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Woman@liam-stock.deviantart.com
House@www.hintergrundbilder-online.net |
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DESCRIPTION:
Make a beautiful blend with PI.
Tutorial:
Copyright © Inge Klement
PI
Version:
X3
Level:
Intermediate
Featured tools:
Pick Tool, Transform Tool
Additional filters:
None
Additional files:
2 photos, 1 background texture and 1 mask.
IMPORTANT NOTE/COPYRIGHT INFORMATION:
The woman is from a photo by liam-stock.deviantart.com
(original photo can be found here),
and the house is from a photo by www.hintergrundbilder-online.net
(picture 34 - category Ostsee).
The background texture is made from one of my own photos.
Please make sure you read and accept the TOU from each
artist/photographer -
it's only fair and it is your responsibility!
The copyright © belongs ALWAYS to the original artist/designer!
No copyright infringement is intended. |
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
photos (tubes) before I tell you
to do so, or the effect of the mask would be quite different. If
you use another mask than I did, so be aware that the middle
should be black/dark ... from black/dark (center) to white (border
of the mask)!
I've made "misted" tubes from the photos I've chosen for
this tutorial, because sometimes it's easier just to use parts of a photo instead
of the whole photo.
I've written a tutorial/explanation on how to make "misted
tubes" here.
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Open
your chosen background texture, and the tube of the house you want
to use.
Copy (Ctrl+C) the tube (1), activate our main picture (2), and paste
(Ctrl+V) the
copy of the tube on it.
Right click the tube on our main picture/Properties/ Position&Size (white
hand) and change the position of the tube to:
Left: 187 (red arrow) and Top: - 28 (white arrow).
Click OK, close the original tube, but keep the tube on the main
picture activated.
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Go
to Photo/Color/Hue and Saturation: Colorize (red arrow) and use
these settings:
Hue: 180
Saturation: -22
Lightness: 0.
Click OK and keep the tube selected.
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Go
to Photo/Light/Brightness and Contrast, and change the Brightness
to -18 (red arrow) and the Contrast to 12 (white arrow).
Click OK and keep the tube selected. |
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Choose
the Pick Tool (white hand), and change the Transparency to 32 (red
arrow) and the Soft edge to 18 (white arrow).
Deselect the tube.
Be aware ... all those settings depend on the background you are
using, on the tubes/additional photos, and of course on how you
want your blend to look like.
Just try different settings/strengths ... you can always redo your
last steps.
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Open
the 2.tube (1), copy it and paste it on our main
picture (2).
Right click/Properties/Position & Size/Position:
Left: -37 (red arrow) and Top: - 44 (white arrow).
Click OK and keep the tube selected.
Go to Photo/Color/Hue and Saturation: Colorize and use these
settings:
Hue: 180 / Saturation: -22 / Lightness: 0.
Click OK and keep the tube selected.
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Go
to Edit/Fade Out and use these settings:
Fill type: 3. (white hand)
Fill color: Two-color:
100% (white arrow) to 40 % (red arrow).
Click OK, activate the Pick Tool and change the Transparency of
the tube to 18.
Deselect the tube (Enter).
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Open
your Easy Palette/Libraries and double-click the mask
wicked_2 (1), or whatever mask you want to use.
On the screenshot you can see that the mask applied on my
image. |
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Keep
the mask activated (1), go to Effect/Fills and Textures/Texture
Filter: Embossed (red arrow), and choose (white hand) a texture
you want to use.
I've chosen the texture emboss010.bmp, with these settings (2):
100/50/5/0.
Click OK/Apply Current Frame Effect to Image, and afterwards you
can deselect the mask (Enter).
Add some text/quote to your blend, and Merge All. |
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Right click/All, right click/Border,
and use these settings:
Border width: 2 (white hand)
Direction: Inward (red arrow)
Shape: Box and Anti-aliasing.
Click OK.
Go to Edit/Fill/Color and fill the border with a nice dark shade
from the picture. (I used 70/5/5.)
Deselect (spacebar) and your blend is finished!
:))
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And
that's how my finished blend looks in the original size :))
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it! A beautiful blend ... made with PI, 1 mask and some photos. 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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