How would I go around making this mushroom type thing?

[wheatarded]

http://www.zazzle.com/digitalblasphemy/ ... 5275238832

It's from digitalblasphemy.com, and this is it:

[Simon Brown]

Hello wheatarded, welcome to the forums.

As for your question, I suggest first drawing the outline of the mushroom on a new layer and then selecting each part with the magic want and colouring it with the gradient tool.

[wheatarded]

Oh thanks! Yeah I was fiddling around with the magic brush thing and I finally learned I could set the tolerance to different levels. Thanks though.

[Curmudgeon]

Looked to me as the same technique to make a basic neon text:

So I just started with a white background, and then on new layers drew a mushroom, and copied it and flipped it, and resized it down a bit, then merge the 'shrooms down onto the white background.

Then blur the background layer with the 'shrooms on it.

Then duplicate that layer, and set the top layer properties to Negation

Then color it the best way you know how (Curves, Hue/Saturation, Color Tint, etc.)

Forgot to mention, to magic wand the parts of the mushroom where they intersect, and to delete that portion from the other layers. Also to do a few gradients on the stems and heads of the mushrooms.