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Ellie's Treasures Paint Shop ProTranslated Tutorials - Remember Blend Tag http://www.ellies-treasures.com/jetjes/remember-psp/remember-psp.html This tutorial will print out on standard 8½" X 11" paper |
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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 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 Pentacom>VTR2; Cybia>Screenworks; Graphics Plus>Cross Shadow ************ Supplies in zip file here for version 8 and up http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/remember-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/remember-supplies-psd.zip ************ Credits Tubes by Marif, Alejandra Rosales, Suzi Sgai, and Jet |
| Preparation Open your tubes in PSP, Shift-D to duplicate each one and close the originals. Close each tube after using, no tubes are used more than once. Put filters in your plugins folder before opening PSP |
| 1. Open new canvas 800 X 600 transparent |
| 2. Put your foreground color on #e8c7b0 and your background color on #fcf3e8 Set your foreground color to gradient, settings as shown: Linear, angle 45, repeats 3 Using your flood fill (bucket) tool, fill your canvas with the gradient. |
| 3. Adjust>Blur>Gaussian blur set at 50 |
| 4. In layer palette, right click and duplicate layer |
| 5. Effects>Graphic Plus>Cross Shadow, settings as shown: Put the upper 7 sliders on 50, bottom one on 128 |
| 6. Effects>Pentacom>VTR2 set at default settings: 26-0-169-0 |
| 7. Put the layer opacity on 50% |
| 8 Activate your misted tube "Marif_2007_05Mai_misted_decor0161", make sure you are in the tube layer and copy (control-C) and paste as new layer (control-L) in your working canvas and move it to the top right corner, as shown. |
| 9. Duplicate layer, Image>Mirror |
| 10. Layers>Merge down; duplicate layer, Image>Flip |
| 11. Layers>Merge down, Change opacity in layer palette to 55. |
| 12. Effects>Edge Effects>Enhance then repeat Enhance |
| 13. Selections>All (or control-A); Layers>New raster layer Selections>Modify>Contract 20 pixels |
| 14. Selections>Modify>Select Selection Borders Check Outside, anti-alias, border width of 5 Fill with your light color #fcf3e8 |
| 15. Effects>Texture Effects>Weave with these settings: 1-1-100-colors: top (lighter) one is #E7C7B0, bottom (darker) one is #5F3827 Fill gaps not checked. Selections>None |
| 16. Put the blend mode in your layer palette at Hard Light New raster layer |
| 17. Click on your rectangle selection tool and in the toolbar, click on Custom selection. Use these settings: Top 45, right 740, left 60, bottom 555. Fill with your gradient made before. Adjust>Blur>Gaussian blur set at 50 Deselect |
| 18. Effects>Edge Effects>Enhance. this will put a narrow white rim around the filled part of the layer. |
| 19. New raster layer; Selections>Select all |
| 20. Activate the tube "416_scenery_ABR_218_Alejandra_Rosales_misted_15_8_06.pspimage" and copy (control-C). Return to your working canvas. Edit>Paste into selection Deselect |
| 21. Change the Blend Mode to Multiply and the opacity to 20 |
| 22. Copy the tube "SS_1727_Misted", paste as new layer in working canvas (control-L) Move it to the bottom as shown, right against the bottom edge Change the blend mode to hard light and put the opacity at 34 |
| 23. Activate the layer with the scenery tube (2nd from the top) Use your eraser tool with these settings, at the size you feel comfortable using. Round-size 14 shown here (it's up to you)-hardness 100, step 13, density 100, thickness 100, rotation 0, opacity 10 Erase the water you can see through the dock |
| 24. Activate your top layer in the layer palette Copy the tube "jet-woman20-juli-2007", paste as new layer in your working canvas Image>Resize 90% bicubic (all layers unchecked) Move it to the down and left against the left edge and make sure it's just under the top of the filled border as shown |
| 25. Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings: 13, -12, 20, 20, color black |
| 26. Copy the tube "tekstmemories", paste as new layer in working canvas. Move it to the top right as shown |
| 27. Image>Add borders>1 pixel of your dark color #e8c7b0 Image>Add borders>7 pixels of your light color #fcf3e8 Select the edge with your magic wand, set at Add, RGB Value, feather and tolerance on 0, Anti-alias checked and inside picked |
| 28. Effects>Texture Effects>Blinds, with these settings: Color used is your darker color #e8c7b0 Width 2-Opacity 35-horizontal and light from left/top both checked (I used FM Tile Tools>Blend Emboss at this point to enhance the blinds effect, Jet did not; you could also go to Effects>Edge Effects>Enhance) |
| 29. Image>Add borders>30 pixels of your dark color #e8c7b0 Select this edge with your magic wand, set as before Fill it with your gradient, as before |
| 30. Selections>Promote Selection to layer Effects>Cybia>Screenworks, Block Tile at default settings Deselect |
| 31. Change your blend mode in the layer palette to Soft Light and change the opacity to 75 |
| 32. Image>Add borders>1 pixel of your dark color #e8c7b0 |
| It's done. Add raster layer to add your watermark. Merge all and save as jpg. Don't forget to optimize to about 20 (File>Export>Jpeg optimizer) |
| If you have any questions or suggestions, email me at this page: http://www.ellies-treasures.com/email/email.html |
| 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. ©2003-2007 Ellie's Treasures |
