Friday, October 21, 2011

Crazy for Cano

Supplies Needed
Tube - I am using the amazing art of Jose Cano which you can purchase at pte.
Font - I am using LTZapfino Three
Mask - You can get here.  I am not sure where I ever got this mask but if it is your please let me know so i can give you the proper credit.
filter - xenofex 2

Ok, are you ready?
And off we go!

New image 600x600
flood fill with white
new raster layer
flood fill with a color from your tube
I used #573f37
Apply the mask
merge group
now we need a close up of our tube
new raster layer
ctrl+a or selections - select all
edit - paste into selection
ctrl + d or select none
apply the mask again
merge group
merge visible

take a break ... lol
now comes the fun part we are going to start creating some of the animation
This is what you should have so far

now to draw the white lines we need to do the animation on the mask
we need the
pen tool
straight line
foreground - white
line style - solid
width - 5.00
the width you can play with to your liking
in the screenshot you can see the white outline I drew with the pen tool

convert to raster layer
duplicate two times
you should have three layers of the lines we drew
now go back to the original line layer

xenofex 2 - constellation
use the settings in the following screenshot

now go to second line layer 
xenofex 2 - constellation - random seed
now go to third line layer
xenofex 2 - constellation - random seen

shew made it through this so far right

ok get your tube you don't want the close up this time
paste as new layer on our working image
place where you feel it looks best
I placed mine on the right

drop shadow
v-3   h-3   opacity-100   blur-5

ok time for some text
we are going to make the big C
font is LTZapfino Three
size 425 Bold Color-white
apply your C
selections-select all
selections-float
selections-defloat
selections-modify-contract
contract by 2
layers - new raster layer
flood fill the selection with the color from your tube
or use mine which is #573f37
select-select none

duplicate the white C layer 3 times
you should have 4 layers of your white C
on the first layer apply drop shadow same one we used before
now to the second C layer
apply  xenofex 2- constellation ( same settings as before)
now to the third C layer
apply xenofex 2- constellation change the random seed
now to the fourth C layer
apply xenofex 2- constellation change the random seed

I moved the brown C down to right above the first white C layer

now lets add the "I'm razy for ano"
same font as before but now change the size to 125
we are adding a white border to the text with a stroke width of 1
forground white
background #573f37
apply the text and the apply a drop shadow as we did before

add your artist info, copyrights, etc.

now add your name
mine is the following settings

font LTZapfino Three
size 125  Bold
stroke with 1
foreground white
background #573f37

same drop shadow as before

now time for the animation part

hide all your constellation layers
unhide the first one on the lines we drew and unhide the first one of the "C"

edit - copy special - copy merged
go to animation shop
paste as new animation

go back to psp
hide the constellation layers you just copied
now unhide the second layer of the lines and the second layer of the "C"
edit - copy special - copy merged
go to animation shop
paste after current frame

go back to psp
hide the constellation layers you just copied
now unhide the third layer of the lines and the third layer of the "C"
edit - copy special - copy merged
go to animation shop
paste after current frame

now save your tag in animation shop
and you should have this
and one i made for the artist of the tube I used




This tutorial was written by me.
It is a tutorial based on an original tag of my own design I created.
any potential similarities to other tag tutorials that
may be available is wholly unintended and completely coincidental.
Any items supplied to use to create your own tag with this tutorial are supplied
in good faith - if I have used something not intended
for usage in this way, please contact me via email.
Any items created by me for the purposes of this tutorial MAY NOT be used in
any other PSP tutorials.
NO linking to my tut examples, screen shots, files or graphics permitted.













Thursday, September 29, 2011

Rock it baby



This tutorial was created using PSPX3, but should work in most other versions.
A working knowledge of psp is assumed.



Needed Supplies
Tube of choice.

I am using the awesome art of
Arthur Crowe which I purchased from PTE.
You will also need my template which you can get here.

Open my template and the tube you have chosen in paint shop pro.
Copy the close up tube
Go to our template image
Paste tube in between main circle and main circle smoke
Position as you like
Go to main circle layer
Ctrl+a then ctrl+f then ctrl+shift+f
All your really did is
Select all
Select float
Select defloat
Now go to selections - modify - contract by 5
Now go to the tube layer you pasted
Selections - invert
Delete
Ctrl+d (select none)
Change the opacity on your tube layer to 75%
Change the blend mode to luminance

Copy the full version of your tube
Paste in between upper left circle and upper left circle smoke
Position as you like
Go to upper left circle
Ctrl+a then ctrl+f then ctrl+shift+f
All your really did is
Select all
Select float
Select defloat
Now go to selections - modify - contract by 5
Now go to the tube layer you pasted
Selections - invert
Delete
Ctrl+d (select none)
Change the opacity on your tube layer to 75%
Change the blend mode to luminance
 
Copy the full version of your tube
Paste in between lower left circle and lower left circle smoke
Position as you like
Go to lower left circle
Ctrl+a then ctrl+f then ctrl+shift+f
All your really did is
Select all
Select float
Select defloat
Now go to selections - modify - contract by 5
Now go to the tube layer you pasted
Selections - invert
Delete
Ctrl+d (select none)
Change the opacity on your tube layer to 75%
Change the blend mode to luminance
Ok get your full tube again
Go to top layer of image we are working on
Place tube where you please
Add desired drop shadow if you want.
I used the following drop shadow
v-0 h-5 opacity-100 blur-10 color-#4c1213
Add your watermark info, license #, etc.
As for the font I used
ATMahoganyScript
Size-150
Place where you please
I used cutout on my name with these settings
v-2 h-2 opacity-100 blur-3
Colors
Shadow - white interior - black
I have not animated this tag as of yet.

