L & K ...... Zitah

 


This tutorial is written in PSP 9 but can be made in PSP version X too.

Materials:

  • FM Tile Tools: here
  • IC net software- unlimited: here
  • Ulead Particle: here - extract the plug in to your PSP plugin folder
  • Flaming Pear Flood; here - extract the plug in to your PSP plugin folder
  • Plug in L&K site of wonder-Zitah - here
  • L&K brushes les Zitah PSP9: here. Extract to your PSP brush folder
  • sr_birds_005 brush PSP9: here
    We thank the creator of the brush.
  • Image + tube: here
    We thank the creator of the tube.

  • Joke - as usual - made a beautiful script for this tutorial. You can find it here
    Her site you can find here.

Preparation:

  • Use a horizontal image.
  • Set your foreground to a very light colour (in the original tut: #f2e5c2)
  • Set your background to a very dark colour (in the original tut: #746d66)


  • Choose a foreground/background gradient, with the following settings:


  1. Activate the image Swanmatte.jpg
    The image provided is already the correct size.

    *When using an image of your own, rezise it to width max. 400 pixels.
    Image - resize - all boxes checked.*

  2. Image / add borders / 30 pixels, use a totally different colour!!!!

  3. Activate your magic wand, following settings:


  4. Using your magic wand, click in the border.

  5. Flood fill with your gradient.

  6. Effects / plugins / FM Tile Tools / Blend emboss / apply

  7. Selections / select none.
    Put this aside, we will use it later on.



  8. Go to your gradient and change the angle to 180



  9. Open a new transparent - size 1024 x 450 pixels

  10. Flood fill with your gradient.

  11. Effects / Image effects / Seamless Tile / following settings:



  12. Adjust / blur / Gaussian blur / radius: 25

  13. Effects / Plugins / L&K site of wonder-L&K's Zitah; following settings:



  14. Repeat:
    Effects / Plugins / L&K site of wonder-L&K's Zitah; now use following settings:




    *Now we are going to use the plug in Ulead Particle. There is a series of actions you will have to do, so concentrate and follow the screen shots exactly.*

  15. Effects / Plug in / Ulead effects / Particle: click on LOAD


  16. Now choose FOG 3, click on OK.



  17. Now click in the white box (1)
    the window Kleur will open.

  18. Now click on the button: Aangepaste kleuren definiëren (2)



  19. Fill in the values in the boxes beneath the black arrow:
    28, 227, 222; followed by OK.




  20. Set opacity to 61 and Frequency to 25



  21. Now click a number of times on the button RANDOM till you have some nice clouds. As you will find out the clouds will differ from the ones shown in the example of the tut. It can take a while - I had to click 18, 19, 20 times till I was satisfied with the result. So decide for yourself which clouds you prefer.



  22. Effects / plug in / ICNet software - Unlimited - Color Filters - Color booster, OK.

  23. Change your foreground to colour, set your light colour.



  24. LAYERS / NEW LAYER !!!!!!

  25. Activate your brush find your L&K_les_Zitah_1



  26. Place the brush L&K_les_Zitah_1 to the left of your working area (click twice)




  27. Your brush tool still activated, find your brush L&K_les_Zitah_2 and place this in the right bottom corner (click twice)



  28. Brush tool: find your brush L&K_les_Zitah_3, place this on your working area as example given (click once)



  29. Brush tool: find your brush L&K_les_Zitah_4, place as example given, click once.



  30. Now swap your colours: make your dark colour your foreground colour.



  31. Brush Tool and find your brush L&K_les_Zitah_5. Place as example given, click twice.



  32. Layers / merge / merge all layers

  33. Set your foreground to black



  34. Brush tool: find your brush sr_birds_005 (we thank the creator of this lovely brush)
    SIZE ON 430!!!!!



  35. Place the swan as example given:



  36. Freehand selection tool:

  37. Point to point - FEATHER on 50!!!!!!



  38. Start at 1, draw to 2, to 3 and back to 1.
    Double click, you will get a selection:



  39. Effects / Plug in / Flaming Pear / Flood; following settings:



  40. Selections / select none

  41. Again, swap your colours, your light colour is your foreground colour now.



  42. Layers / new layer ! ! ! ! ! !
  43. Activate your airbrush tool !!!!!!!
    Find your brush L&K_les_Zitah_6



  44. Place your brush as example given.
    keep your mousebutton pressed to get a clear print



  45. Change ROTATION to 90 ! ! ! !


  46. Again place the brush as example given:



  47. Effects / 3D effects / dropshadow, following settings:



  48. Effects / plug in / FM Tile Tools / blend emboss / apply

  49. Layers / new layer !!!!!

  50. Activate your brush tool again:

  51. Find your brush L&K_les_Zitah_7, and cover the previous brush with it



  52. Effects / distortion effects / wind /
    From left - 100



  53. Layers - merge - merge down



  54. Layers / duplicate
  55. Image / mirror

  56. Repeat:
    Layers / merge / merge down


  57. Activate the frame you made earlier:

  58. Edit - copy

  59. On your working area 1024 x 450
  60. Edit / paste / paste as a new layer

  61. Layers / arrange / move down



  62. Now activate your tube

    (the size of the one provided is height: approx. 378)

  63. Edit / copy

  64. On your 1024 x 450 working area:
  65. Edit - paste - paste as a new layer

  66. Layers - arrange - bring to top!!!!!



  67. Use your move tool and place your tube to your liking.

  68. On your layer palette / lower the opacity, in the original tut it's 40%, but this can differ, so just see what you prefer.

  69. Layers - merge - merge all (flatten)

    Extra Example:




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love, Lisette , Karin