Reflections

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I am using the wonderful art of Popeye Wong http://www.popeyewong.com
This is a wonderful free to use artist that has tubes on his site.
Please read his TOU first, there is a link to the tubes in it.
These tubes are named Elegant-Glance and Floating-Smoke.
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Supplies Needed:
A working knowledge of PSP
2 tubes of choice from same artist
MuRa's Meister Copies, Geocities has closed so just do a Google search for this plugin
BR Reflections dingbat from FontPark
Gang Of Three font from Dafont
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Open a new raster image 448X448. Fill the layer with white.

Add a new raster layer, fill with white, then click Effects-Texture Effects-Tiles with these settings:
Tile Shape Square:Tile Angularity 74:Tile Size 32:Border Size 2:Image Smoothness 0:Depth 4:Ambiance 0:Shininess 48:Light Color white:Angle 0:Intensity 48:Elevation 32.
Then with the wand, click on the black lines of the grid, then click Selections-Modify-Select Similar with these settings:
Tolerance 16:Discontiguous:Sample Merged not selected:Anti Alias selected:Inside.
Invert and delete the white on the mesh, deselect. Then Selections-Modify-Contract By 32, then Selections-Invert and delete, deselect.
Then click Effects-Plugins-Mura's Meister-Copies, and use these settings:
Feedback [Center] and only change the number setting to 8.

With dingbat font-Vector-Stroke black-Width 2-Fill black-Size 348, type the letter r on tag, then Objects-Align-Center and right click on this layer in layer palette and convert to raster. Then with wand select inside the inner part of font and then Selections-Modify-Contract by 8, then Selections-Modify-Smooth-Both numbers 10-Both boxes selected, then click delete.
On outside black of font, select with wand, then modify contract by 3, add a new raster above and fill with white, deselect, then Adjust-Add Remove Noise-Add Noise with these settings:
Gaussian : 48 : Monochrome selected, then repeat noise. Then Effects-Edge Effects-Enhance.

With wand, select inside the inner frame and then Selections-Modify-Expand by 4, add a new raster below it and fill selection with #404040, deselect. Duplicate grayed layer, and click Effects-Texture Effects-Weave with these settings:
Gap Size 2:Width 4:Opacity 48:Both colors #ffffff:Fill Gaps selected.
Then on Layer Palette click where that layer says Normal and change Blend Mode to Soft Light.
Add one tube as new layer above it, and erase all outside of gray section. Then on Layer Palette change blend mode to Luminance[L] and adjust it's slider from 100 to 74 to lower Opacity.

On font layer, with wand select between the outer frame and the inner frame, add a new raster layer above grid layer and fill with #404040, deselect, then add noise like before, then Effects-Art Media Effects-Brush Strokes, with these settings:
Softness 0:Brush Bristles 75:Width 8:Opacity 25:Strokes Length 16:Density 100:Angle 0:Color black.
Then click Effects-Artistic Effects-Halftone, with these settings:
Pattern Round Size 2:Screen Angles 108 162 90:Use As An Overlay not selected:Color Scheme RGB.
Adjust-Hue And Saturation-Colorize and having both numbers at 0.
Then click Effects-3D Effects-Inner Bevel these settings:
Bevel 2:Width 10:Smoothness 25:Depth 7:Ambiance -20:Shininess 35:Color white:Angle 315:
Intensity 35:Elevation 60.

Select the inner frame on font layer, Modify Contract by 2, add a new raster above, fill with white, add noise of Gaussian : 48 : Monochrome selected, repeat noise, then Effects-Edge Effects-Enhance.

Add another tube as new layer, resize 74% and Adjust-Hue And Saturation-Colorize and having both numbers at 0. Position on right, duplicate and mirror.
On all tubes, duplicate then click Adjust-Blur-Gaussian Blur with setting at 2, and change Blend Mode of duplicates to Soft Light. I also did this on big tube but on duplicate I greyscaled it first then Blend Mode Hard Light and Opacity 48%.

Add the artist credits for the tubes used.

Add your name to to it with font, then select inside every letter and apply the same Inner Bevel as before.

Then drop shadow all layers, I used 0:0:48:4 on every layer that needed one.

If you are using a licensed image or tube, click on resize, then change the resolution to 72,000, then adjust the size to 100 percent, select all layers box and click okay.

Export as a png file.
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Hope this was an easy to follow tutorial and hope you enjoyed it.
Please feel free to email me tags or links using this tutorial.
My email is in my profile. Thank You for visiting my blog.
Bless You.
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This tutorial was created, written and originally posted online by SigsByTori on
April 16, 2011, then edited for another artist on April 10, 2011. Any resemblance to other tutorials is totally coincidental.
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