01. Rangoli - Part 01 - Shree Lakshmi Rangoli Pada - 12 Designs and natural colours for Rangoli - link
02. Rangoli - Part 02 - 40 Ideas for Diwali (with only about 5 viable in reality) - link
03. Rangoli - Part 03 - Making your own Black-and-White Draft of Rangoli with Invert and Colour Replace in Photoshop - link
04. Rangoli - Part 04 - Tracing and Inking the Black-and-White Design of Rangoli - link
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In this post I will turn the Rangoli Design NO. 04 from the post about 12 Designs of Rangoli (it was here) into Black-and-White.
Why I am doing this?
Because I want to print this Rangoli out and to trace and ink it out on a paper with colour pens! In order to implement this, I need just B\W draft of the Rangoli (I will show how I am inking the Rangoli in the next post).
STEP 01. The png-file must be opened in Photoshop. We will need only left, upper square (under the name "Step 4"). What I need to do right now is to copy this square to A4 landscape list and to stretch it to fit it into such list.
STEP 02. Edit - Copy.
STEP 03. Now the A4 list must be created. File - New and in the menu appeared chose "PRESET - INTERNATIONAL PAPER - A4" and other parametres like on the picture above (with DPI 160)
STEP 04. A4 list is ready, but you need to turn it 90 degrees clockwise in order to make it "Landscape".
STEP 05. Image - Image Rotation - 90CW
STEP 06. Now paste the Square NO. 04 into the Landscape list (just press CTRL+V).
STEP 07. Now it is necessary to stretch the Square and to fit it in A4 Landscape list. Use CTRL+T (or "EDIT - FREE TRANSFORM") and use the nods in order to stretch and fit.
STEP 08. I have stretched the Square in the following way. Don't forget to press ENTER or "MOVE TOOL" icon after you have stretched the Squre).
STEP 09. What I really need is just white background and black Rangoli (but as you see the background is violet and Rangoli is white). This problem is easy to solve out: just use "INVERT", that is "IMAGE - ADJUSTMENTS - INVERT".
STEP 10. OK, the Image is inverted now. The black Rangoli is ready, but the background is green now. The green background is very easy to remove, using "COLOUR REPLACE", that "IMAGE - ADJUSTMENTS - REPLACE COLOUR".
STEP 11. In "REPLACE COLOUR" menu, on the top you should point the colour you want to replace and in the bottom the colour that will live instead the replaced colour (so as you see, on the top there is green and white in the bottom).
Sometimes after such the replacement, the colour may look to pale or in grey hue. To amend this use "FUZINESS" and "LIGHTNESS".
As you see on the picture above, I have changed both these parametres.
So, the Image is ready now. Just save it either in BMP or PNG and print it out!
In the next post I will show how I have inked the Image with colour pens - http://vishnudut1926.blogspot.com/2013/11/rangoli-part-04-tracing-and-inking.html
