Jeannette's 'Chinese' tutorial 256

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Jeanette's original Dutch tutorial can be found here

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Click on the example above to view the working script

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The images and tubes was made by
Marif and Mou.
Save the dark corner brush in your PSP-brushes folder.

Download the supplies here
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FILTERS NEEDED:
AAA - here
Greg's Factory Output Vol II

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Change the foreground color to #433E52,
background color to #C0C0C0.

1. Open a new transparent canvas, size 400x400.
Fill with the foreground color.

2. Brush Tool - find 'Dark Corner'
and click 2x on the canvas.

3. Sharpen 1x.
Merge layers.

4. Duplicate the image with Shift+D.
Close the original.

5. Image - Rotate - quarter to the right.

6. Activate the Selection Tool - Rectangle.
Draw a selection as shown below:

7. Copy and paste as a new image.

8. Add border: 2px foreground color.

9. Image - resize to 450 pixels in height.

10 . Add a new raster layers and fill with the
foreground color.
Reduce the layer opacity to 20%
in the Layers palette.

11. Merge layers visible.

12. Open a new transparent canvas, 500x465 pixels
and fill with the background color.

13. Effects - Filter Effects - Greg's Factory Poolshadow: all slidebars on 50 except for the bottom two on 128.

14. Effects - Filter Effects - AAA:

15. Image - Add Border: 2px background color.

16. Activate the smaller sidebar that you have made.
Copy and paste as a new layer
onto the background canvas.

17. Move it to a millimeter from the edge.

18. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow: 2 2 50 5,00.

19. Duplicate this layer in your Layers palette.

20. Image - Mirror.
Image - Flip.

21. Activate the image that you have made in step 3.

22. Image - Add Border: 2px foreground color.

23. Copy and paste as a new layer onto the bigger canvas.
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow: 2 2 50 5,00,
Repeat with -2 -2 50 5,00.

24. Merge layers.

25. Image - Add Border: 25px foreground color.

26. Selections - Select All.
Selections - Modify - Contract by 3,
Selections - Invert.

27. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel:

28. Deselect.

29. Open the chinese-lady tube.
Resize to 540 pixels high.

30. Copy and paste as a new layer.
Use the Eraser tool to erase part of the corner
so that it is more rounded:

31. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow: 2 10 70 15,00.

32. Sharpen 2x.

33. Open the little heart tube.
Copy and paste as a new layer,
move it to the left.

34. Repeat the same drop shadow as in step 32.
Sharpen 1x.

35. Merge layers visible.
Your tag is finished :)

36. Duplicate the image with Shift+D.
Selections - Select All.
Selections - Modify - Contract by 30,
Selections - Invert.
Copy and paste as a new image.

37. Resize to 300 pixels high.
You need this image for the script's bigger sideborder.

You will have to make 2 additional background
if you want to use the script.

Have fun !!

Download Jeannette's empty script here.

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Translated 17th June 2007