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Open a
canvas 800x800/ transparent. Flood fill with black
or any background image you desire.
Gather the images that you want to put inside the
bag and paste it on the center of the canvas. Add a
new raster layer. Selections/ Load Selection from
disk. Choose the plastic-bag.. Click on the
Picture Tube and search for the clouds. Flood fill
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Effects/ Plugins/ EyeCandy 3.1 or higher/
glass.
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Effects/ Plugins/ Greg's Factory
Output Vol II/ Pool Shadow. OK.
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Warp Tool. Mesh Horizontal 8/ Mesh Vertical 7. Adjust the
nodes on the center. Make sure to not disturb the edges.
After the mesh wrap tool rendered, go to the layer
palette and merge the promoted selection down.
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Adjust/ Brightness and contrast to
Brightness-80/ Contrast 0. Go to the layer palette and
reduce the
opacity to 30. At this point the content of your bag should
be visible.

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Click on pen tool/
Freehand/ size 2. Draw lines around the image. Edit the
nodes and convert to
raster layer. Go to the layer palette and reduce the opacity
to 50.(Or add new raster layer and use the selections/
Load Selection from disk/ choose the
plastic-bag-edges. Add a new raster layer and flood fill or
paint it with white. Go to the layer
palette and reduce the opacity to 50) Deselect. |
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Pen tool/ size 2.
Point to Point. Draw a line at the top of the bag. Edit the
nodes. Convert to
raster layer. Change the foreground color to yellow. Draw
another line below it. Edit the nodes and
convert to raster layer.
(Or use the selections/ Load selection from disk/ choose the
plastic-bag-topline1. Paint or flood fill
with color of your choice.
Add a new raster layer/ Selections/ Load selection from
disk/ choose the
plastic-bag-topline2.sel. Paint or flood fill with color of
your choice. Deselect.) |
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| Click on the
bag. Click on selection tool/ rectangle. Draw a rectangle
selection just below the yellow line. Click on Effect/
Texture Effects/ Texture/ locate the fine canvas texture. OK
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Pen tool/ point to
point/ size 16. Draw a line below the textured area. Edit
the node and convert to
raster layer. Change the foreground color to your choice.
Change the pen size to 12. Draw a line
over the yellow line.
(Or add a new raster layer/ Selections/ Load selection
from disk/ plastic-bag-topline3. Paint or flood fill
with the color of your choice.
Add a new raster layer/ Selections/ Load selection from
disk/ plastic-bag-topline4. Paint or flood fill with
the color of your choice. |
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Click on Effects/
Texture Effects/ Blinds. Width 5/ Color Black/ Opacity 30/
Horizontal and Light from
left/ top checked. |
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| Click on the
bag. Click on selection tool/ rectangle. Draw a rectangle
selection just below the yellow line. Click on Effect/
Texture Effects/ Texture/ locate the fine canvas texture. OK
( see settings above) |
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Make another
rectangle selection just below the textured area. Add a new
raster layer and flood fill
with white. Go to the layer palette and reduce the opacity
to 40. |
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the plastic bag if you wish. I colored mine with a
light blue. Adjust/ Hue and Saturation/ Colorize. Hue
139/ Saturation 50. |
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Go to the layer
palette/ hide the background/ click the layer above it and
merge all the layers visible.
You now have a plastic storage bag.
End of Tutorial |