This tutorial was purely imagination playing around. Any resembalance to anothers
is purely coincidental. I wrote this tutorial with PSP X, but it will work in
PSP 8 and Newer, and should work in PSP 7. The embellishments I made myself and
are PSP 7 compatible. The tube I have no idea where I got it. If any one knows
please let me know so I can give that person credit for this tube. I wrote this
tutorial very detailed so even the moderate beginner can try it. I also have
a lot of screen shots and it looks very long, but is actually very easy :) Please
read my TERMS before you do this tutorial. This is a good learning tutorial. Making rick rack,
using halftone, Merge/Down, texture, brightness/contrast, making the heart pin
look stuck through material. I hope you enjoy this tutorial and happy creating
:) What you'll need: A copy of Paint shop Pro a trial version is HERE Tube/Embellishments/background DOWNLOAD A Zip program to unzip the files HERE Unzip your tube/embellishments to wherever you keep your images. **Remember to save your work often! 1. Open up a 600 X 600, transparent image. 2. Open up your stfbackground and minimize it. Floodfill with Foreground stfbackground pattern, Angle 0, Scale 100. Background is Null. 3. Image/Resize. Change the Width and Height from percent to Pixels. 500 X 500. (See Screenshot) Use your mover tool and move your square a little up and to the right so you have on the left side and top left 3 grey/white squares. 4. New layer. Rename it corners. Preset Shape Tool. Rectangle. Anti-alias checked. Vector and Retain Style UNchecked. Line Style Solid. In your Materials Palette Foreground is Null. Background is Color #969bae. 5. Start at your upper right corner.count 2 or 2 1/2 grey/white squares on the top that will be your width. Draw down 10 squares for the length. .Look at the screenshot. When your done get your Freehand tool, Point to Point, Start at the bottom right of your strip, draw diagonal up to the left, down, then across to where you started from, right click, your ants will go a marching, hit delete. (See Screenshot). Layer Palette right click on this layer, Duplicate. Image/Free Rotate Check Right, Check 90 everything else is UNchecked. Then Image/Flip.Use your Mover tool to place at the very top corner. 6. Go back to your layer palette and click on the top layer which should be your up/down stripe. Merge/Merge Down. Now those 2 layers will be merged as one. Effects/Texture effects/Blinds and apply: Width 3, Opacity 75 Color #545c7c, Both Horizontal and Light from left/top Checked. Right click on this layer, Duplicate. Image/Mirror, use your mover tool to place. Go back to the layer. Merge/Merge down, now your frames are 1 frame. Rename it frames. 7. Open up your corner flower download. Edit/Copy, Edit/Paste as a new layer. Use your mover tool and place it in the right corner. Repeat the same for the left corner. Go to your top layer the duplicate of the flower, right click Merge/Merge Down now your 2 flowers become 1. This is what you should have so far :) 8. New layer. Rename it bottom stripe. Preset Shape, Rectangle, Anti-alias Checked. Vector and Retain Style UNchecked. Material Palette. Foreground is Null. Background Color #7d839b At the bottom Left. Go up 1 grey/white sqaure. The next 3 grey/white sqaures will the the width of your stripe. (see screeenshot). Draw the line across your image to the end. Effects/Artistic effects/halftone and apply: Halftone pattern: Square, Size 4, Greyscale Checked. Screen angles 138 Use as overlay Checked, Blend mode: Normal, Opacity 75, Transparent Checked, Color #b7bdcf. OK. Adjust/Brightness and Contrast/brightness/contrast and apply: Brightness -23, Contrast -11. This is what you should have now. 9. New layer, name it rickrack. Preset Shape Rectangle, Anti-alias Checked. Vector and Retain style UNchecked. Materials Palette Foreground is Null. Background Color #7d839b. In the middle of your bottom stripe you just made, go to the far left 2 grey/white beyond your image and 1 square wide draw a line across and go 2 squares beyond your image . (see screenshot). Effects/Distortion effects/Wave and apply: Both Amplitudes 1, Both Wavelengths 8, Transparent Checked, OK. Selections Tool, Rectangle. Draw a selection around the left over hang so it's even with the image, hit delete. Go to the right side and do the same thing. This is what you should have. 10. Stay on your rick rack. Effects/Texture effects/ Textures and find Grid and apply: Width 42, Smoothness 0, Depth 1, Ambience 0, Shiniess 0, Coor White, Angle 315, Intensity 50, Elevation 30. OK. Adjust/Brightness and Contrast/brightness/contrast and apply: Brightness -23, Contrast -11. Do the Brightness/Contrast 1 more time. The screen shot above is what you should have now :) 11. Open up your flower pin. Edit/Copy, Edit/Paste as a new layer. Place it on the left hand toward bottom of your image with your mover tool. See my finished image on top. Now we're going to erase part of the pin. Use your Eraser tool and apply the settings in the screenshot. And then the look at the screenshot so you can see where to erase . After you've erased, go to your very first layer which is the background. Use your lighten/darken tool. It's nested inside the tool right under the paint brush. Click on the side that's dark. (see screenshot) Apply the settings in the screenshot. Where you erased your pin you want to darken a line on each side where it's erased to give your background a raised look like a pin stuck through material (duh me of course that's what it would look like ) lol. We're almost done now :) 12. Open up your flower charm. Edit/Copy, Edit/Paste as a new layer. Drag this layer above your frame layer, but below your flower layer. (See screenshot in the next step for placement). 13. Activate your top layer. Open up your flower bears tube. Edit/Copy, Edit/Paste as a new layer. Use your mover tool to place it. This is what you should have after adding your charm and tube. 14. Add your text. This is what I did in the Screen shot. I used the font New Romantics. Materials Palette Foregound is Null, Background Color #515567. I grabbed my vector text on the sides and stretched the sides out to fit the empty space better. Layer/Convert to Raster layer. Now you can just add dropshadows. This I'll leave up to you.everybody has his/her own way they like :) Just go to Effects/3Deffects/Dropshadow and apply what you like. Click on your layers to activate them and add your shadow :) I hope you enjoyed this tutorial :) Please email me if you have any questions. Debbie April 2007 Copyright© 2001-2007 Kreative-Expressionz |
