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Aug 2009 by DamagedRose
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Supplies & Filters Needed

No outside fiters needed
PSP tube
(a tube wider than taller works best)

If you need western tubes I have a bunch I
Collected HERE
GGBarbedWire_001 tube HERE
Woodtile2 (put in psp patterns folder) HERE

All Settings remain the same unless otherwise noted.

Getting Ready

Open Your Tube of choice
And the barbed wire
Duplicate (Shift D) close original
Image, Resize the western tube
Width = No more than 400 Pixels
Height = 325 Pixels
Make sure Lock aspect ratio is unchecked
Minimize for now

With your Dropper Tool
Select a Light color from your tube for Foreground
Select a Dark color from your tube for Background

Lets Start

We will begin by making a texture tile
That will will use later

1. On your palette, background color
Change to Pattern and find wood tile 2
Angle 0
Scale 50
Change your background using that pattern

2. Image, New image,
Width 200 pixels
Height 200 pixels
Transparent

3. Flood fill your new image with your pattern

4. Effects, texture effects
Weave
With the following settings
NOTE make the weave color Using a medium color from your tube

Set to the side for now

HEADER

1. File, new
600 pixels width
500 pixels height
Transparent

2. Find your new texture you made and set it in your background color
Angle 0
Scale 100

3. Using your flood fill tool
Fill your new image with your background

4. Layer, new raster layer

5. Selections, select all

6. Selections, modify
Contract 80 pixels
Do not deselect

7. Flood fill the inside of that layer with your light color
Do not deselect

8. Open then tube you chose
Edit ,copy
Edit, paste
As new layer on your working image

9. Close off your tube layer for now using the eye on your palette.
Make sure you have layer 2 highlighted

10. Selections, invert

11. Effects, 3d effects
Cutout
Using the following settings

12. Selections invert

13. Effects, texture effects
Weave

14. Selections, select none

15. Effects, edge effects
Enhance

16. Adjust, add/remove noise
Add noise with the following settings

17. Layer, new raster layer

18. Selections, select all

19. Selections, modify
Contract 60 pixels

20. Selections, invert

21. Effects, 3d effects
Cutout
Do not deselect

22. Selections, invert

23. Layer, new raster layer

24. Selections, modify
Contract 20 pixels

25. Effects, texture effects
Weave

26. Effects, edge effects
Enhance

27. Adjust, add/remove noise
Add noise

28. Effects, 3d effects
Inner bevel with following settings

29. Selections invert

30. Effects, 3d effects
Cutout

31. Selections, select none

32. Open tube layer
Effects, 3d effects
Drop shadow
Your choice

33. Layers, Merge,
Merge all

34. Image add borders
20 pixels
Your foreground color

>35. Select border with your magic wand

36. Effects, texture effects
Weave

37. Effects, edge effects
Enhance

38. Adjust, add/remove noise
Add noise

39. Effects, 3d effects
Inner bevel

40. Open the Barbed wire tube
Find one that compliments your graphic
Close all other layers.
Edit Copy

41. Back to your header
Edit, paste
As new layer

42. Using your mover tool
And place your tube under the first border as shown below

43. Effects, 3d effects
Drop shadow
Same as you used on your tube

44. Layers duplicate
Image flip

45. Add your watermark you may resize if you like now too

46. File, Export, JPEG Optimizer
Compression value set to 20 or 25
Name your file and save

Background

1. Bring up the 200x200 texture you made

2. Effects, image effects
Seamless tile with settings below

3. Layer, new raster layer

4. Flood fill with foreground color

5. Turn the viscidity of this layer on your layer palette down to make text user friendly

6. File, Export, JPEG Optimizer
Compression value set to 20 or 25
Name your file and save

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