MAKING A DUNCE HAT

Step 1 - Dunce it Up
This is a goofy tutorial on how to easily make a dunce hat for someone.

We're going to start with this picture of this guy:



Note that his head is cropped so he needs something on it anyway!

Make the canvas size much larger than your original picture, since dunce hats are so tall.

On a new layer, drag out a large, slightly wider than tall rectangle, with the Rectangular Marquee tool.



These are the two colors we're going to be using:



Fill your rectangle with the darker of the two beiges.



Deselect CTRL+D. In the Layers panel, click the box that preserves transparency for this layer.  Now select the Gradient tool. Use a Reflected gradient. Make sure the lighter of the two colors is in the foreground (top) place. Starting slightly off center, click and drag the mouse to the right or left some, to create a smooth gradient.



Select a darker shade or your beige color.



Take your Brush tool, with a soft round brush, and about 200px sized brush. Start on the right side of the rectangle, click, hold shift, and go down the side. Do this on both sides.





Now, we make the cone shape.

CTRL+T to Transform.



Right-click in the middle of your shape and choose "Perspective" from the drop-down menu that shows up.



Drag the top corners together, and then drag the bottoms ones toward one another.



Set it over the top of the guy's head. Select the Elliptical Marquee tool and draw a rectangle at the bottom of the cone. We want the bottom to be curved for better perspective.



Hold SHIFT and use whichever Lasso or Marquee tools you want to select around the remainder of the hat (above the bottom rim).



CTRL+SHIFT+I to Invert your selection. Uncheck the Preserve Transparency box in the Layers panel, then hit delete to remove that bottom edge of the cone. If you don't uncheck the preserve transparency box, it will just paste whatever color your background color is there instead of deleting it.



CTRL+T to rotate the hat slightly to the side to fit the man's head.



Make another pass through with your darker beige color along the right side of the hat mainly, and a little on the left.



Use the Dodge tool, with a soft round brush. This will lighten areas you use it on. Lighten the far left corner edge, and down the middle of the hat.



Use the Burn tool, with a 15% exposure on the right and the left. This will darken the areas.



Double-click on the hat's layer in the Layers window. This will bring up the Layer Style window. We want a Pattern Overlay, with the bubbles.



Opacity of 20% and scale to the max. You can drag the image around some on the canvas if you want a different part of the bubbles image to show. This is a paper hat, and these bubbles make it look like there are creases in it.



Create a new layer. Link this layer with the hat layer and merge the two CTRL+E or go through the Layers window drop-down.

We need to adjust the Hue/Saturation CTRL+U. We want to Colorize the layer, and then adjust the sliders to your liking for hue, saturation and lightness.





Take the Polygonal Lasso tool and draw a subtle indentation into the hat's edge where one of the creases appear, then hit the DELETE key to erase it.



Do this once or twice more.



On a new layer, beneath the hat layer, take the color black, and the Brush tool with a soft round brush and color around the bottom of the hat.



Use the Eraser, also with a soft round brush, and clean up the edges, also trimming the bottom part as well so there is only a little of the black showing.



Adjust your shadow's opacity in the Layers window to about 30%.



And finally, for some words.

Pick a fun, hand-written looking font, and type DUNCE, hitting the enter key after every letter. Make it red.

D
U
N
C
E



Right-click on the text's layer and choose "Rasterize". CTRL+T to rotate it slightly, and then hold CTRL as you move the top anchor points in a little.  You may need to adjust the bottom as well to make it look better.



Change the text layer's opacity to about 90%, and then use the Dodge tool down the middle of it. This not only lightens it, but makes it look like it might have been written with a marker.



And, we're finally done! There's a few steps in there, but it's really easy to make.



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