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Ma, No Jaggies
Requirements: PSP6/PSP7 |
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This tutorial is to show you how you can lessen the jaggies when creating 3D rounded objects by using the Inner Bevel Filter.
1 Make a 300 x 200, 16 million colors and Black background image. Set foreground color to light gray (RGB = 192) and background color to
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2 Make an ellipse selection  on your new image
(antialias = on).
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3 Move your mouse pointer somewhere near the "X" spot and while holding down the [CTRL]
key, draw a smaller ellipse inside your current selection. Using the [CTRL] key allows you to subtract from an active selection.
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4 Repeat step 3 by making another elliptical selection at the red spots. You can
save the current selection to alpha channel (Selection>Save to Alpha Channel) for later use.
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5 Apply a solid color fill  on your current
selection.
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6 Apply the Inner Bevel filter (Image>Effects>Inner Bevel) using the settings shown below.
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I recommend you play more with the Inner Bevel Settings to produce more smooth edges. |
Light Color:
R = 111 G = 88 B = 63
Resulting Image:
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7 Contract selection by 1 (Selections>Modify>Contract). Invert selection (Selections>Invert) and
press [Delete] key.
Invert selection again (Selections>Invert). Press [CTRL+C] to place a copy of the current selection to a clipboard, then press [CTRL+E] to place clipboard content into a textured image.
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