Moonie's Lesson #10

Thursday, Jan 29th, 2003


In this lesson you will need the font:
Beautiful
To start off, save the girl and the background below into your system.


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

2. Go to your girl and Edit...Copy, and then Edit....Paste as New Image. Set this aside.

3.. Go to your BG and Edit...Copy, and then go to your new image of the girl and paste your BG on as a New Layer. Reduce your layer opacity to 60%. Merge layers.

4. No go to your Niks Sunshine filter. Settings are: Saturation 40%, CCR Effect 30%, Light Casting Algorithm - A, Sunlight Intensity 25%, Radius 12 pixs, Prefilter-combination, Prefilter Strength 50%. Click ok.

5. Sit this image aside for a bit now.

6. Go to your plain girl av and click Image...Mirror.
Go up to Colors....Colorize. Settings are: Hue-255, Saturation 33. Click ok.

7. Now with the color R146 G83 B92, colorize around her eyes, her cheeks and lips with your Retouch Color to Target tool. Settings are: Size depends on area you want to colorize, Hardness 75%, Opacity 10, Step 31, Density 100.

8. Now go to your Selection Tool and using my favorite settings...Ellipse and Feather 30, capture the girls face and part of her neck.

9. Go to Edit...Copy, and then go to your other painting and Edit...Paste as New Layer. Leave your layer opacity at 100%. Merge layers.

10. Add a New Raster layer. With the color White, and the font Beautiful Caps ES, add your first initial. Size 24. Center the letter at the bottom so its not covering up the face. Lower layer opacity to 55%.

11. Add another Raster Layer. Again with the color White, Use the font Beautiful ES and add your whole name. Size 36.

12. Go up to Effects...3D Effects and add a drop shadow. Settings are: Vertical-1, Horizontal-1, Opacity-95, Blur-6.2, Color Black.

13. Lower this layer opacity to 90%. Merge your layers.

14. When satisfied with your results....Add your own magic. And Viola' you are done!

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