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Ellie's Treasures Translated PSP Tutorials - Jet's Celebrate Easter Tag http://www.ellies-treasures.com/jetjes/celebrate-easter-psp/celebrate-easter-psp.html |
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For this tutorial you will
need: PSP, either Jasc or Corel versions. I've done this tutorial in PSP 9 and PSP XII. 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 Pentacom>VTR2 Texturizer Both included in the supplies folder Supplies in zip file here for version 8 and up http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/celebrate-easter-supplies-psp.zip Supplies in zip file here for older psp versions has .psd tubes instead of pspimage. these can be opened in any program. http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/celebrate-easter-supplies-psd.zip Also in the psd supplies, I included a layered canvas I made with the selection filled with the gradient, in case you can't use the .pspselection file. Both zips include the tubes and the filters, the pspselection file in the PSP supply folder and the selection canvas in the PSD supply folder. I've also supplied an alternate baby tube in case you don't want to use the one used in the tutorial. ************ Credits Tubes by Fredo, Marif, Jet, LaManouche, and Melissa Please leave the filenames intact if you want to share them ************ 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/ |
| Preparation Activate your tubes, duplicate them (shift-D) and close the originals. I always open all of my tubes and close them as I use them None of them are used more than once so you can close each one after use. Some of the tubes have the actual tube in the middle layer, make sure you are in this layer before copying. Put the pspselection file in your Selections folder. Put the plugins in your plugins folder. Drag the small copy of the tag just above with you for reference as you work. |
| Step 1 Open a canvas of 640x480 transparent Put foreground color on #ba814d (med golden brown) and the background color on #ebc555 (golden yellow) Put foreground on gradient, settings: linear, angle 45, repeats 3, invert checked With your bucket tool, fill canvas with this gradient Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur set at 20 |
| Step 2 Effects>Texture>Texturizer, settings: Canvas, Scaling 60, Relief 2, Light Direction Top, Invert not checked. |
| Step 3 Duplicate layer Image>Resize: 80% bicubic, resize all layers not checked Call this layer: Layer 2 Duplicate layer Image>Resize: 80% bicubic, resize all layers not checked Call this layer: Layer 3 |
| Step 4 Go to to layer 2 Effects>Edge Effects>Enhance Go to layer 3 Edit>Cut Paste as new image (control-V) Merge all Image>Add borders: 1 pixel #ffffc8 (very pale yellow) Edit>Copy (Control-C) Edit>Paste as new layer in your working canvas (Control-L) It will paste right into the middle, leave it there. You will now have an empty layer called layer 3, delete it. Rename this new layer you just pasted into the canvas Layer 3. |
| Step 5 New raster layer Selections>Load/Save Selections>Load Selection From Disk Find selection "paasselectiejet", leave settings at default and load Fill it with your gradient Deselect Call this layer Selections 1 |
| Set 6 Effects>Texture Effects>Blinds, settings: 2-50-color #7B5530 (golden brown), Horizontal and Light from Left/Top both checked |
| Step 7 Effects>3D Effects>Inner Bevel, settings: bevel 5, 1-45-1-40-8-307-42-28-white Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings: 1-1-100-5 #6f5a47 (dark brown) Deselect |
| Step 8 Duplicate layer Image>Flip Image>Mirror This will put the copy in the top right corner Name this layer Selections 2 |
| Step 9 Go to layer selections 1 Duplicate layer Layers>Arrange>Move Down Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur set at 20 Effects>Pentacom VTR2, default settings of: 26-0-169-0 Blend Mode: Burn Go to layer selections 2 Duplicate layer Layers>Arrange>Move Down Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur set at 20 Effects>Pentacom VTR2, default settings of: 26-0-169-0 Blend Mode: Burn You won't see a huge difference, but just a faint glow in behind the angle pieces You won't see it in a small screenshot so I won't bother making one here |
| Step 10 Make top layer active Activate the tube "Marif_2006_septembre_bebe_Geddes016" (or the alternate one I've supplied) Copy (Control-C) and paste as new layer (Control-L) Image>Resize (uncheck Resize all layers) at 80% bicubic and then once more at 90% bicubic and move into place, basically moving it down to about halfway, it will already be centered horizontally |
| Step 11 Duplicate layer Layers>Arrange>Move Down Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur set at 20 Effects>Pentacom VTR2, default settings of: 26-0-169-0 |
| Step 12 Make the upper layer active again Activate the tube "fredo_design_nature0056" Remove the water mark layer (raster 1) Activate your lasso tool, set at point to point, Feather at 0, select the yellow flowers so you can colorize just the flowers and not the leaves (hold the shift key down and select all the buds this way) Adjust>Hue and Saturation>Colorize, 31-202 Deselect |
| Step 13 Paste as new layer (control-L) Image>Resize 70% bicubic Move it into place as shown just touching the top of the bottom beam |
| Step 14 Activate your selection tool, Feather at 15 Select the bottom bit of the plant (you'll see a thin white line we want to get rid of) press your delete key once or twice Deselect Drop Shadow 0-0-100-5-#6f5a47 (same color as last drop shadow) |
| Step 15 Duplicate layer Layers>Arrange>Move Down Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur set at 20 Effects>Pentacom VTR2, default settings of: 26-0-169-0 Blend Mode: Overlay |
| Step 16 Make the upper layer active again Activate the tube "paasstiksel" (stitching) and copy Paste as new layer Move it on the bottom beam Blend Mode: Overlay Duplicate layer Image>Flip Image>Mirror This will place the copy on the top beam |
| Step 17 Activate the tube "paaseieren" (egg) and paste as new layer Put it in the bottom right corner as shown Duplicate layer Layers>Arrange>Move Down Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur set at 20 Effects>Pentacom VTR2, default settings of: 26-0-169-0 Blend Mode: Burn |
| Step 18 Activate the top layer again Activate the tube "chick" Activate your selection tool, feather on 0, select around one of the chicks (I picked the bottom left one). copy the chick and paste as new layer Put the chick on the egg |
| Step 19 Now select another chick from the chick tube (I picked the top left one) Copy that one and paste as new layer Place that on top of the left beam above the flowers Duplicate layer Layers>Arrange>Move Down Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur set at 20 Effects>Pentacom VTR2, default settings of: Blend Mode: Overlay |
| Step 20 Make the upper layer active Activate the tube "SE_Easter_PageTopper" Adjust>Hue and Saturation>Colorize, 31-202 Copy it and paste as new layer Image>Resize at 90% bicubic, resize all layers not checked Place it as shown Drop Shadow 1-1-100-5 #6f5a47 Make sure all is where you want it, then Merge all |
| Step 21 Image>Add borders: 10 pixels white Select with Magic Wand, feather on 0 Fill it with your gradient Effects>Texturizer, settings: Canvas, Scaling 60, Relief 2, Light Direction Top, Invert not checked (same as before) Effects>Edge Effects>Enhance Effects>3D Effects>Cutout: 1-1-100-5-#6f5a47 repeat with -1, -1, 100, 5 Deselect You're done! See below for an alternate version. |
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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. |
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Watermark and Save 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 have any questions or suggestions, email me at this page http://www.ellies-treasures.com/email/email.html |
| Tutorial translated Feb 24, 2008 * * * 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. ©2003-2008 Ellie's Treasures |
