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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For this tutorial you will need:
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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
Pentacom>VTR2, available free here
Cybia>Screenworks, available free here
Graphics Plus>Cross Shadow, available free here
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 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.
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Credits
Tubes by Marif, Alejandra Rosales, Suzi Sgai, and Jet here and here
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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/

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.
           



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)
l hope you had fun!
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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.
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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 "Remember" tutorial header is ChaseCallasSH.
 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.