Monday, November 22, 2010

Grid Weave

This tut was originally written in 2008, but I lost the example tag and screenshots that were posted to Photobucket. The tut has been rewritten on 09/04/2018 with all new images.



Supplies needed:
PSP - I use version X9 but most versions will do
Tube of your choice, I'm using the art of Amy Brown, this tube was purchased at CDO, unfortunately she is no longer selling there
Do not use this tube without purchasing a license first
2 papers of choice
Grid tube from Dozi here (It's the 1st kit on the page)
Brush of choice
Ribbon Tube here
Font of choice, I'm using Hydrangea
Filters used:
Coconut Ice SBP preset here
Xero Porcelain
Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow

Remember to rename your layers as you go. This tut has many layers and it'll help keep them straight. Don't forget to save as you go. Let's begin.

Open the grid tube, papers and your main tube. Shift D to make duplicates on all tubes and papers, close all originals.

On the grid tube, delete all layers except Layer 1. Resize 40%, all layers checked. Rename Grid. Add a new raster layer, flood fill white, send to the bottom of the layer palette.

Select one of your papers. Copy and paste as a new layer. Move this layer under your grid layer. Rename Paper.

Select your 2nd paper and copy. Activate the grid layer, Select all. Selections, float, defloat. Paste your paper into selection. Keep selected. Apply Super Blade Pro with the M_Coconutice preset. Deselect. Give it a drop shadow. I used 0, 0, 50, 5.

Copy and paste your main tube as a new layer on top of your grid. Resize as needed, all layers unchecked. Place it where you want it to sit. Duplicate your tube twice for a total of 3 layers. Hide the duplicates and activate the original.

Give it a gaussian blur with a radius of 10. Then apply Mosaic Antique with default settings. Change the blend mode to Multiply or one that suits your tube and colors of your paper. Rename Mosaic Tube

Move this layer below the grid layer. Activate and unhide your middle tube layer, rename Main Tube. Apply Xero, Porcelain with default settings but move the blue slider to 0. Give it a drop shadow. -2, 2, 50, 10.

Activate and unhide the top tube layer. Give it a guassian blur of 2. Change the blend mode to Overlay or one that suits your tube. Rename Blur Tube

Select ribbon tube. Colorize with both values set to 0. Using your Manual Color Correction tool, change it to a color to match your tube. The source color is #dfdfdf. Your target color will be the color you want it to be. I chose a nice chocolate brown color from her hair.


Hide the top 2 tube layers for now. Copy and paste the ribbon as a new layer on your workspace. Resize 22%, all layers unchecked. Move this layer above the grid layer. Move it into position so it's over part of the grid like below, with one end of the ribbon off the edge of the canvas. Zoom in if necessary, if needed to better see what you're doing.



Duplicate the ribbon and mirror. Merge down 1 time. Rename Ribbon Bottom. 

Duplicate this layer. Image, Flip, or mirror vertically, depending on the version of psp you use. It will not be lined up perfectly on the top so, use your mover tool to align it up with the top part of the grid, so it matches the bottom. Rename Ribbon top

Duplicate this layer. Image, Rotate, Free Rotate 90 to the left. Move it over to the right side of the grid. Rename Ribbon Right. Drag this layer under the Ribbon Bottom layer. Duplicate and mirror. You should now have a 4th ribbon on the left side. Move it into position. Everything should be lined up like this. The 2 horizontal ribbons, should be on top of the 2 vertical ribbons.


Hide all the other layers EXCEPT the 4 ribbon layers. Make sure one of your ribbon layers is active and merge visible. Rename this layer Main Ribbon. Unhide the grid layer and the white background layer only. Make sure your ribbon layer stays active. Give it a drop shadow of 0, 0, 80, 2. New layer unchecked.

Now here's where it's going to get tricky. Click on your selection tool. Set to Rectangle, Add, feather at 0. Starting at the top left corner, zoom in about 800% so you can see what you're doing. Draw a selection around the 2nd rib in the grid going down from the top, like this, allowing some allowance all the way around the ribbon to account for the drop shadow:


Promote selection to layer. Activate the main ribbon layer and press delete. Deselect. Move the promoted layer under the grid layer. 

Now you're going to skip a rib and do the same thing to the 2nd one down from the one you just did. Make sure that you activate the main ribbon layer each time. Work your way around the grid doing every other rib as you go. When you get to the bottom left corner and  you're ready to do the bottom horizontal section of the ribbon, start with the 1st rib on the grid instead of the 2nd. Bottom right corner, going up, start on the 2nd rib like you did the top left corner. But when you get to the top right corner, start on the 2nd rib, not the first. Do the horizontal ribbons like this so that they go over the broken ribs instead of under them.

Very important to save OFTEN when doing this so you don't lose your progress.

 When you're done, zoom back out to 100% . The ribbon will now appear to be woven in and out of the grid, like so:


Now you should have about 25 promoted selection layers. Hide the main ribbon, grid and white background layers. Make sure one of your promoted layers is active and merge visible. Rename this layer Under Ribbon.

You can now unhide all layers. Activate the top layer in your palette, it should be your blur tube. Add a new raster layer. Click on your Brush tool and find your brush. Select a foreground color from your tube. Apply your brush where you want it to go. Move this layer below your grid layer.

Activate the top layer in your palette again. Add a new raster layer. Select all. Selection, Modify, Contract by 5. Selections, Invert. Copy the paper you used for your background and paste into selection. Apply the same SuperBladePro preset as before. Deselect. Apply the same drop shadow you used for the grid.

Add your artist copyright, license and tagger's mark. Don't forget to credit the scrap kit if necessary.

 Add your name using font of choice, foreground and background colors from your tube. Move into position and convert to raster. Select all, Selections Float, Defloat. Apply the same SuperBladePro preset you used for the grid. Deselect. Apply a gradient glow with the glow width at 3.



Finally, give it a drop shadow, I used 0, 2, 50, 5.

Merge all and save as a jpg. Congrats, you're done!

Tutorial ©Queina 2008, 2018. All rights reserved. Any simularities to any other tutorials is purely coincidental.

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