Colette …. L&K
Materials:
· L&K selection: here , extract these in your psp selection folder
· L&K presets: here , extract these in your psp presets folder
· Plugin Artistic (Rough Pastels): here , extract it in your plugin folder
· 5 Small tubes: here these 5 tubes have been made by ABC, here you can find his group here. Thanks ABC for your wonderful tubes :) MLG bear tubes : here
· We used script Leonie, written by Joke, you can find it under “scripts” on page 16 here.
Preparation:
· Find 5 not too large matching tubes
** resize these further on in the tutorial; the resizing depends on the size of your tubes. Use: image – resize. Followed by: Enhance Photo – sharpen or adjust – sharpness – unsharp mask; following settings: 1,00 – 64 – 4 **
· Set your foreground colour to a nice colour matching your tubes.
1. Open a new transparent, size 290 x 380 pixels. YOU HAVE TO USE THESE SIZES!!!!
2. Flood fill with your foreground colour
3. Selections - load/save selection – load selection from disk – find L&K_les Colette
4. Selections – modify – smooth; following settings:
5. DON’T DESELECT!!
6. Plugins – artistic – Rough Pastel; following settings:
** Unfortunately this plug in doesn’t function with all colours, you will have to experiment with this plug in, just darken or lighten your colour to solve this problem. **
7. STILL DON’T DESELECT!!!!
8. Effect – 3D effects – drop shadow; following settings:
9. Repeat: Effects – 3D effects – drop shadow, now with these settings:
Change your colour to WHITE !!!!
10. Selection – select none
11. Effects – 3D Effects – Inner bevel; following settings:
12. Image – add borders – 20 pixels – use your foreground colour !!
13. Use your magic wand and click in the border:
14. Selections – invert
15. Effects – 3D effects – drop shadow; following settings:
Don’t forget to change your colour in BLACK!!
16. Selections – select none!!
17. Effects – 3D Effects – Inner Bevel, same settings as in step 11.
18. Image – add borders – SYMMETRIC UNCHECKED!!!!
Colour is the same as before.
19. Effects – 3D effects – Inner Bevel, same as in step 11.
20. Reverse your colours!!!
Your foreground colour will be your background colour!!!
21. Pick a new foreground colour by doing the following:
Click on your Dropper tool (or the letter “e” on your key-board) place your mouse on the drop shadow in your image and left click:
22. LAYERS – NEW LAYER!!!
23. Now activate your preset shape tool and find your rectangle, following settings:
- Retain style and create as vector NOT checked
- Anti alias : checked
- Width : 1
24. Draw a rectangle – the size is not important – we will adjust it with a preset.
25. Click on your Raster Deform tool
(or “d” on your keyboard)
26. Find the deform preset L&K_les Colette
27. LAYER – ADD A NEW LAYER
28. Return to your Preset Shape tool, rectangle and draw another rectangle:
29. And again; click on your deform tool:
30. Repeat: Deform preset, now find L&K_les Colette1
31. Layers – Arrange – Move Down
32. Effects – 3D effects – drop shadow; following settings:
33. Layers – Duplicate
34. Activate your move tool, place the second bench.
35. Layers – duplicate. Repeat this three times. Then put all the benches in the right place.
When you are satisfied with the result:
36. Layers – merge – merge all (flatten)
37. Tubes: The tubes – made by ABC – used in this tutorial have the exact size.
** Because the tubes have to be resized to very small, this will not be able to do with all tubes. **
38.Image – resize. Use: Enhance Photo – sharpen or adjust – sharpness – unsharp mask; following settings: 1,00 – 64 – 4 **
39. Activate your first tube. Edit – copy.
40.On your working area: edit – paste as a new layer.Put it in place with your move tool.
Repeat this with all your tubes!!!!
41. Place the tubes on the benches, use your move tool.
42. Layers – merge all (flatten)
Background:
43. To avoid that the tutorial would be too complicated I made one background 1024 x 500 pixels.
If you want to use the table script just cut a piece out of it.
44. Open a new transparent 1024 x 500 pixels
45. Reverse your colours again; the colour you choose again is your foreground colour.
46. Flood fill with your foreground colour
47. Selections – load/save selection – load selection from disk – find L&K les Colette_ achtergrond_sel – load.
48. Plug in – artistic – Rough Pastel – same settings as before
49. Effects – 3D effects – Inner Bevel
CHANGE THE ANGLE TO 180 !!!!
50. Selections – select none
51. ** If you want a stationary size 1024 then activate your frame. Edit – copy.
On your stationary; edit - paste as a new layer.
Place it with your move tool – layers – merge – merge all (flatten) and you’re ready!!!**
52. ** For the table script, we continue for a while: **
53. Activate your crop tool
Now, cut a piece in the centre of the 1024 background, as given:
HEIGHT 500 !!!!! click on APPLY
54. Open a new transparent 100 x 100 pixels
55. Plug in – Artistic – Rough Pastel, same settings as before,
Now save all these items and put it in the script.
Complementary example:
hugs lisette& karin
