A Work in Progress: Poker Mandala



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Place square in exact middle of canvas Then clip on pool table felt cut from Pool Table source pic.

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Crop out and clean up poker chip.

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Place cards and chips on table.

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Ready to multiply and rotate chips and top card.

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Duplicate, rotate, transform to complete all sides.

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Same procedure for 2nd card. Made inner circle with elipse tool then free transform path for an middle circle.

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Same procedure to make great circle.

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Made 52 wedges using red lines. Made with transform tool.

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Transformed 13 hearts in upper right quadrant.

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All 4 suits transform-duplicated around perimeter- red wedges later removed

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Created middle large center chip by using masks on quarters of 3 colors of chips made earlier.

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Letters added in upper right quadrant using the Card Character font. Instead of using a path to place the letters, I found it easier to just line them up and squeeze the number ten and warp into position. Blue background is layerstyle pattern Optical Squares

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Copied and rotated the text to fill in the other four quadrants.

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Here I duplicated four cutouts from the card back and placed them around the center - later they were clipped to the circular area in the middle.
Final touch-ups and adjustments made.

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Final result

Creation of Poker Mandala: Final Result

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