Burn Baby Burn Tutorial

All the supplies you will need can be downloaded here.

Plug Ins Needed For This Tutorial

FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - here

Mura's Seamless - Shadow - here

Xero - Seasons - here

Xero - Mistifier - here

Adjust Variations - here

Burn Baby Burn 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 materials palette.

3. Foreground color #560606 or choose your own

4. Background color #ad420a or choose your own

5. Materials Palette - make a gradient with your two colors - Settings - Angle - 45, Repeats - 0,
Style - Linear. Invert - unchecked

6. Flood fill your transparent image with your gradient color.

7. Layers - New Raster Layer

8. Activate paint brush tool - brush lk 6 and stamp 1 time to the left side. settings - Size - 500,
step - 1, density - 100, rotation - 0 - opacity - 100, blend - normal. color - #560606

9. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - 1, Horizontal - 1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1,
Color - Black

10. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen - Repeat if you prefer a sharper effect.

11. Layers - New Raster Layer

12. Selections - Select All

13. Open image 1 - sbg - burn baby burn. Edit. copy and paste into selection Blend
Mode - Normal - Opacity - 100.

14. Freehand tool - Settings - Selection - Freehand, Mode - Add, Feather - 14, Smoothing - 10
anti alias - checked.

15. Materials Palette - Highlight image 1 - sbg. use the freehand tool to remove the black areas of
the fire on both sides. When you are happy with your result hit delete once.

16. Open image 2 - Gertjes Mask 22 - burn baby burn - Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image - Source Luminance -
checked, Invert mask data - checked. Apply mask.

17. Layers - Merge - Merge Group

18. Effects - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - Default Settings. Repeat

19. Materials Palette - Highlight brush layer and move it up over the group layer.
Lower the opacity of the brush layer to 80.

20. Layers - Duplicate layer

21. Image - Mirror - move until eye peeks out of the area cleared by the freehand tool.

22. Materials Palette - Lower the opacity of the duplicate layer to 50.

23. Open image 3 - nikita - burn baby burn. Edit. copy and paste as a new layer. Blend
Mode - Hard Light - Opacity - 80. Move to the right side of the background just past the eye.

24. Image - Resize - Resize all layers - unchecked - Resize 95%

25. Layers - Duplicate layer

26. Materials Palette - Highlight duplicate of image 3. Blend Mode - Luminance (Legacy)
Opacity - 80.

27. Open image 4 - nancy lee - burn baby burn. Edit. copy and paste as a new layer. Blend
Mode - Screen - Opacity - 100. Move to the left side of the background up against the side.

28. Image - Resize - Resize all layers - unchecked - Resize 75% - Repeat

29. Layers - Duplicate layer

30. Materials Palette - Highlight duplicate of image 4. Blend Mode - Luminance (Legacy)
Opacity - 100

31. Layers - Merge All Flat

32. Effects - Mura's Seamless - Shadow - Settings - Offset X - 132, Offset Y - 132, Color R - 0,
Color G - 0, Color B - 0, Effects - 255.

33. Effects - Xero - Seasons - Settings - Red Cut/Boost - 0, Green Cut/Boost - 5, Blue Cut/Boost - 5,
Effect Strength - 255.

34. Effects - Xero - Mistifier - Settings - Haziness - 128, Strength - 128, Red Mist - 255,
Green Mist - 255 - Blue Mist - 255

35. Adjust - Brightness and Contrast - Clarify - Setting - Strength of Effect - 1.

36. Layers - Duplicate Layer

37. Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout - Settings - Vertical - 35, Horizontal - 35, Shadow Color - black, Opacity - 75,
Blur - 100.

38. Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout - Settings - Vertical - -35 (minus 35), Horizontal - -35 (minus 35) , Shadow
Color - black, Opacity - 75, Blur - 100.

39. Layers - Merge all flat

40. Open image 5 - sbg text - found with you. Edit. copy and paste as a new layer. Blend
Mode - Normal - Opacity - 100. Move to the center of the background on the right side in
between the two flowers.

41. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - 1, Horizontal - 1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1,
Color - Black - This step is optional. I chose not to do this.

42. Layers - Duplicate Layer

43. Layers - Merge All Flat

44. Image - Add Border - 2 pixels. Flood - fill with sbg gold pattern sample or color of your choice.

45. Effects - Texture - Silverbeads fill - Settings - Size - 100, Smoothness - 0, Depth - 1, Ambience - -,
Shininess - 0, Color - White, Angle - 315, Intensity - 50, Elevation - 30.

46. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen. - Repeat - Selections - Deselect.

47. Image - Add Border - 6 pixels. Select with Magic wand.

48. Foreground color #560606 or choose your own

49. Background color #ad420a or choose your own

50. Materials Palette - make a gradient with your two colors - Settings - Angle - 45, Repeats - 0,
Style - Linear. Invert - unchecked

51. Flood fill your transparent image with your gradient color.

52. Layers - New Raster Layer

53. Flood fill your transparent image with your gradient color.

54. Materials Palette - Highlight gradient layer - Blend Mode - Soft Light - Opacity - 50

55. Layers - Merge All Flat

56. Effects - Texture Effects - Mosaic Glass - Settings - Number of columns - 100, Number of rows - 100,
Symmetric - checked, Glass curvature - 50, Edge curvature - 5, Grout width - 5, Grout diffusion - 80.

57. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

58. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel - Settings - Bevel - Straight (1), Width - 20, Smoothness - 2, Depth - 2,
Ambience - 8, Shininess - 18, Color - white, Angle - 315, Intensity - 37, Elevation - 37.

59. Selections - Select None.

60. Image - Add Border - 2 pixels. Flood - fill with sbg gold pattern sample or color of your choice.

61. Effects - Texture - Silverbeads fill - Settings - Size - 100, Smoothness - 0, Depth - 1, Ambience - -,
Shininess - 0, Color - White, Angle - 315, Intensity - 50, Elevation - 30.

62. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen. - Repeat - Selections - Deselect.

63. Image - Add Border - 30 pixels. Select border with magic wand. Edit - copy and paste into the selection
with sbg border pattern - burn baby burn or sbg border pattern 1 - burn baby burn

64. Layers - New Raster Layer

65. Foreground color #560606 or choose your own

66. Flood fill your new layer with your foreground color.

67. Materials Palette - Highlight new raster layer flood filled with #560606. Blend Mode - Soft
Light - Opacity- 50.

68. Layers - Merge All Flat

69. Effects - Adjust - Variations - click on original and then click on darker once.

70. Effects - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - Default Settings. Repeat

71. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel - Settings - Bevel - Edge (3), Width - 8, Smoothness - 0, Depth - 4,
Ambience - -30, Shininess - 0, Color - white, Angle - 315, Intensity - 50, Elevation - 50

72. Selections - Select None.

73. Image - Add Border - 2 pixels. Flood - fill with sbg gold pattern sample or color of your choice.

74. Effects - Texture - Silverbeads fill - Settings - Size - 100, Smoothness - 0, Depth - 1, Ambience - -,
Shininess - 0, Color - White, Angle - 315, Intensity - 50, Elevation - 30.

75. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen. - Repeat - Selections - Deselect.

76. Image - Add Border - 6 pixels. Select with Magic wand.

77. Foreground color #560606 or choose your own

78. Background color #ad420a or choose your own

79. Materials Palette - make a gradient with your two colors - Settings - Angle - 45, Repeats - 0,
Style - Linear. Invert - unchecked

80. Flood fill your transparent image with your gradient color.

81. Layers - New Raster Layer

82. Flood fill your transparent image with your gradient color.

83. Materials Palette - Highlight gradient layer - Blend Mode - Soft Light - Opacity - 50

84. Layers - Merge All Flat

85. Effects - Texture Effects - Mosaic Glass - Settings - Number of columns - 100, Number of rows - 100,
Symmetric - checked, Glass curvature - 50, Edge curvature - 5, Grout width - 5, Grout diffusion - 80.

86. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

87. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel - Settings - Bevel - Straight (1), Width - 20, Smoothness - 2, Depth - 2,
Ambience - 8, Shininess - 18, Color - white, Angle - 315, Intensity - 37, Elevation - 37.

88. Selections - Select None.

89. Image - Add Border - 2 pixels. Flood - fill with sbg gold pattern sample or color of your choice.

90. Effects - Texture - Silverbeads fill - Settings - Size - 100, Smoothness - 0, Depth - 1, Ambience - -,
Shininess - 0, Color - White, Angle - 315, Intensity - 50, Elevation - 30.

91. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen. - Repeat - Selections - Deselect.

92. Text Tool - Settings - Create as - vector, Direction - up and down, Font - Mutlu Size - 14,
Stroke width - 0, Font Style - Bold/Italic, Alignment - center, Anti-alias - sharp, Line style - solid. Type in your
name or initials.

93. Layers Palette - Select Vector layer and click on the plus sign in front of it. Click on the text and right
click your mouse. A menu will open up. Scroll up to properties and click on it. Stroke should be checked
and the little box should have your gold pattern in it. Fill should also be checked and should have your
black background color in it. Stroke width should be 0 and the line style should be solid. Visible
should be checked. Anti-alias should be checked. Once all these are correct click okay.

94. Layer Palette - Highlight your vector layer, right click on your mouse and convert to raster layer.

95. Effects - 3D effects - drop shadow - settings: vertical 1 - horizontal 1 -
opacity 50 - blur 5 - color black. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

96. Layers - Duplicate Layer. Repeat.

97. As an alternative you may use your watermark.

98. Layers - Merge all flat

99. If you are satisfied with your image then you are finished.

100. You are now all done and I hope you enjoyed this tut.

 

Credits
 
Mists by Sabrina Buck Graphics
 
Mists & Tubes by Lisa - ArtInfinity Tubes
 
 
Mists & Tubes by Nancy Lee - For Your Eyes Only Sweety
 
Masks by Gertjes - For Your Eyes Only Sweety
 
Song Credit
Song is Fire by Arthur Brown.

Created March 26, 2008

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