Ellie's Treasures PSP-X-clusive Designz Translated Tuts

Click here or scroll down for alternate versions, including the original one from Lien's tutorial.
Translated with permission from the creator, Lien at X-clusive Designz tutorial site.

See the original tutorial here for PSP in Dutch
This is not my tutorial, it belongs to Lien. If you would like to translate into another language, you must ask her permission.
You can contact her here.

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
No filters needed
Supplies in zip file here.
Supplies in zip file here for older versions if the other ones don't work for you. These are in psd format.
All items needed are supplied, including the tubes, scrapkit and font.
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Credits
Tube art ©ArtMam: http://www.artmam.com/, misted by myself
Other woman tube is tubed by Lien of X-clusive Designz
Note from Lien: Important!!! Please read carefully!!!
* The scrap tubes used in this tutorial are bought by me personally.
You may use these scrap tubes for this tutorial, and for your personal use.
You may not share these tubes for sale, trade, sharing, your own tutorials, or commercial purposes.
Read carefully the conditions of the scrap designers, otherwise I may have to stop writing scrap tutorials!!!
Thanks for your cooperation.
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My plugin windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my plugins - 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

Preparation
Before opening PSP, double click the font to open it and leave it open
so they will be available for use in PSP (or install the fonts)
Now open PSP. Open your tubes in PSP, duplicate them (shift-D) and close the originals
None of the tubes are used more than once, so each can be closed after use.
When copying tubes, make sure you are in the tube layer and not the background or copyright layer.

Step 1
Open a new transparent canvas 640 x 480

Step 2
Selections>select all (Control-A)
Activate Golden-elegance.jpg; Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste into selection in working canvas

Deselect (Control-D)

Step 3
Activate Golden-elegance-2.jpg
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L)
Move it to the right, as shown in example.

Step 4
Activate ge-ribbon
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L)
Move it to left edge of the last paper you pasted, as shown
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings: H+V 1, Opacity 80, Blur 10-black.

Repeat with H+V on -1.

Step 5
Activate ge-torngold
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L)
Move it to far right, covering the right edge of the golden-elegance 2 paper, so that the torn edge is visible. See my example.
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings as before: H+V -1, Opacity 80, Blur 10-black.

Step 6
Activate ge-golden-stiches
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L)
Move it to the far right, so that the lower curve touches the far edge, the upper curve should be touching the edge of the ribbon, as shown.
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings: H+V 1, opacity 50, blur 5-black.

Step 7
Activate ge-gesp (buckle for ribbon)
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L)
Move it up and to the right, on top of the ribbon as shown. Image>Resize to 98% to make it fit a bit better.
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings as before: 1-1-50-5-black
Repeat with H+V -1.

Step 8
(do step 8 and 9 after the borders if you want to be able to change the name on this tag later)
Activate ge-tag,
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas
(put your name on the tag now, if desired-Go to Image>Rotate>Free Rotate, 90 degrees right.
Set your background color to black, turn foreground color off (click on circle with line through it);
for the font I used Burned Gothic, which I supplied, I added a drop shadow of 0-0-80-10.).
Merge down to attach it to the tag. Now rotate the tag back by going to Image>Rotate>Free rotate, 90 degrees left
Move the tube to the ribbon buckle.
Using your raster deform tool, hover over it till you see the double curved arrows and rotate your tag a bit as shown.
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings as before: : 1-1-50-5-black
Repeat with H+V -1.

Step 9
Activate ge-bouquet
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas
Move the tube to the buckle, placing it where you like it by the tag
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings as before: 1-1-50-5-black
Repeat with H+V -1.

Step 10
Activate raster layer 5 (your curved row of stitches)
Activate ge-stitch-frame
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas
Move the tube a bit left of the middle, so it's centred between the top, bottom, left and left edge of ribbon. See my example.
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings: -1, -1, 80, 5-black.

Step 11
Activate Button
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas
Move the tube to the upper left corner of the stitch-frame.

Layers>duplicate layer.
Image>Mirror. Image>Flip to move it down to bottom right edge as shown.
Merge>merge down
Drop Shadow: 1. 1, 80, 5-black.

Step 12
Activate your eraser tool
Activate the ge-stiches layer (the curved stitches) and erase the
bottom part of the stitches from the button on down, as shown in my tag

Step 13
Layers - new raster layer.
Activate your selection tool and select a rectangle inside the stitch-frame,
big enough to go around the woman tube once applied, about 300X330
(you can see your selection size in the status bar at the bottom of the psp program window).
See example of frame around woman tube.