Hope you enjoyed this tut.

This tutorial was written by me.
It is a tutorial based on an original tag of my own design I created.
any potential similarities to other tag tutorials that
may be available is wholly unintended and completely coincidental.
Any items supplied to use to create your own tag with this tutorial are supplied
in good faith - if I have used something not intended
for usage in this way, please contact me via email.
Any items created by me for the purposes of this tutorial MAY NOT be used in
any other PSP tutorials.
NO linking to my tut examples, screen shots, files or graphics permitted.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Blazing Tats


This tutorial was created using PSPX3, but should work in most other versions. A working knowledge of psp is assumed.

Needed Supplies
Tube of choice.
I am using the awesome art of  Robert Alvarado which I purchased from PTE.
You will also need mask, and font
You can get my mask here.

Filters for animation only
Alien Skin Xenofex 2Note: This tutorial is written for the supplies I used. If you are using something different you will need to make adjustments.

Create a new image 600x600 with a transparent background.
Pick a background & foreground from your image.
I used #c44b57 for foreground and #000000 for background.

Now change your foreground to gradient.
Foreground/background angle=0 repeat=0 rectangular
Flood fill layer with gradient.

Now apply my mask to the gradient layer
Layers - merge group

Now copy the tube place on far left
Duplicate the tube layer
Now mirror this duplicated layer
Layers - merge down
Apply the mask to the merged tube layer.
Layers - merge group

Change the opacity of this new masked tube layer to 50%
Go to the first masked layer to add this drop shadow
v-1 h-1 opacity-100 blur-5 color black
Now go to top layer
Get your tube again
Copy
Go to image we are working with
Paste as new layer
Place tube where you please I placed mine in the center
Drop shadow
v-0 h-5 opacity-100 blur-5 color-black
Now add your watermark, tube info, and license # if needed

Now comes adding your name
I always due my font as floating so I can promote it to layer and play with it

The font I used is blazed
The color I used is the same gradient as earlier in the tutorial.

I used inner bevel
Bevel #2 width 10 smoothness 50 depth 25 ambience -25
Shininess 25 color white angle 132 intensity 49 elevation 90

Drop shadow
v-0 h-5 opacity-100 blur-5 color-black


Now comes to the animation part.
If you don’t want to add animation then stop here and save your tag.

Duplicate the masked layer 3 times so you have a total of four layers that look the same

Now time to do the filter which we will be using alien skin xenofex 2
Use the settings in the image below and when you change layers just change the random seed.


create new layer and flood fill with white
move this layer all the way to bottom

Now hide the four mask layers.

you are only going to use three of these hidden layers.
you can delete the mask layer that you didn't apply the filter to.

your layers palette should look like this.
unhide the top mask layer
you can copy two ways the easiest for me is ctrl+shift+c
or go to edit - copy - copy special - copy merged
now go to animation shop and paste as new animation

go back to paint shop pro hide the top mask layer and unhide the second mask layer
ctrl+shift+c
or go to edit - copy - copy special - copy merged
now go to animation shop and paste after current frame or ctrl+shift+L

go back to paint shop pro hide the second mask layer and unhide the third mask layer
ctrl+shift+c
or go to edit - copy - copy special - copy merged
now go to animation shop and paste after current frame or ctrl+shift+L

your done now just save your image

please feel free to post feed back on this tut.
I would love to hear what you think.


This tutorial was written on by me.
It is a tutorial based on an original tag of my own design I created.
any potential similarities to other tag tutorials that
may be available is wholly unintended and completely coincidental.
Any items supplied to use to create your own tag with this tutorial are supplied
in good faith - if I have used something not intended
for usage in this way, please contact me via email.
Any items created by me for the purposes of this tutorial MAY NOT be used in
any other PSP tutorials.
NO linking to my tut examples, screen shots, files or graphics permitted.

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Welcome

Welcome to my new tutorial blog.
Here you will find various tutorials for mainly paint shop pro.
I will probably include tutorials for other things that are cool that I can do.
For now it is just for paint shop pro.
Be patient with me as it will take me a bit to get started.
I have wrote tuts in the past and they turned out pretty good.  I am going to try to bring back a few of my old pieces maybe just add a new flare to them.
We shall see.
I will most likely do a tut for the image I am using as a background.
I will start posting tuts either tomorrow or tuesday and wednesday.
Please be patient with me as this is something I just recently decided to do.