TRELLIS

T R E L L I S

This tut was written on October 17, 2009.
It is written using PSP9; I'm sure the same effects are available in other versions.

SUPPLIES
A tube and a closeup (or an image).
I'm using the work of Ismael Rac. You need to purchase a license to use this tube from AMI.

The following filters:
MuRa's - Copies
Xenofex 1.1 - Shower Door

Font of choice (I'm using "Inspiration").

Let's begin!

Pick a light color for your foreground, and a darker color for your background.
Make a gradient in your foreground materials box:
Linear; Angle: 45; Repeats: 9

We will start with the framed tube.
If you are using an image, simply crop to 250x250 and add a white border of 10, symmetrical.

If you are using a tube, crop to 250x250.
Add a layer, and floodfill with your light color.

Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise - Uniform; 45; Monochrome checked.

Layers - Arrange - Send to bottom.

Change the blend mode of your tube layer to Luminance (Legacy), and the opacity to 40.

Image - Add Border - 10; White; symmetrical.

Set this framed image aside for now.

Open a new image 580x230, fill with your gradient.

Duplicate this layer 3x.

On the top layer, use Xenofex 1.1 Shower Door with the following settings:

Effects, Edge Effects, Enhance

On the middle layer, repeat the Shower Door effect but change the Random Seed to 90.
Repeat Enhance.

On the bottom layer, repeat the Shower Door with a Random Seed of 80.
Repeat Enhance.

Highlight the top layer.

Image - Canvas Size: 600x250, centered.

Add a new layer and floodfill with black.

Layers - Arrange - Send to Bottom.

Highlight the top layer and add a new layer.

Selection tool - Custom Selection with the following settings:

Fill the selection with Black.
Select None.

MuRa's Copies with the following settings:

Add a new layer.

Selection tool - Custom Selection with the following settings:

Fill the selection with Black.
Select None.

MuRa's Copies with the following settings:

Add the following noise to all the black layers - Uniform, 45, Monochrome checked.

The background is now finished.

Add your framed layer from earlier, and your tube.
Add drop shadows as desired (I used 5, 5, 100, 50, black).

Add a selection border, if desired (Select All - Modify - Select Selection Borders (Inside, 2, Anti-alias unchecked)).

Add the proper credits, your license (if necessary) and name.

Animate as usual.

For the avatar:
Make a copy (Shift + D).

Delete everything above the top black background layer.

Crop to 150x150.

Layers - Merge - Merge All (Flatten).

Add a new layer and your selection border, if desired.

No need to animate, and no need for credits.

I hope you enjoy this, my 6th, tutorial.