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Moonie's Lesson #9 Thursday, Jan 15th, 2003 |
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2. Go to your Eye Candy Squint. Settings are: Radius (pixels) 18.
Click ok. 3. Now go to your Edit....Copy, and then Edit...Paste As New
Image. 4. Go back to your original av and click your "undo".
Set him aside for a bit.
5. Now going back to the New Image you just created. Go to your
KPT3 and select Planar Tiling. Settings are: Mode - Parquet Tiling, Glue n-
Darken Only, Opacity-100%. click ok.
6. You've just created your new bg you will use. 7. Now go to your male av that you set aside. With your Selection
Tool, settings are: Ellipse, Feather - 28, antialias clicked on. Grab the
male's body. I'll show you the portion to grab in the example.
8. Go to Edit...Copy. Then go to your new bg and Edit...Paste as
New Layer. 9. With your Eraser Tool, do any clean-up you want around the
body. 10. After you are through with your clean-up, go to Image and click
on Mirror. Merge layers.
11. Add New Raster Layer. Now with Color R225 G216 B204, go to your
fonts. Stroke Off. Use the font Impact. Size 18. Add name using all caps. DO NOT
set it down on your layer yet. Keep it floating. 12. Go to Effects...3D Effects...Drop Shadow. Settings are:
Vertical 1, Horizontal 1, Opacity 54, Blur 2.5 Color Black. Click ok. 13. Repeat the Drop Shadow step, but change the Horizontal to a -1.
Click ok. 14. Now while the font is still "floating", go to Eye
Candy and select your Outer Bevel. Settings are: Bevel width 20, bevel shape
Rounded, Smoothness 5, Shadow Depth 50, Highlight Brightness 80, Highlight
Sharpes 4-, Direction 167, Inclincation 64. Click ok. NOW you can set down
your font on the layer.
15. Now go up to your Image...Rotate. Click on Right and set at 90
degrees. Click ok. Go to your Mover Tool, and move your font over to the
right side of your av and center it. Go to your Layer Palette and lower your
layer opacity to 40%. Merge layers.
16. Add a new raster layer. With the color black, add a shortened
version of the name again with a smaller font. I used the font
"aelfa". *USE ALL CAPS AGAIN* Size 20. Click ok. Add a drop shadow, changing the Vertical to 4 and the Horizontal
to 6 and opacity to 35%. Click ok. Lower your layer opacity to 75%. Merge
layers.
17. Add a new raster layer. With color R218 G204 B187, use an aelfa
lower case A. Make enough of a line of the A's to make a border on the left
side of the av. Click ok. Go up to Image...Rotate and click ok. Use your
Mover Tool to adjust as a border. Repeat another line of A's, and set it at
the very bottom of your av. Lower your layer opacity to 90%. Merge layers. 18. Now go to Effects...Photo Enhance...Automatic Color Balance.
Settings are: Strength 6, Temperature 7940. Click ok. 19. When satisfied with your results...Add your own bit of magic!
And viola' You Are Done!! For Further Info on
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