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.
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New
Image, size: 800 x 600 Pixels, Color: Black.
Open
your Easy Palette/Libraries and double-click the mask (I'm using
the one I made from two pictures - 1) you want to use.
On the screenshot you can see that the mask applied on the black image
(2).
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Go
to Edit/Fill/Color: Color: White (white hand), set the
Transparency to 30 (red arrow) and click OK.
Deselect the mask (spacebar).
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Go
to Photo/Light/Brightness and Contrast, and use these settings:
Brightness: -3 (red arrow)
Contrast: 6 (white arrow).
We leave the rest of the settings as they are.
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Open
the tube 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.
Choose the Transform Tool and click the commando Flip Horizontally
(white arrow).
Right click the tube/Properties/Position & Size (white hand)
Position, and use these settings:
Left: 404 and Top: 3 (red arrows).
Click OK and keep the tube selected.
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Go
to Photo/Color/Hue and Saturation and change the Saturation to
-100 (red arrow).
Click OK.
Normally I prefer to use a filter like the BW Styler for
desaturation, but since I try to write these tutorials without using
3rd party filters I decided to use the Hue and Saturation function
from PI.
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Go
to Edit/Fade Out and use these settings:
Fill type: 6. (white hand)
Fill color: Two-color:
100% (white arrow) to 50% (red arrow).
Click OK and keep the tube selected.
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Activate
the Pick Tool (white hand), and change the Soft edge to 4 (white
arrow), and the Transparency to 40 (red arrow).
Keep the tube activated, right click/Duplicate. |
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Go
to Edit/Fade Out, but this time we are using these settings:
Fill type: 3. (white hand)
Fill color: Two-color:
100% (white arrow) to 20% (red arrow).
Click OK and deselect the tube.
Add some text - maybe a quote - as you wish, and then you can
Merge All.
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Right click/All, right click/Border,
and use these settings:
Border width: 5 (white hand)
Direction: Inward (red arrow)
Shape: Box and Anti-aliasing.
Click OK.
Go to Edit/Fill/Color: Color: White, and set the Transparency to
30.
Keep the border selected, right click/Convert to Object and keep
selected.
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Right click/Shadow and use these
settings:
Color: White (white hand) +
5. altern. (red arrow) + 60/99/10.
Click OK, Merge All and your picture 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 picture ... made with PI, one mask and one tube. 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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