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Spirals
Tutorial
written for PSP 8 but can be done in PSP 7 or 9
Filters
used are:
MuRa's
Pole Transform and MuRa's Copies - both available HERE
They are the two on the right of the block of 4.
Visman
Distortion - Radial Pox - get the whole set HERE
You
can download my butterfly tube HERE
but you can use any tube you like, that will work as a
small item.
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Paint Shop Pro....
New Image 300x 300 pixels,
transparent background, Raster
Layers menu, New Raster Layer
Click on your tube tool, and use it
to place your tube in the center of the
canvas. Your tube should be no more that a
quarter of the height/width of the canvas, so use
the Scale option on the Tool Option pallet to
reduce its size if necessary. I used my butterfly
tube at scale 35.
Click on the bottom layer (Raster 1)
Click on the Flood Fill Tool
Match Mode = None
Blend Mode = Normal
Opacity = 100
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| Set your foreground color to a dark
colour from your tube, and the background colour
to a very light shade of the same color (almost
white).
Set the foreground material to Gradient and
click the Gradient Block to se the gradient
options.
Gradient = Foreground - Background
Style = Linear
Angle = 45
Repeats = 7
Click on the canvas to fill the background
layer with the gradient.
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Effects menu, Plugins, MuRa's
Meister, Pole Transform
Y Start = 0
Y End = 200
Centre X = 100
Center Y = 100
Radius Start = 0
Radius End = 140
Angle = 0
Inverse = unticked
Fill Background = tick it and then untick it
Radius Mode = Normal (from the pull down list)
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| On the Layer Pallet, click on the
top layer (Raster 2), which has your tube on it.
Your tube needs to be no more than a quarter of
the height/width of the canvas at the most.
Click on the Deformation
tool (use Picker tool in PSP Photo XI), and use it to
adjust the size of your tube if necessary and move
it to just below the center of the canvas.
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Effects menu,
Plugins, MuRa's Meister, Copies
From the pull-down list (bottom left) select
the Spiral preset (its quite a long way down the
list, after the items preceded with an *)
Change the following settings:
Number = 14
Shift X = 70
Shift Y = 70
Phase = -40
(you may need to adjust these if you've used a
different tube)
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this image shows the frame around the butterflies
as the deformation tool is still selected.
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| Layers menu, Duplicate
On the Layer Pallet, click on the middle layer
(Raster 2)
Effects menu, Plugins, VM Distortion, Radial
Pox
Frequency = 100
Strength = 140
Amplify = 100
Fine Tuning = 30
Image menu, Resize
Height & Width = 90 percent
All Layers = unticked
Image menu, Rotate, Free Rotate
Direction = Right
Degrees = Free 20
All Layers = unticked
Adjust menu, Sharpness, Sharpen
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| On the Layers Pallet, click on the
top layer.
Effects menu, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow
Horizontal = 1
Vertical = 1
Opacity = 50
Blur = 3
Color = Black
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| Layers
menu, Merge, Merge All (flatten)
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| Add
your text in whatever style you like.....
I've
used a font called Vivaldi, with a stroke width of
2. The background color is the same pale
pink as used in the gradient, but the foreground
(stroke) color is a dark purple from the butterfly
wing, which is not so dark as the shade used in
the gradient. With smaller text you will
probably find a stroke width of 1 will look
better.
I've
added the same drop shadow to the text as on the
butterfly layer.
If
you need help with adding text, then follow my Beveled
Text Tutorial (you don't have to add the
bevel)
Save
as a .jpg file (click the Options button and
make sure the compression factor is set to 1)
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