Studs PSP Shed

Tiger Stripe

This tutorial is my own creation, any similarity is purely coincidental! This tutorial was written August 8th, 2004. 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 ©§tud This tutorial was written in PSP7 Supplies a background picture of your own choice or use mine in the zip file a tube of your own choice or mine a ©David Stribbling tube (I've put in the zip a choice of 2 tubes and backgrounds) a font of your own choice or use mine Eye Candy 4000 (although you can use Eye Candy 3.1, it will look slightly different) Filter Factory D supplies HERE

1. Open your background picture and make a copy (Ctrl+D) then close your original. Right click on the layer palette and promote to layer

2. Effects > Plugins > Filter Factory D > Shoutin'! settings: Strip width ~ 27, Padding width ~ 57, Top scale ~ 75, bottom scale ~ 65, top rhythm ~ 93, bottom rhythm ~ 156, transparency ~ 0, mode ~ 176

3. If there is an extra piece of stripe at an edge that looks odd, use the eraser tool with the settings below to carefully remove it before continuing.

4. Effects > texture > Fine leather with settings: custom3 on presets, color set to white #FFFFFF, angle 180, blur 30, number of furrows 35, length of furrows 10, transparency ~ 250

5a. If you're using Eye Candy 3.1 go to step 5b. Effects > Plugins > Eye Candy 4000 > Glass... settings:

Settings list: Rough Cut

Basic: Bevel width ~ 50.83, bevel smoothness ~ 90, bevel placement ~ inside marquee checked, edge darkening ~ 16, gradient shading ~ 41, refraction ~ 61, opacity ~ 39, tinting ~ 70, glass color set to white ~ #FFFFFF

Lighting: Direction 168, inclination 59, hightlight brightness ~ 5,

highlight size ~ 98, highlight color white #FFFFFF, ripple thickness ~ 30, ripple width ~ 16.00, random seed ~ 515

Bevel Profile: Grooved with sharp corners UNchecked

5b. Eye Candy 3.1 settings: bevel width ~ 26, bevel shape ~ round, flaw spacing ~ 84, flaw thickness ~ 27, opacity 18, refraction 45, color set to white #FFFFFF, hightlight brightness ~ 60, hightlight sharpness 63, lighting direction 173, inclination 36

6. Add a shadow between the bars, effects > 3D effects > drop shadow with settings: vertical ~ 3, horizontal ~ -3, opacity ~ 100, blur ~ 8, color set to black #000000

7. Open your tube, copy and paste as new layer on top of your bars and resize by 75%, with bicubic resample selected, maintain aspect ration checked and resize all layers UNchecked.

Then move it to where it suits your tag.

8. Add a drop shadow with the same settings as before onto the tube

9. Add a new raster layer for you text, open your font and minimize it. Add your text, I used the font Patty DB Normal, size 48 with a black (#000000) stroke and a gold gradient fill... or for your own touch choose your own colors to suit your tag... make sure anitalias and floating are both checked

10. With the text layer highlighted, click effects > 3D effects > Inner bevel with the following settings: soft edge preset, width ~ 17, smoothness ~ 0, depth ~ 4, Ambience ~ -30, shininess ~ 27, color set to white #FFFFFF, angle ~ 315, intensity ~ 50, elevation ~ 51

11. Add a drop shadow to the text with the same settings as the others, but change the blur to 5.

12. Selections > select none

13. Add a new raster layer to add a watermark if you have one

14. Layers > Merge > merge visible

15. Resize your finished image... image > resize > pixel size 400 at its longest edge, with resize all layers and maintain aspect ratio both checked and bicubic resample selected

16. Save as jpeg

Here are a few versions of the original tiger stripe tut... I've used a wolf and a more masculine font for those who prefer less flowery text...

also I used a photo of Monet's garden and used a flower tube with the Monet gradient fill on the text

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