Rippler Flutter Topper This tutorial is copyrighted to the Tut writer Sharon of SharEl Tutorials. This Tutorial may not be placed on any Website without written permission from SharEl Tutorials.You may share your results of this tutorial through an Egroup, but do not share the Tutorial itself without written permission from SharEl Tutorials.The graphics used in this tutorial were from the WWW or shared through email groups. If you are the artist and copyright holder of these graphics please let me know so I can either give you proper credit or remove them from my tutorial, whichever you wish me to do. Any supplies needed for any of my tutorials will have a link to get them. Wherever possible I use free filters for my tutorials and there will be a link to get them too. If I use an artist's work for my tutorials I will have the proper credit given to them along with a link to their site.If you use my supplies and there is a link to the artist, please put a link on your creation also. I believe in giving credit as they did the art, I only created a stationery with it. Supplies Needed: PSP Trial Version Here A misted tube of your choice A bottom edge mask of your choice Plugin: Filter Factory M: Rippler Here Plugin: Ecosse: Flutter Here Plugin: Simple Filters Here Let's Begin: 1. Open your tube in PSP. 2. Resize to a height of no more than 350, the width will self adjust. 3. Duplicate and minimize for later use. 4. Pick a color from your tube and place in the foreground. 5. On your open copy: Layers: New raster layer: Arrange send to bottom. 6. Floodfill with your color. 7. Layers: Merge: Visible 8. Seamless tiling: Default: Corner: Checked Bidirectional: Checked Horizontal offset: 0 Vertical offset: 0 Transition: 50 Linear: Checked 9. Adjust: Blur: Motion blur with these settings: Angle: 315 Strength: 100 10. Plugin: Filter Factory M: Rippler with these settings: Ripples: 67 Magnitude: 15 11. Plugin: Ecosse: Flutter with these settings: up/down freq 1: 150 up/down scale 1: 70 up/down freq 2: 0 up/down scale 2: 0 left/right freq 1: 150 left/right scale 1: 70 left/right freq 2: 0 left/right scale 2: 0 12. Simple: Diamonds 13. Seamless tiling: Default 14. Set your background to pattern and find this pattern we just made. Angle: 0 Scale: 100 15. Open a new transparent image 1024x450. 16. Flood fill with your pattern. 17. Layers: Load Mask from Disk: Source luminence: Checked Fit to canvas: Checked Invert transparency: unchecked Hide all mask: Checked ( I used the SN253_Verhina mask, but you can use a mask of your choice also.) 18. Layers: Merge group. 19. Effects: 3D Effects: Drop Shadow with these settings: V&H: 4 Opacity: 50 Blur: 5 Color: Black Shadow on new layer: Unchecked 20. Maximize the copy of your tube. 21. Copy and paste as a new layer. 22. Position where you want it. 23. Layers: New raster layer: Add any text if you wish to and your watermark. 24. Image: Canvas size: 1024x2000 25. Layers: New raster layer: Arrange: Send to bottom. 26. Floodfill with your color. 27. Adjust: Add noise: 5 Random: Monochrome: Checked. 28. Layers: Merge all: Flatten. 29. Save with Jpeg Optimizer set at 25-28 and you're done! Please link this Tutorial back to:"http:\\slstutorials.com Thank you for trying my tutorial! Back This webpage created for SLS Tutorials on 3-30-08.