FUN IN THE SUN - FACE TIME SET

 

 FUN IN THE SUN - FACE TIME SET

 

This Tutorial was written for those that have a working knowledge of PSP.

Please do not copy it in anyway or claim its as your own.

Any resemblance to any other tut is purely coincidental.

This Tutorial was written on July 12Th,2018

The tutorial was written and Created by Chiqui

For This Tutorial I used PSP X2

SUPPLIES

Close up of your choice

I am using the fantastic work of Alex Prihodko

You need a license to use. You can buy here

Font of choice

I used

Candle Mustard font free Here

Word Art of your choice
I used one of Redneck tuts here
Texture of your choice 
I use Texture summer 01 by alistere here 
or other of your choice

My selections you can download here

and copy in your selections file in my documents- My psp files

Filters:

Plugins L&K Katharina

Simple - Pizza slice mirror

Photo sffects - scanlines

Drop Shadow 2- 2 -35 -5

Let's Start 

Open an image 851 x 315 pixels.

  Choose 2 colors from your tube 

Dark color for your foreground

light color for your background

Create a gradient with this linear settings:

Flood fill your raster layer with this gradient.

Duplicate

In your original layer  apply  effects- distortion effect - wave with this settings:

Now go to your tube and copy

Back to your duplicate background selections all

Edit- selections - paste into selections.

Selections none

Effects- Image Effects- Seamless Tiling.

 use the default setting

Adjust blur - Gaussian blur by 50

 You should have something like this:

 Apply  effects  simple  - pizza slice mirror

Apply Effect- Plugins L&K Katharina with this settings:

Apply  2 times more

with your selection tool - custom tool apply this settings:

Delete.

Load my selections

Promote this selections to layer

fill with your gradient

Change the blend mode to luminance

Selections all - layers new raster

copy and paste INTO SELECTIONS your texture

Change blend mode to overlay or other to fit better with your

colors.

Copy and paste your tube and position where you like it.

Duplicate - adjust blur Gaussian blur  by 10

Change blend mode to soft light or overlay some to fit with your

tube.

Copy and paste your word art

Position where you like.  

Selections all selections float- selections defloat

 apply a inner bevel with this settings:

 Keep selected go to photoeffex - scanline with this settings:

Apply again the inner bevel

Selections modify expand by 1

layers new raster layer

Put this layer under the word art

fill with white

Selections none

Click in the top text and merge down

Apply a drop shadow

Apply the inner bevel again

(This is the way I use in the word art)

 Select All... Image... Add Borders...
Add a symetric border of 4 pixels (any color)
Selections... Invert...
Effects... 3D Effects... Cutout...
Horizontal and Vertical = 0, Opacity = 100, Blur = 25
Select None 

Change to gradient to repeat 3 same angle
Select All then go to Image... Add Borders...
Add a symetrical border of 30 pixels (any colour)
Go to Selections... Invert...
Add a new layer and flood fill the selection with gradient
Select None
Go to Image Rotate Right  all layers

Go to Effects Plugins L&K Katharina Size = 15, Shift = 0

Go to Image Rotate Left. all layers
Repeat the L&K Katherina plugin using the same settings

Go to Image Mirror

 Go to Effects Plugins Simple Top Left Mirror

 Merge All

Resize

go to image resize all layers checked with this settings:

Add your copyright and name.

AVATAR

Open a new image 200 x 200
Go to your tag close off the tube, copy merged, paste, resize to 60%, adjust 
how you like,

new raster layer

fill with your gradient
selections all selections modify contract by 6 delete

Merge all
crop

 

add copyright 

And it's done!