Lesson 011: The Train

Material:

Tubes, font, mask

Source tubes: Mtm – Brigitte Manon, @nn

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TubesBellisimo/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/top_design_tubes/

Plugin filters:

Artistic

DC Layer Mergency 4

Cybia Screenworks

Let’s go

Open the tubes and image, install the filters and mask

open new image 600x350 px transparent

Flood fill with this color #9a8f7b

Layerpalette, new raster layer, selections – select all

Activate image(prelude of a busy day…), edit – copy- paste into selection

Deselect

Layers – load mask from disk and choose (@nn_mask_xeno001)

with the settings shown below

Layer palette – merge – merge group

adjust – sharpness – sharpen (do this twice)

duplicate layer

Effects – filter DC Layer – Mergency 4 see settings:

Effects – filter Cybia Screenworks – Quad Dice standard settings

Layer palette – opacity 71%, blend mode soft light

Activate tube telephone(telefoon)

Edit – copy – edit – paste as a new layer on your working area

Move to to right see example

Image resize 85%, bicubic resize all layers unchecked

Layer palette – opacity = 51%, blend mode multiply

Effects – 3D effects – drop shadow horz/vert 4, opacity 95, blur 20, black

Activate the tube from Mtm_lady_83, edit – copy and paste as a new layer

Image resize, same settings as before

Image - mirror

Move to the left see example

Layer palette, opacity 48%, blend mode, Luminance (L)

Effects – 3D effects – drop shadow 0, opacity 100, blur 50, color black

Layer palette – merge – merge visibly

Image, add borders see settings:

With the magic wand, tolerance and feather = 0, mode = add

Select the top and bottom border border

Effects – filter artistic – rough pastels do this twice

Selection invert

Effects – 3D effects – drop shadow horz/vert 0, opacity 100, blur 50, color black

Deselect

Image, add borders 1 px symm. Color #5c5644 or choose a dark color from your tag

Layerpalette, new text layer

Foreground color locked, background color = black

Activate texttool and font = (Guadalupe) size 36 px

Write text

Deselect

Layer palette opacity of layer79%, blend mode soft light

Save as a jpg