GLASS PICTURE TUTORIAL This Tutorial was made in PSP X. I am sure it can be done in other PSP's with a few small adjustments here and there. First You Will Need Two Tubes One for Focal and One Element that matches The Focal Tube. My tube is from DW. I also used PlugIns For This Tut. which are Eye Candy 5 Impact-Glass & MuRa's Meister-Cloud. 1.)First Shift-D to Duplicate your Tube and Close the Original. Now Choose what looks better with your Tube Gold Or Silver you can use a Pattern or a Gradient (whatever settings you prefer) for Background Color. And also select a light color from your tube as Foreground Color (please write this color number down for later use). 2.)Open New Image 500x500. 3.)Next Using Selection Tool Picking Shape that fits the shape of your Tube. I chose Rounded Rectangle. Settings Mode-Replace, Feather-0, Anti-Alias Checked. Don't make it to large. You want Your Tube to Fit Nicely in it and leave room to work outside of the Selection Later. 4.) You Need to Crop Your Duplicated Tube (Focal) As close as you can with out Cutting off the tube. Then Edit-Copy and click on the New Image and Edit-Paste into Selection. Yours Should Resemble something like this depending on the Shape you chose. Do Not Un-Select. 5.)Go to Effects-PlugIns Alien Skin EyeCandy-5-Impact-glass. Click on Basic Tab Use These Settings: Bevel Width:23.42 Bevel Smoothness:21.58 Round Selection Corners:0 Inside Selection Checked Glass Tint: Your Light Color You Selected From Tube In the Beginning Opacity:40 Tinting:42 Refraction:73 Inner Shadow opacity:75 Drop Shadow Opacity:81 Shadow Offset:50 Shadow Glow:77 6.)Selections-Select None. Effects 3D-Effects-Drop Shadow V-H-1, Opacity-30, Blur-1. Shadow on new layer NOT checked. Now it will look a bit dark but that's okay we will fix that as we move on. 7.)Layers New Raster Layer. Send to Bottom. Select Flood-Fill and Fill this layer with your Light color you picked from your Tube Earlier. 8.)Making Sure you are on the bottom flood filled layer first. Go to Effects-PlugIns-MuRa's Meister-Cloud. Where you see three color slots put your light color from tube in the middle by double clicking on middle color slot. The Top and Bottom Color White. Settings:Blend Mode Effects:100 Amount:100 Grain:3 Contrast,Bias, Light, Cubic, Blur, Contour all 0. 9.)Layers New Raster Layer Move to Top Layer. On Top of Tube Layer Using your Preset Shape tool- Rectangle Background Null and Light color in your Foreground still anti-alias checked and create as vector checked width 3. Your Preset Shape Tool Bar should look like this. Now Draw Around The Focal Tube we have been working on Leaving room outside and inside your tube. 10.)Effects-3D-effects, Add Drop Shadow Same Setting as earlier. And Inner Bevel Settings for Inner Bevel: Bevel:2 Width:7 Smoothness:0 Depth:2 Ambience:0 Shininess:0 angle:315 Intensity:50 Elevation:30 11.) Now click on Tube layer and lower Opacity. I lowered mine to 85 But you can go lower if you like. Now Layers Merge-Merge All (Flatten) 12.)Now Crop Image leaving Tiny bit extra on outside of our preset trim. You may want to Use Your Ruler (View-Ruler) Or you can just eye it up Here is what mine looks like now. 13.)Now Resize to 344 to 350 pixels on the longest side. Adjust Sharpen as needed. 14.)Now Image-Add Borders pick a color not in your Background 1 pixel Symmetric checked. Select with Wand Feather and tolerance 0 RGB Value then Flood-Fill with Silver or Gold Pattern or Gradient. 15.)Now Image-Add borders 1 pixel same settings and using your chosen tube color. 16.)Now Image-Add Borders pick a color not in your Background 1 pixel Symmetric checked. Select with Wand Feather and tolerance 0 RGB Value then Flood-Fill with Silver or Gold Pattern or Gradient. 17.)Now Image-Add borders 25 pixels same settings and using your chosen tube color. Select with your Wand. 18.)Effects-Texture-Fur. Settings: Blur:62 Length:71 Density:45 Transparency:80 Do Not Un-Select. 19.)Use Same Bevel on Frame as before. Now Selections-Select None 20.)New Raster Layer and Add your Water mark on new Layer so you can lower Opacity if needed. And Save As JPG. Do NOT Close Tag. 21.)Now Working with your Element, I used Adjust Hue And Saturation to change the color of my Element to match better but that is your choice. You could use a Gold or a Silver Element to Match the pattern or gradient you included in your Frame. Now Resize if needed (Adjust & Sharpen If Needed) and Edit paste as new Layer on to Your Tag. 22.) Use Previous Drop Shadow on element make sure on new layer is not checked. Now you can put this in four corners two corners or one corner your choice its your Tag hehehehe : ) (Layer Duplicate Image Mirror, Flip till it is all where you like it best). 23.)Merge all Elements down if you only want it in one corner you do not need to do this step. Make sure you do not merge on to Tag. 24.)Close out Tag. Duplicate Element Layer twice leaving you with three layers of Elements. 25.)With Top Layer still selected go to Adjust Add-Noise Settings: Uniform And Monochrome Checked, Noise at 25 26.)Next layer down click on it.Then Adjust Add-Noise Settings: Uniform And Monochrome Checked, Noise at 20 27.)Next layer down click on it (last layer).Then Adjust Add-Noise Settings: Uniform And Monochrome Checked, Noise at 15 28.)Now with all three layers of Elements open and the Tag still closed Save as Animation PSP 29.)Now Open Tag Elements in Animation Shop Then open Tag and Duplicate Twice to where you have three Frames of the Tag then click on the Elements go to Edit-Select All then Edit-Copy then Click on The Tag Frames and Edit-Select All, Edit-Paste-Into Selected Frame. Save As GIF. Hope You Enjoyed This Tutorial. Thank You for Looking!!: ) ~Hugs~Heidi~ P/S Here is another I did with this tut with Different Selection Shape I did not send this to group did not know if I should. I only sent it to you!! : ) Click here to show me off your results! Tutorial written by Heidi for Le Café D'Amis

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