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Ellie's
Treasures Paint Shop Pro Translated Tutorials - Futura's Don't Stop the Music http://www.ellies-treasures.com/futura/don't-stop-psp/don't-stop-psp.html |
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For this tutorial you
will need: Jasc or Corel Paint Shop Pro. I've done this tutorial in PSP 9 and PSP X2. 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 Xero>Clarity, available free Supplies in zip file here: http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/don't-stop-supplies-psp.zip Supplies in zip file here for older versions if the other ones don't work for you. These are in psd format. http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/don't-stop-supplies-psd.zip Everything you need for this tutorial is supplied. Font: TinplateTitlingBlack (included in supplies) *********** Credits Girl tube and art ©Popeye Wong: http://www.popeyewong.com/ The element circle is by Mell Aka Babylicious 36 Designs: http://au.geocities.com/babylicious36/ The mask is by Essex Girl: http://www.essexgirl.uk.com/index.shtml |
| Preparation Before opening PSP, double click the font to open it and leave it open so it will be available for use in PSP (or install it) Put the plugin into your plugin folder. Put the plaid.bmp in your textures folder if you don't already have it, it comes with PSP 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 canvas, 700 X 500 - black Make your foreground color #4c4d6d (smoky blue) Layers>New raster layer Fill your canvas with the color Make sure the mask sg is open in psp Layers>New Mask Layer>From image/Find the mask sg - check the box "Invert mask data" Right click in layer palette and merge group |
| Step 2 Activate tube "cerchio" (the wordart circle) Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in working canvas It will paste into the center of the mask, as shown in my tag, so no need to move Using your Magic wand, RGB Value, tolerance at 100, select the inside of the circle Selections>Modify>Expand by 5 Layers>New raster layer Fill the canvas with your foreground color Effects/Texture Effects>Texture. Find the texture file plaid, settings: 100/0/1/0/0/315/50/30/color white Deselect (Control-D) Layers>Arrange>Move down (or pull it down in the layer palette) This will put the edges below the circle tube. |
| Step 3 Activate tube "diva1" (top half of the girl) Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in working canvas Moves it to the left, as shown in tag. Highlight the textured layer and with your eraser tool, opacity at 50, size about 50, erase the texture in behind the diva 1 tube from the face and hands as much as you can. Be careful when doing this as some of this erasing seems to erase parts of the mist of the girl tube. Don't know why. LOL Layers>Merge down In the layer palette, select the circle layer Merge down. |
| Step 4 Activate tube "punti" (the doodles) Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in working canvas Move it to the left, as shown, almost to the left edge Layers>Duplicate Image>Mirror Merge down Pull down in the layer palette to just above the mask layer, so it's stray edges are below the circle layer (I over-sharpened this picture so you could see the doodles better in such a small picture.) |
| Step 5 Activate tube "fiori" (the flowers) Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in working canvas Image>Mirror Move it to the left and place as shown, then pull beneath the doodles layer Layers>Duplicate Image>Mirror Merge down Highlight the top layer |
| Step 6 Activate tube "diva2" (the whole girl) Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in working canvas Image>Resize 80%, resize all layers not checked Effects> Xero Clarity. Default settings of 128-3-50 Effects>3D Effects>Drop shadow 3/0/65/7/black Move to the right as shown |
| Step 7 Activate tube "nota" (musical note) Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in working canvas Move to where it appeals to you Layers>Duplicate Image>Mirror and move to where you want it Layers>Duplicate and move I put two in the bottom left corner and 1 near the top right (see the larger tag if you have trouble seeing them in the small example here) |
| Step 8 In your layer palette, select the merged flower layer Activate tube "glitter" Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in working canvas It will be in the right spot vertically, so just use your cursor keys to move it to the far left edge as shown. Select all Selection>Float Selection>Defloat Duplicate the glitter layer two times (3 layers total) Select the first level glitter and close the others 2 (click on the eyes) Adjust>Add/remove noise - uniform and monochrome checked value 40% Close this layer and go to the second glitter layer Adjust>Add/remove noise - uniform and monochrome checked value 45% Close this layer and go to the third glitter layer Adjust>Add/remove noise - uniform and monochrome checked value 50% Deselect |
| Step 9 - Adding your name Highlight the large diva 2 tube layer. Make sure your "gabriel-zilver" bmp is open. In the color palette, click the arrow to switch the foreground color to the background color, and switch the foreground color to pattern - find the pattern "gabriel-zilver" that you have open. Using your text tool, vector, with a beautiful font, type your name (I used TinplateTitlingBlack, which I supplied, size 48, stroke width of 2) Right click in layer palette and convert to raster layer Move down to bottom right corner, and in the layer palette, pull this layer down below the large diva tube (or Layers>Arrange>Move down) |
| Step 10 - Erase part of name In your layer palette, select the diva 2 layer With your eraser tool, size 5 to 10, hardness 100, opacity 50, erase the parts that cover your name If you are going to resize, now would be the best time. |
| Step 11 - Either finish and save or prepare for animation Add your watermark and copyright information Save as psp file if you are going to animate (to save what you've done so far, I always do this to be safe) or save as jpg or gif if you are not going to animate. Saving as a jpg gives you a smaller file size. ************************** If you are going to animate, prepare the tag for animation Duplicate the tag 3 times (shift-D) In tag 1, click the eye to close glitter layers 2 and 3 and merge visible. Save as frame 1, either as a psp file or psd. If you save as a pspimage file, make sure you go to options in your save window and change that to psp 7 compatible. For frame 2, turn off glitter layer one and turn on glitter layer 2, merge visible, save as frame 2 For frame 3, turn off glitter layer 2 and turn on glitter layer 3, merge visible, save as frame 3 There are other ways to save for animation but I do it this way, it's quick and easy. Do it whatever way it's easiest for you. |
| Step 11 - Animation 1-Open Animation Shop, open your saved psp or psd tags frames 1 and 2, 2-copy frame 2(control-C), back to frame 1, Control-Shift-L to copy as a new frame after frame 1, 3-open your saved frame 3 tag, copy, and paste after frame 2 (Control-Shift-L). You should now have 3 frames on your frame 1 tag. Go to view>animation and see if you like it. If so, save as a gif. I just save using the defaults. |
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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. You can resize either in PSP or in Animation Shop. If the size difference is going to be quite a lot, I prefer to resize in PSP before animating, so I can use Unsharp Mask to brighten and sharpen after resizing. |
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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. If you've animated, you'll need to save it as a gif. I usually just use the defaults in Animation Shop. |
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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. ©2003-2010 Ellie's Treasures |
