http://www.ellies-treasures.com/lamiagrafica/autunno-psp/autunno-psp.html
This tutorial will print out on standard 8½" X 11" paper
Translated with permission from the creator, Isa at Lamiagrafica tutorial site.
http://www.lamiagrafica.com/home.htm
See the original tutorial here for PSP in Italian
http://www.lamiagrafica.com/tutorialisa/tutautunno/tutorial_autunno.htm
This is not my tutorial, it belongs to Luna. If you would like to translate into another language, you must ask her permission.
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
Cybia Screenworks
Supplies in zip file here
http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/autunno-supplies-psp.zip
Supplies in zip file here for older versions if the other ones don't work for you. These are in psd format
http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/autunno-supplies-psd.zip
Supplies include the font.
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Credits
Scenery tube is from Carola at Crazy for Tubes: http://br.groups.yahoo.com/group/crazyfortubes/
Before opening PSP, double click the font to open it and leave it open so it will be available for use in PSP (or install it).
This font is a system font so you probably have it installed already.
Put the plugin into your plugin folder.
Now open PSP. Open your tubes in PSP, duplicate them (shift-D) and close the originals.
None of the tubes are used more than once, so each can be closed after use.
You can open the gradient file (cmv-gold) as well and use it as a pattern or you can put it in your gradient folder.
Open a transparent canvas (Ctrl-N) 600x450
Set foreground to color #855223 (medium golden brown) or with the eye dropper select a color from your tube.
Fill your transparent canvas with this color with your flood fill tool
Highlight the scenery tube "CarolaMists_Scenary_468",
copy (control-C) and paste as new layer (control-L)
Place tube slightly higher
Go to Effects>Image Effects>Seamless Tiling, settings:
Check Corner, Bidirectional, Horizontal and Vertical on 0, Transition on 50, Linear
Layer palette, right click, merge visible
Highlight the face tube "wildhaired_redhead1"
copy (control-C) and paste as new layer (control-L), move to the left as shown,
so that the squared off left edge and bottom edge can't be seen
Now copy and paste the chestnuts tube "misted_castagne" and move to the right as shown
Layer palette, right click, merge visible
New raster layer
Activate your tube tool, select the Autumn Leaves supplied with psp, settings:
Size 79, Step 250, Random, Random
Stamp down 8 times with a new raster layer for each so they can be moved around. Position leaves as shown.
For each leaf, go to Adjust>Brightness and Contrast>Settings: Brightness 5, Contrast 10
I also used the color correction command to make one leaf redder and
I used the raster deform tool set to free to manually turn some
and I used the resize>all layers not checked to resize a couple.
I have provided a psp file of the leaves I used already turned, colored, etc if you don't have this tube
Right click in layer palette, merge all (flatten)
Image>Frame>Photo Edges>Edge brush 04
Using your Magic wand Tolerance 0 Feather 0
select the frame
Flood fill with the foreground color #855223
Keep selected.
Effects>Cybia>Screenworks>Hollow Dot at default of 0
Leave selected
Layer palette, right click, merge visible
Selections>Invert
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings: 3-3-50-5-black
Deselect
Activate text tool
In your material palette, switch your foreground color to background
and in the foreground pick gradient and switch to the gold gradient provided
(or if you're using it by opening it in psp, switch foreground to pattern and find the gold pattern, angle at 0, scale at 100).
Settings: Vector-Direction down-Font Black Chancery-Size 72-Stroke width 1
Type "Autumn" or whatever text you choose to type
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow (click ok when it wants to convert to raster layer), settings as before: 3-3-50-5-black
(Optional) I used my brightness and contrast again at 5-10 (I use this setting and this command a lot)
Make sure all is where you want it and merge visible
(if you want to be able to change the text later, then hide the text layer before merging)
Image>Add border>3 pixels white, symmetric checked
With magic wand select the frame,
Fill the frame with the gold gradient or pattern
Deselect
You're done!
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.
Layers>New raster layer. Add your water mark on this new layer
Layers>Merge>Merge all (flatten)
File>Export>Jpeg optimizer - compression of 20.
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.
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