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Ellie's
Treasures PhotoImpact Translated Tutorials - Back Penta http://www.ellies-treasures.com/pspiartes/backpenta-pi/backpenta-pi.html |
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For this tutorial you
will need: Ulead PhotoImpact Filters and materials needed FM Tile Tools (many of the FM filters continue to work after trial period, Blend Emboss is one of them) A tube, psd file, or object. Caro mask |
| 1. New canvas 400X400, white; find a tube you like and pick a color from it for the tile Open the caro mask file, duplicate it, close the original and resize the duplicate to 400X400, then copy it. |
| 2. Flood fill with a gradient (Edit>Fill>Gradient) or a pattern. Pick the diagonal arrow. Gradients with 0 repeats work better than gradients with multiple repeats. |
| 3. Photo>Gaussian Blur-bottom thumbnail on right (in previous versions, it may be under Effects) If you use a light color like this, you won't notice much difference, but in using a pattern or a gradient with more difference between the colors, you will really see the difference. |
| 4. Apply Mask Click on the mask tool, in PI 12 it's on the status bar at the bottom of the screen, in previous versions it's in the toolbar at the left of the screen. It looks like a mask. This will turn your canvas red. Your caro mask should still be in the clipboard.. Paste the caro03 mask onto the gradient canvas, click on the mask tool to turn it off, you will see a selection. Right click and convert to object. Click enter to deselect this layer. Hit delete and your mask will appear as a layer on a white background. Making sure you are in the background layer, flood fill background with color from tube. Merge all. |
| 6. FM Tile Tools>Blend Emboss at default. You can do this twice if you like. I did. |
| 7. Photo>Focus>top right thumbnail (this will sharpen the embossing a bit more) |
| 8. Copy-paste (control-c to copy, then control-v to paste) your tube and resize so that it fits in the first left top square. This should be just under 200 pixels in height. (If it's a very large tube, you may want to resize it first before pasting. Make sure in the resize window you pick image and objects.) |
| 9. Lower opacity of tube layer (in layer palette) to about 70 or to your taste. Merge all. |
| 10. Effects>Simple>Quick Tile, then copy the tile (control-C) |
| 11. Open new canvas 1280X400 (I prefer the 1280 width as most modern monitors are fairly large. You can pick another width if you like. The height has to stay at 400 as it's the height of the tile. |
| 16. Click on flood fill tool, click on image, fill new canvas with it. If you think it's too dark or bright for stationery, click on fill tool and fill with a coordinating color or white, transparency about 35-50. You can then go to Photo>Focus and pick the top right thumb or use Photo-Sharpen, to bring out the embossing again. |
| 17. Resize your tube to about 375 in height (try and keep the width to less than 350 even if your tube is not quite as high. Any wider and it's too large for a stat border), and apply your tube to the new stationery strip, move it to the left side, add a shadow if desired. Merge all, watermark and you're done |
| If you have any questions or suggestions, email me at this page: http://www.ellies-treasures.com/email/email.html |
| These tutorials are translated with permission from the original writer. Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional. Feel free to share any of my tutorials on this site by a link back to my site, but do not copy and send the entire tutorial to anyone or any group. ©2003-2006 Ellie's Treasures |
