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DESCRIPTION:
Make a beautiful blend with PI.
Tutorial:
Copyright © Inge Klement
PI
Version:
12 (but you can use earlier versions too)
Level:
Intermediate
Featured tools:
Pick Tool, Eraser, Transform Tool, Magic Wand Tool
Additional filters:
None
Additional files:
3 tubes and 3 masks.
You'll get the material in the zip-file.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
The tubes are from the internet - one mask is made by Yoka,
one I've found in a magazine and the last one I've made for this
blend.
You are allowed to download them here and use them for your
private use,
but you are not allowed to change the name of the tubes/masks,
delete the watermarks, neither offer them for sale or download.
The copyright © belongs ALWAYS to the original artist/designer!
No copyright infringement is intended.
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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 tutorial here.
Important - in my tutorials my masks fit the chosen
background/object ... you achieve this by right clicking any mask
inside the original category Mask Library in your Easy Palette.
Now you choose the option Fit Mask.
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: 231/197/192.
Open
the tube - ballet1 -, copy (Ctrl+C) the tube (1), activate
our main picture (2), and paste (Ctrl+V) the copy of the tube on
it.
Close the downloaded tube ... the tube on the main picture
should still be activated.
Right click the tube on our main picture/Properties/ Position
& Size (3)/Size and resize the tube.
Make sure the box "Keep aspect ratio" is ticked (red
arrow), and change the Width to 541 (white hand).
Now we can change the position of the tube too.
Left: 294 / Top: -70 (white arrows).
Click OK and keep the tube activated.
Choose the Pick Tool and set the Transparency to 75.
Deselect the tube (Enter).
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Open
your Easy Palette/Libraries (white hand) and double-click the mask
- Yoka_JdL_Glitterfacea (1) -, which
you've downloaded, unzipped and stored into your EP.
On the screenshot you can see the mask applied on
the image (2).
Go to Edit/Fill/Color and fill the mask 4 times with the color:
86/39/33.
Deselect the mask (spacebar).
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Open
the tube - mc1554 -, copy (Ctrl+C) the tube (1), activate
our main picture (2), and paste (Ctrl+V) the copy of the tube on
it.
Close the downloaded tube ... the tube on the main picture
should still be activated.
Choose the Transform Tool (white hand) and Flip the tube
Horizontally (white arrow).
Keep the tube activated.
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Go
to Edit/Fade Out and use these settings:
Fill type: 1.altern. (white hand)
Fill color: Two-color:
100% (red arrow) to 30% (white arrow).
Click OK and deselect the tube (Enter).
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Open
your Easy Palette/Libraries and double-click the mask -
mask02_tut_blend_022-ik -, which
you've downloaded, unzipped and stored into your EP.
On the screenshot you can see the mask applied on
the image (1).
Go to
Edit/Fill/Color (white hand), and choose the color: Red: 86 /
Green: 39 / Blue: 33 (red arrows)
Click OK and deselect the mask (spacebar).
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Activate
the tube of the girl again, choose the Eraser Tool (white hand),
brush shape: square (red arrow) and use a brush with an approx.
size of 75.
Now erase everything of the girl tube outside the inner bevel of
the "frame" - see screenshot (white arrows).
When you are done with this work, and everything looks clean and
nice, deselect the tube (Enter).
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Open
your Easy Palette/Libraries (white hand) and double-click the mask
- mask02_tut_blend_022-ik (1) -, which
you've downloaded, unzipped and stored into your EP.
On the screenshot you can see the mask applied on
the image (2).
Go to Edit/Fill/Color and fill the mask with the color:
231/197/192.
Deselect the mask (spacebar) and Merge All. |
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Go to Adjust/Expand Canvas and untick
the box "Expand sides equally" (red arrow). Change the
Expand color to 231/197/192 (white hand), and expand with 30 Pixels to
the Left (white arrow).
Click OK.
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Go to
Photo/Photo Frame choose Photo Frame 2D (1) and the 12. thumbnail
(2).
Width: 20, One color: 86/39/33 (white hand).
Tick
the Canvas box/Options (3) and change the
color to 86/39/33 (red arrow) and the setting to 20 for all four sides.
Click OK on the Photo Frame window.
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Choose
the Magic Wand Tool and select the last brown border we've made
(1).
Keep this border selected, and go to Web/Button Designer /Any
Shape. Click Bevel (white hand) and use these settings:
Bevel size: 3 (red arrow)
Bevel smoothness: 2 (white arrow)
Bevel type: 2.altern. (2).
Click OK and keep the border selected.
Right click/Shadow and use these settings:
Color: Black + 5.alternative + default settings.
Merge All.
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Right
click/All, right click/Border, and use these settings:
Border width: 2 Pixels (white hand), Direction: Inward (red
arrow), Shape: Box and Anti-aliasing.
Click OK and keep the border selected.
Go to Edit/Fill/Color, and fill the border with the color:
231/197/192.
Deselect (spacebar).
Open
the tube - ametista_scarpette_10.05 -, copy (Ctrl+C) the tube and paste (Ctrl+V) the copy of the tube on
our main picture.
Close the downloaded tube ... the tube on the main picture
should still be activated.
Right click the tube/Properties/Position
& Size/Size, "Keep aspect ratio" and resize the tube
to a Width of 210.
Change also the position of the tube:
Left: 688 / Top: 523.
Deselect the tube and Merge All.
Add
some text as you want, and your blend is finished :))
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Here's
the result in the original size :))
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it! A beautiful picture ... made with PI, three tubes and
three masks. 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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