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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:
1 tube, 2 scrap elements, 1 background texture,
1 mask, 1 silver fill and 1 text-file.
You'll get the material in the zip-file.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Supplies: The tube is from www.mamen.net,
and the scrap elements are from MTM Brigitte/Top
Design Tubes -
thanks to both tuber for your wonderful work!
The background
texture is one I made, the mask and the silver fill are from the
internet.
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 tube/scrap
elements/background texture/mask or silver 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: 970 x 700, Color: White.
Right
click/All, right click/Border, and use these settings:
Border width: 15 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 (white hand)/File and find (red arrow) the
downloaded background texture with the name ... ik-texture_0024_02.
Click OK and keep the border (now filled with parts of the
background texture) selected. Right click/Border,
but this time we choose a Border width of 2.
Keep the border selected, go to Edit/Fill/Image/File, but now you
have to find the downloaded and unzipped silver fill with the name
... silver_o2.jpg. Fill the 2 pixels border with this silver fill.
Deselect the border (spacebar).
This will be our main picture! Minimize it for now ... we'll need
it soon again.
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Open
the background texture ... ik-texture_0024_02, and
duplicate (Ctrl+D) it
twice. Close the original texture, and minimize one of the
duplicates - for now we'll work on the other one.
Go to Adjust/Resize and change the Width of the open
texture to 700 Pixels (Height: 525).
Open
your Easy Palette/Libraries (white hand) and double-click the mask
... graphiceden_borderpaint (1) ..., which
you've downloaded, unzipped and stored into the EP.
On the screenshot you can see the mask applied on our picture.
Go to Edit/Fill/Color and fill the mask with the Color: 75/105/134.
Keep the mask activated.
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Right click/Invert (red arrow), right click/Convert to Object
(white arrow).
Copy (Ctrl+C) the object we made, maximize our main picture
(970x700 Pixels), and paste (Ctrl+V) the copy of our object on it.
Keep the object on the main picture activated, right click/
Properties/Position
& Size, and change the Position of the object to:
Left: 115 / Top: 54.
Keep the object activated.
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Go
to Photo/Light/Brightness & Contrast and change the Brightness
to - 18 (red arrow). We leave the rest of the settings as they
are.
Click OK and keep the object activated.
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Right
click the object on the main picture/Shadow, and use
these settings:
Black + 5.altern. (red arrow) +
Transparency: 50
Shadow size: 101
Soft edge: 10.
Click OK and deselect the object (Enter).
Minimize our main picture.
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Maximize
the second duplicate, go to Adjust/Resize and change the Width of the
maximized texture to 600 Pixels (Height: 450).
Open the tube ... joy2 ... copy (Ctrl+C) the tube (1), and paste (Ctrl+V) the copy
on
our main picture (2).
Choose the Transform Tool and use the command Flip Horizontally
(white hand).
Right click the tube on our main picture/Properties/ Position
& Size, and change the Position of the tube to:
Left: 63 (red arrow) / Top: 4 (white arrow).
Keep the tube activated, go to Photo/Enhance and choose
Monochrome.
Keep the tube activated.
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Go to Edit/Fade Out and use these settings:
Fill type: 3.altern. (white hand)
Fill color: Two-color:
100% (white arrow) - 40% (red arrow).
Click OK and Merge All.
Open
your Easy Palette/Libraries and double-click the same mask
as before ... graphiceden_borderpaint.
Keep the mask activated.
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Go to Edit/Fill/Color and fill the mask with the Color: Red: 75 /
Green: 105 / Blue: 134 (red arrows).
Click OK and keep the mask activated.
Right click/Invert, right click/ Convert
to Object. Copy our new object (Ctrl+C), maximize our main picture
(970x700 Pixels), and paste (Ctrl+V) the copy of our object on it.
Keep the object on our main picture activated.
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Right click the object on our main picture/Properties/ Position & Size
and change the
Position to:
Left: 303 (red arrow) / Top: 178 (white arrow).
Keep the object activated, right click/Shadow, and use these
settings:
Black + 5.altern. + 50/102/10.
Deselect the object (Enter).
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Open the
scrap element with the name ... Mtm-scrap-shapes-14-14 maart 2007 ... copy
(Ctrl+C) the element, and paste (Ctrl+V) the copy on our
main picture.
Choose the Transform Tool and use the command Flip Horizontally.
Right click the scrap element on the main picture/ Properties/Position &
Size/Size, and resize the element.
Make sure the box "Keep aspect ratio" is ticked (red
arrow) and change the Width to 316 (white hand).
Now we can change the position of the tube to:
Left: 624 / Top: 373 (white arrows).
Click OK and deselect the scrap element (Enter).
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Open the
scrap element with the name ... Mtm-scrap-shapes-18-14 maart 2007 ... copy
(Ctrl+C) the element, and paste (Ctrl+V) the copy on our
main picture.
Choose the Transform Tool and use the command Flip Horizontally
(white hand).
Right click the scrap element on the main
picture/ Properties/ Position & Size and change the position
to:
Left: 109 (red arrow) / Top: 310 (white arrow).
Click OK and deselect the scarp element (Enter).
Add some text as you wish, or use the text-file I've added to the
zip-file. If you want to use the same text as I did ... change the
position of the text to:
Left: 40 / Top: 72.
Merge All, and your picture 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. 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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