L&K's... Guichelle

this tut was written CorelX

This tut is translated for us by Mac and we give here a hug and biggggg kiss for doing a wonderful job, thanks , lisette and karin.

Materials :

Especially for this tut Jetty wrote a beautiful script, for which we are very grateful. here
You find her beautiful site here

Preparation :

set your foreground to a dark colour (Lisette used #0a201d) set your background to a bright colour ( #6c978e) find your foreground/background gradient, make a radial gradient, following settings:

1.open a transparent image size 700 x 550
2.flood fill/ flood fill with your gradient

3.adjust / blur / gaussians blur /Radius: 50

4.effects / texture effects / blinds, following settings:

5.no first make a copy, use shift +D on your keyboard. Set this away for now. We will need this later on.

6.Open L&K_lesGuichelle_1 image (width->875 xheight 155)


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Provided in th zip there is a printscreen of CorelXI. Of course you can use a print made by yourself. Click on the PrtScr key on your keyboard -> in Corel: edit - paste as a new image. Then use your crop tool to pick a nice part of it.
The size 875 x155 pixels is mandatory!!!
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7.edit / copy
8.on your 750x600 pixel working image
9.edit / paste as a new layer

don't touch a thing!!!! leave it in the centre of your image!!

10.effects / geometrich effects ->Spherize

11.effects /distortion effects- warp

12.effects / image effects/offset

13. in your layers pallette / change your blendmode to Overlay->
perhaps Luminance / Luminance (legacy) would be better, but then you will have to lower the opacity. Just see for yourself.

14.effects / 3 d / dropshadow, following settings:

15. magic wand :Feather on 25 !!!!!!!

click in the lower area of your image , as in example given:

16.effects / plugins / Panoptium_> Digitalizer,
check all boxes and fill out the correct values !!
By using the button Edit charset you can get different numbers

17.selections / deselect

18.swap your materials :

19.preset shape tool , find your preset shape -> X Harmonic/Open Bell  
Retain style: unchecked !!!!!! width on 1

20.draw one very small ellips on your image -> at the left side of your image , as in the example given:

21.layers pallette/  promote to raster layer

22.effects / plugins / Alien skin eye candy impact 5 -> Extrude
find  Settings : LK_les_ Guichelle

23.effects / Plugins / Mura's Meister / Copies

 24.use your move tool -> place the cord as in example given

25.effects / 3 d /dropshadow, same settings

Open the tube: QuertyBag_TubedByGini_08-15-06.pspimage

in case you're using other colours you can colorize this keyboard ->
adjust / hue and saturation->colorize, pick a colour matching your image

26.edit / copy
27.on your 750x600 working area
28.edit / paste as a new layer

29.move tool / place the keyboard, as in example given:

30.effects / 3 d / dropshadow, same settings

31.make a copy of this image, using window / duplciate

32.we continu working on this copy image!!!! Leave the original one.

33.image / add borders / 1 pixel, dark colour
34.image / add borders / 25 pixels, colour: white
35.image / add borders / 1 pixel, dark colour

36.image /  resize, hoogte - breedte verhouding niet aangevinkt !!
fill out : 492 x 328 Pixels

37. edit / copy ( you can close this image)

38. activate your original working area

39.edit  /paste as a new layer

40. image / free rotate: -> Left ->  40%

41.deformation tool  (D on your keyboard) 
find your preset L&K_les_Guichelle _psp9

42.effects / 3 d / dropshadow, same settings

43.layers / new layer

44.effects  / Plugins / Van Der Lee - Unplugged-X,
find Raster fill out the correct values, colour = white

45.effects / reflection effects / rotating mirror, following settings:

46.layer pallette / change the blendmode to Overlay

47.layers /merge / merge visible layers

48.adjust / softness/ soft focus following settings:

Open your tube highprofile_vivarant_sm.pspimage, or one of our own choice   = 509 pixels hoog

49.edit / copy
50.activate your  750 x 600 working imagel
51.edit / paste as a new layer

52.move tool   / place your tube to your liking,
be sure to stay at the left side of the red line

53.effects / 3 d / dropshadow,following settings

54.image / add borders / 1 pixel, dark colour
55.image / add borders / 25 pixels, white

56.Material Properties, background colour, change the gradient to linear,
following settings:

57.text tool: font Tahoma
size 58 / Bold /Create as: Vector

click in your image -> type Addiction...... followed by 6 dots in the text entry

58.objects / align / center in canvas !!!!!

59.layer pallette/ promote to rasterlayer

60.repeat: effects/ deformation effects / warp
following settings ;

61.repeat: effects / plugins / Alien skin eye candy impact 5 -> Extrude
find  Settings : LK_les_ Guichelle _1

62. use your move tool;
place the word "Addiction" as in the example given: knop

63.effects / plugins / Alien skin eye candy impact 5 ->Perspective Shadow,
find settings -> LK_les Guichelle_perspective shadow

use your move tool to find the right place for the text,
notice the edges of the dots.

64.image /add border at 1 pixel , use your dark colour

The Background :
65.open the copy image we create at the beginning of the tut

66.effects / image effects / seamless tiling...

67.Activate your tube once more:

68. edit / copy the tube
69. on your working area
70. edit/ paste as a new layer

don't move the tube, leave it in the center

71.effects / plugins / Panoptium_> Digitalizer, same settings

72.effects / 3 d / dropshadow, same settings

73.effects / image effects / seamless tiling ...check corner !!!

74.layers / merge / merge all (flatten)

75. adjust / softness / soft focus, same settings.

For the second background:

76. I copied the background we just made, using shift + d on your keyboard.

77. Adjust - blur - Gaussian blur, same settings as before

78. Effects - image effects - seamless tiling, now check mirror!!!

save everything as jpg and fill out the script

extra example :

hugs, Lisette, Karin and Mac.