You will need
PSP
Tube and font and brushes of your choice
Or
Brushes HERE
The Following Filters:
Unplugged Effects HERE
MuRa's Meister - Copies 1.3 HERE
DC Special - Deep Dream HERE
Open a 500 x 500 new image, transparent.
Flood fill with a color from your tube. Set that color as your forground color and black as your background/fill color.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer. Duplicate this layer and then close off visiblity of the duplicate. Highlight the original tube layer. We'll be working on this layer first.
Go to Image - Mirror
Effects - Plug Ins - Unplugged Effects - Phantom, with these settings:
X 59
Y 127
Please note: these settings work best with a tall thin tube. If you use a different type of tube, you may want to play with the settings.
Next.. Effects - Plug Ins - MuRa's Meister Copies
Set to:
Line
Tile Mode
Behind
And change only the following settings:
Number 3
Shift X 36
Shift Y -20 (minus 20)
Scale 55
Click Ok
Add a new Raster Layer and add your brushes in any combination/pattern you like, using either the color in your foreground and black, as you need. When finished, pull this layer below the tube layer and lower opacity of both layers to 72.
Unhide and highlight the copy of your tube layer.
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
Vertical -2
Horizontal 2
Opacity 85
Blur 5
Now, highlight Raster Layer 1, the bottom background layer.
Effects - Plug Ins - DC Special - Deep Dream
Leave the default settings as they are. Make sure that the top color is the same color as your background. Click OK.
Go back to your tube layer and move it, if you like, to where it looks best.
Image - Resize by 80% to 400 x 400
Resample using: Smart Size checked
Lock Aspect Ratio 1 to 1 checked
Resize ALL layers checked
Then making sure your tube layer is still highlighted Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.
Now to add your text: I used the font Far East. Size 48, Stroke Width 1.5
Foreground Color #00569C
Background Color #6E9ED3
Or colors you prefer from your tube. Create as vector. Move and angle it to your liking.
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow, same settings as above. (say ok if prompted to convert to raster)
Add the artist's © credit layer and your own watermark.
Layers - Merge - Merge Visible
Almost finished! Now to add the borders!
Image - Add Borders
All borders will be Pixel size 4
The first border is the same color as your background or what you like, mine was #00569C
The second border is black and the third border is the same color as the first.
Take your Magic Wand and Select the outside colored border.
Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel
Bevel #1
Width 4
Smoothness 16
Depth 4
Ambience 0
Shininess 14
Color White
Angle 358
Intensity 50
Elevation 35
Click OK.
Selection - Select None
Repeat using the same settings with the innermost colored border. Do not deselect, because we want to add a drop shadow first.
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
Vertical 2
Horizontal 2
Opacity 85
Blur 5
using a LIGHT color from your tube.
Repeat the drop shadow but change both the Vertical and the Horizontal to -2.
Selections - Select None
File - Export as a jpg and you're done.
Thank you to Saturn Alice for giving permission for the use of her artwork.
Please DO NOT copy this tutorial to put online, pass out or re-write without my permission. You may link to them or print them out for your own personal use.
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.
Tutorial is ©Cru aka Tori Beveridge 2004-2010
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