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PART II You can apply any filter(s) of your choosing to your image. Use the same filter on both layers or use different filters on each. To get the "weaved" effect, we will be erasing small portions of our "diamonds". I find it much easier to to this after applying my plug-in to the diamond layer, but prior to applying a plug-in to the "squares" layer. If you are using Eye Candy 4000 and would like to use the presets I used, right click on the buttons below and choose "Save Target As...". When the "Save As" box opens save in the folder "Eye Candy 4000/Eye Candy 4000 Settings/Glass".
1. Make sure your "diamonds" layer is active and apply the filter of your choice. (Effects/Plug-in Filters) For my frame I used the cc_red_glass1.dat setting in my Eye Candy 4000/Glass plug in folder. When the window opens for your EC4000 Glass filter, click on Settings and choose the "cc_red_glass1.dat" setting from the drop down menu, then click OK:
The above image is a close-up to show the basic effect. As you can see, the bars on the left are shiny, while the ones on the right are dull. Well, I like the shiny effect much better, so I'm going to make all of them shiny! If you'd like a color other than the one shown above, just click on the glass color box and change to a color of your choice before applying the Eye Candy Glass filter:
Save your image (Ctrl+S) 2. In your layer palette, right click on your "diamonds" layer and choose Duplicate. Your new layer (Copy of diamonds) should be active. 3. Go to Image/Rotate and rotate this layer 90 degrees. (Make sure All layers IS NOT CHECKED.)
4. Double click on your selection tool
5. Double click on your selection tool
Deselect (Ctrl+D) Save your image (Ctrl+S) Now you have this:
Much better, don't you think? 6. Turn off the visibility for Layer1 and squares by clicking on the eyeglasses in your layer palette:
7. Right click on your "diamonds" layer and choose Merge/Merge Visible. Double click on your new "merged" layer and rename it "diamonds". Right click on any of your layers and choose View/View All to make all your layers visible again. Save your image (Ctrl+S) 8.
Make your "squares" layer active. Using your magic wand
9. Make your "diamonds" layer active and hit delete. This will remove the "diamonds" from the selected area. 10. Make
your "squares" layer active, then: Save your image (Ctrl+S) 11.
Make your "diamonds" layer active. Click on your eraser
tool
12. Erase portions of your "diamonds" to create a "weave" effect for your frame. The screen shot below shows you the areas I erased to get my "weave" (start with the first section, then erase every other section around each square):
Save your image (Ctrl+S) 13. When you think you've erased all the areas you've decided to use, deselect (Ctrl+D) and take a good look at your image. Chances are you've left some stray pixels here and there (at least I did!). Click on your undo button to reselect and keep erasing until you're happy that you've erased all the stray pixels. Zooming in on your image will help you see those stray pixels much better.
You can keep checking by deselecting and clicking undo until you're happy with your image:
Save your image (Ctrl+S) Okay, let's apply a filter to our squares layer... On to PART III All Art
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