Paint Drips

This tutorial was written
by Sarah Fiack on
July 24,2012
Any resemblance to another
tutorial is purely coincidental.
For this tutorial, I’m using a tube
by Brittany Elizondo. It is available at
AIL

Supplies:
Tube of choice
Weave Background by me
Here

Plugins:
EyeCandy5 Nature Drips
Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow

Open a 600x600 new image.
Open up your tube of choice.
Open up the weave background which
I have provided.

On the weave background,
rotate free rotate 90 right.
Copy & paste as a new layer
onto your new image.We're going
to be adding color to the black rows
of the weave.

Using your magic wand tool,
hold shift button down,
click one row on the weave.
Selections modify expand by 2.
Add a new raster layer.
Fill this with a color from your tube.
You want each row a different color from
your tube.

Now back on the weave, click
on the next row. Repeat the above steps
& fill with a different color this time.
Repeat this so you have 5 different
rows/ columns of color for the background.
Select none.
Merge the color & weave layers together.

Resize your main tube 80%.
Paste as a new layer onto your tag image.
Add a drop shadow to the tube.
2,2,50,5 Black.

Duplicate the weave color layer once.
Resize the duplicated color weave layer 80%.

On the duplicate layer, apply the plugin
EyeCandy5 Nature Drips
Small Spray Paint Drips setting default.
Add the earlier drop shadow to this layer.

Now on the original weave layer,
apply the same plugin with the setting
Small Many little drips.

Choose a graffiti font.
Fill color black.
Stroke width set to 0.
Font size 16 or as wanted.
Type out words of choice.

I chose the words PAINT DRIPS.
Convert to raster.
Rotate free rotate left 90.
Position the wording along the left side
of the tag.

Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow
Setting black glow
Glow width 3.0
Gradient glow Fat same settings.

Merge layers together.
Crop to desired size.
Add artist copyright information & name.
Save as png.
Thanks for trying my tutorial.