L&K ...Window

This tutorial is written in PSPX

 

Materials:

  • PluginFlamingpear - Glitterato : here
  • preset Glitterato: here extract to a folder of your choice.
  • Plugin Visroz 4 : here
  • preset vizros: here : extract to a folder of your choice
  • Plugin Alien skin - Eye candy 5- Impact:  here
  • Preset Eye Candy Impact 5 - Extrude : here 
    extract to your folder Alien Skin - eye candy 5 impact / settings / Extrude
  • Plugin Alien skin- Eye candy 5 Textures : here
  • Preset Eye Candy 5 Textures - Brickwall : here
    ectract to your folder Alian Skin - eye candy 5 Textures / settings / Brickwall
  • Presets window psp X: here psp 9 hier extract to your PSP preset folder
  • tube's - jpg image L&K : here extract to a folder of your choice
  • masker L&K: here extract to your PSP mask folder
  • tube Filly : here, thanks to Filly, you can find her groupe here
  • font Alchemy Silverhigh: here

Jetty wrote a beatiful script for this tutorial, for which we thank her very much.
The script you'll find:here . Please visit her site: here

Preparation:

  • Pick a foreground colour matching your tube. In the Dutch version the colour soft orange - #ef924c - is used. I used #fdab8f
  • Pick a dark background colour, matching your tube. In the Dutch version #633920 is used.
    I used #c95339.
  • In your material palette find your foreground background gradient, following settings:




  1. Open a transparant size 550 x 550 pixels

  2. Flood fill / flood fill with your gradient.


  3. Effects / Plugins / Vizros 4 / Cylinder
    click on Load, find your preset -> L&K_les_windows.vzr
    you also can fill in the settings manually:


  4. Magic wand: Feather 2 !!!!!!



  5. click in the white area of your working space:



  6. selections /modify / expand - 2 pixels

  7. Hit the delete key on your keyboard.

  8. Selections / deselect
    Put the cylinder aside for later use.


    The Display - Window:

  9. Open a new image black, size 550 x 550 pixels

  10. Effects / plugins / flaming pear / glitterato
    Open the plugin, click on button (1) and find your preset L&K Window

    The colours shown are the colours used in this tut. In case you prefer to use other colours click on 2 and choose colours to your liking.

    At 3 you can manually set the colours you prefer. Find colours matchng your tube



  11. Open the tube Misted_filly_(570) Sisters.pspimage
    This tube's height is 550 pixels .


  12. Edit / copy
  13. Activate your working area
  14. Edit /paste as a new layer

  15. In case you're using a tube of your own choice -> moving tool -> place the tube to your liking.

  16. In your layers palette / change blendmode to screen / for your own tube this can differ, choose a blendmode you like and if necessary lower the opacity.



    Open your tube L&K les_les window 1:


  17. Edit / copy
  18. On your working area
  19. Edit / paste as a new layer

  20. Adjust / hue and saturation / colorize
    find a colour matching your image:




  21. Moving tool / place this tube to the right bottom corner




  22. Open the tube L&K les_les Window 2


  23. Edit / copy
  24. On your 550 x 550 working area
  25. edit / paste as a new layer


  26. Repeat: adjust / hue and saturation / colorize, same settings as earlier

  27. Layer palette / lower the opacity to 32



  28. Activate your cylinder you put aside earlier


  29. Edit / copy
  30. Activate your working area
  31. edit / paste as a new layer
  32. moving tool / place the cyliner, the exact place depends on your tube.



  33. Open the tube L&K les_les window 3: or one of your own

  34. Edit / copy
  35. On your 550 x 550 working area
  36. edit / paste as a new layer
  37. moving tool / place the tube.



  38. In your layer palette / lower the opacity to 87%



  39. Open the image L&K les_les window 4 or one of your choice

  40. Edit / copy
  41. on your working area
  42. edit / paste as a new layer

  43. In your layer palette / lower the opacity of this layer to 36%



  44. Hide your foreground colour -> change the background colour to black



  45. Activate your text tool: font Alchemy Silvernight / size 48 pixels



  46. Type your text e.g. new look 2006
    place it to your liking, use your move tool:



  47. In your layer palette change the blend mode to soft light:




  48. effects / 3d / drop shadow / following settings:
    colour = WHITE




  49. Repeat: effects / 3d / dropshadow, same settings
    colour = BLACK



  50. The window is ready now, layers / merge / merge visible layers



  51. Effects / geometric effects / perspective horizontal:




  52. EDIT / COPY !!!!!!!!

    The Wall

  53. open a new transparent size 650 widthx 750 height

  54. effects / plugins / Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Textures - Brick Wall
    find your preset L&K_les_Window_brick



  55. effects / geometric effects / perspective horizontal, same settings as earlier

  56. image / canvassize , following settings:



  57. In case you want to use a different colour
    adjust - hue and saturation - colorize, same settings as earlier

  58. edit / paste as a new layer
    (the display window should still be in cache)
    leave everything as it is!!!!!

    Now we will make an edge to the uppersite and the bottom of the window:

  59. Change your background to a colour you like, I used grey


  60. Preset shape -> rectangle:
    Vector checked, anti alias checked


  61. Draw a bar on your working area:



  62. In your layers palette / promote to rasterlayer

  63. deformation tool (D on your keyboard)

  64. Click on the preset button, find L&K_les_window_1



  65. effects / plugins / Alian Skin - Eye Candy 5 impact - Extrude
    find your preset LK_les_window_1



  66. Repeat: effects / plugins / Alien Skin - Eye Candy 5 impact - Extrude
    find your preset LK_les_window_2



  67. Repeat again: effects / plugins /Alien skin - Eye Candy Impact 5 - Extrude
    same settings as earlier, now there are two edges:




  68. effects / geometric effects / perspective horizontal, same settings as earlier

  69. Repeat: deformation tool (or D on your keyboard)
    preset button, find L&K_les_window_2




  70. effects / 3d effects / drop shadow/ following settings:



  71. repeat: preset shape -> rectangle:

    again draw a bar on your working area:




  72. Layer palette / promote to rasterlayer

  73. Repeat: deformation tool ( or D on your keyboard)
    preset button, find L&K_les_window_3


  74. Effects / texture effects / blinds / following settings:





  75. Repeat: effects / Plugin / Alien Skin - Eye Candy Impact 5 - Extrude
    find your preset LK_les_window_3




  76. Repeat: geometric effects / perspective horizontal / same setting as before

  77. Repeat: deformation tool: (or d on your keyboard)
    preset button, find L&K_les_window_4

  78. effects / 3d effects / drop shadow, same settings as before

  79. layers / merge / merge all flatten.



    Background:

  80. open a new transparant size 250 x 250

  81. effects / plugins / Alien Skin - Eye Candy 5 Textures - brick wall, same settings
  82. if necessary: adjust / hue and saturation / colorize / same settings

  83. layers / new layer

  84. flood fill / flood fill with the colour you used for the edges, I used grey

  85. Layers / load/save mask / load mask from disk
    find your mask L&K window, check invert transparancy!!!!!!




  86. layers / merge / merge all flatten

  87. effects / image effects / seamless tiling



    Export als jpg and fill out your script.

    extra example:

 

Love, Lisette, Karin and Mac