|
| And
this is what we are making:
|
 |
|
DESCRIPTION:
Make a beautiful picture with PI.
Tutorial:
Copyright © Inge Klement
If you want to redo this tutorial, but don't want to print so many
pictures,
you can find a copy without screenshots here!
PI
Version:
12 (but you can use earlier, and newer versions too)
Level:
Intermediate
Featured tools:
Transform Tool, Pick Tool
Additional filters:
None
Additional files:
4 tubes, 1 mask and 1 text-file
You'll get the material in the zip-file.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Supplies: One tube is from Mario C. - thanks for your wonderful work!
The other tubes are mine - made from my own photos. The mask and the text-file I've made myself.
(There are a lot of similar masks on the internet ... but this one
I made myself to fit the idea for this picture.)
You are allowed to download the material here and use it for your
private use,
but you are not allowed to change the name of the tubes/mask or text-file,
delete the watermark, neither offer them for sale or download.
The copyright © belongs ALWAYS to the original artist/designer!
No copyright infringement is intended.
|
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!
|
 |
Open
a New Image, Size: 600 x 400 Pixels, Color: White.
Edit/Fill/Gradient and use these settings:
Fill type: 3.altern. (white hand)
Fill color: Two-color:
130/88/43 (red arrow) to 204/189/180 (white arrow).
Click OK.
|
|
 |
Open
the tube ... ik_background_0173-mine_02 ... , copy (Ctrl+C) the
tube (1), and paste (Ctrl+V) the copy of the tube on
our main picture (2).
Right click the tube on the background/Properties/ Position &
Size (white hand), and use these
settings:
Left: 164 (red arrow) and Top: - 195 (white arrow).
Keep the tube activated.
Choose the Pick Tool and change the Soft edge to 34.
Deselect the tube (Enter).
|
|
 |
Open
the tube ... ik_background_0177-mine_small_02 ... , copy, and paste the copy of the tube on
our main picture.
Right click the tube on the background/Properties/ Position &
Size, and use these
settings:
Left: - 47 and Top: - 27.
Keep the tube activated.
Choose the Pick Tool (white hand) and change the Soft edge to 21
(red arrow).
Deselect the tube (Enter).
|
|
|
 |
Open
the tube ... ik_animals_0028-mine_small_02 ... , copy the tube (1), and paste the copy of the tube on
our main picture (2).
Minimize the original tube ... we'll need it later on one more
time.
Right click the tube on the background/Properties/ Position &
Size, and use these
settings:
Left: 153 (red arrow) and Top: 223 (white arrow).
Keep the tube activated.
Choose the Pick Tool and change the Soft edge to 10.
Merge All.
|
|
|
|
Open
your Easy Palette/Libraries (white hand) and double-click the mask
... ik-mask_0046_porcelain (1) ... , which
you've downloaded, unzipped and stored into the EP.
On the screenshot you can see the mask applied on
the image (2). Press Delete, and the mask will be
filled with White, which should be your default Background color. (Alternatively
... go to Edit/Fill/Color and fill the mask with the color
White.)
Keep the mask selected.
|
|
|
|
Right click/Invert (red arrow), right click/Convert to object
(white arrow).
Open a New Image, Size: 740 x 540 Pixels, Color: White.
Activate our "object" - the blend we've made - copy
(Ctrl+C) it, and paste (Ctrl+V) the copy on the new image, which
will be our main picture from now on!
Right click the "object" on our main picture/Properties/
Position & Size, and change the Position to:
Left: 4 and Top: 24.
Keep the "object" activated.
|
|
|
|
Right click/Shadow, and use
these settings:
Black + 4.altern. (red arrow) +
X-offset: 1
Y-offset: 1
Transparency: 50
Shadow size: 100
Soft edge: 0
Click OK and deselect the "object" (Enter).
|
|
|
|
Maximize
the tube ... ik_animals_0028-mine_small_02 ... , copy the tube (1), and paste the copy of the tube on
our main picture (2).
Right click the tube on the background/Properties/ Position &
Size, and use these
settings:
Left: 152 (red arrow) and Top: 247 (white arrow).
Keep the tube activated.
Choose the Pick Tool and change the Soft edge to 30.
Deselect the tube (Enter).
|
|
|
|
Open
the tube ... mc3222 ... , copy the tube, and paste the copy on
our main picture.
Choose the Transform Tool
and Flip Horizontally (white
arrow).
Right click the tube on the main picture/Properties/ Position &
Size/Size, and resize the tube.
Make sure the box "Keep aspect ratio" is ticked (red
arrow). First change the Width to 423 (white hand) and then set
the Position (1) to:
Left: 415 / Top: - 1.
Click OK and keep the tube activated.
Right click/Shadow and use these settings:
Black + 5.altern. + default settings.
Merge All.
|
|
|
|
Go to Adjust/Expand Canvas, and expand all sides equally with
1 Pixel, Color: White.
Right
click/All, right click/Border, and use these settings:
Border width: 2 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 border with the Color:
41/113/195.
Deselect the border (spacebar).
Right click/All, right click/Convert to Object.
Go to Adjust/Expand Canvas, and expand all sides equally with
20 Pixels, Color: White. (The "object" should still
be activated, since we haven't deselected it!)
|
|
|
|
Right
click the "object"/Shadow, and use
these settings:
Black + 4.altern. (red arrow) +
X-offset: 3
Y-offset: 3
Transparency: 50
Shadow size: 100
Soft edge: 5
Click OK and deselect the "object" (Enter).
Go to Adjust/Expand Canvas, and expand all sides equally with
6 Pixels, Color: 41/113/195.
Adjust/Expand Canvas, and expand all sides equally with
1 Pixel, Color: White.
Adjust/Expand Canvas, and expand all sides equally with
2 Pixels, Color: 41/113/195.
|
|
|
|
Open
the text-file ... text_crete_01 ... , copy it, and paste the copy on
our main picture.
Right click the text on our main picture/Properties/ Position &
Size, and use these
settings:
Left: 44 (red arrow) and Top: 410 (white arrow).
Click OK, Merge All and the picture is finished. :))
|
Here's
the result in the original size :))
|
|
|
|
| That's
it! A beautiful picture ... made with PI. HAVE FUN!!!
|
If you need any help with
this tutorial - or want to make suggestions to improve it -
please email
me!
|
Copyright © inkl-Designs. All
rights reserved.
|
