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PI
Version:
10
Level:
Intermediate
Featured tools:
Eraser Tool, Pick Tool, Zoom Tool
Additional filters:
DSB Flux and Toadies
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 two masks we will need to make this
taggie.
Tutorial:
Copyright © Inge Klement |
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DESCRIPTION:
Make a stylish Sig Tag with PI, masks and different 3rd
party filter.
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Before we
start, you should open the masks, and store them into 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 Size: 400x300 Pixels.
Go to Edit/Fill/Gradient (1)/Magic Gradient (2), choose Mode:7
(white hand) and click the Edit button (red arrow).
Choose Palette: 102 (3) in the Palette Ramp Editor, and change the
color of the palette to suit your needs.
Right click the squares/ Change Color (white arrow). Here I
changed the white squares into 125/107/145.
To save your new Palette, click
Add (4) and find a name/number for it.
Click OK.
Go to Photo/Blur/Gaussian Blur/Options, and set the Radius to 20.
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Open
your Easy Palette/Libraries (white arrow) and double-click mask01
(1), which you've downloaded, unzipped and stored into the
EP.
On the screenshot you can see that the mask applied on my
image.
Go to Edit/Fill/Color (red arrow), choose Black (white hand), and
set the Transparency to 50% (2).
Click OK.
Effect/DSB Flux/Linear Transmission and use these settings:
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Open a New Image:
White canvas
and Size: 150x230 Pixels.
Edit/Fill/Gradient, and fill with the same magic gradient as
before.
Go to Photo/Blur/Gaussian Blur and use the same setting as before
(Radius: 20).
Keep the little picture (1) activated, go to Effect/Toadies (red
arrow)/Plain Mosaic Blur (white arrow), and use these
settings:
128/128/18.
Your screenshot might look different, since I'm using Filters
Unlimited 2 ... but the settings are the same anyway.
Click Apply. |
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Copy
(Ctrl+C) the small picture (1), activate our main picture (2), and paste
(Ctrl+V) the
copy on it.
Right
click/Properties/Position&Size (red arrow)/Position:
Left: 23/Top: 23.
Click OK and then close the original small picture (1).
Right click the small picture on our main picture/Shadow, choose the color
Black, the 1.alternative, and use these settings:
4/4/0/101/10.
Deselect the small picture (return key).
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Open
the tube (1), and color it to fit your background. Go to
Photo/Hue&Saturation/ Colorize (red arrow), and find the
settings, that fit your taggie. Here I used:
Hue: 86
Saturation: - 71
Lightness: - 20.
You can see the different effects in the second preview window
(2).
Click OK. |
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Copy
(Ctrl+C) the tube (1), activate our main picture (2), and paste
(Ctrl+V) the
copy of the tube on it.
Right click the tube on our main picture/ Properties/Position&Size (red
arrow) / Position, and use these settings:
Left: 7/Top: 21.
Click General (white arrow), and change the Transparency to 60%
(white hand).
Click OK.
Don't close the tube (1) ... we'll need it one more time.
(Minimize the window of the tube.)
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Zoom
in on the tube, choose the Eraser Tool (red arrow), and erase part
of the tube which are outside of the little picture. Take a look
at my screenshot, to see how I did it. (I erased everything below
the little picture, and on the left side of it. The right side I
kept as it was.)
When you are finished, set the Transparency of the tube to
10%.
Deselect the tube (return key).
Also here, as always, may the settings vary, because all
adjustments depend on which tube you use, which colors you choose,
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Open
your Easy Palette/Libraries and double-click mask02 (1), which
you've down- loaded, unzipped and stored into the EP.
On the screenshot you can see that the mask applied on my
image.
Go to Edit/Fill/Color (white arrow), choose a lighter shade (white
hand) from your picture (here I used 156/145/172), and set the
Transparency to 30% (red arrow).
Click OK and deselect the mask (space bar).
Right
click/All, right click/Border: Border width: 2,
Direction: Inward, Shape: Box and
Anti-aliasing. Keep the border selected and go to Edit/Fill/Color
and use the same light shade you used to fill the 2.mask with.
Also here ... set the Transparency to 30%. |
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Reopen the minimized tube,
copy (Ctrl+C) the tube (1), activate our main picture (2), and paste
(Ctrl+V) the
copy of the tube on it.
Right click the tube on our main picture (2)/ Properties/Position&Size (3)/Position,
and use these settings:
Left: 7/Top: 21 (the same as you used the first time!).
Click General (white arrow) and change the Transparency for the
tube to 75%.
Keep the tube, we now were working with, activated, choose
the Pick Tool (white hand)/ Arrange and use Send to Back (red
arrow).
Close the original tube (1), and if you want too, erase 2 Pixel on
the bottom of the 2.tube.
Merge All.
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Add
some text ... if you want to, ... and your taggie is finished!
:))
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Another try after the same tutorial.
:)
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And one more ... couldn't resist! :))
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it! A stylish Sig Tag ... made with PI, 2 masks and some 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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rights reserved.
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