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Ellie's Treasures Paint Shop ProTranslated Tutorials - Having Fun http://www.ellies-treasures.com/jetjes/having-fun-psp/having-fun-psp.html This tutorial will print out on standard 8½" X 11" paper |
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For this tutorial you
will need: Corel Paint Shop Pro (or Jasc previous versions) 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 Simple Filters Unlimited 2 Flaming Pear>Solidify A Pentacom>Colordot Supplies in zip file here for version 8 and up http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/having-fun-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/having-fun-supplies-psd.zip Baby tubes by Alejandra Rosales, shared in her group ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My plugin windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my plugins. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I am assuming you know the basics of Paint Shop Pro and where the tools can be located. |
| 1. Open your tubes. I like to open them all at the beginning, duplicate them, close the originals. Close each tube after it's been used unless told to keep them open. The 2 baby tubes are used twice. Save a copy of my tag at the top of the page and keep it open for referring to while working. |
| 2. Open a canvas of 600 x 450 |
| 3. Copy (control-c) 1199 baby and paste as a new layer (Control-L) into working canvas. (Don't close tube yet, you'll need it again). Image>Resize 2x with 80% bicubic - resize all layers not checked  Move it into the bottom left corner  |
| 4. Copy 1200 baby and paste as a new layer (Control-L). (Don't close tube yet) Image>Resize 2x with 80% bicubic - resize all layers not checked Move it into the bottom right corner  Merge visible |
5. Effects>Flaming Pear>Solidify A Adjust>Gaussian blur>35  |
6. Effects>Filters Unlimited 2>Paper Textures>Canvas fine - 50/87  |
| 7. Copy once again 1200 baby and paste as a new layer (you can close tube now) Image>Resize 90% bicubic 1x, resize, all layers unchecked Move it to the right corner, as shown Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow 0-0-45-20 color #7a5c5c 9 (dark smoky rose)   |
| 8. Copy 1199 baby and paste as a new layer (you can close tube now) Move it to the left corner, as shown Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow 0-0-45-20 color #7a5c5c  Merge visible |
9. Adjust>Photofix>Digital Camera Noise Removal at default  Shift D to duplicate image. Minimize duplicate for later use. |
| 10. Back to your original working canvas Color palette for the borders  Image>Add borders: 1 pixel #da8ea5 (dark pink)  Image>Add borders: 3 pixels #f1e8ed (light pink) Image>Add borders: 1 pixel #da8ea5  Image>Resize 80% bicubic, resize all layers checked Minimize till needed |
| 11. Open your copied image Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur at 45 Effect>Simple>4 way average  Shift-D to duplicate and we'll call this duplicate simple Minimize duplicate till needed again. |
| 12. We'll now continue on the remaining open canvas (the blur and simple effect original one) Effects>Filters Unlimited 2>Paper Textures>Canvas fine - 50/87 (as before)  New raster layer, control-A to select all |
| 13. Activate tube MAS-DiamondLijnenLicht (diamond lines light), copy and paste into selection (you can close tube now) Deselect Adjust>Sharpness>Sharpen Put the blend mode on luminance  Drop shadow: 1-1-45-1 color #7a5c5c  |
| 14. Copy the tube "ruitfun" and paste as new layer Put the blend mode on overlay and the opacity on 49  |
| 15. Activate the original tag with the babies and paste as new layer Drop shadow: 0-0-60-12 color #7a5c5c  |
| 16. Merge layers-add borders as before Image>Add borders: 1 pixel #da8ea5 Image>Add borders: 3 pixels #f1e8ed Image>Add borders: 1 pixel #da8ea5  Minimize |
| 17. Open a new canvas 700 x 550 Control-A to select all Copy the image called Simple which you have minimized previously and paste into selection Deselect. |
18. Activate your babies tag, copy and paste as new layer Copy the tube stikselfun (stitches) and paste as new layer (you can close tube now) It should fall right at the edges of the textured canvas as shown. If not, move it there. Drop Shadow: 0-0-60-12 color #7a5c5c  Layer Palette, right click, merge down (this only merges the stitches down) |
| 19. If you want to reduce the tag, now is the time to do it. Image>Resize, all layers checked, use smart size as the compression method If you are getting a funny texture on the canvas and you want it smaller, there is a different method I devised that makes the texture of the canvas stay fairly fine. Using your zoom tool, reduce the size to about the size you would like your tag to be. Then click on Alt-Print Screen. Now click on Control-V, this pastes a screenshot of your screen into PSP. Now with your selection tool, crop around the picture and go to Image>Crop to selection. You'll now have a smaller picture without the texture going all funny. You can do this more than once to get it down even smaller. I often use this method for my screenshots when I need a finer, more accurate, texture |
| 20. Activate raster 1 Effects>Pentacom>Colordot upper slider on 50   Merge all Select all Selections>Modify>Contract 5 pixels  Selections>Invert Adjust>Blur>Gaussian blur 45 Effect>3D Effect>Inner Bevel, settings: Bevel 2-1-6-3-0-0-315-50-30-white   |
| 21. Activate the tube "tekst having fun", copy and paste as new layer in working canvas. Place as shown. If you have resized your tag previously, it helps to resize the rest of the parts you add from now on. I resized this tube to 70% smart size for a tag that I have reduced to 500 pixels wide and 80% for a 600 width size. |
| 22. Copy the tube "tagshavingfun" and paste as new layer (you'll add the text later) (for the 500 width tag I resized these to 60%, for 600 width 70%) Image>Rotate>Free rotate 20 degrees left, all layers not checked put that left beside the "H" of Having Fun Drop Shadow: 1-0-60-10, color #7a5c5c  |
| 23. Duplicate layer, Image>Mirror, all layers not checked Place both tags so that they fall just beside the first and last characters of "Having Fun"  |
| 24. Activate top layer Merge down Layers arrange down move |
| 25. Copy the tube beerfun (the little bear) and move it into the bottom right corner For the 500 width tag I resized this bear to 60% smart size For 600 width tag I resized to 70% Adjust>Sharpness>Sharpen 1-0-60-10, color #7a5c5c Duplicate layer, Image>Mirror,  |
| 26. Add your text. Text (for 500 width tag): I used Curlz MT, size 24, vector, stroke width 1, anti-alias to sharp - for 600 width tag I used size 26 font   color: foreground to null (turned off), background to darker color of borders #da8ea5 While it's still in Vector mode, hover over the little bar sticking out on the right till you see double curved arrows, click down and you can turn the text this way. Turn it till the slant of the text matches the tag. Type Joy on one and Fun on the other Drop shadow: 1-1-100-1, color #7a5c5c (if you want a shadow, I liked it better without)  |
| You're done! To save go to File>Export>Jpeg Optimizer. Save at compression rate of about 20. |
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