Stephanie...L&K

Materials:

• Plug in Mura’s Meister Copies: here, extract in your psp plug in folder.
• Plug in Eye Candi 3.1; here extract in your psp plug in folder.
• L&K_les_stephanie_selecties: here extract in your psp selections folder
• L&K_les_stephanie_voorinstellingen: here extract to your psp preset folder
• 3 Matching pictures: here extract to a folder of your choice.
(one of the pictures is a tube made by Vi, thank you so much Vi :))

Preparation:

Joke has made a script especially for this tutorial. You can find it here.
Joke’s site can be found here. Thanks Joke for all your beautiful work.

Pick a VERY DARK COLOUR from your picture.
This colour is for your foreground colour as well as your background colour.
I took black, SET YOUR BACKGROUND ON TRANSPARANT (null) If necessary click on your Pan tool.

The pictures provided have the right size.
If you’re using the pictures provided you can skip step 1, 2 and 3.

1. Highlight the pictures you have chosen and cut out a nice square of all three. Use your crop tool and double click.

RESIZE ALL THREE:

2. Image – resize – all boxes checked – resize several times with 80% for the best result.
Resize until about 200 pixels.

3. After resizing all three pictures you use: adjust – sharpness – unsharp mask; following settings:

4. Open a New WHITE image – 1024 x 450 pixels

5. Layers – new layer

6. Selections – load / save selection – load selection from disk and find your l&k_les_Stephanie.

7. Zoom in a lot! View – zoom – Zoom In

8. Flood fill – match mode – None

9. Flood fill selection with your foreground colour.

10. Selections – select none

11. Layers – new layer

12. Preset shape tool – rectangle

• Show nodes : UNCHECKED!!!
• Anti alias: CHECKED
• Create on vector: UNCHECKED!!!!

13. Draw a rectangle, it doesn’t matter where you draw it, by using a preset it will be the right size and in place.

14. Raster Deform Tool (or d on your keyboard)

15. Presets Raster Deform Tool – find your L&K_les_Stephanie:

16. Effects – plugins – mura’s meister – Copies: following settings:
Shift X 0, Shift Y -20

17. Effects – Plugins – Eye Candy 3.1 – Motion Trail –                             set direction on 20,   note: JUST SMEAR EDGES!!!

18. AGAIN: Effects – Plugins – Eye Candy 3.1 – motion trail
Now set direction on 160

19. Layers – DUPLICATE

20. Image – MIRROR

21 Edit – COPY

22. Edit – paste – PASTE AS A NEW LAYER – now it should look like this:

23. Layers – new layer

24. Selections – load/save selection – load selection from disk – find
L&K_les_Stephanie1 – ok.

25. NOW ZOOM IN A LOT – VIEW – ZOOM IN

26. Flood fill / fill the selected lines size 1 pixel with your foreground colour.

27. Selections – select none

28. Use your magic wand – every box checked, choose INSIDE!!!

29. Click with your magic wand inside the first square:

30. Now highlight your first picture

31. Edit – copy image 1

32. On your working area (1024 / 450)

33. Edit – paste – paste into selection

34. Selections – select none

35. Again use your magic wand and click inside square 2.

36. Edit – copy image 2

37. On your working area (1024 / 450)

38. Edit – paste – paste into selection

39. Selections – select none

40. Again use your magic wand. Click inside square 3.

41. Edit – copy image 3.

42. On your working area (1024 /450)

43. Edit – paste – paste into selection - deselect

Now it should look like this:

44. Reverse your material:

45. Layers – New layer

46. Preset shape tool – find your triangle:

• anti- alia : checked
• retain style : unchecked
• create as vector : unchecked

47. Draw a rectangle, it will be resized and placed by using a preset.

48. Raster Deform Tool (or d on your keyboard)

49. Presets Raster Deform Tool – find your L&K_les_Stephanie_1

50. Layers – duplicate

51 Image – mirror

52. Again – Layers – duplicate

53. Image – rotate – free rotate: right 90°

54. Use your move tool to place the last triangle.

55. Layers – duplicate.

56. Image – mirror

57. Layers – merge – merge all (flatten)

hugs lisette and karin