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A little bit of Chinese flower pattern will be a great decision.
Layer overall opacity must be set to about 25% - 30%.
Next step will be the making of the blade. I want to flip a trick here. I've flattened all the layers made a copy of my background layer and cut the one of the layers in 2 pieces. Make a cut just where that blade should begin. So if you got me right you should have only 3 layers now. Here is some a screen shot of my layer box.
Make your canvas just a little bit wider on the left and just transform the blade" layer to the left too.
Make a selection. In this stage you should get a reference for the blade. You have to know how the lights go and the shading itself.
Make a new layer
just now (the area must be selected). Overlay the area with white to transparency layer from up to down.
Add some plates to the edges of the sword. You can make it with a brush or just selecting and filling the selected areas with some color.
The next and the final step will be the creating of that metal thing that basically holds the blade in tanto swords.
Create a new document or just a new layer on your working document.
So here is the explanation of the stuff I used on this thing.
As you see - especially if you are working on the TFT display if the sword itself is nor separated from background for good. So create a new layer choose black to transparency layer and just get rid of the background bugs just separating the sword using blacks.
And this is it on making a tanto sword in Photoshop.
Layer overall opacity must be set to about 25% - 30%.
Next step will be the making of the blade. I want to flip a trick here. I've flattened all the layers made a copy of my background layer and cut the one of the layers in 2 pieces. Make a cut just where that blade should begin. So if you got me right you should have only 3 layers now. Here is some a screen shot of my layer box.
Make your canvas just a little bit wider on the left and just transform the blade" layer to the left too.
Make a selection. In this stage you should get a reference for the blade. You have to know how the lights go and the shading itself.
Make a new layer
Add some plates to the edges of the sword. You can make it with a brush or just selecting and filling the selected areas with some color.
The next and the final step will be the creating of that metal thing that basically holds the blade in tanto swords.
Create a new document or just a new layer on your working document.
So here is the explanation of the stuff I used on this thing.
As you see - especially if you are working on the TFT display if the sword itself is nor separated from background for good. So create a new layer choose black to transparency layer and just get rid of the background bugs just separating the sword using blacks.
And this is it on making a tanto sword in Photoshop.
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12 Responses to "Japanese Sword - How to make a Samurai Sword" 
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said this on 02 Feb 2009 9:02:30 AM CST
Very nice tutorial.
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said this on 02 Feb 2009 5:58:28 PM CST
Great skills, appreciated by learner like me
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said this on 03 Feb 2009 1:07:00 AM CST
Creative tutorial! Excellent job.
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said this on 03 Feb 2009 6:08:20 AM CST
Were can you get the patterns your using...? I searched butt could find one that would fit right. Great tutorial a bit hard to follow for a beginner but I could figure it out.
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said this on 13 Feb 2009 9:00:34 AM CST
looks awful. epitome of anime nerd
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said this on 02 Apr 2009 7:36:45 PM CST
Oh my, that is one awesome samurai! I love the effects, the pattern, everything! Excellent tutorial, keep it up! Thanks!
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said this on 07 May 2009 3:18:56 PM CST
wow thanks im doing a game dev course at college and im making a samurai sword so this will help me alot. thanks
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said this on 23 May 2009 5:59:04 PM CST
Impossible to follow our steps. Allot of things does not make sense. You tutorial needs much improvement.
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said this on 26 May 2009 3:52:07 AM CST
I agree whit Lochtar the steps are imposibile for a beginner (hint here's 1 ) ,but the effect is awsom please work on the tutorial making it posibile for ever
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said this on 03 Jun 2009 3:05:41 PM CST
Nicely done..BUT the final result reveils some details u didn't mention in the tut.So..improvement is usefull.And i have to say..ur ?®-watermark sucks,try to improve THAT,no..IMPROVE that
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said this on 28 Jul 2009 6:06:12 AM CST
Even if I wouldn't argue about artefacts above the tsuka (handle) and a strange texture, this item just CANNOT be a sword. It loses more that a half of necessary parts of mounting. First of all, where did you loose tsuba (guard)? Proportions are not matched at all (mainly for habaki). It may be a funny japan-style artwork, but don't even try even to stay near japanese war culture.
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