Big Eyes

This lesson was written by Jille on Sunday 15 November 2009 in the Dutch version of PSP XII
I followed my own ideas, so any resemblance with an existing lesson is merely a coincidence.

Credits
To create this lesson I used:

• 1 tube from Nightangel: Big,big Eyes_na_18.11
  The tube is for personal use only. Please do not share them in any group.
• I used 1 mask from Cameron: maskcameron230.
• The material from Cameron is due to copyright, but free to use, read the TOU here
  My thanks for the lovely material, this picture would not exist without it.

Supplies

You will need: 1 tube, 1 selection and 1 mask.
You can download my supplies here
The font I used - ChaseCallasSH - can be downloaded here

Preparation
Extract the selection into your map selections
Open the tube and the mask in the PSP program and minimize
Materials - Choose a light color for the Foreground (I took white #ffffff) and a dark one for the background (I took #3559a6)

The lesson

Step 1

File - New - New image- transparent checked

Flood Fill Tool ; flood fill your image with the background color

Step 2

Maximize the tube Big,big Eyes_na_18.11
Window - Duplicate - Close the original and proceed with the copy
Image- Resize - 550 pixels height - Resize all Layers checked
Edit - Copy
Minimize the tube but don't close

On your working area: Edit - Paste as New Layer
With the Move Tool: move to the right and to the bottom see example

Effects - Refection-Effects - Kaleidoscope
with these settings

Edit - Repeat Kaleidoscope
Layer palette: lower the opacity to 30 and change the blend mode to Luminance(Legacy)
Effects - Edge Effects- Enhance

This is the result

Layers - Merge - Merge Visible

Step 4

Materials: Change the material of the foreground in a foreground - background gradient with these settings

Layers - New Raster Layer
Flood Fill (F on your keyboard) the layer with this gradient
Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - radius 35

Step 5

Maximize the mask maskcameron230
Activate your working area (do not forget )
Layers - New Mask Layer- From Image

You may close the mask
on your working area: Layers - Merge - Merge Group
This is the result

Step 6

Layers - New Raster layer
Selections - Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load selection from Disk and select Thoughts1
with these settings

Materials : Change the values of the gradient

anfd Flood Fill (F) the selection with this Gradient (Style Linear)

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow - see example


Repeat with Vertical and Horiz -2
Keep the selection

Step 7

Open the tube you resized and minimised at Step 2
Make sure the tube layer is active and with the Selection Tool (S) draw a rectangular selection round the head

Edit - Copy
Selections - Select None
You may minimize the tube if you want to

Step 8

Back to your working area
Layers - New Raster Layer
Edit - Paste into Selection
Selections - Select None
Layer palette - Change the blend mode into Luminance (Legacy)
Layers - Merge - Merge Down

Step 9

Layers - Duplicate
Layers - Resize- 85% - Resize All layers not checked
Image - Mirror
Layer pallette - opacity = 66
Move to a nice spot, I put it under the other circle

Step 10

Maximize the resized tube again
Image - Mirror
Edit - Copy
You may close without saving
On your working area
Edit - Paste as New Layer
With the Move Tool move to the right
Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten)

Step 11

Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked
1 pixel dark background color
5 pixels light foreground color
1 pixel dark background color
25 pixels light foreground color
1 pixel dark background color
1 pixel light foreground color
1 pixel dark background color

Step 12
Layers - New Raster Layer
Put your watermark
Activate the Text Tool - create on Vector
Close the foreground color, the background color is still your dark color


I used the font ChaseCallasSH, size 36 and wrote the text "Those were the days my friend"
Layers - Convert to Raster Layer
With the Move Tool - move to a nice spot
Effects- 3D Effects- Drop Shadow with these settings

Step 12

Layers - Merge - Merge All (Flatten)
Image - Resize

or smaller if that suits you better
Save as – give-a-name.jpeg

So we are done. I hope you enjoyed this lesson

Hugs
Jille

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