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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:
Eraser
Additional filters:
Xero/Tekstya
(filter set 3), VM
Experimental
Additional files:
2 tubes, 2 gold fills and 1 file for the filter Xero.
You'll get the material in the zip-file.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Supplies: Special thanks to MarieL
and Suzi
Sgai for their beautiful tubes.
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 install the extra file for the filter Xero. It's
very easy ... just copy the file stipje.tek into your Xero
filter.
We are working on different pictures - picture 1 and picture 2,
and our main picture. I will call them like this throughout this
tutorial. :))
Very important:
Do NOT merge the pictures
before I tell you
to do so, or your filter result will not look like mine!
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Picture
1:
Open a New Image, size: 350x530, Color: White.
Go to Effect/Xero/Tekstya and click the Load button (white hand).
Find the filter Xero (1) on your hard drive, and choose the
installed file - stipje.tek (red arrow).
Click Open (white arrow).
Click OK on the Xero:Tekstya filter preview.
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Open
the tube - Marif_2007_03Mars_lady0155 -, copy (Ctrl+C) the tube (1), activate
our picture 1 (2), and paste (Ctrl+V) the copy of the tube on
it.
Minimize the original tube (we will need it later again) ... the tube on
picture 1 should still be activated.
Right click the tube on picture 1/Properties/ Position
& Size (white hand)/Position and use these settings:
Left: -3 (red arrow)
Top: -2 (white arrow).
Click OK and keep the tube selected.
Right
click/Shadow and use these settings:
Color: Black + 3 altern.
X-offset: 1
Y-offset: 1
Transparency: 50
Shadow size: 100
Soft edge: 10.
Merge All.
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Right
click/All, right click/Border, and use these settings:
Border width: 1 Pixels (white hand), Direction: Inward (red
arrow), Shape: Box and Anti-aliasing.
Click OK and keep the border selected.
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Go
to Edit/Fill/Image (red arrow)/File and find (white hand) the
downloaded and unzip goldfill with the name Arguld10.jpg.
Click OK and deselect the border (spacebar).
Right
click/All, right click/Border, and this time we use a Border
width of 2 Pixels. (The rest stays the same as before.)
Go
to Edit/Fill/Image/File and find the
downloaded and unzip goldfill with the name t8_gold fill.jpg.
Click OK and deselect the border (spacebar).
We will need border like this several times, so next time I will
only write 1 Arguld-border (= 1 Pixel border) and
1 t8_gold-border (= 2 Pixels border).
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Picture
2:
Open a New Image, size: 600x440, Color: White.
Effect/Xero/Tekstya and use the same file - stipje.tek - as
before.
Go to Adjust and choose Invert.
Open
the tube - SS_850_Misted -, copy (Ctrl+C) and paste (Ctrl+V) the tube
on our picture 2.
Close the downloaded tube ... the tube on picture 2 should still be activated.
Right click the tube on
picture 2/Properties/Position
& Size and position the tube like that:
Left: 245 /
Top: 4.
Keep the tube selected.
Go
to Edit/Fade Out and use these settings:
Fill type: 6.altern. (white hand)
Fill color: Two-color:
100% (red arrow) to 30% (white arrow).
Click OK and keep the tube selected.
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Choose the Eraser Tool (white hand),
brush shape: circle, brush size approx. 75, Transp.: 50 and
Soft edge: 50 (1).
Since this is a misted tube, we have to erase all the white
"stuff" around the tube (red arrows) to make our picture
looking good.
Keep the tube activated after you are done with the erasing part.
Go to Photo/Color/Hue & Saturation and change the Saturation
to -100.
Merge All.
Now, as with picture 1 we need to give this picture some gold
borders:
1 Arguld-border + 1 t8_gold-border
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Main picture:
Open a New Image, 800x600 Pixels, color: White.
Copy (Ctrl+C) picture 2 (the last one we made), activate
our main picture, and paste (Ctrl+V) the copy of picture 2 on it.
Position picture 2 like this: Left: 143 / Top: 123.
Copy (Ctrl+C) picture 1, activate
our main picture, and paste (Ctrl+V) the copy of picture 1 on it.
Position picture 1 like this: Left: 53 / Top: 33.
You can see the exact position on the screenshot (1).
Keep picture 1 on our main picture activated, right click/Select All Objects, right
click/Merge as Single Object (red arrow).
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Maximize
the tube - Marif_2007_03Mars_lady0155 -, copy (Ctrl+C) the tube, activate
our main picture, and paste (Ctrl+V) the copy of the tube on
it.
Now you can close the original tube ... the tube on our main picture
should still be activated.
Right click the tube on the main picture/Properties/ Position
& Size and position the tube like this:
Left: 53 / Top: 33.
Keep the tube selected, choose the Eraser Tool (white hand), and
erase a little bit of the tube on the left, the top and the bottom
(red arrows).
Keep the tube activated, right click/Select All Objects, right
click/Merge as Single Object.
Deselect (Enter).
Adjust/Expand Canvas, and expand all sides equally with 30 Pixels, Color: White.
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Effect/VM
Experimental (red arrow)/Oscilloscope (white arrow) and use these
settings (1):
Scan Line: 103
Amplitude: 81
Invert: 3
Mode: 204.
Your screenshot might look different, since I'm using Filters
Unlimited 2 - but the settings are the same anyway.
Click Apply.
Now, as before, we need to give our main picture some gold
borders:
1 Arguld-border + 1 t8_gold-border.
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Adjust/Expand Canvas, and expand all sides equally with 20 Pixels, Color: White.
Right
click/All, right click/Border, and use these settings:
Border width: 20 Pixels, Direction: Inward, Shape: Box and Anti-aliasing.
Keep the border selected, go to Effect/VM Experimental (red
arrow)/Oscilloscope (white arrow) and use these settings (1):
103/70/3/204.
Click Apply and Merge All.
Now, we need one more time our gold borders:
1 Arguld-border + 1 t8_gold-border, 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, two tubes, two gold
fills and two 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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