Blendlesson Transcendence

Transcendence

You can find your materials here.

The tubes are from Magie Création, Monique42 and Hanni.
The brushes are from GhostFight3r
Thanks to the artists and the tubers for their hard work.

Supplies:
1 Background
3 tubes
3 brushes
1 font: Stereofidelic
Filter Mura’s Meister, Copies, here
Filter Alien Skin Eye Candy 5, Impact, demo here
Filter factory Q, Magnetic North, here

Preparation :
Put the brush and the brush tip in the right map
(PSP X1 and X2: Corel_01)

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

1. File, New Image, 800 x 600 pixels, transparent

2. Put the foreground color to black and the background color to red (FF0000)

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

Edit your gradient to make complementary changes

4. Flood fill your layer with your gradient

5. Layers, New Raster Layer

6. Switch foreground and background color. The foreground color is now red.

7. Load the brush dream_design_by_ghost_fight3r_1 and put it as shown on the example (reduce your worksheet to view the whole brush)

8. Layers, New Raster Layer

9. Put foreground color to white

10. Use the same brush again and put it as shown on the example

11. Reduce in your layer palette the opacity to 75%

12. Adjust, Blur, Gaussian blur 5

13. Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow, as follows (-50, 50, 50, 25, black)

14. Switch the foreground color back to red

15. Layers, New Raster Layer

16. Load the brush dream_design_by_ghost_fight3r_10 and put it as shown on the example

17. Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow, same settings as step 13

18. Switch the foreground color back to white

19. Layers, New Raster Layer

20. Load the brush dream_design_by_ghost_fight3r_6 and put it as shown on the example

21. Use this brush a second time, but reduce the size to 665 pixels and put it as shown on the example

22. Merge, Merge All

23. Effects, Plugins, Filter Factory Gallery Q, Magnetic North as follows

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

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

26. Draw a random rectangle

27. Change the settings in your tool options palette as follows

28. Layers, Convert to Raster Layer

29. View, Grid

30. View, Change Grid, Guide & Snap Properties

31. Zoom 250 % to see the guidelines clearly

32. Pick Tool (K), Modus, Shear

33. Move the right top corner 1 block down and the right bottom corner 1 block up

34. Remove the grid as we don't need it anymore: View, Grid

35. Effects, Plugins, Mura’s Meister, Copies as follows

36. Draw with your Selection tool (S) a selection around the right frame

37. Right Click on your layer palette, Promote Selection to Layer (Ctrl + Shift + P)

38. Selections, Select None

39. Repeat step 35 – 38 but change Shift X to 36 in the filter Mura’s Meister, Copies

40. Repeat step 35 – 38 but change Shift X to 22 in the filter Mura’s Meister, Copies

41. Effects, Plugins, Mura’s Meister, Copies but change Shift X to 15

42. Layers, Merge, Merge down

43. Repeat this twice in order to have all the frames in the same layer

44. Draw with your Selection tool (S) a selection around the second and third frame. Make sure that your selection is large enough (see example)!

45. Effects, Artistic Effects, Magnifying Lens as follows. Make sure the lens is centered on the left preview screen.

46. Selections, Select None

47. Use the Magic Wand Tool to select the first 3 frames, Match Mode on Brightness, Tolerance 100, Feather 0

48. Selections, Modify, Contract, 3 pixels

49. Open the background NVBG-transcendence

50. Copy and paste into selection

51. Selections, Select None

52. Again, take the Magic Wand Tool and select the next 3 frames

53. Selections, Modify, Contract, 2 pixels

54. Paste the background a second time into your selection (the background is still in the memory of your computer)

55. Selections, Select none

56. Once more, take the Magic Wand Tool and select the remaining 3 frames

57. Selections, Modify, Contract, 1 pixel

58. Paste the background once more into your selection

59. Selections, Select None

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

61. Layers, Duplicate

62. Image, Flip

63. Layers, Arrange, Move Down

64. Lower the opacity to 33%

65. Choose the Raster Deform tool (D) in your toolbar
In case this tool is not on your toolbar, you can insert it by right clicking on the toolbar, Customize, Tools, Deform and drag it to your toolbar

66. Use the Raster Deform tool as follows

This is what you should have by now:

67. Open the tube AH_Transparent_0306_08

68. Image, Resize, 80%

69. Copy and paste as new layer

70. Effects, Image Effects, Offset as follows

71. In your layer palette, move this layer just above the background layer.

72. Reduce the opacity to 55%, Blend Mode Luminance

73. Open the tube Tubed_by_Monique42_3622

74. Image, Resize, 80%

75. Copy and paste as new layer

76. Effects, Image Effects, Offset with these settings: Horizontal 240, Vertical -5

77. Reduce the opacity to 70%, Blend Mode Hard Light

78. Activate the text tool and choose the font Stereofidelic, size 170 pixels

79. Background color #da4d12, Foreground color is still locked

80. Type your text and put it as shown on example

81. Effects, 3D Effects, Inner Bevel, as follows

82. Reduce the opacity to 55%, Blend Mode Hard light

83. Effects, Plugins, Alien Skin, Gradient Glow, Basic as follows

84. Open the tube Magie378

85. Image, Resize, 65%

86. Copy and paste as new layer

87. Image, Add borders, 25 pixels, white

88. Image, Resize, 75%

89. Edit, Copy

90. Open the background from step 24

91. Edit, Paste as New Layer

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

93. Effects, Image effects, Offset with these settings: Horizontal -10, Vertical -10

94. Don't forget to put your signature and save as JPG.

This is an extra example made by An Creatief

Lesson Transcendence was written on November 5, 2009

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