Les 012: Neon

Lesson 012: Neon

Materials: tubes, image, brush and font

Brush: @nn

Filters

Penta.com

Eye Candy 4000

Open the tubes and the image, import the brush and install the filter

Open a new image 640x480 px, transparent

foreground color = #4a2f1b and background color = #ecd191

foreground color on gradient foregr-background see settings:

Flood fill with this gradient

Adjust – blur – gaussian blur 15

Layer palette, new raster layer

Selections – select all

Activate image (MTA_LA_2) edit – copy – paste into selection

Deselect

Layer palette – blend mode = burn

Effects – filter Penta.com – Jeans standard settings

Layer palette, duplicate bottom layer (click right and duplicate) and move this dulicated layer to the top

Image resize 70% resize all layers unchecked - bicubic

Adjust – add and remove noise – add noise 16 – uniform and monochrome checked

Effects – filter Penta.com – VTR2 standard settings

Effects – 3D effects – drop shadow see settings:

Repeat but change horz/vert -1

Activate the tube ‘shoes metallic’ edit – copy and paste als a new layer

With the move tool, move to top right

Adjust – hue and saturation – colorize 18-119 what is the origin of these numbers:

Open properties of the foreground color (dark color) and you will see this:

Effects – Eye Candy 4000 – Gradient Glow see settings:

Choose dark color and the setting thin ‘Thin’

Layer palette – blend mode soft light

Activate miste tube ‘Dior Rasta’ edit – copy and paste as a new layer - bicubic

Move see example

Activate misted tube ‘Dior9’ edit – copy and paste as a new layer

Image – resize with 70% - resize all layers unchecked

Move to top left (see printscreen) the hair must touch the lines on the background

Layer palette – blend mode burn

Effects – texture effects – blinds see settings:

Layer palette, new raster layer for the brush

Invert the colors, foreground color = light color

With the brush tool activate brush ‘@nn_brush_quincyjones’ standard settings

Stamp the brush on the bottom left:

Layer palette – opacity 67%, blend mode Hard Light

Layer palette new raster layer

Activate brush ‘shadymedusa’ op standard settings

Stamp this brush top right see example

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

Layer palette, blend mode Hard light

Image add borders 2 px black or choose a dark color from your Image

New text layer, rename this layer “text”

With the text tool, choose font ‘atlas solid’

Foreground color locked, background color dark solod color

Settings shown below:

Write down your text

Deselect, resize text so that it fits in the rectangle (deform tool)

Move see example

Effects– 3D effects – drop shadow horz/vert 1, opacity 100, blur 1 color = #ecd191

Layer palette –opacity 81%,blend mode Overlay

Duplicate this layer and activate layer ‘TEXT’

Effects – filter Eye Candy 4000 – Motion Trail – see settings:

Layer palette, merge, merge all

Save as a jpg