Di's Delights PSP Tinsel Tube Tutorial

Coloured Tinsel

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For this tutorial you will need -
Super BladePro, a trial version is available here
Eye Candy, version 3 is available free here
&my Super BladePro setting available here
extract the contents of the zip to your Super BladePro/Environments and Textures folder.

1. Open a new image 150x100 with a transparent background. As we are making a continuous tube we need to divide the image into equal cells, this is for the tube to operate correctly. To do this we will need to view the grid and to change it's properties. Go to View/Change grid and guide properties, make sure the units are in pixels and change the horizontal and vertical too 50.

Go to view/grid.

2. Set the foreground colour to white. Using the paint brush

, shape round, size 25, hardness, opacity and density set to 100, step 1, paint a round spot in the middle of each cell, don't worry if they're not exactly in the middle.

3. Ctrl+A, Ctrl+F, this will select and float your spots. Effects/Plugin filters/Super BladePro. Apply the Di-tinsel preset. Ctrl+D, (select none) Effects/Plugin filters/Eye Candy 3/ jiggle, these are the settings I used. Effects/Sharpen/Sharpen more. Effects/3D effects/drop shadow, vertical and horizontal 1, opacity 100, blur 5, colour black. That is your tube made :o)

4. To save the tube go to File/Export/picture tube. You need to specify the cells, the placement and name your tube. If you do not use the settings shown your tube will not work correctly.

Now all you need to do is play :o)

If you would like tinsel of a different colour, all you need to do is to use the undo tool and go back until you have the floating spots, bring Super BladePro in action and play around with the settings, repeat the jiggle, sharpen and drop shadow. When you have a tube you are happy with, export the tube using the same settings giving it a different name.

Changing the colour of your tinsel is done in Super BladePro. Click on the colour of the lighting, this will bring up the colour palette. Simply change the colour by using the dropper on the outer ring, this will keep the hue, saturation and lightness the same. Do this for both of the lights. If you want to go even further, play around with the settings and colouring of the tarnish and see what you can come up with :o)

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and that it has given you the confidence to play around with Super BladePro.

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