Advanced' Photo Effects Tutorials

Thanx to dinkydasy for the original tutorial. I reworked it for PSP

1. Start with the base image, found here (thanks to dinkydasy):


2. Make a duplicate of your background layer


3. Right click on the Background layer and promote background layer:



4. Click on the Copy of Background layer and go to Adjust | Blur | Guassian Blur and use the settings
Radius 6



5. Go to Adjust | Hue and Saturation | Colorize and use Hue 93, Saturation 81



6. Make a duplicate of your current layer by going to Layers | Duplicate.

7. Go to the bottom layer, which should now be Raster 1.


8. Drag it to the top of the layer pallet until it is above the other layers like this:



9. Go to Adjust | Negative Image. Your image will now look like this:


10. Now, make your current layers (Raster 1) blend mode Overlay.
You can either right click on the layers name and choose properties and where it says blend mode choose overlay OR just click on the arrow next to normal and choose overlay.



It will now look like this:



11. Set the layer underneath Raster1s blend mode to Luminance.

12. Go to Layers | Merge | Merge All (Flatten)

13. Go to Effects | Artistic Effects | Glowing Edges
Intensity 1
Sharpness 0



14. Now Go to Adjust | Hue and Saturation | Colorize again and use the same settings:
Hue 93
Saturation 81

You will get this:



15. Make a copy of your background layer again

16. Go to Adjust | Blur | Motion Blur
Angle 180; Strength around 82



17. Promote your background layer again and move it above your copied layer

18. Adjust the opacity of the top layer (Raster 1) to 20%. (Drag the slider)


19. Now, go to Image | Rotate | Rotate Clockwise 90.
Repeat.
You now have this:


20. Now go to Image | Mirror or press Ctrl-M.
Click on the other layer and repeat.
You should now have this:



21. Good job! Now were ready for text.

Make sure your background color is a bright green, almost white:



Add some text.


Font: Times New Roman
Size: 48
Stroke width: 0
Anti Aliased : Checked


Type anything you like.
Move the text to around the middle of the image.



22. Right click the Vector1 layer and convert to raster:


23. Go to the rectangular selection tool:


Make sure the Selection type is Rectangle.


24. Select random pieces of the text and move them around until it looks sort of jittery, almost like this


25. Swap your materials so the light green is the paint color now:


26. Paint lines to connect the letters so it looks something like this:


27. Make a copy of your layer with the text.

28. Use the eyedropper tool and right click on your text to get the light green color the background color. Choose a brightish green for the paint color like this:


29. Go to the position of the eyedropper tool on the toolbar and click the arrow to get the color replacer tool:



30. Paint over your text until its something like this:


31. Make 2 copies of this layer.

32. Go to Effects | 3D Effects | Drop Shadow
Vertical offset 0
Horizontal offset 0
Opacity 100
Blur 15.83
Color: Choose the bright green color that should be the paint color
Make sure the Shadow on new layer box is not ticked.



33. Repeat this +-3 times until youve got a nice greenish glow. Move the layer with your original text (Raster2) to the top of the layers. You should have something similar to this:



34. Now, go to one of layers which is a copy of your text, but bright green. Go to Effects | Distortion Effects | Wind

Wind direction: From left
Wind strength: 100



35. Now go to the other layer that is the same as the previous one. Go to Effects | Distortion Effects | Wind

Wind direction: From RIGHT
Wind strength: 100


36. Move the layer with the glow to 3rd from the bottom.

37. There you have it!! Should look like this: