Ellie's Treasures Translated PSP-Tuts

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

This is not my tutorial, it belongs to Jet.
If you would like to translate into another language, you must ask her permission.
You can contact her here.

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

For information about which fonts, programs, etc I used to construct my pages and my headers, click here.

For this tutorial you will need:

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
Pentacom>Color Dot
Graphics Plus>Cross Shadow
Simple>4 Way Average
Flaming Pear>Solidify A
Click here for all 4 filters (only 1 meg in file size)
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.
Also in the psd supplies, I included a layered canvas for each selection. I made these with the selection
filled with the required color or image, in case you can't use the .pspselection file.
To use them, select the layer with the filled selection and copy and paste it as a new layer into your working canvas.
Both zips include the tubes and the 3 jpg files, the pspselection file in the PSP supply folder
and the selection canvases already filled in the PSD supply folder.
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Credits
Tubes by Jet Please leave the filenames intact if you want to share them
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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/
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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.

Here's a small version of the tag that you can drag with you for reference

Preparation
Open your tube and two jpgs (lips and eye), duplicate them (shift-D) and close the originals.
Do the same with the psd selection files if you are using them instead of the pspselection files.
I always open all of my tubes and close them as I use them
The flower tube is used more than once so leave it open after use.
Some tubes may have the actual tube in the middle layer,
make sure you are in this layer before copying.
Put the pspselection files in your Selections folder.
Put the lace.jpg in your Textures folder.

Drag the small copy of the tag just above with you for reference as you work.

We will start with the two pictures, the eye and the lips
Choose two colors for your foreground (light) and background (dark)
My foreground color is #7f0f03 (dark red)
and my background color is #000000 (black)
Use the colors of your choice but you may have to play with the blend mode to get the same effect.

1. Activate the first small picture (the eye)
2. Image>Add borders of 1 pixel #7f0f03 (light color)

3. Image>Add borders 3 pixels #000000 (dark color)
4. Image>Add borders 1 pixel #7f0f03
5. Image>Add borders 15 pixels #000000
6. Image>Add borders 2 pixels #7f0f03

7. Activate the second picture (the lips)

8. Repeat steps 2 to 6 (adding borders)

9. Minimize the two pictures

10. New canvas 800X600 pixels - transparent
11. Fill with your flood fill tool (bucket) #000000 (your dark color)
12. Right click in layer palette, New raster layer
13. Activate the tube "jet-misted-redflower-2008". Don't close it yet.
14. Edit>Copy (Control-C)
15. Activate your working canvas
16. Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L)

17. Effect>Flaming Pear>Solidify A

18. Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur set at 35
19. Effect>Simple>4 Way Average

20. Layers>Duplicate
21. Effect>Graphics Plus>Cross Shadow, set at default (all at 50, except bottom two at 128)

22. Layer palette, slide opacity of this layer to 30

23. New raster layer
24. Selections>Load/Save Selection>Load Selection From Disk, choose jet-selred-1

25. Fill selection with your light color #7f0f03
26. Effect>Pentacom>Color Dot with the default settings: 90-2-255-255-255

27. Deselect (control-D)
28. Effect>3D Effects>Drop Shadow with these settings: 2/2/100/5/black

29. Effect>3D Effects>Drop Shadow with these settings:-1/-1/100/5/black

30. Layer palette, slide opacity of this layer to 40

31. Layers>Duplicate layer
32. Image>Flip
33. Image>Mirror

34. New raster layer
35. Selections>Load/Save Selection>Load Selection From Disk, choose jet-selred-2
36. Activate "jet-misted-redflower-2008"
37. Edit>Copy (control-C)
38. Activate your working canvas
39. Edit>Paste into selection
40. Deselect
Effects>Edge Effects>Enhance
41. Layer Palette - set blend mode to overlay - layer opacity stays at 100

It should look like this:

42. Layers>Duplicate
43. Image>Flip
44. Image>Mirror

45. New raster layer
46. Selections>Load/Save Selection>Load Selection From Disk, choose jet-selred-3
47. Fill selection with your light color #7f0f03
48. Layer Palette - set blend mode to multiply - layer opacity to 60

49. Deselect
50. Layers>Duplicate
51. Image>Flip
52. Image>Mirror

53. New raster layer
54. Selections>Load/Save Selection>Load Selection From Disk, choose jet-selred-4
55. Fill selection with your dark color #000000
56. Deselect
57. Effect>Pentacom>Color Dot with the default settings: 90-2-255-255-255
58. Layer Palette - set blend mode to overlay - layer opacity to 50

59. New raster layer
60. Selections>Load/Save Selection>Load Selection From Disk, choose jetselred-5
61. Fill with your light color #7f0f03

62. Deselect

63. New raster layer
64. Selections>Load/Save Selection>Load Selection From Disk, choose jet-selred-6
65. Fill selection with your light color #7f0f03
66. Deselect
67. Effects>Texture Effects>find the lace texture and use these settings: 81-0-1-0-0-225-50-30-white.

Effects>Edge Effects>Enhance

68. Layers>Duplicate
69. Image>Flip
70. Image>Mirror

71. New raster layer
72. Selections>Load/Save Selection>Load Selection From Disk, choose jet-selred-7
73. Activate your lips picture
74. Edit>Copy (Control-C)
75. To your working canvas
76. Edit>Paste into selection

77. Deselect

78. New raster layer
79. Selections>Load/Save Selection>Load Selection From Disk, choose jet-selred-8
80. Activate your eye picture
81. Edit>Copy (Control-C)
82. To your working canvas
83. Edit>Paste into selection

84. Deselect

85. Image>Add borders 1 pixel light color #7f0f03
86. Image>Add borders 35 pixels dark color #00000
87. Image>Add borders 2 pixels light color #7f0f03

You're done, watermark and save

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.

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.

l hope you had fun!
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Tutorial translated April 4, 2008
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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,
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©2003-2008 Ellie's Treasures

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Alternate Versions
Made by my friend, Sonel of Sonel's Corner

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By my friend Bobbie of Ramblin Roots

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 "Rood (Red)" tutorial header is Old Script.
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.