Melted Brush Strokes SB Tutorial

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Melted Brush Strokes Tutorial

Level - Advanced Beginner

This tutorial assumes full knowledge of PSP.

Items Needed -

PSP (any version will do)

Tube of Choice

Filter - Brush Strokes

Filter - Mehdi - Melt 1.1

Let's Begin!

1. Open Tube.

2. Resize height to no more than 300 pixels. If smaller, leave it.

3. Edit, Copy.

4. Pick a light color and a medium/dark color from tube.

5. File - New. 1024 X 325, transparent.

6. Selections - Select All.

7. Edit - Paste into Selection.

8. Selections - Select None.

9. Blur - Motion Blur

Settings - Angle - 31 Strength - 100

Repeat Motion Blur

10. Apply Seamless Tile - Default Settings

11. Layers - New Raster Layer

12. Flood Fill with Dark color

13. Layers - Arrange - Move Down

14. Merge Visible

15. Effects - Plugins - Brush Strokes - Angled Strokes (see screen shot)

16. Effects - Plugins - Mehdi - Melt 1.1 (see screen shot)

17. Repeat Mehdi

18. Layers - New Layer

19. Flood fill with light color

20. Bring opacity of this layer down to make it text friendly, usually around 40 - 50, depending on colors used.

21. Merge Visible

22. Seamless tile - default settings

23. Edit - Paste as New Layer

24. Move tube to left.

25. Drop Shadow 3, 3, 70, 10

Repeat with -3, -3, 70, 10

26. Apply Watermark

27. Merge All

28. Export as jpeg

29. Assemble in Letter Creator!

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.

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