Translated with permission from the creator, Jet at Jetje's PSP Creaties tutorial site.
See the original tutorial here for PSP in Dutch



  
They will both open in a new window and print out on standard 8½" X 11" paper

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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>Blend Emboss, available here, trial version-Blend Emboss is one of 7 that keeps working after trial ends
Xero>Porcelain, available free here   It's in set 1
 Photo Effex>Scanlines, available free here
 Graphics Plus>Cross Shadow, available free here

 Supplies in zip file here for version 8 and up
Supplies in zip file here for older psp versions has .psd tubes instead of pspimage. these can be opened in any program.
The gradient in the psp file is pspgradient. I have read that changing it to jgd will allow
it to be used in PSP 7 so that's what I did for the psd supplies folder. I hope it works!

 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/

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.
           



1. Put the West gradient in your gradient folder and the mask 20/20 in your masks folder
2. Open the picture Cloud-child. Duplicate (Shift-D), close original. This will be your working canvas.
3.Layer palette, right click, New raster layer.
Change your foreground color to gradient, click on the color box and in the next window find the west gradient.
These settings: linear, angle at 45, repeats at 1, invert checked


Using your flood fill tool (paint bucket), fill canvas with this gradient
Adjust>Blur>Gaussian blur at 50
In layer palette, change the opacity to 53
4. New raster layer
Selections>select all (Control-A)
Copy (Control-C) maj0408 (beach scene) and Edit>paste into selection.
Make sure you are in Raster 2 (beach scene) layer and not in the watermark layer when copying.


Deselect (Control-D)
5. Change the blend mode to Luminance (Legacy)
and the opacity to 63


Effects>FM tile tools>blend emboss at default settings:
-1, -1, .250, 64, .938, .938, .938
6. Open the tube 840 sepia girl
delete the water mark layer (Trama 1)
Image>Mirror
Layers>Load/Save Mask>Load Mask from disk, load mask 20/20 with these settings
Source luminance checked-Fit to layer checked-Hide all Mask checked
Invert transparency NOT checked
7. In layer palette, right click and merge group
Copy (Control-C) and paste as new layer (Control-L) on your working canvas
Change the blend mode to Luminance (Legacy) and the opacity to 72
Move it a bit to the left


Effects>FM tile tools>blend emboss at default settings
Adjust>Photofix>digital cameral noise removal - move all sliders to the end, to 100
In PSP XI it is found at Adjust>Digital Camera Noise Removal


If your version is an older one and doesn't have this noise removal setting,
try the filter Xero Porcelain. I find this is a very good substitute.
8. Open the tube mm-mk father'sdaymm
Image>Mirror
Layers>Load Mask from disk, load mask 20/20 with the same settings as before
Right click in layer palette and merge group
9. Resize it 4x at 80% bicubic (this is not the same size as just resizing to 20% all in one step)


Copy and paste as new layer
Move it to the left just till the man's elbow touches the left edge (see example)



Change the blend mode to Luminance (Legacy)
Effects>FM tile tools>blend emboss at default settings
Effects>Xero>Porcelain, bottom 3 move to 0
10. copy flower of marif and paste as new layer
Resize 2x at 80% bicubic, resize all layers NOT checked
Move it to the bottom right corner
Change the blend mode to Luminance (Legacy) and the opacity to 65
Effects>FM tile tools>blend emboss at default settings
11. Copy childlove and paste as new layer
Resize to 80% bicubic, resize all layers NOT checked
Move it down as shown in example.
Change the blend mode to Luminance (Legacy) and the opacity to 65
Effects>FM tile tools>blend emboss at default settings
12. Copy fem-maj0428 and paste as new layer
Move it to the right and up, so that the eyebrow meets the angle of the sky (as shown)
Change the blend mode to Luminance (Legacy) and the opacity to 57


Effects>Xero>Porcelain, bottom 3 move to 0
13. If it all looks ok, make raster 3 active, the beach scene layer
Click on the eraser tool and set at these settings
Circle, size 20, hardness 50, step 10, density 100, thickness 100, rotation 0, opacity 5


Erase the face of the little girl and also the father and children,
to clean the background from them, where needed, see example
14. Merge all layers. Copy.
15. Image>Add borders 1 pixel #644429
Add borders 3 pixels #d6ab6e
Add borders 1 pixel #644429
16. Add border, uncheck symmetrical
top, left and right at 50 pixels, bottom at 100 pixels, white


Select white borders with your magic wand, tolerance and feather at 0, anti-alias checked and pick inside
Edit>Paste into selection
Adjust>Blur>Gaussian blur at 50
Effects>Graphic Plus>Cross Shadow, top 7 on 50, bottom one on 128




Leave selected
17. Effects>Texture effects>Fine leathers, default setting




Effect>3D Effects>Cutout at 2, 2, 100, 10 #5f4026
repeat with -2, -2, 100, 10



Select none
18. Add borders 1 pixel #644429
Add borders 3 pixels # d6ab6e
Add borders 1 pixel #644429
19. select with your magic wand the 3 pixel border
Effects>Graphic Plus>Cross Shadow, top 6 on 50, bottom two on 128 (default setting)
Now do this with the other light 3 pixel border that's closer to the inside of the frame
20. New raster layer
Select all
Selections>modify, contract by 25 pixels


Fill selection with your West gradient, same settings as in the beginning
(this will fill in the whole picture, but don't worry). Keep selected
Selections>modify, contract by 3 pixels and hit your delete key.
Now the picture will again be visible with a thin gold line halfway in the leather border.

Select none
21. Select all
Selections>Float
Selections>Defloat
You will now see marching ants around your gold band you just added.
Effects>Photo Effex>Scanlines

Select none

Effects>Edge Effects>Enhance
Blend mode on hard light
Drop shadow 1.,1.,100.,1 #644429
repeat with -1, -1, 100.,1
22. Put your foreground color on nil and your background color on #d1bc9a
Use the font bisque with these settings and type your text on 2 lines, each line separate (see example below)
Vector, arrow down, size 22, stroke width 1.0, Bold, centre, anti-alias sharp

Original creator used size 30 pixels, I had to use size 22 for the same
size text in psp9. In PSP XI, I needed to use the 30 pixel size of text.

Blend mode on hard light

Give both text lines a drop shadow of 1, 1, 100, 3 color #644429
23. Make the layer above your background active (the gold edge in the leather border)
Take your selection tool, rectangle, feather at 0
Select the piece of the gold band where your second line of text is and then hit delete (see example)
24. New raster layer, watermark and save.
Resize if wanted. This will be a hard one to resize, as when you reduce a great deal, the fine lines become thick lines.
What I did for my screenshots was, using the zoom tool, I reduced the onscreen size to 50%,
then I hit Alt-Print Screen to take a picture, then control-V to copy as a new image.
Now crop out your tag. You can even resize it a little more this way, without getting those lines all ugly. LOL
I used 50% for the smaller tags, about 450 width. Make sure nothing is covering
any part of your tag, such as the layer window, before hitting print screen.
The tag is 760X650. You can take it down to 550-600 width without
losing the fine lines by just resizing in the normal way.

Don't forget to optimize (File>Export>Jpeg Optimizer). I usually optimize at about 20.
l hope you had fun!
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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 "Memories of a Child" tutorial header is BaaBookHmkBold.
 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.