URW Learn Tutorial
This is what we will be making
Moderate level - Some knowledge of PSP is needed.
Materials Needed
Paint Shop Pro (used Version 9, but can be done on any version)
Tube by UnrulyWitch, who is an FTU licensed artist at Mistaken Art (MTA) HERE
Filters Needed:
Mosaic Glass (comes with PSP)
Distort - Radial Zig Zag (freeware, HERE)
Mura Meister - Copies (freeware, HERE)
AAA Foto Frame (freebie)
Eye Candy 5 Impact - Gradient Glow
Fonts used:
FFF Fuego (for copyright info)
Quasart (for name - freeware)
Additional supplies: HERE
(wordart from Scrappy Expressions - Melissa, now known as Sentimental Style, and cross hatch texture - put in your texture folder in PSP)
Directions
1. Open PSP. Open New File, 600 pixels x 250 pixels, 72 pixels/inch resolution, transparent. Open your tube, duplicate, close the original.
2. Chose a dark color from the tube for your foreground, a light color for your background. Using those colors, chose gradient from the materials palette, and the cross-hatch texture. You want to use the following settings for your gradient:
Style: radial
Angle: 45
Radial: 5
Invert: checked
Horizontal: 50
Vertical: 50
Texture: checked
have the Hatch Fine showing in your drop down menu
click OK
Flood fill your layer with the gradient. Right click on the layer in the layer palette - go to Merge - Merge All - Flatten.
3. Go to Effects - Texture Effects - Mosaic Glass and use the following settings:
4. Go to Distort - Radial Zig Zag and use the following settings:
Roughness: 0
Amplitude: 118
Frequency: 155
5. Copy and paste your tube, then move to the left side of the layer. Duplicate, and move that to the right side. Merge Down, then duplicate it twice (so you will have 3 - the original and 2 copies). Close out the top of them - you will work on the middle and bottom. Resize the middle one (the top of the unhidden) by 85% (all layers UNchecked). Go to Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur and use the following setting: Radius: 2.00. Go to the original and go to Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur and use the following setting: Radius 6.00. Then, for each, go to the layer palette, right click on it, and apply the following settings:
Blend Mode: Luminance (Legacy)
Opacity: 50
Link Set: 0
6. Go to the hidden duplicated layer and unhide it. Apply the Mura Meister - Copies filter with the following settings:
Random
Wraparound
Blend Mode
*Wallpaper
Number: 20
Shift X / Shift Y: 50
Angle / Rotation / Phase: 0
Cycle: 100
Attenuation: 0
Scale: 100
Tile Gap / Thru BG Range: 0
Thru BG Smooth: 30
Fade Out: 0
Fade Out to BG: unchecked
Click OK. Go to the layer palette, right click on it, and apply the following settings:
Blend Mode: Luminance (Legacy)
Opacity: 20
Link Set: 0
7. Apply tube, move it to the right side of the tag (or place as desired). Apply favorite drop shadow setting.
8. Copy and paste wordart, place on the left side of the tag. Apply Eye Candy 5 Impact - Gradient Glow with the following settings:
Glow Type: Outside Glow
Mask Selection: checked
Glow Radius: 11.00
Soften Corners: 35
Overall Opacity: 100
Distortion Amount: 0
Distortion Lump Size: 100
Gradient Smoothness: 92
move the slider to where you like it - try not to make it too 'fat'.
I used a very very pale shade of the light color I used for my gradient.
Then apply the following drop shadow to the wordart:
Vertical: 1
Horizontal: 0
Opacity: 50
Blur: 2.00
Color: very very dark shade of the dark color you used for your gradient.
Apply drop shadow AGAIN.
9. Duplicate the wordart. Go to the lower layer of the word art, then go to Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur and use the following setting: Radius 3.00. Then go to the layer palette, right click on it, and apply the following settings:
Blend Mode: Multiply
Opacity: 100
Link Set: 0
10. Go to Edit - Copy Merged - Paste as New Image. Apply the AAA Frames - Foto Frame and use the following settings:
Width: 4
Brightness: -48
Stroke: 0
Matte: 1
Red: 18 (*)
Green: 11 (*)
Blue: 2 (*)
Opacity: 98
Negative: unchecked
More Shadow: checked
(*) keep in mind that these will be flexible, depending on the colors you are using...these are what I used for mine.
11. Crop tag to 600 pixels wide, 250 pixels high. Apply © information and place where desired. (I used the previous gradient glow setting on my © info, then used Luminance Legacy with Opacity of 85 on it.)
And that is it for the forum tag. For the icon tag, simply take your selection tool, and mark out a large square around the area of the forum tag that you desire (I used the angel/tube, put it kind of to the right of the square.) Make sure the box is nice and big. Copy Merged then Paste as new image. Apply the AAA Frames - Foto Frame filter with the previous settings, then put the proper © information on it.
For the name and the initial for the icon, I used the font Quasart, with the dark shade of the dark color used for the gradient. I then applied Eye Candy 5 Impact Gradient Glow with the following settings:
(I used the lighter shade of my gradient for the first color, and the darker shade of my gradient for the second color)
And then the following drop shadow:
Vertical: 1
Horizontal: 0
Opacity: 50
Blur: 4.00
color: black
And then applied it AGAIN.
I saved my final tag/icon as jpg.
And that is it!!
I hope you enjoyed the tutorial and would love to see your results!
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