Unfinished Embroidery
Tutorial By
© Marianne
Giles
February 2008
Example 1
Example 2
Note:
This Tutorial has been made for
fun.. No Infringement of Copyright intended.
This Tutorial comes about from me
playing with ideas. Any similarities to other
tutorials is purely not
intentional.
Intermediate to Advanced
Written
for PSP 9
What you will need
Plugin - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Textures - Download
Here
Plugin - Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Download Demo from
Here
Tube of Choice
Needle
Tube - Download
Here
Wooden Pattern
Here
Here is a arrow you can drag and
drop when you need to mark where you are. .
Just left click and drag to where you want it then let go.
It will stay where ever you put it, until you close your browser.
Step1
Open your Tube
Duplicate (Shift D) and close the
original.
Resize your
tube so that it's no bigger than 400 on any side.
Open your wooden
pattern and Needle tube and put them aside for now.
Step2
Open New transparent
image 450 X 450 pixels.
Flood Fill it with
white.
Copy your tube and
paste as a new layer.
If you would like to
add text now is the time to do so.
Please Note ; If
your going to add the Wooden Hoop it may be better not to add text.
Layers / Merge /
Merge Visible
Step 3
Effects / Plugins
/ Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Textures - weave
with the
following:
Step 4
Using your
Freehand Selection tool
with the following
settings:
Select the top
part of your image so it looks something like this
Step 5
Selections /
Promote Selections to Layer
Effects / 3D
Effects / Drop Shadow
with the
following:
Selections /
Select None
Step 6
Activate your
Bottom layer
Adjust /
Brightness & Contrast / Brightness/Contrast
Step 7
Adding the
Wooden Hoop.
If you did not want to add the hoop go to
step 11
Layers / Merge
Merge Visible
Layers / New
Raster Layer
Using your
Selection Tool
with the
following settings:
Draw a circle
like this
In your Colour
Pallet set your Foreground to pattern and choose the wood pattern
Flood Fill the
Middle of the circle with the wood pattern
Step 8
Selections /
Modify / Contract 10
Press your
delete key on the keyboard.
Selections /
Select None.
Effects / 3D
Effects / Inner Bevel
with the
following:
If all goes well
you should now something like this...
Step 9
Make sure you
are still on the the top layer and
select your
Magic wand with these settings:
Select the Inner
part of the hoop like this
Now Activate the
bottom layer and apply the following Inner Bevel.
Selections /
Select None
Step 10
Activate the top
Layer again and using the magic wand with
the same
settings as before select the outside of the hoop area like this
Layers / Merge /
Merge Visible
Effects /
Plugins / Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Crumple,
with the
following:
Selections /
Select None
Layers / New
Raster Layer
Flood fill this
layer with white.
Layers / Arrange / Send to
Bottom
Step
11
Layers / Merge /
Merge Visible
Copy the needle
tube and paste as a new layer.
Image / Rotate /
Free Rotate (use mine or your own setting)
Now move your
needle into a nice spot on your image.
Step 12
Layers / New
Raster Layer
Using your eye
dropper choose a colour on your image so that we can make a thread hanging
of your needle.
Using your paint
brush tool
with the following
settings:
(You may like to
Zoom in for this step)
paint a squiggly
line from were you picked your colour and make it go over the hole in the
needle like this
Step 13
Using your
eraser
Zoom up very close to the hole in the needle
Erase part of the thread so that it looks like
the thread is going through the needle.
Making sure your still on the top layer,
you may wish to draw another thread somewhere
else in another colour.
Step 14
Effects / 3D effects / Inner Bevel
with the following:
Layers / Merge / Merge All Flatten
If you do not want to add a Frame
you can now
add your watermark and save as a
.Jpg
File / Export / Jpeg Optimizer
and set compression to 25.
Adding a
Frame
As my first Example
Image / Add Borders
10 pixels in a nice medium dark colour from your
image.
Selections / Select all
Selections / Modify / Contract 10
Selections / Invert
Effects / 3D Effects / Inner Bevel
with the following:
Selections / Select None
That's it !
Add your
watermark.
File / Export /
Jpeg Optimizer
and set
compression to 25.
