JULIA'S TRIANGLE WORLD TUTORIAL




    PREPARING
  1. Open tube, width/height maximum: 340 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 dark matching color as background color
  5. Edit � Copy
  6. Minimize your tube

    BACKGROUND TILE
  7. Left click once in our foreground color box in the color
  8. In the material properties box look at the Hue and
    Saturation numbers and remember these or note down


  9. File � New Image: 200 x 200, transparent
  10. Effects � Mehdi � Julia's World: these settings:



    Settings: Julia: 957, Grad Offset: 41 and Grad Period: 190

  11. Adjust � Hue and Saturation � Colorize: settings: put
    here the numbers you noted down before (of the
    foreground color)
  12. Effects � Image effects � Seamless Tiling: default settings
  13. Layers � New raster layer
  14. Floodfill with your light foreground color
  15. In your layer palette lower the opacity of this raster 2 layer.
    Between 60 and 90. I used 72 and 78 and 68.
  16. Layers � Merge � Merge visible
  17. Effects � Texture effects � Blinds:



    Settings: Width: 8, Opacity: 30, Color: background color,
    Horizontal checked
  18. Repeat your blinds effect, but now with horizontal NOT
    Checked.
  19. Effects � Image effects � Seamless tiling: default settings.
  20. Your pattern is now ready, minimize

    BACKGROUND
  21. File � New Image: 1280 x 400, transparent
  22. In your background box in your Materials Box change color
    to pattern


  23. Click once in your background color to go to your
    Materials Properties box and change settings to: Angle: 0,
    Scale: 100, Select your just finished pattern.
  24. Floodfill your new image with your pattern
  25. In your toolbox choose your selection tool



  26. Selection Type: triangle, Mode: add, Feather: 0 and Anti Alias checked
  27. If you haven�t activated your rulers yet, it�s now time:
    View - Rulers
  28. We are going to draw now: Starting point: 30 horizontal and 30
    vertical (30-30). End point at: 300 horizontal and 370
    vertical (300, 370)
  29. Layers � New raster layer
  30. Floodfill with your pattern again
  31. In your background color box choose a new color from the tube.
    A contrasting color works best.
  32. Note down (like you did before) the Hue and Saturation numbers
    of this color
  33. Adjust � Colorize � Hue and Saturation: fill in the colors you
    just noted down.
  34. Effects � 3d effects � Inner bevel:



    Bevel: 2, Width: 3, Smoothness: 0, Depth: 3. Ambience: 0,
    Shininess: 0, Angle: 315, Intensity: 50 and Elevation: 30

  35. Effects � 3d effects � Dropshadow: settings: Vertical
    and Horizontal: 3, Opacity: 40 and Blur: 15, Color: Black
  36. Effects � 3d Effects � Dropshadow: settings: Vertical
    \ and Horizontal: -3, Opacity: 40 and Blur: 15, Color: black.
  37. Selections � Select none
  38. Layers � Duplicate
  39. Image - Flip
  40. Image � Rotate � Free rotate: Left checked, Free checked: 15,
    Rotate single layer around canvas center checked.
  41. Image � Resize � Resize to 90 %, Resize all layers NOT checked
  42. With your mover tool move your second triangle to the
    left top corner. See example:


  43. Edit � Paste � Paste as new Layer
  44. Effects � 3d effects � Dropshadow: settings: Vertical
    and Horizontal: 3, Opacity: 40 and Blur: 15, Color: Black
  45. Layers � New raster layer
  46. Add your watermark
  47. Layers � Merge � Merge all (Flatten)
  48. File � Export � JPEG Optimizer: compression of 22

    FINISHING
  49. Open Letter Creator
  50. In your Body open your background
  51. Tile in your Body
  52. In your Footer mention your credits
  53. Finish


Another example with a different triangle comtination and I
used a wider triangle. Use your creativity and variate..:


And the last example:




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With thanks to the brilliant women who have given me
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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.

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