Cogs - Forum set

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 9th August 2017  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 a FTU tube by Cris Ortega

Filters (all can be found HERE )

L&K site of wonders - Adonis & Zitah

Filter Factory J - Drink to me

Eye Candy 5  - Glass

Supplies HERE

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open blank canvas 650 x 250

floodfill with graident made from two colors from your tube

linear, angle 0, repeats 1

copy and paste tube several times and

position so the whole cavnas is covered 

merge all tube layers together

Selections, custom selection

left & top 25

right 625

bottom 225

hit delete on your merged tube layer

deselect

new raster layer

select all, crop to selection

delete layer

select all, float, defloat

effects - filter factory J - Drink to me

overdose 156

effects - edge effects - enhance more

invert selection

on bottom gradient layer

effects - l&K Adonis

control 0 - 6

control 1 - 25

all others default

effects - L&K Zitah

control 0 - 5

control 1 - 9

all others default

deselect

copy and paste tube

make sure it is the top layer

adjust, blur - radial blur

twirl, strength 100, twirl degrees 0

horizontal/vertical offset 0

protect center 50

(NOTE:  if using a different tube you may need to play around with the horizontal/vertical offset to get a nice blur)

duplicate, image flip & mirror

merge down

custom selection

left 525, top 75, right 575, bottom 175

move the blurred layer so the center is

in the center of the selection

invert, delete

invert

effects, eye candy 5 impact, glass

use a setting that looks good to you

change blend mode to overlay (or whatever looks good to you)

deselect

duplicate, 

image, mirror

merge down

select all, float, defloat

expand 2

new raster layer

floodfill with the light color from your gradient

contract 2

delete

deselect

dropshadow, 2,2,60,5,black

copy and paste cogs

they should be in the right position but if not

move them so they are sitting around the rectangles

we just made

dropshadow

copy and paste tube

dropshadow

add name, copyright and license information

merge all, flatten

save as jpg

Here are some more examples made by my lovely members over at Taggers Inn