Blendlesson Skippy

Skippy

You can find your materials here.

The tubes are from MDS, LCT and Marif.
The brush is from Blaze.
Thanks to the artists and the tubers for their hard work.

Supplies:
3 tubes
1 brush
2 fonts (Segoe Print is a standard font in Windows Vista and Windows 7)
1 background from Moonchilde.
My special thanks goes to Ali who gave me permission to use her wonderful work Cauldron Nebula.
You can find her artwork at deviantart.

Filter Mura’s Meister, Copies, here
Filter &<Bkg Designer sf10 l>here
You can download the demo-version of Alien Skin Eye Candy here
Filter Unlimited 2.0, here
Filter Xero, here

Preparation :
Put the brush and brush tip in the right map
(PSP X1 and X2: Corel_01)
Import the filter &<Bkg Designer sf10 l> in Filters Unlimited.

Take the arrow to know where you are in the tutorial.

1. File, New image, 975 x 650 pixels, transparent

2. Put the foreground color to ef6619 and the background color to ffa356

3. Make a new foreground / background gradient with your colors and use these settings

4. Flood fill your layer with your gradient

5. Effects, Distortion effects, Ripple, as follows

6. Open the image Cauldron Nebula Stock

7. Copy and paste as new layer

8. In your layer palette, reduce the opacity to 40% and set the blend mode to Luminance (Legacy)

9. Layers, Merge, Merge down

10. SHIFT + D to make a copy and put it aside.
You'll need it later for the background.
Let's continue with our work.

11. Layers, New Raster Layer

12. Draw a random rectangle and change the settings as follows

13. Effects, Plugins, MuRa’s Meister, Copies as follows

14. Repeat Effects, Plugins, MuRa’s Meister, Copies but now with these settings

15. Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited, Convolution Filters, Emboss (light, inverse) 191

16. Layers, New Raster Layer

17. Put the brush Blaze-deteriorated2_Grunge, size 420, in the left upper corner by clicking your left mouse button (foreground gradient)

18. Lock your foreground color, background color white

19. Activate the text tool and choose the font Segoe Print, size 800 pixels, type the capital S en put it as shown below

20. Layers, Convert to Raster Layer

21. Effects, 3D-Effects, Drop shadow as follows

22. Open the image mds7979 Heart Cloud

23. Image, Resize, 170%

24. Copy and paste as new layer

25. Effects, Image Effects, Offset as follows

26. In your layer palette, set the blend mode to Soft Light

27. Open the image Marif_2007_07Juillet_misted_decor0194

28. Image, Resize, 110%

29. Copy and paste as new layer

30. Effects, Image effects, Offset, 210 85

31. In your layer palette, set the blend mode to Dodge

32. Open the tube will_they_notice_LCT_01_08

33. Image, Resize, 165 %

34. Copy and paste as new layer

35. Put the tube in the left bottom corner

36. Effects, Plugins, Alien Skin, Eye Candy 5, Impact, Perspective Shadow, as follows

37. Activate the text tool and choose the font Base4, size 130 pixels

38. Type KIPPY and put your text at the right place

39. Layers, Convert to Raster Layer

40. Effects, 3D-effects, Drop shadow, 5 5 25 5

41. Reduce the size to 20 pixels and type the other text

42. Effects, 3D-effects, Drop shadow, 5 5 25 5

43. Layers, Convert to Raster Layer

44. Image, Add borders, 3 pixels, white

45. Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited, Color Filters, Color Booster, 14

46. Open the background from step 10

47. Layers, Merge, Merge all (This is necessary, otherwise the following plugins won't work properly)

48. Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited, &<Bkg Designer sf10 l> Cut Glass BugEye as follows

49. Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited, Tile & Mirror, Distortion Mirror (horizontal) as follows

50. Adjust, Blur, Gaussian blur, 3

51. Effects, Plugins, Xero, Fritillary

52. Image, Resize as follows

53. Lock your background color and put your foreground color to white

54. Draw a random ellipse with the following settings

55. Layers, Convert to Raster Layer

56. Effects, Plugins, Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact, Glass as follows

57. Now, go back to your work from step 45

58. Copy and paste as new layer in your background

59.Effects, Plugins, Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact, Perspective Shadow as follows

60. Image, Add borders, 3 pixels, white

61. Don't forget your signature and save as jpg.

This is an extra example made by An Creatief. She found her inspiration in the spirit of Christmas.

Lesson Skippy was written on November 28, 2010

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