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LAYER STYLE TECHNIQUES 183

This process gives the session houses orange color coding with color overlay, making them
look as if they have sloped roof surfaces with bevel and emboss and giving the structures
depth with the Drop Shadow effect. Notice that we changed the global sun angle in this step,
which affects all the shadows in the document. An angle of –125° indicates that the sun will
come from the lower-left portion of the image. Turn off the Stroke effect.

8. Select the Hollyhock-Accommodations layer. Apply an inside red stroke as usual to reveal the
locations of these structures on screen. Using the Paint Bucket, fill the selected structures, as
shown in Figure 5.51.
Figure 5.51
Fill the selected accom-
modation structures
with black.

9. Copy the entire layer style from Hollyhock-Session Houses to the Hollyhock-Accommodations
layer. (Drag and drop the word Effects from one layer to the other in the Layers palette.) Double-
click the Color Overlay effect under Hollyhock-Accommodations and change the color to blue
with a Hue value of 245 in the Color Picker.
Notice that many of the accommodation structures have pitched roofs. Instead of using the
Bevel And Emboss effect, some hand coloring is in order to maintain the sharp ridgelines. You
will have to think about where the sun is in order to plan your hand-painted color scheme;
lighter shades of blue will be used where the surfaces are in full light, and darker shades of
blue will be painted on surfaces that are partial shadow.
10. Temporarily turn off the Drop Shadow effect belonging to the Hollyhock-Accommodations
layer because it obscures the boundaries of the roof line work. Create a new layer called
Accommodations-Hand Colored. Click the Swatches palette, and hold your mouse over the
swatches until you can read their Tool Tips. Click Pastel Blue to set it as the foreground color.
Select the Paint Bucket tool and click the roof surfaces indicated in Figure 5.52.