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DESCRIPTION:
Make a beautiful picture with PI.
Tutorial:
Copyright © Inge Klement
PI
Version:
12 (but you can use earlier versions too)
Level:
Intermediate
Featured tools:
Transform Tool, Zoom Tool, Eraser Tool
Additional filters:
UnPlugged
Tools, FM
Tile Tools
Additional files:
1 tube and 1 mask.
You'll get the material in the zip-file.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
The tube I'm using is from Suzi Sgai,
and the mask from the PI-Easy Palette.
Tube:
you are allowed to download
it here and use it for your
private use,
but you are not allowed to change the name of the tube,
delete the watermark, offer it for sale or download.
The copyright © belongs ALWAYS to the original artist/designer!
No copyright infringement is intended.
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Very important:
Do NOT merge the picture
before I tell you
to do so!
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Open a New Image, 800x600 Pixels, Color: White.
Go to Edit/Fill/Gradient (white hand)/Magic Gradient (1), choose
the Mode: 7 (2), and click the Edit button (3).
Choose palette 109 in the Palette Ramp Editor. Drag the little
white square, which is laying underneath the black square (red
arrow) down. Right click the white square you've moved, and choose
Delete (white arrow).
Click OK.
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Go
to Effect/UnPlugged Tools (red arrow)/Barcode Generator (white
arrow) and choose the default settings (1).
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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Ctrl+D
... now you have to pictures similar in front of you. Resize one
of them.
Go to Adjust/Resize, untick the box Keep aspect ratio (red arrow)
and use these settings (1):
Width: 356
Height: 470
Click OK.
Expand all sides equally on this small rectangle:
1 Pixel, Color: White, select the border and fill with the same
magic gradient we've used before.
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Copy
(Ctrl+C) the small rectangle and paste (Ctrl+V) it on the big
background picture.
Choose the Transform Tool (white hand) and flip the small
rectangle Horizontally (red arrow).
Leave the rectangle activated, right click/Properties & Size
(1)/Position and use these settings:
Left: 220 and Top: 64 (white arrows):
Click OK and deselect the small rectangle (Enter).
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Open
the tube - SS_1325-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 the main picture (2)/Properties/ Position & Size (white
hand)/and go to Size.
Check that you have ticked the box Keep aspect ratio
(red arrow) and change the Width to 377 (white hand).
Now we can change the
position of the tube:
Left: 200 and Top: 76 (white arrows).
Click OK and close the original tube (1). Our tube on the main
picture should still be activated.
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Change
the Transparency of the tube to approx. 50%, zoom in on the tube
as you can see on the screenshot and choose the Eraser Tool (white
hand). I chose a square form for my eraser, Size: 40, with no
Transparency and no soft edge.
Erase now everything of the tube which is outside the small
rectangle (between the two red arrows on the screenshot).
If you are satisfied, reset the Transparency of the tube to 0.
Deselect the tube (Enter).
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Open
your Easy Palette/Libraries (white hand) and double-click the PI-mask
P13 (1). You can find this mask under Mask (red
arrow)/Pattern (white arrow).
On the screenshot you can see that the mask applied on
the image (2).
Keep the mask selected.
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on this screenshot you can see that the mask applied on the image (2).
Go to Edit/Fill/Gradient (1) and use these settings:
Fill type: 2.altern. (white hand)
Fill color: Two-color:
200/200/200 (white arrow) to 0/0/0 (red arrow).
Click OK and keep the mask activated. |
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Effect/FM
Tilt Tools/Blend Emboss and use the default settings.
Click Apply (red arrow) and deselect the mask (Enter).
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Activate
the small rectangle again, right click/Shadow and use these
settings:
Black, 5.altern. (red arrow) + 50/102/10.
Click OK and deselect the rectangle.
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Expand all sides equally with 5 Pixel
in White.
Right click/All, right click/Border,
and use these settings:
Border width: 5 (white hand)
Direction: Inward (red arrow)
Shape: Box and Anti-aliasing.
Click OK and keep the border selected.
Go to Edit/Fill/Gradient and fill the border with the same Magic
Gradient we used before.
Deselect (spacebar).
Expand all sides equally with 1 Pixel in Black, and your picture
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Here's
the result in the original size :))
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it! A beautiful picture ... made with PI, one mask, one tube
and some 3rd party filters. 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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