
| Used: Paint Shop Pro (I use X) Tube of choice Embellishments/blings of choice Absolutely NO filters! Pick one color from your tube as the foreground. For the background pick a lighter tone. (I used #917181 for my foreground and #dfafc7 as my background) Go to gradient. Choose Sunburst, Center and Focal Points all at 50, Repeat 1. Fill with the gradient. Go to Effects/Distort/Pixelate with the following settings: Block height and width both at 10. Repeat. Effects/Edge Effects/Enhance More. Select all. Selections/Modify 25. Effects/3D effects/Buttonize Height and width at 20, opacity at 100, transparent. Selections invert. New Raster Layer. Effects/3D effects/cut out Vertical and horizontal at 0, Opacity at 100, blur 17.39, color black. Select none. Still on the cut out layer: Effects/Image Effects/Seamless Tiling. Corner, Bidirectional, curved. Horizontal and vertical offsets at 0, transition at 50. Merge visible. Duplicate layer. Resize duplicate 60% (all layers NOT checked). Free rotate 45 degrees. Duplicate. Effects/Reflection Effects/Kaleidoscope: Horizontal offset 25 Vertical offset 50 Rotation angle 270 Scale Factor -17 Number of petals 2 Number of orbits 0 Radial suction 32 Wrap Effects/Edge effects/Enhance New Raster layer. Fill with gradient. Seamless tile settings as above. Pixelate as above. Edge Effects/Enhance more. Set layer property to Darken. Merge Visible. Select all. Modify/Contract 5. Effects/3D effects/Drop shadow. Vertical and horizontal at 0, opacity at 100, blur at 10 and color black. Invert. Fill with your darker color. Modify/contract 2. Fill with your lighter color. Select none. Add your tube and embellishments. Merge Visible. Add copyright and text. Animate if you wish. |