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PI
Version:
8
Level:
Intermediate
Featured tools:
Text Tool
Additional filters:
Filters
Unlimited 2 and DSB
Flux
Additional files:
Tube ... you can choose any tube you want. I used
a tube from www.shebasgraphics.com.
Tutorial:
Copyright © Inge Klement |
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Make
a stylish Sig Tag with PI and different filters.
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New Image: Canvas color:
one that fits your tube (241/239/225) and Size: 300x300 Pixels.
Set the background color to fit the tags background ... 241/239/225 (white hand).
Open the tube
(1) you want to use and resize it to a Height of 299 Pixels.
Activate the resized tube (1), copy (Ctrl+C) the tube, activate the main
picture (2) and paste (Ctrl+V) the copy on it.
Right
click/Properties/Position&Size (3)/ Position:
Left: 0 (red arrow)
Top: 1 (white arrow)
Click OK and Merge All.
Minimize the "original" tube (1).
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Effect/Filters
Unlimited 2/Special Effects 1 (red arrow)/Blur Lightness (white arrow) and
use these setting (1):
Intensity: 255.
Click Apply.
Press Ctrl+D to duplicate the image. Now you should have 2
similar images in front of you.
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Activate
one of the images and go to Effect/ dsb Flux/Linear Transmission, and use these settings:
Slice Size: 5
Offset: 32
Blend: 50
Direction: Horizontal (red arrow).
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That's
how the images in front of you should look like:
1 = Tube + Filters Unlimited/Blur Lightness
+ dsb Flux/Linear Transmission
2 = Tube + Filters Unlimited/Blur Lightness
Image 1 will be our further main picture!
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Activate
image 2, copy (Ctrl+C), activate image 1 and paste (Ctrl+V)
the copy of image 2 on top of it.
Right click/Properties/General (white hand) /Merge: Hue & Saturation (red arrow)
Click OK.
Close image 2.
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Maximize
the "original" tube
(1) again, keep the tube activated and go to Effect/Filters
Unlimited 2/Blur Lightness and use the same setting as before:
Intensity: 255.
Activate the tube (1), copy (Ctrl+C) the tube, activate the main
picture (2) and paste (Ctrl+V) the copy on it.
Right
click/Properties/Position & Size (white hand)/Position:
Left: -3 (red arrow)
Top: 0 (white arrow)
Click OK (or just change directly to General!)
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Right
click/Properties/General (white hand) /Soft edge: 20 Pixels (red arrow)
Click OK.
Right click/Merge All.
The Soft edge, with 20 Pixels is suitable for this tube, but
with another tube you should try different settings!
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Go to Format/Expand Canvas/Expand sides equally (white arrow): 1 Pixels (red
arrow), Expand color: dark shade of your Back- ground color
... 221/200/137 (white hand).
Click OK.
Expand equally: 2 Pixels, Color: Background color.
Expand equally: 1 Pixels, Color: dark shade of Background
color.
Expand equally: 10 Pixels, Color: Background color.
Expand equally: 1 Pixels, Color: dark shade of Background
color.
Add a name as you wish, and your taggie is finished! :))
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Your
Sig Tag could also look like this one ... you never know when
you first started :))
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| That's it! A stylish Sig Tag ... made with
PI and different filters. 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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