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This tutorial is written in PsP 9.
Needed:
* A nice misted tube.
My tube is in the zip file - Put this in a folder of your choice.
* Fonts: CircleD - Put this in your Fonts folder.
* Masker - pnl_troubleweave - Put this in your PsP
9 Masks folder.
Filters Unlimited 2 - Pick up the demo
here and
put in your Filters folder.
*
supplies zip
Now that we
have everything we can finally start
1.
Open a new transparent
image of 500 x 350 pixels.
2. Put your foreground color on a light color, I'm
using #aca682 and your background on a dark color,
I'm using #3b2c0f and
put your background color to foreground/ background
gradient with the settings like below and flood fill
your image with it.
3. Open the MAS-CallaLilly tube (do not resize)
and go to Edit - Copy.
ATTENTION: do not close the tube,
because we will need it again later on.
4. Edit - Paste as a new layer.
5. Layers - New raster layer.
6. Flood fill this with your light color. I'm using #
aca682.
7. Layers - Masks load/ save - Load mask from disk
and find the pnl_troubleweave mask
and use the following settings:
8. Layers - Merge - Merge
group.
9. Effects - Edge effects - Enhance.
10. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow with the
following settings:
11. Layers - Merge - Merge all
(flatten).
12. Image - Add borders - 2 pixels
symmetric and use your
dark color. I am using #3b2c0f.
13. Image - Add borders - 10 pixels
symmetric and use your
light color. I am using #aca286.
14. Image - Add borders - 2 pixels
symmetric and use your
dark color. I am using #3b2c0f.
15. Image - Resize and use the following settings:
16. Adjust - Sharpen -
Unsharp mask with these settings:
Now put
this image aside, because we will need a little bit
later on.
17.
Open a new
transparent image of 500 x 350 pixels.
18. Flood fill this image with your dark color. I am
using #3b2c0f again.
19. Layers - New raster layer.
20. Flood fill this layer with your light color. I
am using #aca682 again.
21. Layers - Masks load/ save - Load mask from disk
and find the pnl_troubleweave mask again
and use the same settings as you did in step 7.
22. Layers - Merge - Merge group.
23. Effects - Edge effects - Enhance
24. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow with
the following settings:
25. Now open that little image
we made earlier and go to Edit - Copy.
26. Edit - Paste as a new layer and move it to the
upper right corner.
27. Put the blend mode of this layer to Luminance.
28. Layers - Duplicate and move it to the lower
right corner.
Just look at the screen below how I placed them:
29. Open the MAS-CallaLilly tube
again and go to Image - Resize
with these settings:
30. Adjust - Sharpen -
Unsharp mask with the same settings as in step 16.
31. Image - Mirror.
32. Edit - Copy.
33. Edit - Paste as a new layer on your tag and move
it down a little so that
you have enough room to write your above it.
34. Layers - Merge - Merge all (flatten).
35. Image - Add borders - 5 pixels
symmetric and use your
light color. Again, I will be using #aca682.
36. Now take your Magic wand with tolerance, feather
and anti-alias set to 0 and
select your border.
37. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner bevel with these
settings:
38. Selections - Select nothing.
. 39. Image - Add Borders and use these settings:
40. Take your Magic wand
again, using the same settings as before and select
the border.
41. Effects - Plug-in - Filters Unlimited 2
- Paper Textures - Fibrous Paper, Coarse
with these settings:
42. Selections - Select
nothing.
43. Image - Rotate -
Rotate
counter- clockwise 90.
44. Go to your Text tool and put your foreground
color to your light color. I will be using
#aca628 again.
Lock your background color and set your Text tool as
below:
45. Now type the words Magnificent Beauty and make
sure that you hit enter after the
word Magnificent and the type the word Beauty and
got to Layers - Convert to Raster layer
46. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow with these
settings:
47. Image - Rotate -
Clockwise 90.
48. Layers - Duplicate.
49. Now pay attention. Activate your Raster layer 1
and go to
Adjust - Blur - Radial blur with these settings:
50. Again activate your Text tool and use the
settings as below and then type your name and
place it top left above your tube (see screen below
Text tool settings).
51. Layers - Convert
to Raster layer
52.Effects - 3D Effects -
Drop Shadow with the following settings:
53. Layers - Merge - Merge all
(flatten)
54. You might want to add a small border, but that
is totally up to you. I did add a border and I used
the following settings for it:
Image - Add borders - 1 pixel symmetric color #aca628.
And the tutorial is finished...Now resize if you
want and don't forget to sharpen,
add your watermark and save as a .jpg.
Go
here to see
some more results
I hope you have enjoyed the tutorial. Let me know what
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Hugs,
AngelFace
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