SPOTTED SQUARES TUTORIAL




    PREPARING
  1. Open tube
  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. Minimize Tube

    BACKGROUND
  6. File � New � New image of 200x200 pixels
    Variation: use a rectangle of 100-150x200 pixels.
  7. Flood fill your image with your light foreground color
  8. Image � Canvas Size: settings: 400 x 400 placement top � left
  9. Layers � Duplicate
  10. Image � Mirror
  11. Image � Flip
  12. Layers � Merge � Merge visible
  13. Layers � New raster layer
  14. Floodfill your new layer with your background color
  15. Layers � Arrange � Send to bottom
  16. Layers � Merge � Merge all (flatten)
  17. Chose another colour from your tube as new background colour
  18. In your toolbox chose Ellipse Tool
  19. Presets: Mode: circle, create on vector
  20. Optional: In your materialbox lock your foreground color.
    Just push on the transparent button under the color. It looks like
    a circle with a stripe in it.
    For a variation you can leave the foreground color unlocked, so you will get an edge.
  21. Draw circles at random on your background on the top left square.
  22. Layers � Duplicate
  23. With your mover tool move your spots to the top right square.
    Or you can do instead: Image � Mirror. The spots are then opposite
    instead of the same. Try and chose what you prefer.
  24. Layers � Duplicate
  25. Move your spots to the square below. Or for opposite: Image - Flip
  26. In your material box change your foreground color in a new tube colour
  27. In your material properties box of the new color note down the Hue And Saturation number



  28. Adjust � Hue and Saturation � Colorize. Change Hue and
    Saturation into the numbers you noted down.
    The spots on the right down square should now change in your
    new colour
  29. Layers � Duplicate
  30. With your mover tool move to the left down square. Or
    again do it opposite: Image - Mirror
  31. Layers � Merge � Merge visible
  32. Lower the opacity to your likings
  33. Layers � Merge � Merge all (Flatten)
  34. Edit � Paste
  35. With your mover tool move to a nice spot if necessary
  36. Effects � 3d effects � Dropshadow: settings:
    Horizontal & Vertical: 4, Opacity: 45, Blur: 15
  37. Layers � Merge � Merge flatten
  38. Effects � 3d effects � Inner Bevel to your liking..
    I chose: bevel 2, Width: 5, Depth: 5, Smoothness, Ambience
    and Shininess: 0, Angle: 315, Intensity: 50 and Elevation: 30
  39. Image � Canvas Size: 1280 x 400, placement center left
  40. Layers � New raster layer
  41. Floodfill with one of the colors you used before.
  42. Layers � Arrange � Send to bottom
  43. Optional: if you�d like you can add spots again as you did
    before. You might need to lower the opacity then.
  44. Activate your top layer
  45. Effects � 3d effects � Dropshadow with the same settings but
    now check the possibility �shadow on new layer�
  46. In your toolbox select the deform tool
  47. Drag the horizontal edges of the separate shadow layer
    upwards and downwards to have a smooth shadow line.
  48. Select your top layer
  49. Layers � New raster layer
  50. Add your watermark
  51. Layers � Merge � Merge all (flatten)
  52. File - Export � JPEG Optimizer � compression of 20-25

    FINISHING
  53. Open your Letter Creator.
  54. In your Body open your background and tile
  55. In your Footer mention your credits
  56. Finish

Example 2:


and yet another example:
Example 2:


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.

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Jetty
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