SIMPLE GLASS TUTORIAL


An easy tutorial with a nice glittery result. Quick and
easy! Suitable as background for most tubes!



    PREPARING
  1. Open tube, height maximum: 360 px.
  2. Duplicate tube (Shift D) and close original
  3. Chose a light colour from tube and select it as foreground
    colour in the material box
  4. Edit - Copy
  5. Minimize Tube

    BACKGROUND TILE
  6. File � New Image (400x400, transparent)
  7. Selections � Select all
  8. Edit � Paste - Paste into Selection
  9. Selections � Select none
  10. Layers � New layer (raster)
  11. Floodfill layer with light foreground color
  12. Layers � Arrange � Send to bottom
  13. Layers � Merge � Merge visible
  14. Effects � Image effects � Seamless tiling: default
  15. Adjust � Blur � Gaussian blur: radius of 25
  16. Effects � Texture effects - Mosaic - Glass: default
  17. Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling: default
  18. Your background tile is now ready, minimize

    BACKGROUND
  19. File � New Image (1280 x 400, transparent)
  20. Go to your material pallet and put your background color
    (box) to pattern



  21. Chose your settings: angle 0, scale 100,
  22. Chose your background tile as pattern
  23. Flood fill the Background with your pattern
  24. Edit � Paste � Paste as New Layer
  25. With your Mover Tool in Toolbox move the tube to
    the left corner and position it nicely.
  26. Layers � Duplicate
  27. Click on the eye to close visibility of top layer
  28. Activate your second layer
  29. Effects � Texture effects � Mosaic Glass: default
  30. Effects � Image Effects � Seamless tiling: settings:
    Edge and Vertical checked, Width: 51 and Transition: 50


  31. Unlock visibility of the top layer (click the eye again)
  32. Activate your top layer
  33. Image � Resize � Resize to 90 %, bicubic, Resize all
    layers not checked
  34. Position nicely
  35. Effects � 3d Effects � Drop shadow: settings:
    Horizontal & Vertical: 3, Opacity: 40 and Blur: 15
  36. Layers � New raster layer
  37. Add your watermark
  38. Layers � Merge � Merge all (flatten)
  39. File � Export: JPEG Optimizer with compression of 20-25

    FINISHING
  40. Open Letter Creator
  41. In your Body open your background
  42. In your body tile
  43. In your Footer mention your credits
  44. Finish


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

Please put a link to my group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IMtutorialsbyJetty
Or to my website if you have gotten this tutorial through
creatorscommunity:
http://www.geocities.com/ladyluna37/index.htm

My tutorials can be found in my groupfiles.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IMtutorialsbyJetty or after a while 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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