Studs PSP Shed

Spooky Fade

This tutorial is my own creation, any similarity is purely coincidental! This tutorial is a birthday present to Bear who's birthday is September 11th. This tutorial was written September 9th 2007. Please feel free to LINK to this tutorial and/or print it out for your personal use, but please do not copy it in anyway to put online, pass out or re-write without my permission. The artwork is by Steve Argyle and is found at www.Steveargyle.com Please ensure you use full proper credit if using his art. Steve Argyle is now a member of MPT and you need a licence to use his work! I have removed his tube from the supplies and replaced it with 2 really cool Popeye Wong witch tubes for you instead! Supplies PSP Tube of choice
Font of choice Accent(s) of choice Mask of choice pattern of choice gradient of choice Crescent Moon Plugin HERE or website HERE Lokas Aqua filter HERE my supplies include: tube, font, accents, gradient, mask, pattern HERE

1. Open a new, blank image 600 x 600 pixels transparent image (16 million color depth). File > New > set size & set color depth.

2. Flood fill with a gradient of choice

3. Effects > Plugins > Crescent Moon > Quilt with settings: Horizontal Spacing ~ 79, Vertical Spacing ~ 88, Transparency ~ 0

4. Add a new raster layer and flood fill with your pattern

5. Effects > Plugins > Crescent Moon > Spooky Fade with settings: Red Addition ~ 246, Green Addition ~ 179, Blue Addition ~ 134, Transparency ~ 3. Make sure the 2nd layer is highlighted

6. Open your mask, Masks > New > from Image > select your mask and with invert mask data checked (depending on your mask!). Masks > delete > yes

7. Open your tube, copy and paste as new layer, resize and position as desired

8. Effects > 3D effects > drop shadow with settings: vertical ~ 10, horizontal ~ 5, opacity ~ 75, blur ~ 17.3, color ~ white

9. Add any accents you wish, place as desired.

10. Select your colors for your text, open your font and with create as vector and antialias both checked

11. Add an inner bevel of choice

12. Effects > plugins > Lokas > Aqua with default settings

13. Add a new raster layer for any copyright information (or copy and paste the information from the tube as a new layer)

14. Add a new raster layer for your own watermark. Resize as desired and save as jpeg

Alternative

I added a border and used a different pattern and mask but did not change the settings. Each pattern shows up differently! The font I used was Pythoria

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