Battered But Not Broken Tutorial

All the supplies you will need can be downloaded here.

Plug Ins Needed For This Tutorial

Cybia - Mezzy - here

Photo Tools - Frosted Edger - Black - here

DC Special - Fire - here

FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - here

Flaming Pear - Boss Emboss - here

Xero - Bad Dream - here

Simple - Top Left Mirror - here

Battered But Not Broken Tutorial

Open up all the materials and place them in the right places. Font to fonts, gradient to gradients,
images to psp file and so on. This tutorial was written for PSP 9.

1. Open a transparent image 640 x 480.

2. Go into your material properties and bring up the ww black chrome gradient. Use these setting
Angle: 30 - Repeats: 4 - Horizontal: 35 - Vertical: 2 Style is Linear.

3. Flood fill your layer with the gradient.

4. Effects - Cybia - Mezzy - Settings: Adverse, Dark - 185, Light - 64

5. Open image 4 - sbg - battered but not broken and edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Move to the left center. Opacity 90.

6. Effects - Photo Tools - Frosted Edger - Black - Settings: Diffuse - 96, Encroachment - 119

7. Open image 6 - sbg - battered but not broken and edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Move to the right bottom corner. Opacity 90.

8. Open image 8 - patry - battered but not broken and edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Move to the left bottom corner. Opacity 40.

9. Add a new raster layer. Effects - DC Special - Fire - Settings - Thickness 25, Scatter - 25
Psuedo Seed - 0, Color 1 - Red, Color 2 - Yellow. Opacity 50. Blend Mode - Screen.

10. Open image 11 sbg - battered but not broken. Go to adjust - color balance - negative image. Edit - copy - paste as
a new layer.  In your layer palette move this layer (raster 6) to just above your
background layer (raster 1). Opacity 80.
Effects - FM Time Tools - Blend Emboss -default settings.

11. Open image 13 - sbg - battered but not broken and edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Move to the left and centered side of the picture. Opacity 40. In your layer palette move this layer
(raster 7) under image 8 (raster 4).

12. Open image 15 - sbg text - battered but not broken. Go to adjust - color balance - negative image.
Edit - copy and paste as a new layer. Move to the right and centered side of the picture.
Effects - Flaming Pear - Boss Emboss - default settings.

13. Go into layers - merge - all flatten.

14. Effects - Xero - Bad Dream - Settings; Softness - 100, Strength - 20.

15. Open image 18- sbg - Battered but not broken. Edit - copy - paste as new layer. Move into left upper corner.
Effects - Simple filter - Top Left Mirror, merge - all.

16.To add your name go to font - VivaldiD - size 24 - stroke 1 - anti-alias - smooth. Use the color
or pattern or gradient of your choice. Effects - 3D effects - drop shadow - settings: vertical 4 - horizontal 4 -
opacity 100 - blur 7.00 - color black

17. Position your name in the bottom right area where you would like to have it. Effects - FM Tile Tools
Blend Emboss - Default settings.

18. Go to layers - merge all flat.

19. Save your work. You're done.

 

Credits
 
 
Photo Credits
Abuse/People/Portraits 
Photographer is Grom of The Stock Xchange
http://www.sxc.hu/profile/grom
 
Song Credits
Song is Independence Day by Martina McBride.

Created May 3, 2006

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