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Xaggerate Teardrop
Tutorial By
© Marianne Giles
February 2008
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
Image of Choice
Teardrop Mask -
Download
Here
Plugin -
Fun House
Plugin -
FM Tile Tools
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 Image
Duplicate (Shift D) and close the
original.
Choose a light colour
for your Foreground and a Dark Colour for your Background.
Open the Teardrop Mask
in PSP and Minimise it for later.
Step2
Image-Resize
Resize your image to
no more than 350 Pixels in width.
Resample Using Smart
Size-Checked,
Lock Aspect
Ratio-Checked,
Resize All
Layers-Checked.
If needed Adjust /
Sharpness / Sharpen.
Step 3
Effects / Image
Effects / Seamless tile
with the following:
Edit / Copy
Minimise this image
for now.
Step 4
Open a New
Transparent Image 310 X 350 pixels
Flood fill this
image with any colour.
Layers / New Mask
Layer / From Image
(Open the source
window and click on teardrop mask)
Source Luminance
and invert ticked.
Using your Magic
Wand with the following settings:
hold down your shift
key and click on each teardrop
(should look like this)
Layers / Merge /
Merge Group.
Edit / Paste / Paste
into Selection.
Note: If your image
did not paste into selection you will need to copy it again.
Selections / Select
none
Step 5
Effects / 3D Effects
/ Drop Shadow
with the following:
Step 6
Image / Canvas Size
with the following:
Layers / New Raster
Layer
Layers / Arrange /
Send to Bottom
Step 7
Selections /
Select All
Edit / Paste / Paste into
Selection
Note: If your image did not paste into
selection you will need to copy it again.
Selections / Select None
Step 8
Effects / Image
Effects / Seamless Tiling
(Use the Default Setting)
Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur
- Radius 15
Effects / Plugins / Fun House
/ Xaggerate
Step 9
This is a
optional step.
Only if your background is
too dark. Otherwise skip this and continue to step 11.
Your Bottom Layer should
still be active.
Layers / New Raster Layer
Flood fill this layer with
your light Foreground Colour
Lower the opacity to this
layer to your liking.
Layers / Merge / Merge Down.
Step 10
Make
sure your bottom layer is Active.
Effects / Plugins /
FM Tile Tools / Blend Emboss - Use Default setting.
Effects / Image
Effects / Seamless Tiling - Default Setting.
Add your watermark.
File / Export / Jpeg
Optimizer
and set compression
to 25.
Here's another
Example of this tut
I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.
Please link your creations back to my Website.
http://members.dodo.com.au/madgiles/mariannescreations.htm
A Big thank you to my testers for taking
there
time and effort in testing this tutorial
for me.
It's very much appreciated.
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