Blur Mosaic

This tutorial is the exclusive creation of Julia. At the time she wrote this tutorial (in 2003),

she had a site but after checking, that site no longer exists.

I do not have her email address anymore and cannot reach her

but be assured that it was with her permission that I translated her tutorial.

To obtain a result similar to the one presented here, you will need the following tools:

a) a png image or a tube that you like

b) a font that you like; I used Sloop Script Three that you can download here

Plugin needed for this tutorial: Toadies

Let's start!!

Open a new 800 x 800 image, transparent background

Open your tube, resize it if necessary.

Edit - Copy your tube as a new layer. Rename this layer "tube1".

Layers – Duplicate

Rename the duplicate layer "tube2" and make it invisible

Return to your “tube1” layer

Effects - Filters Plugins - Toadies - Plain Mosaic Blur with these settings:

With your Magic Wand (Tolerance and Progressivity at 0), select the grid cells

(using the capitals key to add some cells if this is the case)

and delete with the cisors or your Delete key

In your Materials and Textures, Foreground with

one of PSP gold gradient - I used this one (Corel_06_017):

Flood fill the grid cells

Do not deselect

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow Vertical 0, Horizontal 2, Opacity at 70, Blur at 4, black color

Activate the “tube2” layer and resize it to 75% (uncheck Resize all layers)

With the Move tool place on the bottom left side

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow with the same settings as before

Highlight the bottom empty layer

Layers - Arrange - Bring to top

Rename this layer "text"

Select the Sloop Script Three font

(or another font of your choice) Size 160 - Mode Vector

(or a size that will suit you) Stroke Width at 1

Background with gold gradient and the Foreground with a color from your image

Float and antialias checked

Enter your text, using the vector dots to size it as you like

and placing it using the Move tool

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow with the same settings as before

Deselect

Layers - Merge - Merge visible layers

Now, you can save this as a png image, a tube or you can add a color background and

use this as an image that you can frame.

It is a fun tutorial that can use many good wishes!

I hope that you enjoyed making it and that it will be useful.

Once again, a big thank you to, Julia.

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