Flutter Me

Please feel free to link to this tutorial, and/or print it out for your own personal use, but do not copy it in any way  put on-line, pass out, or re-write and claim as your own! 

Any resemblance to any other tutorial like this is purely coincidental. This tutorial was written on the 5th December 2005. ©Edna

Supplies needed:  Your imagination, a graphic and the plug-in Ecosse which can be found HERE

This tutorial was written in PSP9. 

You should be able to do it in PSP8

I don’t know about PSP7.

OK here we go.

1. Open a new image in PSP 250 X 375

2. Choose two colours from your Tube, one light and the second one darker.

3. Go to your colour palette and click on the Gradient tab.

4. Choose the Foreground-Background gradient and flood fill your canvas

5. Then Selections/Modify/Select Selection Borders (in PSP9)

6. Use the settings in picture below, inside checked, Anti-alias checked and a border of 10.

7. Click OK

8. Then flood fill with your Gradient.

9. Or Selection/Modify/Contract put 10 in the box.

10. Then Selections/Invert Selection, then flood fill

11. Now we need to copy and paste your graphic as a new layer and resize to fit and move to a position that you like.

12. Then Duplicate both your graphic and your background layer and X out one tube layer and one background layer.

13. you should have a layer palette that looks like this.

14.  Keep the Tube layer highlighted as you merge so that the x out background layer will be at the bottom when you have finished merging.

15. Merge Visible.

16.  Click on the merged layer and apply the settings below

Effects/Ecosse/Flutter

17. Image/Canvas size, give yourselves plenty of room to work in, I made mine 500W x 600H

18. Click on your Deformation tool (pictured below) and also highlight the other background layer on your layer palette.

19. Pull out your bottom background layer about 2 squares all the way around

20. click on merged layer and add a drop shadow of

V 4

H 4

Opacity 30

Blur 10

Then add Drop shadow again with

V -4

H -4

Opacity 30

Blur 10

on the TUBE LAYER I used

V 2

H 2

Opacity 80

Blur 6.2

21. Selections/Modify/Contract and put in the number that you used to make the border. In this case 10 (this to protect your border when adding effect)

 The bottom background layer can be done in a couple of ways.

You can add both of these settings below to the background layer or you can just add one.

Basically it depends on your taste and what you think looks good, as this plug-in (Flutter) seems to work differently on different size canvases as you can see by my examples at the bottom of the page.

When you are happy with the way it looks, add the same drop shadow as you put on your tube above, to the bottom background layer, don't forget to do the V-2 and H -2 to make it look even all the way around.

Still on the bottom layer go Selections/Float.............then

Edit/Copy Merged...............then

Edit/Paste as a new Image.

All that remains to be done now is your name and anything else that takes your fancy

For the name (which I duplicate 3 times) I use a distinctive gradient and had a good play with the Flutter effect. 

Selections/float/modify/contract and I contracted 3. The Flutter treatment looks better with a middle colour for the Stroke Width.

Then gave it the Lokas Software Gel on default settings.

Then while still selected gave it the snow treatment with the

VDL Adrenaline/Snowflake

Move the amount slider down to about 16 or there about, leave the other settings on default. If you like smaller flakes move the size range slider down, I moved mine to 15.

Click Ok

Highlight the second name and do the snowflake again but this time just move the Random slider up, same on the third name, just move the Random slider again

Now you can deselect and take your name to AS after adding your favourite drop shadow and a tube.