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DESCRIPTION:
Make a beautiful blend 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, Eraser
Additional filters:
dsb
flux
Additional files:
4 tubes, 1 mask and 1 gold fill.
You'll get the material in the zip-file.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Supplies: All tubes and the gold fill are from the internet.
The mask is from Ylvas
Design (I've changed the mask a little bit to fit the need of
this tutorial -
and I've renamed the changed mask, so there wouldn't be "name
crash" with Ylvas original mask.).
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
gold fill,
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 mask, and store it 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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New
Image, Size: 600 x 400 Pixels, Color: White.
Open
the tube ... mds3384Ballett ..., copy (Ctrl+C) the tube (1), and paste
(Ctrl+V) the copy of the tube on our white image (2).
Right click the tube on the main picture/Properties/ Position &
Size/Size, and resize the tube.
Untick the box "Keep aspect ratio" (white hand), and change the Width to
599 and the Height to 405 (red arrows).
Now we can change the position of the tube to:
Left: 1 / Top: 42 (white arrows).
Click OK and Merge All.
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Effect/dsb
flux/Blast, and use these settings:
Direction: Upwards (white hand)
Blast Amount: Percentage (red arrow): 70.
Click OK.
Go to Photo/Blur/Gaussian Blur/Options, and change the Radius to
3.
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Open
your Easy Palette/Libraries (white hand) and double-click the mask
... ymask62-ik-03 (1) ..., which
you've downloaded, unzipped and stored into the EP.
On the screenshot you can see the mask applied on our picture (2).
Go to Edit/Fill/Color and fill the mask with the Color: 10/27/35.
Deselect the mask (spacebar).
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Go to Adjust/Expand Canvas and untick
the box "Expand sides equally" (red arrow). Change the
Expand color to 10/27/35 (white hand), and expand (1):
Top: 150 / Left: 100 / Right: 100 / Bottom: 150.
Click OK.
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Open
the tube ... BAL-S2007-05 ..., copy the
tube, and paste the copy of the tube on
our main picture.
Choose the Transform Tool and use the command 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), and change the Width to 214 (white hand).
Now we can change the position (1) of the tube to:
Left: 477 / Top: 172.
Click OK and keep the tube activated.
Choose the Pick Tool and change the Transparency of the tube to 26.
Keep the tube activated.
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This
is a "Misted" tube, and you'll see that part of the tube
are outside of our mask frame ... so we have to use the eraser to
clean these parts.
Choose the eraser (white hand), Square (red arrow), Size: 50
(white arrow), Transparency: 0 and Soft edge: 0.
Now clean around the bottom, the right side and the top of the
tube. You can see on the screenshot how I did it ... 1 = cleaned
part
2 = part covered with the "Misted" tube.
We want to have the background - color 10/27/35 - nicely cleaned. When you re satisfied with the result,
you can deselect the tube (Enter).
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Open
the tube ... Ballerina ..., copy the
tube, and paste the copy of the tube on
our main picture.
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, change the Width to
325, and the Position of the tube to:
Left: 114 / Top: 271.
Keep the tube activated, choose the Pick Tool (white hand) change
the Transparency to 55 (red arrow) and the Soft edge to 3 (white
arrow).
Keep the tube activated.
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Also
here parts of the "Misted" tube are outside our mask
frame, so choose the Eraser one more time, use the same settings
as before (white hand), and erase now the parts outside the inner
border of the mask. (See screenshot ... between the red and the
white arrow.)
When you re satisfied with the result, you can Merge All.
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Open the tube ... mds1890Ballett ... copy and paste the tube on our main picture, and set the Position to:
Left: 71 / Top: 329.
Keep the tube activated, right click/Duplicate, and go to Edit/Fade Out and use these settings:
Fill type: 6.altern. (white hand)
Fill color: Two-color:
100% (white arrow) - 50% (red arrow).
Click OK, right click/Duplicate.
Merge All.
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Right
click/All, right click/Border, and use these settings:
Border width: 30 Pixels (white hand), Direction: Inward (red
arrow), Shape: Box and Anti-aliasing.
Click OK, keep the 30 pixels border selected, right click/Border
and change the Border width to 2.
Keep the border selected.
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Go to Edit/Fill/Image (white hand)/File and find (red arrow) the
downloaded and unzipped fill with the name ... cmv_gold.jpg.
Click OK and deselect the border (spacebar).
Add some text as you wish, Merge All and your blend is
finished. :))
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Here's
the result in the original size :))
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it! A beautiful blend ... made with PI. 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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