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PI
Version:
10
Level:
Intermediate
Featured tools:
Transform Tool, Paintbrush, Pick Tool
Additional filters:
Richard
Rosenman (Grid Generator)
Additional files: Tube
... you can choose any tube you want, but
if you want to use the same tubes as I did, you can
download it from here
together with the picture I used for the brush, the mask
and the silver fill, I used for this taggie.
Tutorial:
Copyright © Inge Klement |
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DESCRIPTION:
Make a stylish Sig Tag with PI, a mask, a brush and one 3rd
party filter.
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Before we
start, you should open the picture you want to use for the brush
in this tutorial. Inside the zip file, there is the one I've used,
and if you want to use the same one, store it inside a separate
folder, called brushes (or whatever you like). The picture is
already in grayscale, and I've also saved as a jpg., so all you
have to do is to save it on your computer.
We will also need the mask, inside the zip file, so store it in
your Easy Palette.
In case you need to freshen up your memory on how to save a mask
into the EP - you can take a look at one of my other
tutorials, where I explain a little bit more about how to use a
mask in PI. You'll find the tut here.
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Open a New Image:
White canvas
and 500x300 Pixels.
Go to Effect/Richard Rosenman/Grid Generator: 8/8/0/0
Line: White
Background: Black
All other buttons, except the one, called Draw border, are pushed.
Click OK.
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Apply
the mask you've downloaded and stored inside your Easy Palette.
Change your Background color to black (white hand), and choose the
Transform Tool (red arrow)/Transform method: Resize (white arrow).
Push the button Selection ("click") and resize the mask
as you can see it on my screenshot. (Drag the black squares, as
you need it!)
If the result looks like my own, go to Edit/ Fill/Color and choose
Black (or push 1x Delete).
Deselect the mask (space bar). |
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Open
the tube and copy it (Ctrl+C). Activate our main picture, and paste (Ctrl+V) the tube on it.
Right click the tube/Properties/Position & Size (white hand)/Position:
Left: -2 (red arrow)
Top: -20 (white arrow)
Click OK and close the original tube.
Deselect the tube on the main picture (return key). |
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Choose
the Paintbrush (red arrow), Size: 175 (it's optional ... you
decide!), Color: White (1), Trans: 50 (also up to you!) and Soft
edge: 50 (try different settings!).
Click the Texture button (white hand), and now you can add a
texture (in our case the file of the brush picture!). Afterwards
select the picture (white arrow).
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Before
you start to paint, click the Mode button, Paint as object (red
arrow).
Now you can start to paint. Here, as before ... it's up to you how
the result looks like. You have to try, and if there is a stroke
you don't like, hit the Undo button (or Ctrl+Z), and redo the
painting. |
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Are
you satisfied with the painting, click the Pick Tool (red arrow),
and answer Yes (white arrow) in the window, appearing in front of
you.
By using the Paint as object Mode, the painting remains an object
also after you're finished, and you can now change the object if
you need to. (Resize it, color it, replace it, a.s.o.).
In this case I'm satisfied with the look of the painting, so I
leave everything as it appears.
Merge All.
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Right
click/All, right click/Border:
Border width: 1 (red arrow)
Direction: Inward (white arrow)
Shape: Box
and Anti-aliasing.
Click OK and keep the border selected.
Go to Edit/Fill/Image, and find the file of the silver fill you've
downloaded. Fill the border with the silver fill.
Deselect the border (space bar). |
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Adjust/Expand Canvas: Expand color: Black (white hand), and do not
tick the box expand sides
equally (red arrow).
Top: 15
Left: 15
Right: 15
Bottom: 70
Click OK. |
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Right
click/All, right click/Border: Border width: 1, Direction: Inward,
Shape: Box
and Anti-aliasing.
Keep the border selected.
Edit/Fill/Image (white hand)/File, and use the same silver fill as before
(red arrow ... browse your PC to find the right file).
Click OK.
Deselect the border (space bar), and add some text if you want to.
Merge All.
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And that's how the finished taggie,
made after this tutorial looks like. :))
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Another try after the same tutorial.
:))
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it! A stylish Sig Tag ... made with PI, a mask, a brush and
one 3rd party filter. HAVE FUN!!!
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If you need any help with
this tutorial - or want to make suggestions to improve it -
please email
me!
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Copyright © inkl-Designs. All
rights reserved.
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