Moonie's Lesson #16

Thursday, May 26, 2004


In tonight's lesson you will need the font
Niteclub and Micro
and the filter Nikki's

To start off, save the male or female and the 3 backgrounds below into your system.


1. Increase them all to 16 mil colors.(shift + Ctrl + 0)

2. Take your Selection Tool and with our settings: Ellipse and Feather 28. Grab part of the face. *Examples will be of the female only*

3. Copy and Paste As New Layer onto your BG #1.

4. Now I want you to copy your 2nd layer (of the face) and Paste as New Image.

5. Go to Masks...New...From Image. Click OK.

6. A window will come up "Add Mask From Image"
Note: PSP 8 Users Go up to "LAYERS > New Mask Layer" (About the 4th option down).

Click on Source Luminance and Invert Mask Data. Click ok.

7. Go to your Niks Color Filter Midnight Violet. Settings are: Color 50%, Blur 15 pix, Brightness 60%. click OK.

8. Copy this image and Paste as New Layer onto your av. Merge layers.

9. Now take your BG #2 and copy it and Paste as New Layer onto your painting.

10. Lower your layer opacity to 70%. Move it to the left so that just the border shows on your av.

11. Now take your BG #3 and with your Selection Tool grab just the upper left hand corner of the BG. Move this up into the left hand corner.

12. Go back to your Niks Midnight Violet and click ok to settings: Color 20%, Blue 15 pixs, Brightness 60%.

13. Lower your layer opacity to 50% and Merge Layers.

14. Add a New Raster layer. With the color White and the font Micro, size 12, add your name. Rotate right 90 degrees. Move it to the left side of the av. Add a Drop Shadow with settings: Vertical and Horizontal both at -1, Opacity 80, Blur 3.7, Color Black. Click OK.

15. Add another New Raster layer. With font Nite Club, size 16, color Black, add your name again to the lower left hand corner. Lower your Layer Opacity to 95%. Merge layers.

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

And Voila' you are done!!!

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