Ellie's Treasures PSP-Secret of Luna Translated Tuts

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Translated with permission from the creator, Luna at Secret of Luna tutorial site.

See the original tutorial here for PSP in French
This is not my tutorial, it belongs to Luna. If you would like to translate 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
No outside filters needed
Supplies in zip file here. It contains both pspimage files plus those same files I converted from pspimage files to psp files.
It also contains a heart already made in case the preset shape doesn't work for you, and also a pink strip in case the selection file doesn't work for you.
Supplies in zip file here for older versions if the other ones don't work for you. These are in psd format.
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Credits
Preset heart shape is by MsKris of Paint Shop Stop
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My plugin windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my plugins - available for purchase here
http://www.icnet.de/filters_unlimited/
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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.

Here's a small version of the tag that you can drag with you for reference

Preparation
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)
Put the Selection file in your Selections folder and the Preset Shape file in your Preset Shapes folder.
(In case selection files and preset shape files don't work for you, I've provided them in psp format, just open them in PSP.)
Now open PSP. Open your tubes and papers in PSP, duplicate them (shift-D) and close the originals
Some of them are used more than once (paper 1 and paper 2), so leave them open after use.

1. Open a canvas 600x400 white

2. Change your background color to black and turn off your foreground color.

Find the preset shape Heart7-kris and draw a heart, starting to the left of the centre not quite at the top and
making it symmetrical by holding the shift key while you draw it, draw it down to not quite the bottom, as shown.
(Or copy and paste the heart I made for you as a new layer on the canvas.)

Objects>Align>Center in Canvas
Right click in layer palette on vector layer and convert to raster

3. With the magic wand, tolerance and feather at 0, select the black part of the outside part of the heart

4. New raster layer, Edit>copy (or control-C) paper 1 and paste into selection

then apply a drop shadow of 0/0/60/20 black

Deselect

5. Making sure you are back in the original heart layer, select with the magic wand the black part of the middle of the heart.

6. New raster layer, copy paper 2 and paste into selection
then apply a drop shadow of 0/0/60/20 black

Now delete the layer with the black heart.

7. Activate the background layer
Copy and paste paper 1 as a new layer (control-L) and go to Image>Resize 40%, resize all layers not checked

Apply drop shadow as before.

8. Copy and paste paper 2 as a new layer (control-L) and go to Image>Resize 30%, resize all layers not checked
Image>Free Rotate>left-45 degrees, all layers not checked

9. Selections>Load/Save Selection>Load Selection from Disk
Find the shopping selection. Source luminance, and replace selection checked.

(or copy and paste as a new layer the pink strip I made for you, you don't have to fill this strip)

New raster layer, then copy and paste paper 2 in the selection

Deselect

10. Duplicate layer, Image>Mirror

11. Highlight the top layer, then copy and paste the ruban 1 (bow with daisy) in place as shown.

12. Copy and paste ruban 2 (the stitching) as new layer,
Image>Rotate>Free Rotate 90 degrees left and place in middle of pink selection band
Duplicate this layer and Image/Mirror

13. Copy and paste the lady tube as shown

14. Text tool, Vector, a font of your choosing-size depends on font used, stroke width 0, Anti-alias sharp
Color background black, foreground turned off (same as for the heart)
I used the font Affair 1 (which I've supplied in zip file), size 48

Type the text "I Love Shopping"
Image>Rotation>Free Rotate>left-90
Place along the ribbon pink strip on the left side as shown.
Go to Objects>Align>Vert. center in canvas
Convert to raster layer

15. Image>Add borders>2 pixels color: #eab6ba (medium pink)
Image>Add borders>20 white
Image>Add borders>2/color: #eab6ba

You're done!

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.
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.

Watermark
Layers>New raster layer. Add your water mark on this new layer
Layers>Merge>Merge all (flatten)

Save
File>Export>Jpeg optimizer - compression of 20.

l hope you had fun!
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By my friend Sonel of Sonel's Corner

By my friend Bobbi, of Ramblin Roots

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 "I Love Shopping" tutorial header is Affair 1.
(Click on the font names to download the fonts.)
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.