MAS - Charlize Tutorial

This tutorial is written in PsP X, but can be made in PsP 9.

Needed:

*A nice tube.
My tube is in the zip file - Put in a folder of you choice.
* Fonts: Aranea - Put this is in your Fonts folder.
* Masks - ivy_502 en dbmmasks252 - Put these in your PsP Masks folder
* My Selections - Put these in your PsP Selections folder
* My Brush - Put this in your PsP Brushes folder
Texture "Achtergrond " - Put this is your PsP Textures folder
Filters: Tronds Filters here and Italian Editors Effect here
To download this filter scroll to the end of the page until you see these words
"Qui pui scaricare Tutti i filtri elencati"
then click on the little filmstrip to download the entire set.

Thank you Miss Kels for letting me use your beautiful mask.
Visit her site here

* supplies zip

Now that you have everything we can start…

1. Open a new transparent image of 650 x 450 pixels.
2. Set your foreground to a light color, I took white and a dark color for your background, I took black and
Put your foreground color to Foreground/ background gradient with these settings and flood fill your image with your
gradient.

3. Effects - Edge effects - Enhance.
4. Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more.
5. Layers - New raster layer.
6. Selections - Load/ save selections - Load from disk and look for the MAS-Charlize1.

7. Make your light color your foreground color and flood fill the selection with it.
8. Selections - Select nothing.
9. Effects - Distortion effects - Polar coordinates with these settings:

10. Effects - Filters - Italian Editors Effects - Mosaico with these settings:

11. Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more.
12. Layers - duplicate.
13. Image - Mirror.
14. Image - Flip.
15. Image - Free rotate with these settings:

16. Effects - Filters - Tronds Filter - Golderizer and put the opacitay of your Copy layer to 50.
17. Layers - Merge - Merge visible.
18. Layers - New raster layer
19. Selections - Selections load/ save - Load from disk and find the MAS-Charlize2 and use the
same settings as in step 6.
20. Flood fill this selection with a light color I chose #c5c5c5.
ATTENTION: Leave your selection intact.

21. Effects - Texture effects - Texture with the following settings:

22. Put the Blend mode on this layer to Luminance (legacy)
23. Layers - New raster layer and flood fill with your dark color.
24. Selections - Modify - Contract by 1 pixel.
25. Hit delete on your keyboard.
26. Selections -Select nothing.
27. Layers - New raster layer.
28. Selections - Selections load/ save - Load from disk and find the MAS-Charlize3 and use the
same settings again as in step 6.
29. Flood fill the selection with your dark color.
30. Selections - Select nothing.
31. Layers - Load/ save mask - Load from disk and look for the dbmmasks252 mask
and use these settings:

32. Layers - Merge - Merge group.
33. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow with these settings:

ATTENTION: if you are using different colors then you may need to change
the shadow color so it suits your tag better.

34. Put the Blend mode to Overlay.
ATTENTION: play around with the different Blend modes when you are
using different colors.

35. Layers - New raster layer
36. Selections - Selections load/ save - Load from disk and find the MAS-Charlize4 and use the
same settings again as in step 6.
37. Flood fill the selection with your dark color.
38. Selections - Select nothing.
39. Layers - Load/ save mask - Load from disk and look for the ivy_502 mask
and use these settings:

39. Layers - Merge - Merge group.
40. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow with these settings:

41. Put the Opacity of the layer to 30 and put the Blend mode to Overlay.
ATTENTION: play around with the different Blend modes when you are
using different colors.

42. Layers - New raster layer.
42. Take your Text tool and look for the Aranea font and use the following settings:

43. Now type in a word that suits your tag. I chose the name Charlize. The color does not matter, because
you are making it as a selction.
44. With your selection intact go to Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow with these settings:

45. Selections - Select nothing.
46. With your Mover tool move the name to bottom left (see screen).

47. Layers - New raster layer.
48. Activate your Brushes and look for the MAS-Charlize brush and place this, with your dark color,
at the upper left (see screen).

49. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow with these settings:

50. Effects - Distortion Effects - Wind with these settings:

51. Layers - Duplicate.
52. Image - Flip.
53. Open the MAS-CharlizeInPremiereSmall tube and go to Edit - Copy.
54. Edit - Paste as a new layer and move her to the right (see screen)

55. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow with these settings:

56. Layers - Merge - Merge all (flatten).
57. Image - Add Borders - 1 pixel with a light color, I am using #c5c5c5.
58. Image - Add Borders- 2 pixels black.

And the tutorial is done...Add your watermark, resize if you want and don't
forget to sharpen if you do resize and then save as .jpg

Go here to see more results

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Hugs,

AngelFace