Brick Graffiti

May 2008 by DamagedRose

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Supplies & Filters Needed

Psp tube ( longer than wider works best )
Font Bring tha Noize Here
No outside plugins needed

All Settings remain the same unless otherwise noted.

Getting Ready

Open Your Tubes of choice
Duplicate (Shift D) X 2 close original
Image, Resize
Width = No more than 300
Height = will self adjust
Minimize one copy for later

With your Dropper Tool
Select a Light color from your tube for Foreground
Select a Dark color from your tube for Background

Lets Start

1. On your palette
Change foreground to Gradient
Style Linear
Angle 0
Repeats 0

2. Working on your tube
Layers, New Raster Layer
Layers, Arrange, Send to bottom

3. Flood fill tool
Fill with your Gradient
Selections, Select All

4. Maximize other tube copy
Edit, Copy
Minimize again

5. Back to your image
Edit, Paste, Paste into Selection
Selections, Select None

6. Effects, Image Effects, Seamless Tiling
Default
(Click arrow at top for Default)

7. Effects, Image Effects, Seamless Tiling
Edge
Bidirectional

8. On Palette close off layer1 for now using the eye
Make sure other layer is highlighted

9. Adjust, Blur, Gaussian Blur
Radius 10.00

10. Effects, Texture Effects, Texture
Brick Wall
Size 40
Smoothness 1
Depth 1
Ambience 1
Shininess 0
Color White
Angle 315
Intensity 50
Elevation 26

11. Adjust, Add/Remove Noise, Add Noise
Gaussian
Noise 15
Monochrome

12. Open Top Layer and Highlight (tube layer)
13. Effects, 3D-Effects, Drop Shadow
V&H 1
Opacity 60
Blur 5.00
Color Black
Shadow on new layer Unchecked

14. Repeat Drop Shadow only change
V&H to (minus) -1

15. Layers, Merge, Merge All
16. Image, Add Borders
Symmetric Checked
20 Pixels
Background color

17. Magic Wand
Select Border

18. Edit, Paste. Paste into Selection
(Note...if your tube is not still in browser,
You may need to copy it again)

19. Adjust, Blur, Gaussian Blur
20. Effects, Texture Effects, Texture
21. Effects, Art Media Effects, Brush Strokes
Softness 70
Bristles 233
Width 3
Opacity 68
Length 4
Density 77
Angle 315
Color Background color

22. Selections, Invert

23. Effects, 3-D Effects, Cutout
V&H 1
Shadow color Black
Opacity 100
Blur 10.00
Fill interior Unchecked

24. Selections, Select None

25. Image, Add Borders
Symmetric Checked
5 Pixels
Foreground color

26. Magic Wand
Select Border

27. Selections, Invert
28. Effects, 3-D Effects, Cutout

29. Selections, Invert

30. Effects, 3-D Effects, Inner Bevel
Bevel 2
Width 3
Smoothness 15
Depth 3
Ambience 0
Shininess 8
Color White
Angle 315
Intensity 38
Elevation 42
Selections, Select None

31. Image, Add Borders
Symmetric Checked
30 Pixels
Background color

32. Magic Wand
Select Border

33. Edit, Paste. Paste into Selection
(Note...if your tube is not still in browser,
You may need to copy it again)

34. Adjust, Blur, Gaussian Blur

35. Effects, Texture Effects, Texture

36. Selections, Invert

37. Effects, 3-D Effects, Cutout
Selections, Select None

38. Image, Add Borders
Symmetric Checked
5 Pixels
Foreground color

39. Magic Wand
Select Border

40. Selections, Invert

41. Effects, 3-D Effects, Cutout

42. Selections, Invert

43. Effects, 3-D Effects, Inner Bevel
Selections, Select None

44. Image, Resize
Width 350 Pixels
Height will Self adjust
Bicubic
Lock Aspect Checked
Resize all layers Checked

45. Layers, Promote Background Layer

46. Image, Canvas Size
Width 1250 or your Preference
Height your Image height plus 10
Placement Left Center

47. Layers, New Raster Layer
Layers, Arrange, Send to Bottom
Selections, Select All

48. Edit, Paste, Paste into Selection
(Note...if your tube is not still in browser,
You may need to copy it again)

49. Selections, Select None

50. Effects, Image Effects, Seamless Tiling
Default
(Click arrow at top for Default)

51. Adjust, Blur, Gaussian Blur

52. Layers, New Raster Layer
Layers, Arrange, Send to Bottom

53. Flood Fill with Background color

54. On Palette using eye close off Raster 1

55. Make sure another of the layers is highlighted
Layers, Merge, Merge Visible

56. Effects, Texture Effects, Texture

57. Layers, New Raster Layer

58. Flood Fill with Background color

59. Adjust, Add/Remove Noise, Add Noise

60. Adjust this layer's Opacity on your Palette to about 75

61. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible

62. Open Top Layer and Highlight

63. Effects, 3D-Effects, Drop Shadow
V&H 1

64. Repeat Drop Shadow only change
V&H to (minus) -1

65. Text tool

Vector
Font Bring tha Noize
Size 72
Stroke 1.0
Line your choice
Leave your colors as they are

66. Add your first Text word turn, resize
Move where you want
Layers Convert to Raster

67. Repeat above steps for each word

68. After you have all your words
Close off bottom 2 layers on your Palette
Having another highlighted
Merge, Merge Visible

69. Effects, 3-D Effects, Drop Shadow
V&H 0
Opacity 60
Blur 1.00
Shadow on new layer, Unchecked

70. Open all your layers
If you need to lower the Opacity on your words you
can do so now on your Palette

71. Layers, New Raster Layer
Arrange, Bring to Top
Add WaterMark

72. File, Export, JPEG Optimizer
Compression value set to 20 or 25
Name your file and save

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