Studs PSP Shed

What Are You?

This tutorial is my own creation, any similarity is purely coincidental! This tutorial was written May 28th 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 This tut requires a couple of filters, but is simple enough for a beginner to try out Supplies
PSP
tube & font of choice
preset shape of choice
gradient of choice that fits with your tube
Doodles from a scrap kit of choice Toadies Filter HERE
Harrys Filters HERE you need to send your email address so they can send it to you.
Lokas Filter HERE
Scrap Kit HERE (kudos to the creator, of whom I don't know as yet but I'm working on it!) included in supplies: gradient , tube, font, diamond HERE

1. Open a new, blank image 500 x 500 pixels transparent image (16 million color depth). File > New > set size & set color depth.

2. With black as your foreground and background set to null, select a preset shape with line width on 2 and create as vector checked draw a shape to nearly fill your canvas rename this layer "shape"

3. Select your wand tool and click inside the the shape, selections > modify > expand by 3, click on layer 1 and add a new raster layer. Flood fill with your choice of gradient. Highlight the shape layer and delete it so the black lines go away! Deselect. Now you should only have 2 layers remaining

4. Effects > plugins > Toadies > What Are You with settings: X-dose ~ 24, Y-dose ~ 29 **depending on the shape you choose will depend on the settings!**

5. Effects > plugins > Harrys Filters with settings: group ~ nature, FX ~ Tornado, Wildness ~ 245, Width ~ 147, Max Width ~ 154, X-Offset ~ 145, brightness ~ 4, normal ~ 255 and medium selected. **experiment with the settings on this filter it's a very cool one!**

6. Open your tube, copy and paste as new layer, position and resize as desired. Effects > 3D effects > drop shadow with settings: vertical & horizontal ~ -6, opacity ~ 50, blur ~ 5, color ~ black

7. Open the doodle of choice, copy and paste as new layer. Duplicate the layer, image > mirror. Hide all layers but the 2 doodle layers, merge > merge visible

8. Duplicate the merged layer, image > flip and position all as desired. Drag the tube layer to the top

9. Open your font and with create as vector and antialias both checked add your tag nick, positon and resize as desired then convert to raster layer.

10. Add any inner bevel you like to the text. Effects > Plugins > Lokas > Aqua with default settings and color overlay UNchecked.

11. Effects > 3D effects >dropshadow with same settings previously used (or your own choice!)

12. Add another raster layer for any copyright information and another for your watermark

13. Add any further accents/elements you wish, resize as desired (I used the diamond enclosed) and save as a jpeg.

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