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Filters: xero/Fritillary
Ok let's begin Open a New Image 300x300 Set your Foreground to a color from your Tube Activate your Paint Brush Tool ... with the following settings
Left-Click once in the middle of your canvas
Image> Canvas Size ... with the following settings
Effects> Image Effects> Offset ... with the following settings
Selections> Select All ... Selections> Float ... Selections> Defloat Selections> Modify> Expand ... by 70 ... Selections> Invert Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill the Selection with the same color you used earlier Selections> Select None
Rename the Bottom layer frit ... Duplicate this layer twice for a total of 3 ... Activate the frit layer again Effects> xero> Fritillary ... with the following settings
Activate the Copy of frit layer ... Edit> Repeat Fritillary ... change the Variation to 42 Activate the Copy (2) of Fritillary ... Edit> Repeat Fritillary ... change the Variation to 44 Hide the Top 2 frit layers for now
Activate the Top layer Effects> xero> Fritillary ... with the following settings
Paste your Close Up as a New Layer Move into position over the Transparent gap in your image (I lowered the opacity so I could see position better then raised it again) Change this layers Blend Mode to Luminance or Luminance(L), whichever looks better Layers> Arrange> Send to Bottom
Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill this layer with your Foreground color Layers Arrange> Send to Bottom Activate the Top layer Paste your Tube or Close Up as a New Layer ... Apply a suitable Drop Shadow Position to your liking
Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill with a Dark color Selections> Select All ... Selections> Modify> Contract ... by 3 Hit DELETE on your keyboard ... Selections> Select None Apply a slight Drop Shadow (I used 0, 0, 100, 4, #ff81b7) Add Copyright Info and your Name
ANIMATING
Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged
Go back to Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> After Current Frame Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged
Go back to Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> After Current Frame Edit> Select All ... Animation> Frame Properties ... change to 20
Here is another example by my friend Sezy
Tutorial written on the 25/11/2011 ©David Hanslip |