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Ellie's Treasures UniversalTutorials - 3 Cut Stationery http://www.ellies-treasures.com/universal/3cutstat/3cutstat.html |
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For this tutorial you
will need: ULead PhotoImpact or Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Photoshop Elements or Corel Paint Shop Pro or Jasc previous version This tutorial will work in any of these programs. Simple filters - Quick Tile VM Instant Art>Three Cut A Tube, object (PI) or PSD file (Adobe) My plugin windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my plugins I am assuming you know the basics of your graphics program and where the tools can be located. |
| Step 1 Open the tube, object or psd file you want to use Open a new canvas, 300 X 300 pixels and flood fill with the dark color. |
| Step 2 Go to effects>VM Instant Art>Three Cuts: leave all at default except change rotation to 205 and set the bottom slider to a color you like, or colorize later. I've used color 209 here |
| Step 3 Go to Effects>Simple>Quick Tile |
| Step 4 PSP: create new raster layer, pick bright color from tile (I used #90003b here) flood fill, turn opacity down to 80 in the layer palette You can play with the color fills here to see what you like and play with the opacity as well. PI: pick a color from your tile, make it your foreground color, go to Edit>Fill and flood fill the tile at about 50, or your choice. In my purple canvas I didn't need to mute, when I colorized it I lightened it there (see below). PS: go to Layer>New>Layer, to create your new layer. Pick a color from your tile and use that color to flood fill the new layer. Go to the layer in the layer palette and turn the opacity down to where you can see the pattern through. Use your own judgment. I slid mine down to 76%. 4a: Alternately you can colorize. PSP: Adjust>Hue and Saturation>Colorize PI go to Hue-Saturation, check the colorize box PS: Go to Image>Adjustments>Hue and Saturation, check the colorize box, and leave it on preview PSE: go to Enhance>Adjust Color>Adjust Hue/Saturation, check the colorize box and leave it on preview. If you choose to colorize you can lighten the color there and don't need to do the muting step as above) |
| Step 5 Open new canvas 1280X300, white PSP: In your materials palette, for foreground, pick pattern, and choose the tile you just made. Flood fill new canvas. PI: Copy your tile, select your strip canvas and go to Edit>Fill; pick the image tab and fill from clipboard, tiled image. Make sure your transparency is set back to 0 when you do this (it will be set at the transparency of the last step). PS and PSE: Go to Edit>Define Pattern (Make sure you are on your new tile when you do this), a new window will pop up, name your new pattern, click ok. Click on your new canvas, go to Edit>Fill Layer>Pattern, and choose the one you selected. |
| Step 6 PSP: Copy your tube, paste as new layer into stationery canvas, in layer palette, right click and duplicate layer, then Image>Mirror. PI paste as object twice, put one at the left and one at the right of the strip. If you want to mirror it, click on the transform tool and in the tool bar, click on the icon for flip horizontal. Leave both selected and right click, click align and align vertically). Leave selected PS and PSE: go to your tube, then go to Select>All, Edit>Copy, go to new canvas, Edit>Paste. Now in the layer palette, right click and duplicate layer. Go to Image>Transform>Flip Horizontal (in PSE it's Image>Rotate>Flip layer horizontal) Place one on the right and one on the left. Make sure the 2 images are aligned. |
| Step 7 PSP, PS and PSE: Turn bottom layer off by clicking the eye in the layer palette (see the red ex for the layer I turned off) for the background layer, Now make sure you are in one of the top two layers and merge visible (you don't need to do this step in PI) |
| Step 8 PSP: Turn the background back on. In the merged layer, in the layer palette, change the mode from normal to burn (if that doesn't look good with that tube, try another blending mode). PI: leave both selected and change blend mode in the layer palette from Always to Luminosity Only, if that doesn't look right with your tube, try multiply or overlay. In layer palette, turn the transparency down to about 51 if needed. PS and PSE: same as PSP except use overlay for the mode (if that doesn't look good with that tube, try another blending mode, Luminosity looks good usually). Right next to that, for opacity, lower it to about 30% or whatever looks good to you. |
| You're done!
Don't forget to optimize PSP: (File>Export>Jpeg Optimizer). I usually optimize at about 20. PI: I usually optimize at about 80 PS and PSE: I usually save at about 8. |
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