swiirltwist

Swirl Twist Background

Tube Here
Plugin Alien Skin Eye Candy 5:Textures Here
Plugin Fantastic Machines - Paint engine Here
PSP
Letter Creator

Tube by Cher Switz that was shared
with me.

Open your tube, duplicate and close the original.
Resize the tube using Bicubic resampling.
Width no more than 300 pixels. Let the length
set itself.

Copy the tube. Minimize it.

Open a new transparent image 1024 x Height of
your tube + 50
(or the width you use for your IncrediLetters)
This will be called your background image.
Selections - Select All
Paste - Paste into selection
Deselect.

Effects- Image Effects - Seamless Tile using the default.

Layers - New Raster Layer
Layers - Arrange-Send to Bottom.
Flood fill the bottom layer with a color from your
tube.

Layers - Merge - Merge Visible.

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Radius 50.00

Effects - Plugins - Fantastic Machines - Paint Engine
with these settings.

save these settings as HJ_Patches.

Effects - Plugin Alien Skin Eye Candy 5:Textures
Filter: Swirl; Setting Random, Large No Twist,
Long Streaks.

Layer - New Raster Layer
Flood fill this layer with a light color from your
background image. Lower the opacity to a level
that shows the background but makes the test readable.
(I used a golden tan for the color. I lowered the opacity to 36,
but it will depend on your colors.)

Layers - Merge - Merge Visible

Effects - Image Effects - Seamless tiling at default.

Layer - New Raster Layer. Add you text as a vector
Position it left border.
In the layer palette convert the Vector to a Raster Layer.
Apply the drop shadow V & H = 1; O=100; blur =1.00

Maximize your tube. Copy and paste as a new layer.
Move it to the side in front of your text.
Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel with these settings.

You may save this as Sue's Tube Puffing if you wish.

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow with these settings

Layer - New Raster Layer - add your mark.

Layers - Merge - Merge All (flatten)

Export using the .JPEG Optimizer and save.

Create an incredible IncrediLetter in Letter Creator.

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I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Any resemblance to another tutorial is
purely coincidental. It is a result of my own playing in PSP 8.

You may print the tutorial out for your own use.
Please don't copy it or send the tutorial through email.
Feel free to share the link. I have used a white
background for easier reading and printing.