #9F6900 and your background color #382A00.
Edit>Fill
Filter>Texture>Grain
It will already have your previous settings. Hit OK.
Filter>Distort>Ocean Ripple
Filter>Distort>Ripple
Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur
Type in 1.0 and hit OK.
Match these settings:
Now, it's pretty good looking!
If you want, you can always go back and adjust the setting of opacity on the 'cheese' layer. I just changed mine to 40%. The higher, the cheesier!
Next, create a new layer. Name this one 'olives'.
Click on the icon under the T. At the top, there is a little menu of icons. Click on the one next to the carrot (arrow).
Select the shape that is called "circle frame" by clicking on the carrot by the Shape: icon. Select the one that looks like a bold O. If it is not on there, click the carrot in the little circle on the right side, and at the bottom, there is an option called "Custom Shapes.csh". Click on this, and choose "append". It should be there now. It is the one shown in the following picture:
Excellent... now, create little olives by click-and-dragging on the pizza part. Here's mine:
Layer>Style>Bevel and Emboss
Once again, match these:
PHEW!!!
Now that's what I call a PIZZA!!!
I hope you have enjoyed this rather thorough guide to pizza-creating... It was all inspired one night when I was eating pizza and thought up how to create pepperonis in Photoshop.
You can now drag-and-drop the olives, sausages, toppings and pepperoni layers around to suit how you want your pizza to look. Enjoy! (Mmmmmmmmmm!!!!)
You can also use the line tool and set it to 4 pixels, create a new layer (name it "slices",) and create white slices going through it.... Here's the result: (with bevel and emboss added pointing inward:)
WARNING: Do not print out the pizza and attempt feeding it to someone; it just won't work. You'll end up eating it yourself. (mmm, tastes like paper!) ; )
Sweet! Looks really good, doesn't it? You can now create wood under all these layers to make it look like it's on a table. Ciao!
...Mmmmm!
...P.S... PIZZA OUT, DUDE!!! : )
