Lesson 007: Metro

For introduction, materials and instructions see lesson in Dutch

Open new image 640x480 px transparent

Floodfill your layer with black

Layer palette, new raster layer

Foreground color = #b4b4b2

With the brushtool choose brush 'psp_concretelike_001' with the settings shown below:

Fill your image with this brush

Layer palette – opacity = 49%

Activate tube inlife_misted, edit – copy – edit paste as a new layer on your working area

Move to the bottom right

Effects - filter Adjust Variations – first click on Original and afterwards click once on More Red

Layer palette: opacity =79%

Activate the tube crescent_sou_misted, edit – copy – edit - paste as a new layer on your working area

Image - mirror

Move to the right top

Effects - filter Adjust Variations – first click on Original and afterwards click 1 x More green, 1 x More yellow

Layer palette – opacity = 40%

Activate your tube tube filly 198, edit – copy – edit - paste as a new layer on your working area

Layers – load mask from disk, with the settings shown below

Layer palette – merge – merge group

Move to the left see example

Activate the eraser tool, lower his opacity and wipe the straight part on the knee so that it fades a little (I hope you understand this part of my translation)

Effects - filter Adjust variations – first clik the original and afterwards 2 x More blue

Layer palette – opacity = 56%

Activate the tube metro, edit – copy – edit - paste as a new layer on your working area

Image resize 50%, resize all layers unchecked and bicubic

Move to the bottom see example

Effects - filter Adjust variations – first clik the original and afterwards click once on red, once on green, once on yellow and once on blue

Layer palette, opacity = 40

effects -3D effects- drop shadow horz/vert 0, opacity 100, blur 20, color black and repeat 3 times (depends on the opacity of your layer)

Layer palette – merge – merge visibly

Layer palette : new raster layer and floodfill with white

Effects - filter Cybia Screenworks - Block tile : standard settings

Layer palette – opacity 20%, mengmode = soft light

Layer palette – merge – merge visibly

Duplicate layer

Effects - filter unlimited 2.0 - Edges square - Square edge 01

Effects- 3D effects –drop shadow horz/vert 1, opacity 100, blur 1, color black

Layer palette – mengmode screen

Layer palette – merge – merge visibly

Effects- Filter - Unlimited 2.0 - Buttons and frames - Glass Frame 1 change frame size to 5

Effects - Filter - Xero - Mistifier standard settings

Layerpalette, new text layer

Foreground color : locked, background color = white

Size of text = 100

Write down your text (see example or up to your choice), but keep working on the same layer.

Effects – 3D effects – drop shadow horz/vert opacity 100, blur 1

Layer palette – mengmode = Overlay (or what you like best) opacity = 79

Layerpalette, new text layer for small text

Size = 36 px, write text of your choice

Repeat drop shadow.

Save as a jpg