JIGGLY SWIRL TUTORIAL




    PREPARING
  1. Open tube, height maximum: 350 pixels
  2. Duplicate tube (Shift D) and close original
  3. Choose a light color from tube and select it as foreground color
    in the material box
  4. Choose a darker color as background color
  5. Minimize your tube
  6. Edit � Copy

    BACKGROUND TILE
  7. File � New Image: 400 x 400, transparent
  8. Selections � Select all
  9. Edit � Paste � Paste into Selection
  10. Selections � Select none
  11. ayers � New raster layer
  12. Floodfill with your foreground or background color
  13. Layers � Arrange � Move down
  14. Layers � Merge � Merge All (Flatten)
  15. Effects � Image effects � Seamless tiling: default. It this
    Doesn�t work for you, try: edge and vertical checked
  16. Effects � Eye Candy 4000 � Jiggle: these settings


    Movement Type: Brownian Motion. Bubble Size: 72.59. Warp
    Amount: 52.26, Twist: 34, Random Seed: 1. You can check the
    Seamless Tile option or choose not to.
  17. Effects � Eye Candy 4000 � Swirl: these settings



    Whirlpool Spacing: 34.41, Smear Length: 3.10, Twist: 60, Streak
    Detail: 40, Random Seed: 1. You can check the Seamless Tile option
    or choose not to.
  18. Effects � Penta.com � Dot and Cross



    Amount: 117, Cross distance: 12, Cross width: 2
  19. Your background tile is ready, minimize

    BACKGROUND
  20. File � New Image: 1280 x 400, transparent
  21. In your background box in your Materials Box change color to pattern
  22. Click in the color box and search for the pattern you just made.
  23. Settings: Angle: 0, Scale: 100
  24. Floodfill your new image with your pattern
  25. Layers � New raster layer
  26. Floodfill your layer with your foreground color
  27. Lower the opacity of this layer in your layer palette to make
    your pattern visible, but text friendly. When you have already soft
    colors you can keep the opacity very low.
  28. Layers � Merge � Merge visible
  29. Edit � Paste � Paste as New Layer
  30. With your mover tool move your tube to the left corner and center
  31. Effects � 3d effects � Dropshadow: settings: Vertical &
    Horizontal: 3, Opacity: 40, Blur: 10, Color: black
  32. Layers � New raster layer
  33. Add your watermark
  34. Layers � Merge � Merge all (Flatten)
  35. File � Export � JPEG Optimizer: compression of 22

    FINISHING
  36. Open Letter Creator
  37. In your Body open your background
  38. Tile in your Body
  39. In your Footer mention your credits
  40. Finish


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I hope you enjoyed making this letter. I would love to
see the results. You can reach me at:
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My tutorials can be found in my groupfiles.
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or when they are released in the creatorscommunity 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.

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Jetty
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