Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
I'm going to show you how to make this heart monitor,
insert a shape and change its color.
Create a new document
by going to "File" and "New". Make the width
1920 pixels and the height: 1080 pixels.
Make the resolution: 150 pixels per inch.
To fill the viewing area with your document,
press Ctrl + 0 on a PC or Cmd + 0 on a Mac.
If your foreground
and background colors aren't black and white, press "D"
on your keyboard. We'll fill the background with black
and since black is the foreground color, press
Alt or Opt + Delete. Next will make a grid
on the background. To do this, create a new document
and make the width and the height
45 pixels each and the resolution
150 pixels per inch. Fit the document on your screen
and fill it with black. Make a copy of it
by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J. Go to "View"
and make sure "Rulers" and "Snap" are checked.
If they're not, just click on them to make them active.
Press Ctrl or Cmd + T to open your Transform tool.
Click on the left ruler and drag out a guideline to the center.
It'll snap in place because we have snap
checked. If you don't see the guideline, press Ctrl
or Cmd + H to make it visible. Drag down a guideline from the top ruler, as well.
Then, press Enter or Return. Open your Pencil tool
and make the size 2 pixels
and the Hardness, 100%. Invert the foreground and background colors
by pressing "x" on your keyboard. Press and hold
"Shift" as you click on the guide line and drag down a line to the bottom.
It's normal if your line isn't perfectly centered. Repeat this with the horizontal line.
Merge the layers
by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + E. Go to
"Edit" and "Define Pattern". Type in
"Grid". Then, click OK or press Enter or Return.
Click on the tab of the original document you made at the beginning
and make a copy of it. Double-click on the thumbnail
of the copy to open its layer style window. Click
"Pattern Overlay", open your patterns
and click on the last one, which is the grid.
Then, click OK. Reduce the opacity to 10%
and merge the layers. Open your Brush tool.
To increase or decrease the size of your brush
press the right or left bracket key. Increase it to 1800 pixels
and an opacity of 10%. Then,
click down once. Invert the colors
and make the brush size 900 pixels
and the opacity 70%. Now,
with a slight arc, brush over the right and left
sides. Let's add some color.
Click on the adjustment layer icon and click "Solid Color".
I'm picking a bright green: 0 6
F F 0 0. Click OK
and change the blend mode to "Multiply".
Next, we'll add the blips for the pulse
or heartbeats. Click on the new layer icon to make a new layer.
Open your Pen Tool
and choose "Path". Click on your grid,
lift up, go above it slightly to the right and click down.
Continue to make jagged paths and end the line
on the same horizontal axis as where you first started the path.
To straighten out the blips, press and hold
Ctrl or Cmd and drag the points to the left
or right. The blips on a real heart monitor
looks slightly arced. So, go to a point
and press and hold Alt or Opt and slightly drag the point to the right.
Continue to make slight arcs on all of your blips.
Open your Pencil tool and invert your colors.
Make your pencil size 6 pixels
and the Hardness, 100%.
Right-click on a path and click "Stroke Path".
Make sure that the tool is "Pencil" and click OK.
To delete the work path, right-click on it
and click "Delete Path". Drag the blips layer
below the adjustment layer.
Click on the new layer icon to make a new layer.
Press "B" to open your Pencil tool again
and press and hold "Shift" and drag out a line.
Make a copy of the line. Press
"V" to open your Move tool and press and hold
"Shift" as you drag it to the left.
Merge these layers by pressing Ctrl or Cmd +E
twice. I'll name it
"Pulse". Click on the new layer
icon to make a new layer.
Open your Custom Shape tool. Choose
"Path"
and click on the heart symbol. If you don't see it,
click on this icon and click "Reset
Shapes". Click on the gear icon
and choose "Defined Proportions".
Click on the line and drag out the shape.
To move it, press and hold the Space bar
and reposition it. You can choose to align the bottom of the heart to the line
or move the heart down below the line.
If you choose to align it to the line, press "P" to open your Pen tool
and press and hold Alt or Opt, as you drag it to the right.
To snap it horizontally, add "Shift"
to your keystrokes.
Right-click the work path and choose "Stroke Path".
Then, click OK. As before,
you can delete the path. If you want to slide the heart shape
up or down, press the Up or Down arrows
on your keyboard. Make the pulse layer
active and make a copy of it.
Press and hold "Shift" as you slide the copy of the pulse
to the right.
Make the heart-shaped layer active
and press your arrow keys to center it between the pulse blips.
Let's merge the heart shape
and the pulse blips. Shift-click on the thumbnail
of the bottom pulse to highlight all the layers.
Then, press Ctrl or Cmd + E.
I'll name it "Pulse".
To center it on the grid background, press Ctrl or Cmd + A...
click on the "Align Horizontal Centers" icon
and the "Align Vertical Centers" icon.
Press Ctrl or Cmd + D to delete the selection.
There needs to be a space where the heart shape and the horizontal lines converge.
Open your Zoom tool by pressing "Z" on your keyboard.
Drag a rectangle over the area to zoom into it.
Open your Eraser tool
and choose a small pixel size and a Hardness
of 100%. Now, erase that
area and round out the edges.
Earlier, if you chose to position the heart shape below the horizontal lines,
use your Eraser Tool in the same way.
Press Ctrl or Cmd + 0 to fit your entire document
on your screen. Let's add an outer glow to the blips
and the heart. Make a copy of the pulse
and double-click on it to open its Layer Style window.
Choose "Outer Glow" and change the blend mode
to "Normal". Make the opacity, 100%.
Click on the color box and pick white.
Make the size 22 pixels and click OK.
Click on the layer mask icon to make a layer mask
next to the pulse copy. Invert
the layer mask by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + I.
Open your Brush tool,
make the size 900 pixels,
a Hardness of 0% and the Opacity
and Flow, 100%. Hover your cursor
over the heart and click down two or three times.
Make the original pulse layer active,
click on the layer mask icon to make a layer mask next to it,
and invert it.
Hover your cursor over the heart again and increase the size of your brush
by pressing the right bracket key.
Increase it to 1500 pixels.
Then, click down once over the heart.
Let's add a soft glow over the center of the grid.
Make a new layer below the active layer by Ctrl-clicking
or Cmd-clicking on the new layer icon.
Make the Opacity, 15% and press
Enter or Return. Hover your cursor over the heart
and click down once. To change the overall color of your heart monitor,
click on the adjustment layer
and pick a different color. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
Thanks for watching!