PI12-blend

And this is what we are making:

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
Additional filters: Xero/Tekstya (filter set 3)
Additional files: 1 tube, 1 text-object, 2 masks and 1 texture.
You'll get the material in the zip-file.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
The tube is made by Suzy Sgai - one mask I got with a magazine,
and the other one is from the internet (J just modified it to fit this picture).
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.

Wichtig: Speichere deine Arbeit zwischendurch!

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. Texture/Texture Filter: If you don't know, or are a little bit unsure how to install textures into the Texture Filter in PI, take a look here - and install the downloaded texture called Crumpled paper.jpg. Very important: Do NOT merge the picture before I tell you to do so!
	Open a New Image, 800x600 Pixels, color: 203/216/210. Open your Easy Palette/Libraries (white hand) and double-click the mask - mask01-tut_blend_025 (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: 66/89/79. Keep the mask activated.

	Right click/Invert (white arrow), and right click/Convert to Object (red arrow). Right click/Shadow and use these settings: Black + 5 altern. + 50/102/10. Keep the (inverted) mask selected.

	Go to Effect/Fills and Textures/Texture Filter, click the little icon for the Texture image (red arrow) and choose Select Texture. Find the texture - Crumpled paper.jpg. - you've downloaded and installed into the Texture Filter. Use these settings: Scaling: 50 Level: 7 Transparency: 30 Variation: 0 Direction: 45 Click OK/Apply Current Frame Effect to Image and deselect the mask (Enter).

	Open the tube - SS_842 -, 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 (white hand)/Position and use these settings: Left: 370 (red arrow) Top: 131 (white arrow). Click OK and keep the tube selected.

	Choose the Pick Tool (white hand) and change the Soft edge to 15 (red arrow). Deselect the tube (Enter).

'	Open the text-object - text-tut_blend_025 -, copy (Ctrl+C) the object and paste (Ctrl+V) the copy on our main picture. Right click the text-object, choose Properties/Position & Size/Position and use these settings: Left: 121 / Top: 168. Deselect the text-object (Enter). Activate the tube - SS_842 - on the picture, right click/ Duplicate, keep the duplicate activated and go to Edit/Fade Out and use these settings: Fill type: 1.altern. (white hand) Fill color: Two-color: 100% (red arrow) to 0% (white arrow). Click OK and deselect the tube (Enter).

	Open your Easy Palette/Libraries, and double-click the mask - dcm56-border010_02 -, 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 fill the mask with this color: Red: 149 / Green: 176 / Blue: 165 (red arrows). Click OK and keep the mask activated. Right click /Invert, and right click/Convert to Object. Keep the (inverted) mask activated.

	Right click/Shadow and use these settings: Color: Black (white hand) + 5 altern. (red arrow) + 50/101/10. Click OK and deselect the mask (Enter).

	Effect/Xero/Tekstya and use these settings: Foreground Color: Black + Tone: -100 Background Color: Black + Tone: -2 Density: 233 Depth: 120 Highlights: 83 Sparsity: 3 + tick the box "Use source" Click OK and Merge All.

	Right click/All, right click/Border, and use these settings: Border width: 3 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: 66/89/79. Deselect (spacebar).
Here's the result in the original size :))


That's it! A beautiful picture ... made with PI, one tube, one object, two masks and one 3rd party filter. HAVE FUN!!!
If you need any help with this tutorial - or want to make suggestions to improve it - please email me!