Moonie's Lesson #14

Thursday, April 22, 2004

In this lesson you will need the Plugin:
Sextet
and the fonts
Impact and BackGothic

To start off, save the girl below into your system.


1. Save the face av to your system and increase her to 16 mil colors.(shift + Ctrl + 0)

2. Now go to Colors...Colorize. Settings are: Hues 20 and Saturation 77. Click ok.

3. Go to Edit...Copy and Edit...Paste as New Layer. Set this image aside.

4. Take one of your images and go to your Flaming Pear Twist. Settings are: Warping size 40, Warp size 23, Streaks 6, Streak size 14, Twist 78, Chop 27, Glue Normal. Click ok.

5. Take your Selection Tool on your other image with settings Ellipse and Feather 30. Grab the girls face and head and transfer her to your new background.

6. Move her to where you are satisfied, do any clean up and merge layers.

7. Add any color you might want to her face. I colorized her lips and eyebrow with a touch of pink color.

8. Now go to your Visman...Natural...Lightburst. Settings are: Center X 24, Center Y 54, Frequency 34, Ray Length 1 - 46, Ray Length 2 - 16. Click ok.

9. Go to Effects....Reflection Effects...Feedback. Settings are: Opacity 85, Intensity 30, Horizontal 98, Vertical 100, Elliptical clicked on. Click ok.

10. Take your Soften Tool and run it along the rough edges of the small image that might be showing.

11. Add a New Raster Layer. Now with Color R234 G212 B185 and font Impact, size 18, add your name. Go up to Image...Rotate 90 degrees to the right. Set name over on the left side of your av.

12. Add a white Drop Shadow and settings Vertical and Horizontal both at 1, Opacity 90, Blur 4.9. Click ok. Lower layer opacity to 50% and merge layers.

13. Add another New Raster Layer. With color R156 G126 B94 and font Bank Gothic, size 12 and click on Bold. Add your name again and place it overlaying the first name over to the left. Lower your layer opacity to 55%.

14. Go to your Eye Candy Motion Trail. Settings are: Length 80, Opacity 35, Direction 270. Click ok.

15. Add another Raster Layer. With the same color, font Scriptina, Size 12, add your first initial. Rotate 90 degrees and move to upper left hand corner. Lower layer opacity to 80%.

16. Go to layer pallet and duplicate 2nd layer. With your Mover Tool move this layer over to the right side a little lower than the left side. Merge your layers.

xx. When satisfied with results....add your own bit of magic...

And Voila' you are done!!!

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