Top Tool Checkers

This tut has been created
with PSP12
The original tut you can find
here
Materials
here
Save the patern in the paternfolder
Save the mask in the maskfolder
Save the plugin in the pluginfolder
Two tubes your own choice
I used a tube made by Dania (woman) and a tube made by Iren (landscape)
Plugins
Balder Olrik
here
Mura's Meister - Perspective Tiling
here
Flaming Pear - Flexify
here
Tool Checkers in zip
Very beautiful top so maybe you want to join me during this trip?
Take
the little butterfly with you during this psp tour
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Open a new transparent image 1000 x 650
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Pick from your tube a dark color as foregroundcolor and a bright color as
backgroundcolor
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Fill the image with this gradient (sunburst)

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Selectiontool freehand - point tot point and select as here

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Selections - modify - feather 3
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Hit the delete button twice
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Selections - select none
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Effects - plugins - Flaming Pear - Flexify 2

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Selectiontool warp brush with these settings
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Place the cursor in the middle of the image and press the left mouse button to
get this

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Adjust - add/remove noise - add noise

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Adjust - sharpness - sharpen more
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With the magic wand select the transparent area on top
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Selections - modify - expand 21 pixels
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Layers - new raster layer
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Layer - arrange - move down
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Fill the selection with this gradient (linear)

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Layers - new raster layer
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Fill the selection with the patern "geometric" with these settings

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Effects - plugins - Balder Olrik - Select Sharp

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Effects - 3D effects - drop shadow - V 2 / H 2 / 65 / 4 / black
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Adjust - sharpness - sharpen
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Blend mode on lumination or own choice
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Activate the layer with the flexify effect
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Effects - 3D effects - drop shadow - V12 / H 8 / 65 / 25.74 / black
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Repeat with V -12 / H -8
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Layers - load/save mask / load mask from disc "Marge_TopFade"
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Layers - merge - merge group
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Repeat the mask twice
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Image - canvas size

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Layers - new raster layer
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Layers - arrange - send to bottom
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Fill the layer with this gradient (linear)

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Adjust - add/remove noise - add noise - same settings as before but with noise 7
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Effects - plugins - Layout Tools - Contrast
Checkers

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Effects - plugins - Mura's Meister - Perspective Tiling

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Adjust - sharpness - sharpen more
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Hide the 3 layers on top and stay on the layer at the bottom (the layer with the
perspective effect)
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With the magic wand select the transparent area at the top
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Selections - modify - expand 13
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Selections - modify - inside/outside feather 20 / both sides
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Hit the delete button twice
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Selections - select none
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Layers - new raster layer
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Selection tool (S) - custom selection

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Fill the selection with this gradient (sunburst)
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Layers - new raster layer
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Copy your landscape tube and paste into selection
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Selections - select none
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Blend mode on hard light or own choice
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Adjust - sharpness - sharpen more
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Activate the layer with the sunburst gradient
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Layers - arrange - move down
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Image - canvas size

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Activate the layer with the perspective tiling effect
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Layers - load/save mask / load mask from disc "Marge_TopFade"
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Layers - merge - merge group
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Repeat the mask twice
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Layers - new raster layer
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Layers - arrange - send to bottom
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Fill the layer with a color from your image
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Turn back the visibility of the 3 layers on top
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Activate the layer on top
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Copy your tube and paste as a new layer
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Drop shadow your choice
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Layers - merge - merge all
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Add your watermark
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Save as jpg
Ready!
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