Making a twisted ribbon, or anything else, in PS CC

[chauncey]

I have two aligned layers in PS CC of the same ribbon on a black background...one ribbon
layer colored red, and the other colored blue.
My goal is to create a twist or fold in the ribbon showing both the red and blue sides
dependent upon the twist.

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to easily achieve my goal...any help out there?

[Shadowman]

Have you tried the liquefy tool? It can do simulated plastic surgery to faces.

[chauncey]

That's the first thing I went to John, but that's only part of it.

[Manfred M]

Get a real two tone ribbon, take a picture of it twisted the way you wand and manipulate it in Photoshop. It's a lot easier to do this kind of drawing work in vector based tool like Adobe Illustrator than it is in Photoshop.

[chauncey]

It's time to fess-up, it taint a ribbon...is a smoke formed rose petal.
I think that I got it though.

[Shadowman]

It's time to fess-up, it taint a ribbon...is a smoke formed rose petal.
I think that I got it though.

Not what I expected, I thought you were going for something more twisted.

Where's the blue layer?

[Loose Canon]

[chauncey]

With what you had to work with Terry...that is a great job.

Where's the blue layer

The backside of a rose petal is a reddish shade...here I made it blue.

[Shadowman]

With what you had to work with Terry...that is a great job.


The backside of a rose petal is a reddish shade...here I made it blue.

That blue really lifts it off the screen, not sure if it would work with the twist; would be interesting to see the transformation.

[chauncey]

would be interesting to see the transformation

You mean how it was accomplished?

[Shadowman]

You mean how it was accomplished?

If you use both layers with the twisted formation; if that's your intention.

[chauncey]

My way...for now...color your working layer using colorize in Hue Saturation Adjustment Layer>
merge the working and Saturation layers>Ctr J to duplicate new merged layer>make the lower,
of the 2 new working layers darker, I used curves.

Using liquify tool in the same delicate stages again and again on top layer until your satisfied>
use the same liquify settings on the bottom layer to taste. A layer mask may be needed for touch up.


If there's an easier way, I haven't figured it out. Should have used some masking on this one at the top.
Anyway, from this to this...