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Ellie's
Treasures Paint Shop Pro Translated Tutorials - Jet's Romantic Scrap Tag http://www.ellies-treasures.com/jetjes/romantic-scrap-psp/romantic-scrap-psp.html |
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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 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>VTR2 Photo Aging Kit Both available here in 1 zip file http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/romantic-scrap-filters.zip ************ Supplies in zip file here for version 8 and up http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/romantic-scrap-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/romantic-scrap-supplies-psd.zip All items needed are supplied, including the font, scrap kit and 2 woman tubes, the one I used and the one Jet used (see bottom of the non-printable tut to see it). ************ Credits Tube artist: ©Alan Stevens: http://www.bwcreek.com/, tubed by unknown tuber Please leave the filenames intact if you want to share them ************ 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/ |
| Preparation Activate your tubes, duplicate them (shift-D) and close the originals. I always open all of my tubes and close them as I use them None of them are used more than once so you can close each one after use. Some of the tubes have the actual tube in the middle layer, make sure you are in this layer before copying. Import the Photo Aging kit into your Filters Unlimited Put the Penta VTR2 filter into your plugins folder Drag the small copy of the tag just above with you for reference as you work. |
| Step 1 Open "sassyillusions_brunette31_06" or your choice of tube Delete the water mark layer New raster layer Layers>Arrange>Move Down (or pull down in layer palette) |
| Step 2 Put foreground color on #eeccc6 (light pink) and your background color on #efeae5 (very light pink)  Make your foreground color a gradient, settings: foreground-background, angle 45, repeats 3, invert not checked, linear  Fill the layer with your bucket tool  Layers (or right click in layer palette)>Merge visible |
| Step 3 Effects>Filters Unlimited>Photo Aging Kit>Frame 2 Using your Magic Wand, settings: Add-RGB Value-tolerance 15, contiguous checked, feather 0, anti-alias outside,  click in the black border Selections>Modify>Expand>1 pixel Press your delete key on your keyboard  Image>Resize 3x at 90% bicubic  Minimize for the moment |
| Step 4 Activate "bg-peaceful", this will become your working canvas Layers>New raster layer Put foreground color back on #eeccc6 (light pink) and your background color on #d49188 (dark rose) Fill with your foreground color #eeccc6 In your layer palette, put the opacity slider on 40  |
| Step 5 New raster layer Click on your selection tool set at rectangle  Click on Custom selection, settings: top and left at 0, right at 80, bottom at 480  This will select the left edge, 80 pixels wide Fill with your foreground color In your layer palette, put the opacity slider on 64 Effects>Pentacom>VTR2, default settings of 26-0-169-0  Effects>Edge Effects>Enhance Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings: 1/1/100/5/color #4a332e (dark taupe)   Layer palette, right click on layer and duplicate layer Image>Mirror  |
| Step 6 Activate "kantpink" (lacy edging) Edit>Copy (control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas Move into place along right edge of left part you just worked on, as shown  Layer>Duplicate, Image>Mirror  |
| Step 7 Activate "gwyn-stiksel" (stitching) Edit>Copy (control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas Move this onto the left edging  Layer>Duplicate, Image>Mirror  |
| Step 8 Activate the image you made earlier (the woman) Edit>Copy (control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas  Drop Shadow, settings 0/0/100/5/#4a332e (same color as before) Layer>Duplicate Layer>Arrange>Move down (or in your layer palette, drag the layer down) Image>Rotate>Free Rotate>5 degrees left (all layers unchecked)   |
| Step 9 Activate your upper layer Activate "bloem-romantic" Edit>Copy (control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas Move the flower on the stitching as shown, duplicate layer, then Image>Flip to place at the bottom, duplicate again and move to middle of the stitching (see example)  In layer palette, merge down twice, so all three flowers are on the same layer, then duplicate this layer and Image>Mirror to put it on the stitching on the right side.  |
| Step 10 Activate "gwyn-kant" (little pink curled ribbon) Edit>Copy (control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas Move this to the top left corner of the photograph  |
| Step 11 Activate "bowwithplaid_gh" Image>Resize 50% bicubic, resize all layers checked and then 3x at 80% Adjust>Hue and Saturation>Colorize at 5 - 136  Adjust>Sharpen>Sharpen Image>Rotate>Free Rotate>10 degrees left Edit>Copy (control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas Move it onto the curled ribbon  Drop Shadow settings 0/0/100/5/#4a332e (as before) |
| Step 12 Activate "gwyn-heartwithribbon" Edit>Copy (control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas Image>Resize 2x at 80%, resize all layers unchecked Move it on the photograph Image>Rotate>Free Rotate>10 degrees left Drop Shadow settings 0/0/100/3/#4a332e Adjust>Sharpen>Sharpen, twice  |
| Step 13 Activate "knopje" (little jewel) Edit>Copy (control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas Image>Resize at 80%, resize all layers unchecked and move it in the middle of the heart  |
| Step 14 Make sure all tubes are where you want them, and once satisfied, merge all In your material palette, set foreground color at #d49188 (it was your background color, dark rose) and background color at #efe3de (very pale pink)  Image>Add borders>1 pixel #d49188 (foreground)  Image>Add borders>3 pixels #efe3de (background) Image>Add borders>1 pixel #d49188 (foreground) |
| Step 15 Image>Add borders>15 pixels white Select border with your Magic Wand, tolerance and feather at 0 Fill the border with your foreground color #d49188 Effects>Texture Effects>Weave with these settings: 1-1-15-black-black, fill gaps checked  Deselect |
| Step 16 Image>Add borders>1 pixel #d49188 (foreground) Image>Add borders>5 pixels #efe3de (background) (optional) Image>Add borders>1 pixel #d49188 (foreground)  |
| Step 17 If you want to add your name, I used the same foreground color #d49188 and the light pink from the top of the tut #eeccc6,  font Tangerine, size 72, vector, stroke 3,  typed the name and added a drop shadow of 1-1-80-5-black  You're done, watermark, add copyright if needed, and save |
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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, especially of the texture of the weave in the border, which will go all funny if you resize all at once. 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. |
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Watermark, add copyright, and save Layers>New raster layer. Add your water mark on this new layer To add copyright, add another new raster layer and use a font that's clear at small size (I used Cally CE for the one in my tag) foreground color off, background color black or another dark color. You can make the copyright symbol by holding down the Alt key and typing 0169 IN THE NUMBER PAD (This is important) If this doesn't make a copyright symbol, you'll need to choose another font, not all fonts have the symbol. This normally doesn't work on a laptop as it has no separate number pad. In this case, I use the Character Map that comes with Windows. Start button>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Character Map Layers>Merge>Merge all (flatten) Save: File>Export>Jpeg optimizer - compression of 20. |
| If you have any questions or suggestions, email me at this page: http://www.ellies-treasures.com/email/email.html |
| Tutorial translated June 28, 2008 * * * 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. ©2003-2008 Ellie's Treasures |