Graphics Funhouse: Fade to Grey

Artwork ©Elias Chatzoudis

In order to use his art you must purchase a license and his tubes at MyPSPTubes

Font : Island of Misfit Toys (incl. in the supplies)

Supplies: Zipper and circles made by me (do not share) and the font with TOU textfile here

Filters:

Simple Filters / Blintz Tile here

Enki`s Filters / Wallpaper Deluxe here

Xero / Porcelain here

Nik Software / Color Efex Pro 3.0 (you don`t need if you use my circles) here

Alien Skin Exposure / Black and White Film (can be made with Photo effects /Black and white film too) here

Alien Skin / Eye Candy 5 / Impact / Perspective Shadow (can be made with drop shadow too) here

AAA Frames here

The tutorial was made with PSP X and Jasc Animation Shop

At the bottom of the page you can see more examples

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1.) Open a new raster layer 600x250 pixel and pick 2 colors (1 lighter and 1 darker) from your tube, set 1 to foreground and 1 to background / switch to gradient

2.) Floodfill your raster layer / Effects / Enk`s Filters / Wallpaper Deluxe

3.) Effects / Edge Effects / Enhance

4.) Copy and paste your closeup as new raster layer, move to the right side and lower the opacity to 50%

5.) Hover the mouse over the corners of your canvas and when you see the symbol in the screenshot below, drag them outside

6.) If you want to use my circles (colorize to match your tag), then keep going with step 9

7.) Set your background to the gradient / foreground none / Ellipse Tool

8.) Convert to raster layer / Effects / Nik Software / Color Efex Pro

9.) Effects / Xero / Porcelain

10.) Effects / Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 / Impact / Perspective Shadow

11.) Rectangle Tool / foreground none / background the dark color from your gradient / draw an overlapping rectangle

12.) Convert to raster layer / Selection / select all / float / defloat

13.) Effects / Simple / Blintz , repeat this filter (if you followed the steps before, you should have a triangle in the middle now) / deselect

14.) Effects / Texture Effects / Blinds

15.) Effects / Distortions Effects / Wave

16.) Effects / Drop Shadow

17.) Lower the opacity to 60-70 % or you can play with the blending options / for placement look at my example

18.) Add your tube to the left side and apply same Perspective Shadow as before

19.) Merge visible / duplicate and at the bottom one / Effects / Alien Skin Exposure / Black and White Film

20.) Highlight your top layer and copy and paste my zipper , resize / rotate and place it to your liking

21.) Add drop shadow as before and sharpen

22.) Take your Lasso Tool / point to point / Mode: Add / Antialias checked and go arround the corners of the zipper

23.) Highlight the layer below the zipper and hit the delete button on your keyboard

24.) Merge all visible / Effects / AAA Frames / Foto frame

25.) Add the artist copyright and your license

26.) Text Tool / open the supplied font with double click on it, minimize / in your drop down menu you should see the font "Island of Misfit Toys" now