Ellie's Treasures PSP-Tuts African Dream Blend

Click here for two alternate ones
Translated with permission from the creator, Lien at X-clusive Designz tutorial site.

See the original tutorial here for PSP in Dutch

This version has all of the screenshots but no backgrounds, etc. and a smaller font.

This version is like the printable above, but has no screenshots, only a small header at the top for an example.
This will take much less paper. The settings are shown as text instead of screenshots.
They will both open in a new window and print out on standard 8½" X 11" paper

For information about which fonts, programs, etc I used to construct my pages and my headers, click here.

For this tutorial you will need:

I've done this tutorial in PSP 9 and PSP XI.
I believe it can be done in most versions.
You may have to look around for the commands but it's likely they are there.

Filters and materials needed
Bordermania, download it free here
Supplies in zip file here includes a background, fonts and tubes
Please leave the filenames and previews of the tubes intact.
The creators have worked hard to make them.
The material has been prepared so that you can open it with different versions of the program.

I am assuming you know the basics of Paint Shop Pro and where the tools can be located.
My filter windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my filters.
A great program! It's Shareware and you can get it here.

Here are some arrows and bars you can drag and drop where you need to mark or underline where you are. .
Just left click and drag to where you want it then let go.
They will stay where you put them until you close your browser.

Here's a small version to drag with you as you go, for reference

Put the filter in your plugin folder, and either install the fonts or double click
to open the windows font viewer for each one. Leave them open and they will be available in PSP.
Open up your background image, your tubes and the fonts. Minimize all, they are not needed yet.

1. Open a new transparent canvas 500X350 pixels
Make your foreground color #ffee9c and your background color #a06b41
or colors of your choice to go with your tubes

2. Click on your gradient tool, pick Foreground-Background, Angle of 45 and repeats of 3. Do not check invert.

Fill your canvas. Then go to Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur>Radius of 5

It should look like this now.

3. Layers>New Raster Layer. Select>Select All.

Maximize your background image. Edit>Copy (or Control-C).
Go to your working canvas. Edit>Paste into selection
Deselect.

In the layer palette, reduce opacity to 60

4. Activate the lion tube. Copy.
Go to your working canvas. Edit>Paste as new layer (or Control-L)

In the layer palette, reduce opacity to 70

5. Activate the lion cubs tube (aren't they cute??:-)). Copy
Back to your working canvas, Paste as new layer.

In the layer palette, reduce opacity to 75

6. Activate the woman tube. Copy
Over to your working canvas, Paste as new layer

In the layer palette, reduce opacity to 75
Your palette should look like this when you're done.
Although I named the layers myself so you'll probably see Raster 1, Raster 2, etc.

7. Layers>Merge>Merge Visible (or right click in the layer palette)
Layers>Duplicate (or right click in the layer palette)

8. Make sure you are in the top layer and go to Effects>Texture Effects/Blinds and use these settings:
3-100-color is your brown color-horizontal checked, light from above NOT checked.

In the layer palette, reduce opacity to 90

9. Click on your eraser and use the following settings in the toolbar
round, 50-10-24-100-100-0-50

Now remove carefully the blinds effect from the lion's head, the cubs heads, the woman's head

Layers>Flatten layers

10. Effects>Ilumination Effects>Sunburst with the following settings.
Color is your foreground color. 20-0-0-48-20-5.

11. Image>Add border>12 pixels symmetrically-white

Click on your magic wand with these settings:
Replace-RGB-tolerance of 0-contiguous-feather 0-anti-alias checked-outside

Select the border and fill with your gradient

12. Select all
Selections>Modify>Contract 12 pix

Effects>Bordermania>Frame #2 with the following settings
3-3-110-130 bevel and notch corner NOT checked

Select all. Use Bordermania again at the same settings. Deselect.

13. New raster layer. Activate your text tool and use these settings
Sloop Script Three-60-pixels-Bold-centred-vector-direction arrow down-stroke width of 1.

Leave the gradient as foreground color and the leave the background color the brown color #a06b41.
Type "African" with this font. Convert to raster layer
Effects>3D effects>Drop Shadow, with the following settings: 1-1-100-0 black

14. Repeat step 13 with the font "Where is the rest" - type "Dream" - this font only
has capitals so it doesn't matter whether you type lower case or upper. Add the shadow.

Lock your bottom layer by clicking on the eye. Activate your top layer and
go to Layers>Merge Visible. Reduce the opacity to 90.
Make the bottom layer visible again by clicking on the eye. Merge visible

Yours should look like this (mine is resized a bit smaller)

15. (optional) You may need to sharpen, do that before you add the watermark.
Go to Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp Mask with the settings 1-64-4

16. Layers>New raster layer. Watermark. Merge all (flatten)
Go to File>Export>Jpeg optimizer and set it at about 20.

Your African Dream tag is done!

l hope you had fun!
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These tutorials are translated with permission from the original writer.
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional.
Feel free to share any of my tutorials on this site by a link back to my site,
but do not copy and send the entire tutorial to anyone or any group.
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This one was done by my friend Bobbie of Ramblin Roots.

Made by my friend, Sonel of Sonel's Corner

Webpage Design Information
This webpage background was made in PhotoImpact with a tutorial by Deb DeHaven
Sadly, she passed away but her tutorials just came back online, thanks to PIRCNet.
You can find the tutorial here.
The font I used for the text on the buttons is BrockScript
The font I used for "Translated from X-clusive Designz" is Calligraphia.
The font I used for the "African Dream" tutorial header is Sloop ScriptThree.
Click on the font name to download the font.
I use PhotoImpact to make all of my headers due to the amazing
3D text it has and the wonderful presets available free online
Most of the presets I use are either the ones that come with PhotoImpact, usually the Gel ones,
or from Deb's PI Tutorials and More (see below) or Carol Oyl's site
This is the address to Deb's old pages
http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/millenit/1716/pitutorials/objects/presets/presets1.html
I can't find any links to her new pages but the presets are still on this page for download.
For more sites to find PI Presets, take a look at my Great Beginnings page.