

You will need:
Paint Shop Pro
At least four images of choice, and one tube. I'm using
the art of Joseph Corsentino, formally you could purchase his
art from CILM, but you can now purchase a license from
MPT.
Negative frame and photograph frame of choice. The frame
I'm using is from
Weescottslass. Download
her 6 white frames, and the negative I'm using is from Clarey's
Designz and can be downloaded
here.
Fonts of choice
Lets get started. Open a new canvas, floodfilled with
white, 600 x 600. Don't worry we will resize later.
Take your chosen negative frames, and copy and paste as a new
layer on your blank canvas. If using the same as me, you
will need to resize by about 18%. If you are using only
one frame, you will need to duplicate, and rotate each one to
give it a scattered look, and then merge them together.
Open your chosen images. Copy and paste your first one,
and place it under the negatives. Using your Pick tool,
rotate the image to line up the angle with the negative.
Resize if need be. Then go to adjust/sharpness/sharpen.
Take your lasso tool, feather set to 0, trace around the
negative frame, with your image layer active, Select/Invert, and
hit delete on your keyboard. Select none. Repeat
this with the other frames and images until you have filled all
your negatives.
Hide your background layer, then merge visible. Unhide the
background layers now. With your merged layer active, go
to Image/Negative Image.
If using the specified filter, go to
Effect/Andromeda/Perspective and click the preset in the top
right corner. I'm using preset 'ff 14'. Click the
tick.
If not using this filter. Take your Pick tool, using the
nodes, and holding down the shift key, you can play about
skewing, stretching and rotating, until your negative looks like
it is laying flat. I usually start by skewing the top to
the right. Then lifting the bottom up a bit. Then
maybe rotate it a little, and then skew up the right side.
You can always undo if you don't like how it is looking.
Okay. Hide you negatives for now. We are going to
work on the photos. Copy and paste your photo frames.
If using same as me, this will be frame1. As you did with
your negative, copy and paste your images, rotate as desired,
sharpen, and using your lasso tool, select around the frames,
invert and delete. Merge them together and add the
perspective again. Unhide your negatives, and position one
photos and negatives on top of each other, so they look
scattered. On each layer add a drop shadow of H & V = 1,
Opacity = 45, Blur = 5.
Next open your tube and copy and paste as a new layer.
Resize if you need to, and position on your scattered photos as
desired. Ideally you want a tube that is kneeling,
stretching out, or laying down. Once happy add the same
drop shadow.
Crop now, and resize all by about 90%. You could add your
name and copyright here and leave it at that. I'm adding a
cloudy blue mask to the background, and a little quote to mine.
Once you are happy, save as a jpeg or png file. Hope you
enjoyed this tutorial.
Please feel free to link to this
tutorial, and/or print it out for your own personal use, but DO
NOT copy it in ANY way to put on-line, pass out, or re-write
without my permission. Any resemblance to any other tutorial like
this is purely coincidental. Thank you. This tutorial was
written on the 17th February 2009 by Faerie Queen. |