Love my Quilt

Sept 2009 by DamagedRose

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Supplies & Filters Needed

Psp tube ( one longer than wider is best )
A fill of your choice, colors should match your tube
something Patterened works best
Plugin Crescent Moon (quilt)
Here
Simple (4 way average)
Here

Getting Ready

Open your tube
Duplicate (Shift D) close original
Image, Resize
Width = no more 450 pixels
Height = no more than 350 pixels
May have to resize with
Lock aspect ratio unchecked
Minimize for now

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

Header

1. File, new
Width-500 pixels
Height-500 pixels
Transparent

2. Using the flood fill tool
Fill with your background color

3. Adjust, add/remove noise
Add noise using the following settings

4. Using your preset tool
With the following settings

Close off background color and draw your eclipse
Starting at x 50 y 100
Stopping at x 450 y 400

5. Magic Wand
Select inside of circle

6. Layers
New raster layer

7. Layers, arrange move down

8. Flood fill center with
Foreground color
Selections, select none

9. Go to your layers pallete and delete the vector layer

10. Working on the top layer
Effects, Texture effects
Tiles
using the following settings

11. Effects, Art media effects
Brush strokes
with following settings

12. Using your slider
Change the opacity for this layer to 45

13. Maximize your tube
Edit, copy

14. Back to working image
Edit, paste
Paste as new layer

15. Using the mover tool
Move your tube over to the left

16. Layers, duplicate
Using the mover tool
Move that layer in the center and up just a bit

17. Layers, arrange
Move down
Do this twice

18. Still working on that layer (copy of raster)
Effects, 3D effects
Drop shadow using the following seetings

19. Move to top layer
Effects, 3D effects
Drop shadow using the following settings

20. Layers, Merge
Merge all

21. Image, Add Borders
Settings:
Symmetric = checked
Color = any color not in your graphic
Pixels = 20

22. Change your foreground color to
The patterned fill you selected to use

23. Magic wand
Select border
Flood fill with your pattern

24. Effects, Plugins
Crescent Moon, Quilt
With following settings

25. Effects, edge effects
Enhance

26. Effects, 3D effects
Inner bevel with the following settings

Selections, select none

27. Image, Add Borders
Settings:
Symmetric = checked
Color = your Background color
Pixels = 20

28. Adjust, add/remove noise
Add noise
Same settings

29. Image, Add Borders
Settings:
Symmetric = checked
Color = any color not in your graphic
Pixels = 40

30. Magic wand Select border
Flood fill with your pattern
31. Effects, Plugins
Crescent Moon, Quilt
With same settings

32. Effects, edge effects
Enhance

33. Effects, 3D effects
Inner bevel with same settings

34. Add your watermark

35. Selection tool, Custom select
with the following settings

36. Edit, copy
edit paste as new image
put aside for now
back to header
selections, select none

37. File, Export, JPEG Optimizer
Compression value set to 20 or 25
Save as header

Background

1. File, New
width 200 pixels
height 200 pixels
Make 2 of these

2. Using your flood fill tool
fill one with your pattern and the other
with your background color
set aside

3. File, new
width 400 pixels
height 200 pixels

4. we are going to work on this new image
find the other 2 we made earlier

5. Edit, copy
(the pattern first)
back to the working image
edit, paste
paste as new layer

6. using your mover tool
move to the left

7. Edit, copy
(the background one)
back to the working image
edit, paste
paste as new layer

8. using your mover tool
move to the right
This is what you should have

9. Layers, merge
merge visible

10. Adjust, add/remove noise
add noise

11. Effects, plug ins
Simple,4 way average

12. Effects, plug ins
Crescent moon quilt
using the following settings

13. Image rotate
rotate clockwise 90

14. Effects, plug ins
Crescent moon quilt
same settings

15. Image rotate
rotate counterclockwise 90

16. Effects, edge effects
enhance

17. Effects, image effects
seamless tiling
using the following settings

Set this aside for now (this is our new pattern)

you can close everything except this and
the image we made from the side of your header
open that one now

18. Image, canvas size
Width 120 pixels
Height 200 pixels
placement left center

19. Layers, duplicate
Image mirror

20. Layers merge
merge visible

21. Image, canvas size
Width 1440 pixels
(or your preference)
Height 200 pixels
placement left center

22. Layer, new raster layer

23. Layers, arrange
move to bottom

24. Now we need to change the pattern in your
pallete to the 400 by 200 pattern
we made a few minutes ago

25. On your bottom layer
flood fill with the new pattern

26. Highlight top layer
Effects, 3D effects
drop shadow
using the following settings

27. Effects, Image effects
seamless tiling
same settings

28. File, Export, JPEG Optimizer
Compression value set to 20 or 25
Save as back

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