Ellie's Treasures PSP-Tuts Le-Beatrice's Scrap Flower tag

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Translated with permission from the creator, Daty at Le-Beatrice tutorial site.

See the original tutorial here for PSP in German
This is not my tutorial, it belongs to Daty.
If you would like to translate it 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 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
Xenofex 1, available here (this filter is no longer available from Alien Skin but is available at this link)
Supplies in zip file here.
Supplies in zip file here for older versions if the other ones don't work for you. These are in psd format.
I changed the .pspgradient file to a .jgd file. I understand this makes them usable in earlier version of PSP.

Credits
Tubes by Patry and Ivy

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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.

Preparation
Open your tubes, duplicate them (shift-D) and close the originals.
I always open all of my tubes and close as I use them
The tubes used more than once here are the hearts and the lilies. You can close the others after using.
I also keep a copy of the tag example open to refer to.
Save mine from the top of the page and keep it open if you would like to do this.

1. Open the picture "floral350px.jpg" and resize it to a width of 350 px bicubic
(I like to use Smart Size as well, compare and see which way you like best)

Image>Add Borders- a symmetrical border of 1 in this color #615284 (dark purple)

Now add a border of 10 px in a contrasting color
and with the magic wand (tolerance at 0) select this border

2. Set your foreground color to the gradient "SK_Blum" with these settings:
Angle 0, repeats 3, style right thumbnail (Radial)

Now fill your selected edge with your flood fill tool. Deselect.

3. Add again an edge with 1 in the color #615284
Right click in layer palette and promote background layer

4. Right click in layer palette, new raster layer. Pull this down in the layer palette below the converted background layer.
Image>canvas size at these settings: 600-450, leave the arrow in the middle (default) so it expands evenly all around.

Fill with the gradient.

5. Effects>Texture effects>Blinds, at these settings
4-25-color black-light from left/top checked, horizontal NOT checked

6. New raster layer (this should be above your blinds layer and under your graphic layer),
Selections>select all (control-A)
Selections>Modify>Contract by 40 pixels
Fill with the gradient at these settings: Angle 0, repeats 7, style right thumbnail as before.

7. New raster layer just above this layer, and fill with the color #615284,
Set the opacity in the layer palette to 50%

8. Effects>Texture effects>texture with this setting, do twice
Texture: Brush Strokes, 60-0-1-0-0-white-307-50-30

9. Turn off top and bottom layer, highlight one of the other layers, right click and merge visible.
Turn other layers back on again. Stay in the layer you just merged.
Effects>Xenofex 0.1>Distress and enter these settings: 20-8--edge type jagged-settings fuzzy edges.

Selections>None

10. Effects>3D effects>Drop Shadow with these settings:
2-2-100-15-color #372f53 (very dark purple)

Repeat with vertical and horizontal -2

11. Highlight the top layer and use the same drop shadow on it, first with 2, 2 then with -2, -2..

12. Copy the tube "Summer_ribbon5_NekkeyOne©" (Control-V)
and paste as a new layer (control-L) into your working canvas.
It will paste into the center, leave it there.

13. Duplicate it and go to Image>Rotate>Free Rotate with these settings.
Left-90-all layers and rotate single layer NOT checked.

14. In the layer palette, in this duplicated ribbon layer, right click and merge down (this will only merge the two ribbons)
Effects>3D effects>Drop Shadow with these settings:
2-2-100-1-color #372f53 (very dark purple).

In the layer palette, pull the ribbon layer below the picture layer.

Select the top layer in the layer palette.

15. Copy the tube "TopazStitches" and paste as new layer into your working canvas,
Resize it to 83%, all layers NOT checked.
Go to Adjust>Hue and Saturation>Colorize and enter these settings:255-80

Place it at the left hand side of the flower picture

16. Drop shadow as before, only using just -2, -2 and change blur to 70

17. Duplicate and move to the other side of the picture. Don't mirror as the shadow will be on the wrong side then.

18. Copy the tube "jewels_05" and paste onto your working canvas as new layer. Place as shown.

19. Copy the tube "Herz" (heart) and paste as new layer into your work picture,
Place it at the top of the pearls, duplicate and mirror and place at the end of the string of pearls as shown.

20. Copy the tube "PatryMists_PinkLilium" and paste as new layer into your working canvas
Resize to 60%, all layers NOT checked, and place it in the lower left corner.
Go to Adjust>Hue and Saturation>Colorize and enter these settings: 183-92

21. duplicate the flower and colorize it again with these same settings: 255-80

Move them apart a little, as shown here

22. With the rest of the tubes, decorate to taste.

23. Image>Add Borders>1 pixel in this color #372f53

24. Activate your rectangle tool - rectangle
Settings: Foreground color on #dbadb6, background color turned off,

Line style - Short Dashed line, width 3, create on vector checked

Now draw the line at the edges of the canvas. Left click and pull from top left to
bottom right to create a rectangle around the edges.Convert to raster layer.
If it does not fit correctly, then you can fix it by using the bounding boxes (the little squares) and pulling or pushing on them.
You can also fix it by converting it to a raster layer and using the deform tool to make it the correct size.

25. Effects>3D Effects>Inner Bevel and enter these settings: Bevel 2-4-15-10-2-2-315-30-50-white

You're done!

26. If you resize, use the unsharp mask or Brightness/Contrast to sharpen it a bit.
Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp mask at Radius 1, strength 50, clipping 4.

Or Adjust>Brightness and Contrast set to Brightness of 5-contrast of 15.

New raster layer, watermark. Don't forget to optimize when you save. I optimize at about 20 (File>Export>Jpeg optimizer).

l hope you had fun!
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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 "Scrap Flower" tutorial header is Chopin 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.