Black and White

Original tutorial can be found HERE

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Material
1 alpha layers and Tubes by Jacotte

Filters Used
Simple/Pizza Slice Mirror
Unlimited 2/Tile and Mirror/Quadrant Mirror
AP Innovations/Line Silverlining/Dotty Grid
Flaming Pear/Flood

Colors
foreground color : White
background color : Black

Use the paint brush to follow the steps
left click to grab it


Realization
Step 1
activate the alpha layer
Window/duplicate
close the original, and work with the copy

Step 2
fill the layer with a linear gradient  45 / 2 (uncheck “invert”)

Step 3
selections/select all
selections/modify/contract/30 pixels
press the delete key of your keyboard
selections/invert
effects/texture effects/blinds   3 / 100   / white / uncheck “Horizontal”

selections/select none

Step 4
select the transparent part with the magic wand tool
layers/new raster layer
fill with the gradient
selections/modify/contract/30 pixels
press the delete key of the keyboard
selections/select none
effects/texture effects/blinds/  3 / 100 / Balck / check “horizontal”

Step 5
select the transparent part with the magic wand
layers/new raster layer
fill with the gradient
selections/modify/contract/30 pixels
press the delete key of your kayboard
selections/select none
effects/texture effects/blinds/   3 / 100 / white
uncheck “horizontal”

Step 6
select the transparent part with the magic wand
layers/new raster layer
fill with the gradient
selections/modify/contract/30 pixels
press the delete key of your kayboard
selections/select none
effects/texture effects/blinds/   3 / 100 / black
check “horizontal” and " light from left/top"

Step 7
select the transparent part with the magic wand
layers/new raster layer
fill the layer with a linear gradient  45 / 2 (uncheck “invert”)
effects/Simple/Pizza Slice Mirror

Step 8
effects/Unlimited 2/Tiles And Mirror/Quadrant Mirror
selections/select none

Step 9
selections/load-save selection/from alpha channel/selection 1
press the delete key of your keyboard
layers/new raster layer
acitvate the tube of the landscape
edit/copy - back to your work - edit/paste into selection
selections/select none

Step 10
your layers palette looks like this

Step 11
in the layers palette, activate raste 5
layers/arrange/send to bottom
 (under the alpha layer)

Step 12
in the layers palette,activate the top layer (raster 4)
effects/texture effects/weave/   1 / 297 / 75
weave color : black / uncheck “fill gaps”

Step 13
effects/plugins/AP Innovations/Lines Silverlining/Dotty Grid/   6 / -1 / 10   -   255 / 255 / 255

Step 14
effects/3D effects/drop shadow/   0 / 0 / 100 / 50 / black

Step 15
on rasters 3  -  2  -  1  ->
effects/3D effects/drop shadow/   0 / 0 / 100 / 50 / black

Step 16
in the layers palette, close the visibility toggle of rasters 4 and 5
activate raster 3
layers/merge/merge visible

Step 17
your layers palette looks like this

Step 18
open the visibility toggles of raster 4 and 5
activate raster 4
layers/arrange/send to bottom
now your layers palette looks like this

Step 19
in the layers palette, activate raster 5 (the landscape)
selections/load-save selection/from alpha channel/selection 2
effects/plugins/Flaming Pear/Flood/Whtie
43 / 0 / 57 / 50
40 / 50 / 42 / 25
0 / 33 / 40

selections/select none

Step 20
layers/merge/merge visible

Step 21
image/add borders/2 pixels/black

Step 22
image/add borders/2 pixels/white

Step 23
image/add borders/2 pixels/black

Step 24
layers/promote background layer

Step 25
image/canvas size

Step 26
layers/new raster layer
fill with white
selections/select all
selections/modify/contract/3 pixels
fill with black

Step 27
selections/modify/contract/3 pixels
fill with white
selections/modify/contract/45 pixels
press the delete key of your keyboard
effects/3D effects/drop shadow/    0 / 0 / 100 / 50 / black

Step 28
selections/invert
effects/plugins/AP Innovations/Lines Silverlining/Dotty Grid/    5 / -1 / 10  **   0 / 0 / 0

Step 29
layers/new raster layer
effects/3D effects/cutout

selections/select none
layers/merge/merge down

Step 30
layers/merge/merge all (flatten)

Step 31
image/add borders/2 pixels/white
2 pixels/black

Step 32
activate the tube of the character
edit/copy - back to your work - edit/paste as new layer
image/resize/95%/uncheck “resize all layers”
move it to the right
effects/3D effects/drop shadow/   0 / 0 / 50 / 20 / black
copy the text (or write your won one)
effects/3D effects/drop shadow/    1 / 1 / 100 / 32 / black
layers/merge/merge all (flatten)

Step 33
image/resize/900 pixels width
adjust/sharpness/High Pass Sharpen

Step 34
apply your signature
save as… type jpeg

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