This tutorial was created by Mystic on June 7, 2007.
~~ Credits ~~
Artist of the painting is unknown to me, if you know or if it is yours please e-mail me, so I may give proper credits.
I would like to thank Yoka and Suzi Sagi for their tubes which you can find here.
I would like to thank HJR Design for the Venice tube you can find her tubes here.
~~ Supplies ~~
Corel/Jasc Paint Shop Pro X here.
Download FM Tile Tool here.
Download Penta Filter here.
Download the Supplies here.
Place your Filters in your filters folder.
Place the Font in your fonts folder.
Place the Tubes in your tubes folder.
Now lets get started with the tutorial
1. Copy and paste as a new image the background supplied below.
2. Duplicate this layer.
3. Now Close Layer 2 and activate Layer 1.
4. Go to Effects/FM Tile Tool/Blend Emboss and set to the following settings.
5. Once again go to Effect/FM Tile Tool/Blend Emboss and apply the same settings.
6. Click on your selection tool and set to rectangle.
7. Now we are going to select a small section of the bottom left hand corner, sample below.
8. Go to Selections/Modify/Feather and set this to 50.
9. Right click on your image and select "Copy".
10. Deselect your selection.
11. Now right click again and select "Paste as New Layer".
12. Now we will use this to cover the ballerina's feet and to blend in with the flooring.
13. Open your closed layer and activate it.
14. Go to Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur and set this to 30.
15. On your layers pallet lower the opacity of this layer to 93.
16. Go to Effects/penta.com/jeans and set to the following settings.
17. Copy and paste as a new layer the hjr_venice tube and move it up slightly.
18. On your layers palette change the Blend Mode to Luminance (Legacy).
19. Copy and paste as a new layer the Yoka_VerdordeBloem tube, arrange this in the bottom left hand corner as in sample below.
20. On your layers palette lower the Opacity to 32 and the Blend Mode to Luminance (Legacy).
21. Duplicate this layer and move the flower over to the right so that they are touching, I haven't changed the blend mode yet in my sample so it will look different from yours.
22. Copy and paste the ballet slippers and arrange to the left.
23. Click on your Freehand Selection tool (lasso) and on the tool options bar select Freehand.
24. Now we are are going to select a small portion in the center of the ballet shoes, like in the sample below
25. Go to Selections/Modify/Feather and set this to 50.
26. Back to Selections/Invert.
27. Now to Adjust/Hue and Saturation/Colourize now set the Hue to 0 and Saturation to 0.
28. Deselect your selection.
29. On your layers palette lower the Opacity to 65.
30. Go to Selections/Select All, there should be marching ants all around your shoes.
31. Now to Selections/Float.
32. On your layers palette click and activate your venice tube layer.
33. Hit your Delete Key once.
34. Now on your layers palette select the first floral tube layer.
35. Hit your Delete Key once, there should be nothing but the background showing through your slippers, if there is you will have to activate the second flower layer and hit delete also.
36. Deselect your selection.
37. Click on your ballet slippers to activate that layer.
38. Copy and paste as a new layer the misted_ballerina tube and arrange to the right of the slippers, all the colourizing has been done for you.
39. Add a new layer.
40. Set your Background colour to #000000 (black).
41. Click on your text tool.
42. Set the text tool options to those below.
43. Type your name.
44. Deselect the selection.
45. To Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and apply the following settings.
46. To Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and apply the following settings.
47. Now arrange your name to where you would like and add your watermark.
48. Go to Image/Add Borders and set this to 2 and the colour to #000000.
49. Now select the black border section with your magic wand.
50. Go to Selections Invert.
51. Add a new layer.
52. Effects/3D Effects/Cutout and set to the following settings.
53. Duplicate this layer.
54. Deselect your selections.
55. Go to Image/Add Borders set this to 6 and change the colour to anything but black.
56. Use your Magic Wand to select this new section of border.
57. Copy the image below.
58. Right click on your image and select "Paste Into Selection".
59. Go to Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel and apply the following settings.
60. Deselect your selection.
61. Go to Image/Add Borders and set this to 2 and Black (#000000).
62. Use your Magic Wand to select this small section of black.
63. Go to Selections/Invert.
64. Now to Effects/3D Effects/Cutout and apply the same settings previously used.
65. Deselect your selection.
66. Save your work.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and like the end results.
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