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Translated with permission from the
creator, Violette at Violettegraphic tutorial
site.
 
See the original
tutorial here for PSP in French
This
is not my tutorial, it belongs to Violette. If
you would like to translate into another
language, you must ask her permission.
You
can contact her here.
 
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11" paper
For
information about which fonts, programs, etc I
used to construct my pages and my headers,
click
here.
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For this tutorial you will
need:
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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
Filters Unlimited 2, available here
Xero>Porcelain,
available free here, it's in set
1
Supplies in zip file here
for version 8 and up
(((Supplies in zip file here
for older psp versions has .psd tubes instead of
pspimage. these can be opened in any
program.)))
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Credits
The
tubes were made by Suzy; Marcio and Sorensen,
both here; Gini, and
Patry
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My plugin
windows may look different from yours as I use
Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my
plugins.
It's available for purchase here:
http://www.icnet.de/filters_unlimited/
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I am assuming you
know the basics of Paint Shop Pro and where the
tools can be located. |
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 of
the tag that you can drag with you for
reference
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Preparation
Open your
tubes, duplicate them (shift-D) and close the
originals.
I always open all of my tubes and
close as I use them
No tube is used more than
once so each can be closed after using.
You
can drag the tag just above with you as you
go. |
1. Set foreground color to
#820f00 (burgundy), and background color to
white.
Open one transparent
canvas 750 x 500
Fill with the burgundy color
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2. Effects>Filters
Unlimited>Render>Clouds (fore-/background
color), settings: 65-128 (default
settings)
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3. Open tube
"SS_Art_15"
Copy (Control-C), back to working
canvas, paste as new layer
(Control-L)
Position up and to the left, as
shown
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4. Duplicate
layer
Layers>Arrange>Move down,
Position to the right as shown.
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5. Click the eye of the bottom
layer to turn off,
go into one of the other
layers, right click and merge visible.
Turn
the background layer back on. |
6. Open the tube
"Gateway-to-a-Fairytale_MistedByGini"
Copy
(Control-C), back to working canvas, paste as
new layer (Control-L)
Position up and to the
right as shown, ivy touching right edge, point
of door almost touching top edge
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7. Duplicate the door
Turn
off the the background and the landscape
layers
Merge
visible.
Effects>Xero>Porcelain
(Default settings of 50-128-128-0-0-255)
Turn all layers back
on.
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8. Open the tube
"Misted_By_Sorensen_Designs_Tube_July_120-07"
Copy
(Control-C), back to working canvas, paste as
new layer (Control-L)
Position on the bottom
right, as shown, so it looks like the orange and
yellow path is right up to the door.
In the layer palette,
change the Blend Mode to Multiply
Effects>Xero>Porcelain
(Default settings)
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9. Open the tube "Marcio
mc-2909"
Copy (Control-C), back to working
canvas, paste as new layer
(Control-L)
Image>Resize to 90%
Move down and a bit to
the left as shown, bike tire touching bottom
edge, woman's foot
not quite to the bottom
edge, woman's shoulder just at the edge of the
doorway.
Change the Blend Mode in
layer palette to Luminance
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10. Highlight the landscape
layer and with the eraser tool,
settings:
round, size 10 to 20, hardness 100,
step 13, density, thickness and opacity at 100,
rotation at 0,
go over the entire man
including his face and hair. Be careful not to
go over the edges.
Now do the bike and the
lady's face, cleavage and legs and
hand. |
11. Now highlight the layer
with the yellow pathway and erase the colors to
the left of the pole
the woman is leaning
against. the pole, and on the legs, on the face
and the dress.
Also, setting the opacity
lower, to about 10, erase the big black blob by
the flowers |
12. Duplicate the layer of the
woman
Turn off the original layer (click the
eye)
Making sure you are on the duplicate
layer, erase all so that all that remains is the
bicycle and the woman,
don't erase to the
right of the woman or between the woman and the
bike.
Changed the blend mode to
Overlay
Effects>Xero>Porcelain (Default
settings)
Open all the layers.
Check to see that all of
the extra colors and shadows are erased as you
like them.
You can go layer by layer,
turning them off and on to see what's causing
the streaks and extra colors and erase as
needed.
That's when I noticed the big black
blob by the flowers, if you go back to step 11
you can see it, in the screenshot just above,
it's gone. |
13. Open tube
"PatryMists_06_Daisy_06"
Copy (Control-C),
back to working canvas, paste as new layer
(Control-L)
Move to the bottom left corner as
shown
Duplicate and move this
layer up and left, and then, in the layer
palette, drag this layer below the first flower
layer.
Highlight the top flower
layer and merge down to merge the two layers of
the flowers
Effects>Xero>Porcelain
(Default settings)
Merge visible |
14.
Adjust>PhotoFix>Digital Camera Noise
Removal at default of 50-50-50-70-0
Adjust>Brightness and
Contrast>Clarify: strength of effect -
5
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15. Selections>Select All
(control-A)
Selections>Modify>Contract
by 25 pixels
Layers>New raster
layer
Fill with color #820f00 (this will fill
in the
middle)
Selections>Modify>contract by 2
pixels
Edit>Cut (or hit delete
key)
Selections>Invert
Effects>3D
Effects>Drop Shadow: 5/5/60/5/black
Repeat with -5 in V and
H.
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16. With your eraser tool,
change the opacity to 20 and erase the border on
the woman's foot, the bicycle, the flowers
and the top of the door
Merge all. |
17. Image>Add borders>4
pixels #820f00
Select with the magic
wand, tolerance and feather at
0
Effects>3D Effects>Inner Bevel: Bevel
2/31/100/50/-46/0/0/40/90/white
Deselect |
18.Select the text tool, font,
size and color of choice (set the desired color
in the background, turn off the foreground color
unless you want an outside stroke color,
then you set the foreground color to that
color).
Write what you would
like. The English translation of Rencontre is
Meeting so you could write "The
Meeting".
I wrote "Love is a gift . ."
I used Affair 1, size 36, stroke width of 1,
vector. Foreground #820f00, background
white.
Effects>3D
Effects>Drop Shadow: 2/1/70/1/black
Image>Rotate>Free
Rotate>25 degrees left, all layers not
checked
Unsharp mask at
1-64-4
You're done!
Resize if needed,
watermark and save. See notes below. |
Resizing
To resize,
make sure, to retain the texture and the
clarity, resize at 90% bicubic and repeat till
you get close to the size you want.
At that
point you can resize by pixels as usual. You
will find this makes a big difference in your
final result.
If you resize, use the unsharp
mask or Brightness/Contrast to sharpen it a bit.
Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp mask at
Radius 1, strength 60, clipping 4.
or
Adjust>Brightness and Contrast set
to Brightness of 5-contrast of 15. |
Watermark
Layers>New
raster layer. Add your water mark on this new
layer
Layers>Merge>Merge all
(flatten) |
Save
File>Export>Jpeg
optimizer - compression of 20. |
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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.
©2003-2007
Ellie's Treasures
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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 all of
the text on the buttons is BrockScript
The
font I used for the "Blend Rencontre" tutorial
header is Affair
1.
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. |
