The snake shown at the top of
this tutorial and Anne's remarks as she showed him to the
board: Meet Sammy the Smiling Smear Tool Snake.
To make him I merged a DPO oval onto a white background
then, using the smear tool (paint as object) at shape
"round" (same diameter as the oval) a low soft edge setting
and high degree of density, I dragged it around to make my
snake. Then I gave him a green background, a face and a
shadow and voila! The 'shading' just "happened"
Lots of interest shown in the
how to part so Anne wrote this mini tut below.
Click out of Mode when you are finished drawing your shape.
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Lynn has given more detailed instruction that you may
find helpful.
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To continue on, Ann then posted this one at the PI-I board below.
Anne wrote: This evolved from
using the smear tool on a simple photo of light blue flowers
against green foliage. When I'd finished dragging the smear
tool around (at various sizes and settings) I played a bit
with the Water colour effect and the Emboston filter (Cyberworks?).
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When Anne posted her design above it really caught my
attention I loved the Knit look in the pattern she showed. I
didn't know at this point how she did it.
I had to come right back
because I cut out a section of your knit pattern ...then
used it. I love the knit!
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Next is after I looked at Anne's Mini tut and got the settings
she used I started really playing with the knowledge. I
changed the settings to see what it did and started saving
those as brushes in my EP so I could use the brush settings
again. I found
this was so much fun and began to see endless possibilities
of things you could do. I used a spider to see what I would
get with these settings. [I use PI 10] I clicked on the
Panel radial button to open the Tool Settings-Brush Box. In
the Screenshot
the Advanced tab view shows the spacing is set on 10. The
Shape tab shows a round brush set at 71, the brush angle is
set at 0 and the soft edge at 6. In order to change the
spacing of the smudge tool you must open the tool
settings-brush box. [In PI 10]
Oh boy!!...lol I won't bore
you all the different ones I tried but will show the 2 I
posted at the board
I couldn't believe the designs I could get using this tool!
Below is using some flowers and realizing I
Could go outside of the white paper!
Spacing is 10 in the lacy one below...
This is using a tube from Rainbow Coffi of the little girl. I
got some nice lacy designs with this one.
To make the lacey design stand out better on this one I used
FM File Tools/ Blend Emboss set as
Intensity 0.117 and Grey Level at 209. You can also just
sharpen your design to make it show up better.
It is the using of something colorful or having different
colors that you can really make some neat patterns. It all
depends on where you grab it, then going in and out of mode
to grab another section. You can go completely outside of
the area, but in a continuous stroke, from off the side or
bottom and come back down at the top!!!!
Ok just one more... Used for text.
The background is made as a seamless tile, with Simple
Filter, that is shown on this tut page.
Again my thanks to Anne Green for this neat little
tutorial. Like Lynn said "Who would of thought you could use
the Smudge tool as a paint brush like this!"I will
share the setting I used to get some border edging you can
use the results for various things as a fill.
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If you wish to do so, post your results at the
PhotoImpact International Bulletin Board. Thank you!
your work often. I suggest you read the entire tutorial,
before you start. Where it reads "Rc"
in this tutorial, it means right click. And if you need
help, or if you have any suggestions, please don't hesitate
to contact me at: