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We'll use the
3-D Fun tutorial's mask for this one. Start with a graphic in 16 million colors at
80x120. Goto "Masks">"Load" choose your mask. With white for the foreground color and black
as background click on the paint bucket, choose "RGB Match", "Tolerance"=200,
"Fill Style" = "Solid Color". Right click to paint with the background color.
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Wander over to "Image">"Enlarge Canvas" set to 480x480, "Center Image" checked.
Ease up to "Selection">"Select All">, "Selection">"Modify">"Transparent Color" set to "Background
Color", "Tolerance" = 0. The pipe should now be selected. With any selection tool (Shape, Lasso,
Magic Wand) drag the pipe right, to 340x300. Here's a screen shot.
"Selection">"Select All">, "Selection">"Float". Now might be a good time to mention keyboard
shortcuts, use them! Try this series with the mouse and with the keyboard.
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Zip up to "Images">"Plugin Filters">
"Filter Factory Gallery F">"Radial Replicate" set to "Copies"=255, "Angle"=0, "Offset"=0.
Jog up to "Selections">"Select All">, "Selections">"Modify Transparent Color" set to "Background Color",
"Tolerance" = 0. Using the "Magic Wand", "Tolerance"= 0, "Feather"= 1, select the center of the
torus. Hit the delete key. Using the "Magic Wand", "Tolerance"= 0, "Feather"= 0, select the black
around your torus, saunter over to "Selections">"Invert", then "Images">"Crop", then
"Images">"Normal Filters">"Blur". Wow, cool huh? You might want to save this image as a
mask.
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Now we'll cut out the "elbow" from which everything else will hinge. Click the shape
selection button choose "Square" and "Feather"=0. Starting
at (0,0) select a square to the center of your image, (100,100). Copy and "Paste as New Image".
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We'll build a pipe that matches our elbow by clicking the shape selection tool, choose
"Rectangle" and "Feather"=0. Starting at (0,96) select to (100,100), copy and "Paste as New Image".
Make a few copies of this "sliver of pipe" for later. Resample one of them to 100x100.
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Here's where the fun really kicks in, hurry up to "Image">"Arithmetic", "Image Source #1"
= the elbow image, "Image Source #2" = the pipe image, choose "Lightest" click ok. With
"Arithmetic" the important things to remember are that both images need to be the
same size and aligned properly.
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Go back to your "sliver of pipe" and resample to 100x120. Goto "Image">"Add Borders" and
add 20 to the left side ("Symmetric" not checked). Copy and "Paste as New Image". We'll
rotate one by going to "Image">"Rotate" "Left" 90 Degrees. Slide over to "Image">"Arithmetic",
"Image Source #1" = a pipe image, "Image Source #2" = the other pipe image, choose "Lightest",
click ok.
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Go back to your "sliver of pipe" and resample to 100x200. Pop up to "Image">"Add Borders"
and add 20 to the left side, Copy and Paste. We'll
rotate one by going to "Image">"Rotate" "Right" 45 Degrees. The vertical pipe image needs
to be enlarged to the same dimensions as the rotated image, 226x226. So... "Image">
"Enlarge Canvas" to these dimensions with "Center Image" checked.
Click the shape selection button choose "Rectangle" and "Feather"=0. On the angled
image, starting at (0,0) select a rectangle to (118,226). (The 118 is the distance from
the left side of the vertical image to the center of the highlite.) Hit the delete key.
Ease up to "Image">"Arithmetic", "Image Source #1" = a pipe image, "Image Source #2" = the
other pipe image, choose "Lightest", click ok.
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Now to cap it off, go back to your "sliver of pipe" and resample to 100x100.
"Selections">"Select All">, "Selections">"Modify">"Feather" set to 40, Copy and Paste.
Click the shape selection button choose "Rectangle" and "Feather"=0. Start at
(0,30) and select to (0,100), Copy and Paste.
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