Ellie's Treasures Tuts-Jama Tiles

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For this tutorial you will need: Graphics Program: Any graphics program that allows 3rd party filters, such as the ones used here. You can even do it in free programs that use filters, such as IrfanView. There are instructions on their home site about adding filters to the program. Filters: Redfield Jama 3D - available free here Simple Filters - available free here *************** My plugin windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my plugins - available for purchase here. ************* I am assuming you know the basics of your graphics program and where the tools can be located. Some shortcuts I use are**: PSP-Paint Shop Pro; PS-Photoshop; PSE-Photoshop Elements; PI-PhotoImpact This is an extremely easy tutorial and can be done by beginners.
Here are some arrows and bars you can drag and drop where you need to mark or underline where you are. . Just left click and drag to where you want it then let go. They will stay where you put them until you close your browser.
1. Open graphic, duplicate, close original. I used this art "Through the Woods" by Mark Keathley. Check out his site, he has lots of beautiful art he allows for free use following his terms of use. Resize to 300 X 300, aspect ratio unchecked.
2. Go to Effects or Filters, depending on your program>Redfield>Jama 3D, click on the dropdown menu and choose Front Bricks, default settings except change the Brightness Ratio to 70 and the Light Boosting to 65. In my example below (I slid the saturation down to 5). Play with the bottom 3 sliders, as long as you use the Front Bricks preset those 3 sliders won't hurt and you may like the result better. *NOTE: I just updated my Jama 3D and the Front Bricks setting wasn't in the list, so I recreated it, and saved it. Click here or scroll to bottom of tut to see how to recreate the Front Bricks preset. Here are screenshots of the older version and the newer version. It should look like this now
3. Crop around the resulting picture to get rid of the outer edges, like this (see picture). Resize back up to 300X300, aspect ratio unchecked.
4. Go to Effect>Simple>Zoom out and flip, it should look like this.
5. Go to Effect>Simple>Pizza slice mirror, it should now look like this. You can stop here or go to the next step.
6. Go to Effect>Simple>Quick Tile, it should now look like this
7. reduce opacity for a lighter effect In PI go to Edit>Fill, white at 25% transparency In PSP, right click in layer palette>new raster layer. Fill with fill tool, white, reduce opacity in layer to 75% In Photoshop: Layer>New>Layer, then using the Paint Bucket tool, fill with white, go to the layer palette and reduce opacity to 75% After a golden yellow fill (#DBC464) instead of white After applying the unsharp mask to the above gold tile (2/50/2) 3 times
You're done! Don't forget to optimize PSP: (File>Export>Jpeg Optimizer). I usually optimize at about 10. PI: I usually optimize at about 90 PS and PSE: I usually save at about 8.
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To recreate the Front Bricks settings in Jama 3D, adjust all the settings as shown, then click on the dropdown menu at the bottom of the window, click on "Save User Preset" and give it the name Front Bricks. The Diamond shaped diagram at the top, with the settings 25-25 is a little hard to get right but just pull it into this shape and you will see the numbers getting close. Make sure you choose 25 and not -25. The same with the little slider bars below it, set at 15, make sure they are at 15 and not -15. Don't forget about the slider bars at the far left and far left top, slide them both to 15 as well. Don't forget to save the setting when you're done, click on the drop down menu at the bottom right and Save User Preset. Click here to go back to tutorial
Back to top Webpage Design Information This webpage background was made in PhotoImpact with a tutorial by Deb DeHaven Sadly, she passed away and her site is gone. The font I used for all of the text on the buttons is BrockScript The font I used for the "Jama Tile" tutorial header is Crayonette. Click on the font name to download the font. I use PhotoImpact to make all of my headers due to the amazing 3D text it has and the wonderful presets available free online Most of the presets I use are either the ones that come with PhotoImpact, usually the Gel ones, or from Deb's PI Tutorials and More (see below) or Carol Oyl's site This is the address to Deb's old pages http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/millenit/1716/pitutorials/objects/presets/presets1.html I can't find any links to her new pages but the presets are still on this page for download. For more sites to find PI Presets, take a look at my Great Beginnings page.