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Tuesday 3 July 2018

Forest Dark



This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 3rd July 2018 and assumes a working knowledge of psp
Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well
Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - I am using the stunning artwork of Enys Guerrero
which can be purchased from CDO
My supplies HERE
Font of choice

Filters - Penta.com

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open blank canvas 700 x 450
floodfill with a gradient made with
two colors from your tube, linear, angle 90, repeats 6
I used the blue from the butterfly and the pink from the rose in her hair

copy and paste gold diamonds
resize by 70
image effects - image offset - horizontal 350, vertical 10, transparent
duplicate
mirror
merge down

selection tool, custom selection
top 0, left 250, right 450, bottom 450
selections, modify, feather by 60
hit delete 3 or 4 times
deselect

pen tool, lines & polygons
line style - dot
line width - 2
draw a straight line from top to bottom
through the 2nd intersection of diamonds on the left
(as per below screenshot)

convert to raster
duplicate
mirror
merge down

copy and paste tube as new layer
duplicate three times (total of 4)
rename them 1,2,3,4 from bottom to top

copy and paste gold rectangles as new layer
magic wand, feather 0, mode add 
click inside the middle rectangle
invert selection
on tube layer 3, delete
invert, deselect

magic wand, 
click outside all the rectangles, inside the outer rectangle, and inside the middle rectangle
on tube layer 2, delete
deselect

tube layer 1 - blend mode - multiply
tube layer 2 - blend mode - normal
tube layer 3 - blend mode - luminance legacy
tube layer 4 hide for now

tube layer 2, apply penta.com, vtr2 default settings
merge visible
(you should now have 2 layers, a merged layer and the hidden tube layer 4)

copy merged
paste as new layer
crop this image down to the gold rectangles
copy and paste onto original canvas, resize by 30

image effects, image offset
H -270, V 0, transparent & custom checked
duplicate,
mirror

unhide tube layer 4
mirror, change blend mode to screen, lower opacity to 30
position tube along left edge

merge all
new raster layer
floodfill with gold texture
select all, contract by 2
delete
deselect

add name, copyright and license information
merge all flatten
save as jpg


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