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Envelope Tutorial from Scratch
Open the graphic you want to put inside the
envelope, with the eyedropper left click on a color in the
graphic to set it as your foreground color. Set this
graphic aside for now.
Open a new graphic 400x400, transparant background. Click
on the shapes tool and set tool options, rectangle, filled,
antialias checked and create as vector unchecked and make a
rectangle the size of your choice, it should look something like
this.
Add a layer and click on shapes tool again this
time set to triangle and make a triangle same color and width but
half the height of your rectangle and move it to the top of your
rectangle like this,
Add a layer and change your foreground color to
a lighter color and make another triangle on top of the other one
but slightly smaller as below.
Duplicate this layer go to image, flip and line
it up below the top triangle as below.
At this point you can leave it as is or cut off
a part of the second triangle to look like this.
Now click on the line tool, in tool options
select, Single Line, Stroked, Width 1, Antialias, Create as
Vector and Close Path unchecked and draw 2 lines as in the
picture below.
Now go back to the graphic you're going to
place inside and resize so it looks like it will fit inside the
envelope, I used 50% but it depends on the size of your graphic.
Go to Image, Sharpen, Sharpen then edit, copy and close it if you
want. Then go to edit, paste as new layer on your envelope.
Go to Image, Rotate, Right, Free and type in 15, make sure all
layers is unchecked and say ok. Should look something like this.
On the layer Palette, make sure you're on the graphic layer and move the opacity slider to about 50. Click on the lasso tool, tool options point to point, Feather and Antialias unchecked and make a selection like below.
Hit the delete key or go to edit, clear.
Deselect and put the opacity slider back to 100. Go to
layers, merge, merge visible add text if you want. I
then made a background (will leave that up to you) and copied and
pasted my envelope onto the bg as a new layer in case it needs to
be sized smaller to fit into the bg, layers, merge, merge all
flatten. Save and your done.
If you'd like to see this Tutorial in Dutch go
to
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Thanks Marga
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