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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.
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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
FM Tile Tools, available for trial
or purchase here (blend emboss is one that
keeps working when trial is
done)
Xero>Porcelain, available free here (it's in set 1)
Mura's
Meister>Clouds, available free here
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.
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Credits
The
tubes which I have used are from MarieL and Kat and
Joluvsdogs.
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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.
       
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Preparation
Before
opening PSP, double click the fonts to open them
and leave them open
so they will be
available for use in PSP (or install the
fonts)
Put the plugins into your plugin
folder.
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. |
Step 1
Open a new
transparent canvas 640 x 480 pix. |
Step 2
Set your foreground
color to #777157 and your background color to
#e2d5b3.
Effects>Mura Meister>Cloud -
default settings
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Step 3
Activate the tube
"Marif-paysage18".
Copy (control-C) and
paste as a new layer (control-L) into working
canvas
Move up and to the left as
shown
In your layer palette,
change the blend mode to soft light
Effects>FM Tile
Tools>Blend Emboss-default settings
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Step 4
Activate the tube
"Marif-paysage7".
Copy (control-C) and paste
as a new layer (control-L) into working
canvas
Move the tube to the right.
Make
sure the house in this tube and the house in the
last tube come together as if one house, as
shown
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Step 5
Put bottom layer on
lock by clicking on the eye.
Right click in
layer palette, merge visible
Select your
raster deform tool and pull the edges on all
sides out until the
picture fills the whole
canvas and you don't see the large cloudy
parts
In the layer palette,
change the opacity of this layer to 80
Click
on the eye to turn the bottom layer back
on |
Step 6
Activate the tube
"Marif-paysage5".
Copy (control-C) and paste
as a new layer (control-L) into working
canvas
Image>Mirror
Select your freehand
selection tool
Change to "Point to point" -
feather 50.
And make a selection
around the pump, boards and flowers as shown.
Don't forget this is feathered so it will
select a much larger area,
so just try and
stick close to the main part of the picture.
What you see here is after I double clicked
to make the selection
so you see the
feathered part selected as well.
Selections>Invert. Now
hit your delete key.
The feathered tube
should remain but the outer area of it should
delete
Deselect
Image>Resize>85%.
Resize all layers not checked.
Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp mask
with the setting 1 - 64 - 4.
Move to the bottom left
as shown
Change the opacity in the
layer palette to 80
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Step 7
Make sure all is
where you want it.
Layers>Merge
visible
Effects>Xero>Porcelain at
default settings
Shift-D to duplicate
image, minimize the duplicate till
needed
Image>Resize>85% - Smart
Size
Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp mask
with these settings: 1 - 64 - 4.
Select your Sharpen
brush, these settings:
Size 50, hardness 25,
step 10, opacity 50.
Apply the brush to the
little girl, flowers at the pump and the
house.
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Step 8
Image>Add
borders>3 pix in your light color.
Select edge with the
magic wand, tolerance and feather at
0
Effects>3d Effects>Inner bevel with
these settings:
bevel 2 - settings
2-3-6-0-0-315-50-30-white
Effects>3d
Effects>Drop Shadow with these settings:
H+V 1, opacity 80, blur 10, then repeat with
H+V on -1.
Deselect |
Step 9
Image>Add
borders>3 pix in your dark color.
Image>Add borders>40 pix in your light
color.
Select edge with the magic wand,
tolerance and feather at 0
Activate your
duplicate image which you made
earlier
Image>Mirror
Copy and
Edit>Paste>paste into selection.
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Step 10
Effects>FM Tile
tools>Blend Emboss - default
settings
Repeat Blend Emboss
Effects>3d
Effects>Inner bevel with these settings:
Bevel 1 - settings:
2-10-6-30-0-315-40-33-white
Deselect
Image>Add borders>3
pix in your dark color.
Select edge with the
magic wand, tolerance and feather at 0
Fill
the edge with your light color.
Effects>3d Effects>Inner bevel with
these settings:
bevel 2 - settings
2-3-6-0-0-315-50-30-white
Deselect |
Step 11
Activate the tube
"best-friends"
Copy (control-C) and paste as
a new layer (control-L) into working
canvas
Move the tube to the bottom right as
shown.
Select your eraser tool
with these settings:
size 100, hardness 5,
step 1, Opacity 13.
Carefully run the tool
along the very outer edges of the top and left
of the tube for a light misting effect
Effects>3d
Effects>Drop Shadow with these
settings:
H+V 1, opacity 80, blur 10, color
black.
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Step 12
Effects>Xero>Porcelain at default
settings
Change the opacity of this layer to
90.
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Step 13
Activate the
"touwtje" tube (rope).
Copy (control-C) and
paste as a new layer (control-L) into working
canvas
Image>Rotate>Free Rotate>45
degrees to the left, all layers not checked
Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp mask
with these settings: 1 - 64 - 4.
Move the
tube to the top left corner as shown
Effects>3d
Effects>Drop Shadow with these
settings:
H+V 1, opacity 50, blur 5, color
black. |
Step 14
Activate the
"Tag-element" tube
Copy (control-C) and paste
as a new layer (control-L) into working
canvas
Move it to the rope so it seems to be
hanging from it, as shown
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Step 15
Activate the eraser
tool with these settings:
size 4, hardness
5, step 1, opacity 100.
erase a small part of the
top ring so it looks like it's going around the
rope, as shown,
Zoom in if needed to see
better |
Step 16
Put some text or
your name on the tag. Play with the drop shadow
to get it the way you want
I used Ajile, size
34, stroke width 2. bold, for my name
Apply a drop shadow,
these settings: V+H-1, opacity 100, blur 2,
black
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Step 17
Layers>New
raster layer
Text Tool - font used is
PassionsConflictROB, Size 36 but the capital
letters are 48.
Background color on white,
foreground color off
The bottom and top are
on separate layers so they can be moved
independently
I typed the L, changed the
font size, then the "ove".
Move to the
correct spot and convert to raster, Now do the
same for D and "evotion".
Make sure you have
the capitals and the small text in the right
spot to
one another as they will be grouped
after you convert to raster.
Move the bottom text
layer so L and D seem to loop in each other.
Effects>3d
Effects>Drop Shadow with these
settings:
H+V 1, opacity 80, blur 3, color
black.
Do this for both text
layers. |
Step 18
Activate the eraser
tool, using the same settings as before, they
should still be in there.
size 4, hardness 5,
step 1, opacity 100.
Select the text layer
containing the D
Click once on a spot on the
D to erase it and make it look like it's looping
around the L
If you find the letters now too
large, Image>resize them with Smart Size so
they look right
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Step 19
Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp mask with
these settings: 1 - 64 - 4. |
Step 20
Make sure all is
where you want it, right click in layer palette
and merge all. |
You're done. If you
reduce the size, make sure you use your unsharp
mask at 1-64-4.
Reducing the size may be hard
due to the texture effect on the frame.
I
find the best way to do this is to use your zoom
tool and zoom down as far as you can without
losing the effect,
then hit Alt-print screen
to copy it, hit control-V to paste it back into
the program as a new image
and use your
selection tool to cut out the picture. You can
either repeat to make it smaller or sometimes
you can reduce in the normal way to make it
a bit smaller.
Another way is to use your
resize command, but set at about 95%, bicubic.
Repeat this till you get it the size you
want.
Whichever style floats your boat should
work for you! LOL |
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 "Love and Devotion" tutorial
header is PassionsConflictROB.
(it's a
commercial font)
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. |
