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Filters: Mura's Meister/Copies Eye Candy 6/Textures
Ok let's begin Open a New Image 600x250 Firstly you will need to pick 3 colors from your Tube I wrote their codes (#f9bea2 etc) in notepad and named them 1, 2, 3
Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings Top - 0 Right - 25 Bottom - 250 Left - 0 Flood Fill the Selection with color number 1
Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings Top - 0 Right - 50 Bottom - 250 Left - 25 Flood Fill the Selection with color number 2
Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings Top - 0 Right - 75 Bottom - 250 Left - 50 Flood Fill the Selection with color number 3 Selections> Select None
Effects> Mura's Meister> Copies ... Tiling(feedback)
Activate your Magic Wand Tool ... with the following settings
Click inside each of the color 1 stripes Selections> Promote Selection to Layer ... Selections> Select None
Activate the Bottom layer again Click inside each of the color 3 stripes Selections> Promote Selection to Layer ... Selections> Select None Merge the two promoted layers together
Adjust> Add/Remove Noise> Add Noise ... with the following settings Gaussian - checked Noise - 13% Monochrome - checked
Effects> 3D Effects> Drop Shadow ... with the following settings 0, 0, 100, 8, color Black Edit> Repeat Drop Shadow
Activate the Bottom layer ... Activate your Magic Wand Tool again Click inside the color 2 stripes Selections> Promote Selection to Layer ... Selections> Select None Rename this promoted layer "Marble" ... Duplicate this layer twice for a total of 3
Activate the Marble layer
Effects> Eye Candy 6: Textures> Marble ... with the following settings Click on the "settings" tab and click on "Factory Default"
Click on the "Basic" tab and change the Bedrock Color to your color 2 and the Vein Color to your color 1 Change the Vein Thickness to 60 and the Coverage to 50 Click on the Random Seed once then on OK
Activate the Copy of Marble layer Edit> Repeat Marble ... click on Random Seed once then on OK Activate the Copy (2) of Marble layer Edit> Repeat Marble ... click on Random Seed once then on OK
Hide the 2 top Marble layers
Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill this layer Black Selections> Select All ... Selections> Modify> Contract ... by 3 Hit DELETE on your keyboard ... Selections> Select None Layers> Arrange> Bring To Top ... apply a slight Drop Shadow (I used 0, 0, 100, 2, white)
Go to your Tube Image ... Edit> Copy Return to your Tag ... Edit> Paste As New Layer
Position suitably on the Right side of your Tag and apply a suitable Drop Shadow Layers> Arrange> Move Down (should now be 2nd layer in layer palette)
Layers> New Raster Layer ... Move this layer below your Tube layer in your layer palette With it active make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings Top - 155 Right - 600 Bottom - 220 Left - 0
Flood Fill the Selection with color 3 ... Selections> Invert Apply a Drop Shadow using color 1, change Blur to around 10 Selections> Select None
Activate the Top layer Add Copyrights and your Name
ANIMATING
Edit> Select All (or press ctrl+A) Animation> Frame Properties ... change to 20 and click ok
Tutorial written on 03/10/2011 ©David Hanslip |