Shattered Blend PSP (Tutorial Contest)

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Shattered Blend

This tutorial was written by Fiona Pomfrett on September 17th 2006. Any resemblance to any other tutorial is coincidental. Do not copy and paste this tutorial any where on the net. Scripting and translating of this tutorial is strictly forbidden. If you have any problems please contact me HERE

For this tutorial you will need
:PSP - Any Version
:2 or 3 celebrity mages of your choice
:Tube/PNG/PSD of your chosen celebrity
:Xenofex 2
:Font or fonts of your choice
:Optional Supplies - Images and PSD's of 3 celebrities (Angelina Jolie, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera)

-:1:-
Open a new canvas 500 x 300, add your pictures so they overlap each other
I always drop the opacity so I can see how to line them all up
I know the screenshot below isn't that great but you get the basic idea.


-:2:-
Once you are happy with the position of your images, grab your freehand selection tool
Settings as below:

Choose one of the images, draw around the part or parts of the image you want to get rid of, you may want to put the opacity back up to 100%


-:3:-
Selections, modify, feather by 25 pixels

Selections, invert
Selections, modify, feather by 10 pixels
Selections, invert
Press delete on your keyboard, you may have to press it a few times to get the blend you want

-:4:-
Repeat the above steps for the other images, until your images are blended together.


-:5:-
Layers, merge, visible
Effects, plugins, xenofex 2, burnt edges
Use the settings below:


-:6:-
Image, canvas size, set the canvas size to 700 x 500, we have to set it nice and big for this next step but we can crop it down
Make sure you click the center button so our image is in the center of the new canvas

Effects, Plugins, Xenofex 2, Shatter with the settings below:


-:7:-
Add a new layer, floodfill it with white, layers, arrange, send to bottom
Move your shattered blend to the bottom right corner
Add your psd/png/tube of your celebrity as a new layer, resize if needed, place on the left side


-:8:-
Add your text, I used Gallery for the block style font and Dominique for script style.
Add your tagged by info and any copyright
Crop any excess off your tag, resize if you want

Save as a jpg