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Tutorial Date
October 15, 2003
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Objective:
To give the illusion of a wood burning. The actual craft of wood burning requires a special tool that allows you to burn your design into a piece of wood. This is my digital recreation of that craft. Your final results will vary according to the image used. The color depth and detail of your image will affect the results.

Supplies:
You'll need the Ice4 filter by DC. You can download that HERE.  Install the filter to your plugin folder.

PhotoImpact. You can download a trial version HERE
Screen shots are for PhotoImpact 8 (This can also be done in PI 7)

PI stamp or PSP tube of your choice, I'm using a sunflower that I painted.



(1) Open a new image 300x300 (color doesn't matter)

(2) Open the Easy Palette Fill Gallery, Nature Texture and select NT 24 (NT20 for PI 7), double click to fill.

(3) Select your stamp or PSP tube; center your image by going to "Object", "Align", "Center Both". Keep selected.

(4) Go to "Effect"; "DCspecial"; "Ice4" with these settings (put a checkmark by Original Ice first):
(5) Right click on the layer manager, choose "duplicate".

(6) Fill again with the Nature Texture NT 24 (NT20 for PI 7).

(7) Right click on the duplicate layer, choose "Properties", change the Merge to "Multiply".

(8) Right click on that layer and duplicate. Right click and choose "Properties"; change the Merge to "Hue and Saturation". You have some options here. You can leave it as it is now and you have a wood burned effect with no color added. However, with my example, I decided to leave a little color to the image, so I changed the transparency level to 49.

(9) Select your bottom layer that has your image on it and apply a drop shadow with these settings:
(10) Right click again on the layer manager, choose "Select All Objects", then "Merge As A Single Object". When the warning message pops up, click "yes" you want to continue. At this point you can either frame your image, add something behind it as in my other examples and then "merge all" and frame.







   

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