Paint a Template
- Open a New Image, 600 x 600.
- Choose a nice color from your image with your color picker.
- Layers New Layer, flood fill with this color.
- Go to your image or tube, Edit - Copy, Edit - Paste - As a New Layer.
- Image resize, type in 140% percent, this makes it larger, make sure you have percent **not pixels**. Check that bi-cubic is checked, maintain original print size is unchecked, all layers unchecked
- You may want to resize this again if it does not nearly cover the canvas. Don't worry if it looks odd
- Repeat the resize, we want it big
- When you have it the large size, place it in a corner or in a spot that looks nice but leave some background showing through
- Now go to your layers palette and lower the opacity right down to around 30%
- Layers - Merge All Visible, Effects - Plugins - Fantastic Machines Paint Engine. Hit the random button for your chosen effect or copy my settings
- Image Resize - all layers unchecked - 90%.
- Add your mask of choice, I added one from disk called dmmask98. I then inverted mask and layers delete.
- Now you can stop here and do whatever you wish or like me carry on. I went a little further and added a soft dropped shadow to my layer with a darker color from my image at around 55 opacity.
- Layers Duplicate. Effects - Geometric Effects - Spherize - -95
- Add some text and you have your Painted Template. I simply added text to keep it light and bright!
Have fun with Paint Engine!
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