TRI-TILE SPLASH TUTORIAL




    PREPARING
  1. Open tube, height maximum: 320 px. or resize to 320
    A tube larger then width works best
  2. Duplicate tube (Shift D) and close original
  3. Chose a light color from tube and select it as foreground
    color in the materialbox
  4. Chose a dark color from tube and select it as background color
    in the materialbox
  5. Edit - Copy
  6. Minimize Tube

    BACKGROUND TILE
  7. File � New � New image of 400 X 400 pixels, transparent
  8. Selections - Select all
  9. Edit - Paste into selection
  10. Selections � Select none
  11. Layers � New layer (raster)
  12. Flood fill layer with light foreground colour
  13. Layers � arrange � send to bottom
  14. Layers � Merge � Merge visible
  15. Effects � Image effects � Seamless tiling (default)
  16. Adjust � Blur � Gaussian Blur: radius of 25
  17. Effects: Filter Factory D: Tri-Tile: settings:
    Tiles: 64, Mode: 207, X-Adjust: 162 and Y-Adjust: 116



  18. Effects: VM Natural: Splash: with these settings:
    Center X: 170, Center Y: 227, Frequency: 100, Ray Length1:
    10, Ray Length 2: 10



  19. Effects � Image effects � Seamless tiling: default
  20. Your background tile is now ready
  21. Minimize

    BACKGROUND
  22. File � New � New image of 1280x400 pixels
  23. Go to your material pallet and put your background color (box) to pattern



  24. Chose your settings: angle 0, scale 100,
  25. Chose your background tile as pattern
  26. Flood fill the Background with your pattern
  27. Optional: Effects � Image effects � Seamless tiling: default
    (should not be necessary)
  28. Layers � New raster layer
  29. Flood fill with your foreground colour (material box)
  30. Lower the opacity of your layer to 40 - 80
    You should be able to see the tile through it. I chose 50 / 72
  31. Layers � Merge � Merge all (flatten)
  32. Go to your toolbar and chose your Selection Tool: Selection
  33. In your Selection presets chose type: Ellipse, Mode: add
    And Feather: 0, Anti-Alias must be checked
  34. Starting point: horizontal 120 and vertical: 200. Go to the left
    to horizontal: 40 and vertical: 30, You now have an ellipse form.
  35. Layers � New raster layer
  36. Flood fill with your foreground colour
  37. Selections � Modify � Contract: 10
  38. Hit delete once
  39. Selections � Select none
  40. Effects � 3d effects � Inner Bevel: these settings



    Bevel 2, Width: 4, Smoothness: 0, Depth: 4, Ambience: 0,
    Shininess: 0, Angle: 315, Intensity: 50 and Elevation: 30
  41. Layers � Duplicate
  42. Image � Rotate � Free rotate: Right and Free: 25,
    Uncheck �all layers�
  43. Layers � Duplicate
  44. Image � Rotate � Free rotate: Left and Free: 50
    Uncheck �all layers�
  45. Make the bottom layer invisible (click the eye once)
  46. Layers � Merge � Merge visible
  47. Effects � 3d Effects � Drop Shadow: settings: Vertical: 4, Horizontal: 4, Opacity: 40, Blur: 5, Colour: black
  48. Repeat Drop Shadow but now with Horizontal and
    Vertical: � 4.
  49. Make bottom layer visible again (click the eye again)



    It should look like this
  50. Edit � Paste � Paste as New Layer
  51. Move tube with mover tool to the left and position the
    tube nicely among the ellipses
  52. Effects � 3dEffects � Drop Shadow: settings:BR> Vertical: 4, Horizontal: 4, Opacity: 40, Blur: 5, Colour: black

    ADDITION FOR INTERMEDIATES, BEGINNERS SKIP AND CONTINUE WITH POINT 60 In this part you will erase a part of the tube to make it look
    like that part of the tube is behind the ellipse and a part will
    remain on top of the ellipse. See my example



  53. Layers � Duplicate
  54. Layers � Arrange � Move down to below ellipses
  55. Activate your top layer
  56. Lower opacity to about 40
  57. In the toolbox select your Eraser Tool
  58. Your top layer should be activated!
    With the Eraser Tool go over the parts of the ellipses,
    where you want to have parts of the tube removed so that it
    will look that the ellipses are in top of the tube at those spots.
    58. Your image should look now as if a part is behind the
    Ellipses and a part in front of them. Play with it.
    VARIATION: You can also have the ellipses get more
    entwined.
  59. Put Opacity of Toplayer back to 100
    From here continue with point 60

    CONTINUING POINT BEGINNERS AND INTERMEDIATES
  60. Layers � New raster layer
  61. Add your watermark
  62. Layers � Merge � Merge all (flatten)
  63. File � Export: JPEG Optimizer with compression of 20-25

    FINISHING
  64. Open Letter Creator
  65. In your Body open your background
  66. In your body tile
  67. In your Footer mention your credits
  68. Finish


Another example:

Here I played with the starting point and width of the ellipses

And here yet another example:


VARIATIONS
  1. You could use a mini or a small tube and position it in
    the middle of the ellipses
  2. You can add some more ellipses, but keep the distance
    the same
  3. You can fill the ellipses with a background color or
    the pattern
  4. You can leave the layer in step 27 -29 for a more
    colorful example
  5. You can place the tube behind the ellipses:
    Layers � Arrange � Move down�
    so it is peeping through�
  6. Of course you can replace the ellipse form by rectangles


I hope you enjoyed making this letter. I would love to see the results.
You can reach me at:
[email protected]

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Or to my website:
http://www.geocities.com/ladyluna37/index.htm

My tutorials can be found in my groupfiles.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IMtutorialsbyJetty or at the earlier mentioned homepage.

With thanks to the brilliant women who have given me
lessons in PSP and Incredimail.
Many things I learnt have been used by me in creating. Any resemblance with other
tutorials is purely coincidental.
And special thanks my testers for their testing.

You are free to share my tutorials. If you want to use them for lessons
or a groupshare please ask me and please acknowledge it as my tutorial.

Hugs

Jetty
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