Background: Don't "puzzle" your Head
You will need:
- 01 tube
- mask 136-kris,
click here
- Plug in Simple/Diamond,
here
01. Choose a
tube that you like
02. Make two
copies of it
03. Open a new
image File > New > Transparent - 350 x 350
04. Make a gradient
with two colors from your tube. For doing that, just put one
color in foreground and the other one in background and
after choose Foreground + Background.
05. Flood fill
the new image 350 x 350 with this gradiente.
SEE BELLOW THE
SETTINGS FOR THE GRADIENT:
06. Duplicate
this image > Window/Duplicate or Shift+D
07. Minimize the copy
08. In the first
image, with the gradient, apply the Mask 136 Kris >
Layers > Delete
09. In the same
image, with the mask, go to PSP Effect > User Defined
Filter > Emboss 3
10. Maximize the
other copy and go to Image > Rotate Clockwise 90
11. Select the
image with the mask and go to Edit > Copy. Go back to the
image where you did the Rotate Clockwise and Edit > Paste as a
New Layer.
12. Let down the
opacity of this layer to 50.
13. Layer >
Merge all flatten
14. Maximize the
other copy of your tube.
15. Resize it
about 60 x 50 - Resample using: bicubic
- Copy it.
16. Select the
puzzle image and add a New Raster Layer
17. Paste
the resized tube on the puzzle image, see the example bellow.
Do it as you
like.
17. Change the
opacity of each flower layer as you like. Go to Layers >
Merge > Merge All Flatten
18. Go to
Effects > Plug in > Simple > Diamond
19. Open your
original tube > Copy it, and Paste as a New Layer on the center
of your Diamond image and resize it if necessary. Let
down the opacity of this layer to about 38 or the best for you.
20. Do
this puzzle image as a pattern.
21. Open a
new transparent image 1024 x 350 and flood fill it with that
pattern.
22. Edit
> Paste as a New Layer your tube again. Layers >
Merge > Merge All Fatten.
See others
samples bellow, resized in length for viewer.
