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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
Additional filters:
None
Additional files:
2 tubes, 2 masks and 1 background texture .
You'll get the material in the zip-file
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Supplies: Special thanks to La
Manouche for
these beautiful tubes.
The masks and the texture are downloaded from the internet.
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/texture,
delete the watermark, 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 pictures
before I tell you
to do so!
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Open the background texture - Leomo_51.jpg, and duplicate (Ctrl+D)
it twice. Minimize one of them (we will need it later again). We will be working with the second duplicate
- as our main picture.
Open
the tube - new world -, 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: 404 (red arrow)
Top: 99 (white arrow).
Click OK and keep the tube selected.
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Choose
the Pick Tool (white hand), change the Trans- parency to 5 (red
arrow) and the Soft edge to 15 (white arrow).
Deselect the tube (Enter).
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Open
the tube - pillow talk -, 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 581 (white hand).
Now we can change the position of the tube too.
Left: -62 / Top: 199 (white arrows).
Click OK and keep the tube activated .
Choose the Pick Tool and change the Transparency to 10.
Deselect the tube (Enter).
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Open
your Easy Palette/Libraries (white hand) and double-click the mask
- Yoka-2LisetteTijd (1) -, which
you've downloaded, unzipped and stored into your EP.
On the screenshot you can see the mask applied on
the image (red arrows).
Go to Edit/Fill/Color and fill the mask with the color: 78/33/0 .
Deselect the mask (spacebar).
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Open
your Easy Palette/Libraries and double-click the mask
- ARCH-Funky Wave -, 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 arrow), change the Trans- parency to 15 (white hand) and fill the mask with the color:
78/33/0 (red arrows).
Deselect the mask (spacebar) and Merge All.
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Right
click/All, right click/Border, and use these settings:
Border width: 1 Pixel (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 mask with the color: 55/23/0.
Deselect the border (spacebar).
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Right
click/All (white arrow), right click/Convert to Object (red
arrow).
Deselect the object (Enter).
Go to Adjust/Expand Canvas, and expand all sides equally with 30 Pixels, Color:
White.
Right
click/All, right click/Border, and use these settings:
Border width: 30 Pixels, Direction: Inward, Shape: Box and Anti-aliasing.
Keep the border selected.
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On
this screenshot you can see the 30 Pixels border we just made,
activated (1).
Reopen the minimized duplicate of the background texture (2), copy
(Ctrl+C) it, activate our main picture and go to Edit/Paste/Fit
into Selection (red arrow).
Deselect the border (Enter).
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Activate
our main picture with the tubes, right click/ Shadow and use these settings:
Color: Black (white hand) + 5 altern. (red arrow)
Transparency: 50
Shadow size: 102
Soft edge: 10.
Click OK and Merge All.
Right
click/All, right click/Border, and use these settings:
Border width: 1 Pixel, Direction: Inward, Shape: Box and Anti-aliasing.
Keep the border selected.
Go to Edit/Fill/Color and fill the border with the color: 55/23/0.
Deselect the border (spacebar).
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, 2 tubes, two masks, and one background texture.
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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