Nadine

 

Lisa's original Dutch tutorial can be viewed here

 

Nadine  made this beautiful tube.
  

The tutorial was written for PSP X

but can also be made in PSP 9.




 

MATERIALS NEEDED:
Download here

 

FILTERS NEEDED:

 Visual Manipulation -( included in zip)
DSB Flux.
 MuRa's Seamless.
Download filters here
  


METHOD: 
Open the tube and choose 2 colors.

Foreground - Light

Background - Dark.

Make a gradient:

Angle - 45

Repeats - 1

Invert - checked

Style - Linear.


Open a new transparent image, size 450 x 350px.

Floodfill with the gradient.

Effects --Filter -- Visual Manupulation--X Mirror:
slidebars on 89-197.
Effects --Filter -- Visual Manupulation--Y Mirror:
slidebars on 79-255.
 

Activate your Selection Tool and choose

the "Rectangle"- option.

Select the area as seen below:

 


 

 Effects -- Texture Effects -- Blinds: 2-100--color light
Effects -- 3D effects--Drop shadow:

 V & H -5, 65, 19 color black

Repeat with V & H on 5.

Deselect ( Ctrl +D)


Activate your Selection Tool again on Rectangle.

Select the areas as shown below now:


 
Effects -- Texture Effects -- Blinds: 2-100--color = light.

 

Effects -- 3D Effects -- Drop Shadow.

Change the V & H settings again to -5 color black.

Deselect ( Ctrl+D)
 

Effects -- DSB Flux -- Linear Transmission
 - slidebars on 25-25-50.
 

Activate your tube and resize it.

Copy and paste as a new layer.

Position it to the left.

Apply a drop shadow

V5-H5-65-19.

 

Activate the Selection Tool again.

Select the area at the bottom right.

See example.
 
Add a new raster layer.

Mirror the tube.

Copy and paste into the selection.

Apply a drop shadow:

5  / -5 / 65 / 19 / color black.
Reduce the opacity of this layer to 51%.

 

Activate your Pen Tool

and find the dots preset,

with the width on 5.

Draw a diagonal strip from the right

into the canvas as seen in the example.

Keep your Shift-key in while doing it.
 Repeat it another 4 times.

Convert the vector layer to raster layer.

 

Effects -- Filter Effects -- Mura's Seamless --

 Emboss at Alpha - standard.

 

Merge All layers.

 

Selections -- Select All .
Selections -- Modify -- Contract by 2px.

Go to Effects -- 3D Effects -- Chisel: 2, black.

 

Add your name in a font of your choice.

Repeat the Alpha Emboss Effect.
 
Your tag is finished.

:-)

 

 






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Updated 30th July 2007

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