L&K...Micki English

 

Materials:

• Plug in Eye Candy 3.1: here
• Plug in Vizros: here
• Plug in Ulead : here
• Preset plug in Vizros: here    Extract to a folder of your choice
• Plug in VM Natural & VM tool box: here
• Presets L&K les Micki: here. Extract to your psp preset folder
• L&K les Micki Selection: here  extract to your selection folder
• Tubes: here

• Joke again wrote a beautiful script, you can find it here.

Dear Joke, again we are very grateful. We appreciate all the time you spend making it possible to present our tuts in your wonderful scripts.

Preparation:

You MUST use the following colours!!!: * set your foreground colour to white * set your background to gray #808080.

Go to your foreground material; find the foreground - background gradient, next settings:

 

1. Open a new WHITE image 500 x 400 pixels.

2. Effects – plugins – VM Natural – Lakeside Reflection, ok.

3. Image – flip

4. Repeat: effects – plugins – VM Natural – Lakeside reflection, Waves on 0 and Blending on 255!!!

5. Adjust – hue and saturation – colorize – everything 0

6. Effects – Illumination Effects – Sunburst, following settings:

Color:#f5d49b

7. Effects – Plugins – Ulead Effects – Particle

Click on: LOAD

8. Click on the button: CLOUD 1

ACTIVATE YOUR TUBE HILLS1

9. Edit – copy

10. Activate your 500 x 400 working area

11. Edit – paste – paste as new layer

12. Use your move tool and place the tube as in the given example:

13. Layers – merge – merge all (flatten)

14. Now make a copy using Shift + D and put this aside.

We will need this for the background later on.

we go on:

15. Layers – new layer!!!!

16. Selection – load/save selection – load selection from disk – find L&K_les Micki

17. DO NOT FLOOD FILL THE SELECTION YET!!!!

18. First: Selection – modify - shape based anti alias; following settings:

19. Flood fill:

20. Flood fill the selection with your foreground – background gradient.

21. Adjust – blur – Gaussian Blur; Radius 9,00

22. KEEP SELECTED!!!!!

23. Reverse your material:

Grey is your foreground colour:

24. Layers – new layer!!!!

25. Flood fill – flood fill the selection – use your grey colour

26. Selections – Select none!!!

27. Effects – 3D effects – drop shadow; following settings:

28. Effects – image effects – offset; following settings:

29. Layers – merge – merge down

30. Now you have to make your own decision

a. You can colorize: adjust – hue and saturation – colorize and pick a colour matching your tube, or …..

b. (like I did) adjust – Brightness/contrast – (I choose -73 /-3) or combine both possibilities.

See what is the best for the colour of your tube and how light or dark you want your image to be.

31. Repeat: effects – 3d effects – drop shadow, shadow on new layer checked!!!

If necessary adjust your colour!!!!

32. Button Raster Deform tool

Presets: find L&K_les Micki

33. Layers palette: opacity on 16%

34. Layers – merge – merge all (flatten)

35. Put it aside for now.

We are going to make a plant pot :

36. Open a new white image 500 x 400 pixels

37. Effects – plug in – Vizros – cylinder

Click on “load”

38. Find the folder and the preset for the plug in Vizros, click on the file les micki_voorinstellingen vizros.vzc, followed by: open.

39. Activate your magic wand/ feather on 1 – anti alias checked:

40. Click in the white area of your image:

41. Selections – invert

42. Edit – copy

43. We return to our working area

44. Edit – paste – paste as a new layer

We have to resize the plant pot to smooth the edges.

45. Image – resize:

Following settings – resize all layers UNCHECKED!!!

46. Use your move tool to place your plant pot in a nice spot.

47. Layers – duplicate

48. Repeat: image – resize.

Now fill in: 50%

49. Move this plant pot too.

Now we are going to decorate the plant pots.

50. Activate the plant tubes provided – or use some of your own.

You can use everything you like, plants of course, but flowers too, use your imagination.

51. Start with the tube: Tropical planten.pspimage

(The tubes provided have the right size)

52. Edit – copy

53. Activate your working area (500 x 400 )

54. Edit – paste – paste as a new layer.

55. Use your move tool and place the plant in the pot.

56. Repeat all these steps with the other plant: tropical cycad.pspimage:

57. Activate your lady tube JOB~ESTEFNIA KUESTER~4-4-04~.pspimage:

58. Edit – copy

59. Go to your working area (500 x 400)

60. Edit – paste as a new layer

61. Place your tube using your move tool.

62. Layers – merge – merge all (flatten)

63. Image – add borders – 1 pixel – pick a colour matching your image.

Put it aside for a while

Background:

64. As we started this tut we have made a copy. Now we need this one. Activate it.

65. Effects – image effects – seamless tiling following settings:

66. Image – resize:

· Choose “pixels”

· Lock aspect ratio: unchecked

· Fill in: 1024, 450

67. Activate your 500 x 400 frame we’ve just made.

68. Edit – copy

69. Go to your background working area

70. Edit – copy as a new layer.

71. Effects – plugins – eye candy 3.1 – Perspective shadow, following settings:

72. You could move your frame a bit if you like. Use your move tool.

73. Activate your tube Moss.pspimage

74. Edit – copy

75. On your working area:

76. Edit – paste as a new layer

77. Use your move tool to put it in a nice place.

78. Duplicate this layer and move the second moss tube too. (I have resized this one a bit)

79. Layers – merge – merge all (flatten)

Extra example:

Love, Lisette and Karin.