Pixelated Gestures

Remember, my tutorials are only a guideline, let your imagination free :)

Materials needed:

A tube of choice

Mine is from ©Psyco Jimi @ www.mytubedart.com

A font of choice

I used Angilla Tattoo @ www.dafont.com

Filter:

Mura's Meister ---> Copies

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Let's get started.

Open your tube in PSP

New image, 600x250 transparant.

Fill with a color from your tube, not too bright/light

Copy your tube and paste as a new layer.

Effects, mura's meister: copies, wallpaper rotate, default settings.

Adjust, Blur, Gaussian blur: 12

Crop merged opaque

Effects, distortion effects, pixelate.

Put width & height to 25, symmetric checked.

Effects, edge effects, enhance.

Grab your selection tool rectangle, set feathering to 50.

Start the selection 3 blocks from the left and drag to the right for 6 blocks

See image:

If you let go, the selection will be bigger because of the feathering.

Hit Delete

Select none.

Copy your tube and paste as a new layer, move to the right.

Duplicate the tube layer, image, mirror.

Move the duplicated tube 2 layers down in the layer pallete.

Set the blend mode to overlay, or any other blend mode that fits your tube/colors

Activate the top layer and add shadow to your tube.

New layer, fill with black.

Selections, select all, selection contract, 3 pixels, hit delete.

Select none.

And you are finished.

Hope you liked the tut.

Add the correct copyright info(after you have resized), your license number, name and export as .PNG or save as .JPG

©Sandra 31-July-2013

Elegant Peacock

Remember, my tutorials are only a guideline, let your imagination free :)

Materials needed:

A tube of choice:

Mine is from ©Amberly Berendson @ www.mytubedart.com

A font of choice:

I used Respective available @ www.dafont.com

Filter:

Graphic Plus ---> Cross Shadow

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Let's get started.

Open up your tube in PSP.

New image: 600x250 pixels, transparant.

Pick 2 colors from your tube and make a gradient fill

Select all, modify, contract 45 pixels

Selections, modify, select selection borders:

both sides, width 2, anti-alias checked.

New layer

Fill with solid color.(1 of the colors you picked before)

Select none.

Apply inner bevel, default settings or use your own

Select inside of the frame, selections expand with 1 pixel.

Activate bottom layer

Copy your tube paste as new layer

Position to the left in the frame, layer opacity 60%

Duplicate layer, move to center in the frame, opacity 80%

Duplicate layer, move to the right side in the frame, opacity 100%

Merge the 3 tube layers together, selections invert, hit delete.

Keep selection running.

Activate bottom layer, selection, promote to layer.

Select none.

Effects, graphic plus, cross shadow, default settings.

Activate tube layer, set blend mode to screen, or any other blend mode that fits your tag.

Activate border layer, give a drop shadow.

Copy your tube and paste as a new layer.

Image, mirror.

Place it on the left

Add drop shadow

New layer

Fill with same color as used with the border.

Select all, contract by 2, hit Delete

Select none.

Use same inner bevel as before, add shadow 

Crop merged opaque

And finished :)

Hope you liked the tut.

Add the correct copyright info(after you have resized), your license number, name and export as .PNG or save as .JPG

©Sandra 31-July-2013