Drop shadow as before: 1-1-80-5-black
Repeat with H+V on -1.

Keep selected.

Step 14
Selections>Modify>Contract 20 pixels.
Selections>Modify>Feather 20 pix.
Activate Texture.jpg>Edit>Copy (Control-C),
Layers>New raster layer
Edit>Paste into selection
Deselect.

In the layer palette, move opacity slider to 76

In the screenshot of the layer palette, you will see two layers above it,
this is because I'm keeping my tag and bouquet at the top as I want to save it in
layers, so I can change the name on the tag more easily later if I want to.

Step 15
Activate the woman tube (you have a choice of two women tubes, I used the ArtMam one, Lien used the ge-woman one)
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas
Move the tube to the middle of your drop shadow frame.
Set the Blend Mode in the layer palette for this layer to Luminance (Legacy)

Step 16
Activate ge-hoek-onder (bottom right corner)
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas
Put this tube on the bottom right corner of the shadow frame
Layers>duplicate layer. Image>Mirror
Put it on the bottom left corner
Layers>Merge>Merge down

Step 17
Activate ge-hoek-boven (top left corner)
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas
Put this in the top left corner of the shadow frame
Layers>duplicate layer. Image>Mirror
Put it on the top right corner of the shadow frame
Layers>Merge>Merge down
Repeat merge down twice. (all corners will then be in the same layer).
Drop shadow: H+V 1, opacity 80 and blur 5-black.
Repeat with H+V on -1.

Step 18
Activate the tube "ge-datum" (the numbers)
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas
Put in the bottom right corner of the stitch frame and pull the layer below the stitch frame layer (which should be raster 9)
In the layer palette, put the blend mode on Luminance (Legacy) and the opacity at 80

Step 19
Activate your top layer
Activate the tube "ge-coupon" (ticket)
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas
Move it a bit to the left, over left edge of shadow frame, as shown
Drop shadow: H+V 1, opacity 80 and blur 5-black.

Step 20
Activate ge-flower
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas
Move it to the bottom left corner of the tag
In the layer palette, put the blend mode on Luminance (Legacy) and the opacity at 76
Adjust>Sharpness>Sharpen

Step 21
Make sure all tubes are where you want them; when satisfied, merge all.
(If you want to be able to change the text on the tag, cut (Control-X) and paste (Control-L)
the tag and the bouquet charm on top of it to another canvas while you merge and add the border,
copy them back in later)
Image>Add borders>15 pix white.
Select the border with your magic wand
Make sure your "gg-scrap-patroon" is open and minimize.
In your material palette, set to pattern and find the "gg-scrap-patroon", set angle at 0, and scale at 100.

Fill your selection with your bucket flood fill tool.

Step 22
Effects>3D Effects>Inner bevel, settings: bevel 1, 3-50-5-8-20-315-35-30-white

Drop Shadow: H+V 1, opacity 80, blur 5-black.
Repeat with H+V on -1.

Deselect.

Do steps 8 & 9 (tag and flower charm) now if you skipped them earlier.

Your scrap tag is ready!
Add the copyright layer, Watermark and save

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,
especially of the texture of the weave in the border, which will go all funny if you resize all at once.
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, add copyright, and save
Layers>New raster layer. Add your water mark on this new layer
To add copyright, add another new raster layer and use a font that's clear at small size (I used Cally CE for the one in my tag)
foreground color off, background color black or another dark color.
You can make the copyright symbol by holding down the Alt key and typing 0169 IN THE NUMBER PAD (This is important)
If this doesn't make a copyright symbol, you'll need to choose another font, not all fonts have the symbol.
This normally doesn't work on a laptop as it has no separate number pad. In this case, I use the Character Map that comes with Windows.
Start button>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Character Map
Layers>Merge>Merge all (flatten)
Save: File>Export>Jpeg optimizer - compression of 20.

l hope you had fun!
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Translated by Ellie on June 29, 2008
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Alternate versions
Made by Lien in her original tutorial

Made by me with my name on it.
I used the font Burned Gothic, all lower case, black, then in PhotoImpact I applied a preset called Concrete 2
It may work for you in PSP applying the blend mode Screen or do it as you did the small tag in step 8 with a blurry shadow

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 all of the text on the buttons is BrockScript
The font I used for the "Grungy Elegance" tutorial header is Burned Gothic.
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.