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Quilt Square
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| Supplies Needed:
1. Paint Shop Pro (duh). Any version
you have, but I'm using 8. Version 7 has the same filters, but in
different places.
2.
Zip File of Supplies- You
will find the tube and other supplies needed for this tutorial
here. If you would like to try this tutorial using your own tube,
please download the supplies anyway because the filter you will
need, along with the bars are in the zip file. I did not make the
tube supplied or the brush tip supplied. I've since forgotten
where I got them, but if they belong to you, let me know and I
will be more than happy to give you credit.
Install the cari-pixel6.jbr into
your brush folder.
Install the fantasma filter into
your plugins folder. |
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Step One:
- Open the bar.psp
- Open the tube you will be using
- Open a new image 300x300 with a
transparent background.
On the bars.psp, using your Magic
Want with the tolerance set at "50", click on every other bar
while holding down the shift key, and then flood fill with a
light color from your tube. Select none.
Repeat this step for the remaining
black bars, except flood fill them with a darker version of your
first color.
Once you have done that, select
the transparent spaces and flood fill them with white. |
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| Step Two:
Apply the "Effetto Fantasma" filter
with the settings of:
- Sposta-X: 11
- Sposta-Y: 11
Once you've done that, go up to
"Edit" and then "Copy". Minimize the bar.psp, as you will need it
again. |
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| Step Three:
On the new 300x300 image you made,
use your selection tool and make a selection like the one to your
right. Notice that I've left a "checkerboard" of sorts in the
corners. Once you have your selection, go up to "Edit" and then
"Paste" and then "Paste Into Selection".
Select None
Minimize this image, and go back to
your bars.psp image.
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| Step Four:
On the bars.psp image, you will want
to go to the top tool bar and click on "Layers" and then on
"Duplicate". Then go to "Image" and then "Rotate" and then on
"Free Rotate" using the following settings:
- Direction: Right
- Degrees: 90
The boxes next to All Layers and
Rotate single layer around canvas center NOT checked.
Go up to "Layers" and then
"Properties" and lower your opacity for the top layer down to 50%.
Crop your image so that you have a
nice plaid, and then Merge All Layers.
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Five:
Go up to "Edit" and then "Copy" and
copy your plaid texture.
Maximize your tag image, and use your
selection tool to make a rectangular selection like you did
before, but going from side to side instead of top to bottom.
Remember to keep your "checkerboard" in the corners.
Flood fill this selection with your
plaid pattern.
Select none, and you can now close
the bars.psp as we are done with it.
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| Step Six:
Using your Magic Wand, click on the
corners of your image while holding down the shift key to select
your four corners. Keep selected.
Go up to "Layers" and then "New
Raster Layer". Flood fill your selection with a contrasting color
from your tube. |
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Go up to "Effects" and then "Texture
Effects" and then "Texture" and use the following settings:
- Texture: Backdrop
- Size: 100%
- Smoothness: 0
- Depth: 5
- Ambience: o
- Shininess: 0
- Color: White
- Angle: 315
- Intensity: 50
- Elevation: 50
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Eight:
Go up to "Layers" and then "Add A New
Raster Layer".
Using your selection tool set at
square, make a selection going from the bottom right hand corner
of your top left corner square to the upper left hand corner of
your bottom right hand corner and flood fill that with white.
You may have to adjust the
position and size of this to make it just right, which is why I
had you put it on a new layer. |
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| Step Nine:
On the top tool bar, go to "Layers"
and then "New Raster Layer".
Click on your paint brush tool,
and in the preset shape menu find the cari-pixel6 007 brush. Using
a color from your tube, put a flower in the middle of your top
left hand corner.
Now go up to "Layers" and then
"Duplicate" and then "Image" and then "Mirror".
Now go up to "Layers" and then
"Duplicate" and then "Image" and then "Flip".
Now go up to "Layers" and then
"Duplicate" and then "Image" and then "Mirror". |
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| Step Ten:
Click on your tube image and then go
up to "Edit" and then "Copy"
Paste your tube image onto your
quilt square, and resize as needed.
Once you have it positioned where
you want it, apply a drop shadow using the settings to your right. |
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| Finishing Up:
Go up to your top tool bar and choose
"Layers" and then "Merge" and then "Merge
All (Flatten)". You can at
this point resize your image, I happen to like to work on them
big, but I like smaller tags.
You would at this point add whatever
name or text you want on the tag.
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That's
it, you are done!
Credits- The tecnique for
the plaid effect I learned from a tutorial called Mad About Plaid, and
you can view this tutorial and many other great ones at:
From the Heart PostCards- My PSP Obsession
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