The Cube

 


You can find your materials here.

The tubes are from Chrismist and Bichito.
The brushes are from GhostFight3r and GlamurGrl
Thanks for letting me use them.

Supplies:
2 tubes
2 brushes
2 selections
1 mask
2 fonts: JohnLennon and Pointed

Filter Unplugged tools, here
You can download the demo-versie from Alien Skin Eye Candy 5, Impact here
Filter Unlimited 2.0, here
Filter L&K Mayra, here
Filter DSB Flux, here
Filter Xero, here

Preparation :
Put the brush and the brush tip in the right map
(PSP X1 and X2: Corel_01),
put the selections in the right map
(PSP X1 and X2: Corel_12),
and also the mask in the right map
(PSP X1 en X2: Corel_07)

Take the arrow to know where you are in the tutorial.


1. File, New image, 900 x 600 pixels, transparent

2. Choose the gradient Duotone bright green (Corel_06_003) from your gradient list

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3. Flood fill your layer with your gradient

4. Effecten, Plugins, Filter Unlimited 2.0, Distortion Filters, Whirl

5. SHIFT + D to make a copy of the image and put it aside.
You'll need it later for the background.
Let's continue with our work to make the cube.

6. Put the foreground color to red (FF0000) and the background color to black

7. Layers, New raster layer

8. Draw a random rectangle

9. Change the settings in your tool options palette as follows

10. Duplicate this layer 2 times

Rename these layers Square 1, Square 2 and Square 3

11. View, Grid

12. View, Change Grid, Guide & Snap Properties as follows

13. Select Square 3 in your layer palette: Pick Tool (K), put in your Tool Options Palette position X to 182  

14. Select Square 2 in your layer palette: Pick Tool (K), put in your Tool Options Palette position Y to 0

This is what you should have by now:

15. Select the upper layer in your layer palette

16. Layers, New Raster layer

17. Switch foreground and background color

18. Again, draw a random rectangle

19. Change in your Tool Options Palette the settings as follows:

20. Duplicate this layer twice

21. Select in your layer palette the first copy

22. Pick Tool (K), put in your Tool Options Palette position X to 550

23. Select the second copy: Pick Tool (K), put in your Tool Options Palette position X to 641

24. Layers, Merge, Merge Down

25. Repeat Layers, Merge, Merge Down

26. Layers, Duplicate

27. Pick Tool (K), put in your Tool Options Palette position Y to 369

28. Layers, Duplicate

29. Pick Tool (K), put in your Tool Options Palette position Y to 459

30. Layers, Merge, Merge Down

31. Repeat Layers, Merge, Merge Down

32. Duplicate this layer twice

Rename these layers Color 1, Color 2 and Color 3

33. Select Color 3 in your Layer Palette: Pick Tool (K), put in your Tool Options Palette position X to 186

34. Select Color 2 in your Layer Palette: Pick Tool (K), put in your Tool Options Palette position Y op 4

This is what you should have by now:

35. As we want to make a Rubik's Cube, we'll colorize

(layer by layer and color by color ! )

the squares. Magic Wand tool as follows:

 

Flood fill With the color of your choice as follows

I used these colors:

Yellow: #ffff3f, Bleu: #0175bb, White: #ffffff

36. In your layer palette, move the colored layers just above the corresponding layer with the black square

Your layer palette looks like this:

37. Merge each color layer with its black square layer (Layers, Merge, Merge down)

38. View, Change Grid, Guide & Snap Properties as follows

39. Pick Tool (K), Modus, Free and select Square 3 in your layer palette

40. Move the left bottom corner 2 blocks to the right and 5 blocks up

41. Move the left upper corner 2 blocks to the right and 4 blocks up

42. In your layer palette select Square 1

43. Move the right bottom corner 2 blocks to the left and 5 blocks up

44. Move the right upper corner 2 blocks to the left and 4 blocks up

45. In your layer palette select Square 2

46. Put the right bottom corner and the left upper corner at the right position

(zoom so you can work properly and let these corners connect to the other ones)

This is what you should have by now:

47. Move the right top corner 3 blocks down and drag it to the middle of your cube

48. Match the bottom corner with the rest of your cube

49. Remove the grid as we don't need it anymore: View, Grid

50. In your layer palette, select square 3 and merge the layers of your cube:

Layers, Merge, Merge Down

repeat Layers, Merge, Merge Down

51. Image, Resize 80 %, All layers not checked  

52. Effects, Image Effects, offset as follows

53.  Rename this Layer Cube 1

54. Layers, Duplicate en rename this layer Cube 2

55. Duplicate the Layer once again and rename this layer Cube 3

56. Effects, Edge Effects, Enhance

57. Effects, Plugins, Unplugged Tools, Spotlight, as follows

58. In your layer palette, select Cube 2

59. Effects, Plugins, Eye Candy 5, Impact, Perspective Shadow, Drop Shadow Blurry, Basic as follows:

.

60. In your layer palette, select Cube 1

61. Image, Flip

62. Effects, Image Effects, Offset with these settings

63. Layers, Load/Save Mask, Load Mask From Disk and find your masker NVfadingmask1 with settings:

Source Luminance, Fit to canvas, Hide all mask

64. Layers, Merge, Merge group

65. Select the background layer

66. Selections, Load/Save Selection, Load Selection from disk

67. Find the selection NVCube001

68. Effects, Plugins, L en K landksiteofwonders, L en K’s Mayra with these settings

69. Selections, Load/Save Selection, Load Selection from disk

70. Find the selection NVCube002 

71. Effects, Plugins, DSB Flux, Mosaic ripple as follows

72. Adjust, Blur, Gaussian Blur 4

73. Selections, Select None

74. Open the tube Chrismist_Armor-1024

75. Image, Resize 125%

76. Copy and paste as new layer

77. Effects, Image Effects, Offset, Horizontal -100, Vertical 35

78. Reduce the opacity to 40%, Blend Mode Luminance

79. Layers, New Raster Layer

80. Switch the foreground color back to your gradient

81. Load the brush dream_design_by_ghost_fight3r_3 and put it as shown on the example

(reduce your worksheet to view the whole brush), size 760.

82. Layers, New Raster Layer

83. Take the brush GlamurGrl_conversion_blocked_set1_tippy001 and put it as shown on the example

(reduce your worksheet to view the whole brush), size 850

84. Effects, 3d-Effects, Drop Shadow as follows

85. Open the tube ke_bonita_bicharita_por_barullo

86. Image, Resize 85%

87. Copy and paste as new layer

88. Effects, Image Effects, Offset, Horizontal 180, Vertical 0

89. Effects, Plugins, Eye Candy 5, Impact, Perspective Shadow, Drop Shadow Blurry,

Basic as follows

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90. Effects, Plugins, Xero Porcelain, with these settings

91. Lock your foreground color, Background color  #c3f92b

92. Activate the text tool and choose the font JohnLennon, size 120 pixels and type “the”

93. Image, Free Rotate, Left, 90°

94. Choose the font Pointed, size 170 pixels and type “Cube”

95. Move the text to the right place and merge both text layers

96. Effects, 3D-effects, Drop Shadow, 2 2 100 15

97. Layers, Merge, Merge All

98. Image, Resize 85%

99. Copy and paste as new layer on the background from step 5

100. Effects, Plugins, Alien Skin Eye Candy 5, Impact, Gradient glow, outside glow, Basic as follows

101.  In your layer palette, select the background layer

102. Effects, Plugins, Xero Fritillary

103. Don't forget your signature and save as JPG.

 


This is an extra example made by An Creatief

 

Lesson The Cube was written on April 22, 2010

 

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