Square Selector
Open a 400 x 400 transparent image.
Tools / selection tool / settings: rectangle / mode add shift /
feather 0 / anti-alias unchecked
start at the top left corner draw out a square using the little
squares ( nodes) on your layer
Click pan to deselect selection
Tools / flood fill tool
material palette choose white
flood Fill the square with white
Selections / select none
Layer palette duplicate the square layer.
Image mirror.
Layers / merge / merge visible
Layer palette duplicate the now merged layer
image / flip
Layers / merge / merge visible
Activate the top layer the squares / tools magic wand settings:
add(shift)/ match mode RGB
Value
/tolerance 20 / feather 0 / anti-alias unchecked
using the wand click on square top left to activate the ants
then click pan to deactivate the magic wand
Open a tube
Tools / selection tool use the same settings and draw a square
around the top half of the tube
image
Click pan to deactivate selection tool
Right click on the top part you selected and copy click on the
other layer with ants and
paste into Selection
selections / select none
Using magic wand activate the bottom right square.
with the square selected paste Into selection.
now you should have two top halves pasted into the top left and
bottom right square
selections / select none
Go back to your tube selections / invert
Using your Magic Wand click on the top right square to activate
ants
Click Pan
Right click on your tube and choose copy
go back to your selected square and paste into selection
selections / select none.
do the same with the last square.
now you will be left with all four squares filled
top left - top half of body , top right - bottom half of body ,
bottom left - top half of body , bottom
right - bottom half of body.
go back to your tube and selections / select none to get rid of
the ants
Activate the squares layer
Effects / 3d effects / drop shadow / settings :
v7/h7/op50/b0/black
Effects / 3d effects / drop shadow / settings :
v-7/h-7/op50/b0/black
Layer /palette / right click new raster layer / layers arrange /
send to bottom
Selections / select all
Open a background
Activate bottom blank layer copy and paste your background into
selection
selections / select none
Close background now
Activate top layer your squares lower the opacity of your merged
squares layer to about 50 this
will blend in your image
Layers / merge visible
Open another tube or use the same one
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer onto the merged image
Use deform tool to resize and position your tube click pan to
deselect deform tool
Adjust sharpeness / sharpen if needed
Image / mirror your tube
Effects / 3d effects / drop shadow / v-1 / h-1/op50/ b11/ black
Add your copy right and watermark and merge visible
Tools / text tool big A / settings : vector / direction first /
font any / size any / stroke w1
Material palette choose same colour in both boxes write your
name click apply
Add a drop shadow to your text if you want to your settings
Layer palette right click vector convert to raster layer
layers merge all flatten and save type as JPEG
Too make it more exciting you could add a border or frame like I
did on mine
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©Mally on Thursday 04 May 2006
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