Ellie's Treasures PSP-Tuts Lost Thoughts Tag-printable

Ellie's Treasures Paint Shop ProTranslated Tutorials - Lost Thoughts Tag

http://www.ellies-treasures.com/marianslessen/lostthoughts-psp/lostthoughts-psp.html
This tutorial will print out on standard 8½" X 11" paper

Above tag is slightly reduced in size
Alternate with wide edge (greatly reduced in size):

Translated with permission from the creator, Marian at Marian's PSP-Lessen tutorial site.
See the original tutorial here for PSP in Dutch
http://www.psp-lessen-marian.nl/pages/Lost_Thoughts.htm

For this tutorial you will need:
Corel Paint Shop Pro - available for purchase and trial version here
(or Jasc previous versions)
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
Mehdi - Sorting Tiles
FM Tile tools - Blend Emboss
Xero - Porcelain
Flaming pear - Transline
Penta.com - VTR 2 and Color Dot
Graphic plus - Cross Shadow
Supplies in zip file
The material has been prepared so that you can open it with different versions of the program.

I am assuming you know the basics of Paint Shop Pro and where the tools can be located.

1. Open new canvas 640X480
Set foreground color to #4a1b02 (very dark brown) and background color to #d0a185 (a creamy coffee color).

Change foreground to gradient, foreground-background, and set it at linear, angle 45, repeat 2, invert checked.

2. Fill your canvas with the gradient. Go to Adjust>Blur>Gaussian blur set at 20.

It should look like this now.

3. Go to Effects>Mehdi>Sorting tiles set at Block Range 0-50, Block 50, Mosaic checked

4. Open the tube "ldesignz dreamerbyfrixin". Copy it (control-c) and paste as a new layer (Control-L)
onto your gradient canvas. Leave it at the center.
Go to Adjust>Blur>Motion Blur and set angle to 45 and strength to 100.

Click on your raster deform tool

(or just click D) and pull the layer out to cover the complete canvas.

In the layer palette, turn the opacity down to about 42.

5. Open your tube "_ Aimelle_sepia beauty". Copy (control-C) and paste (control-L)
as a new layer in your main canvas. Image>Mirror. Put it against the right edge of the canvas.

Pick your deform tool and pull the top and bottom edge slightly so it fits exactly at both top and bottom.

Now, in the layer palette, change the blend mode to Luminance (Legacy).

Go to Effects>FM Tile Tools>Blend Emboss at default settings.

It should look like this now:

6. Open the tube "ldesignz dreamerbyfrixin" again. Copy it (control-c) and
paste as a new layer (Control-L) onto your gradient canvas.
Go to Image>Mirror and move it to the left edge as shown.

Go to Effects>FM Tile Tools>Blend Emboss at default settings.
Go to Adjust>PhotoFix>Digital Camera Noise Removal at default settings
(In PSP XI it's right in the Adjust menu)

Digital Camera Noise Removal
Before After

7. Layer>New Raster Layer. Select all.
Open the tube "MarieL_2006_10Octobre_smoke02t". Copy (control-c)
and over to your canvas you're working on, Edit>Paste into selection.
Now, in the layer palette, change the blend mode to Luminance (Legacy).
Reduce opacity in layer palette to 48.
Selections>Select none.

8. Open the tube "Marif_2006_octobre_misted_fleurs093".
Image>Mirror and copy (control-c) and paste as new layer (control-L) into your tag.

Now, in the layer palette, change the blend mode to Luminance (Legacy).
Reduce opacity in layer palette to 78.
Move into place as shown.

9. New raster layer. Open the tube "Marif_2006_octobre_misted_decor078",
copy (control-C) and paste as new layer (control-L) in the tag canvas.
With your deform tool (click on D) pull the top and bottom edges till the are right at top edge and bottom edge.
Now move the entire layer to the right edge until only some of the droplets are showing, as shown in the sample here.

Now, in the layer palette, change the blend mode to Overlay. Reduce opacity in layer palette to 60.

Your layer palette should look similar to this now. Lots of layers! LOL

10. In layer palette, right click on a layer and merge all (flatten).
Go to Effects>Xero>Porcelain, change the bottom 3 lines (red-green-blue) to 0.

It should look like this now

Duplicate this canvas and minimize if you are making the wide border.

Now we will add either a narrow edge or a wide one. Your choice.
Narrow edge is just below, wide edge is below that.

NARROW EDGE BORDER

Make sure your dark color is your background color
Selections-Select All
Selections>Modify>Contract with 10
Selections>Invert
Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur at 20
Effects>Flaming Pear>Transline
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow: V1 and H1, Opacity 100, Blur 5.
Repeat with V -1 and h -1.

Example showing with Drop Shadow only
(In reducing size of these examples, the transline looks a bit different,
in the larger tag the lines are finer, as shown in blowup of corner above)

(optional) Effects>3D Effects>Inner Bevel, default settings, width at 2
Selections>Invert

Effects>3D Effects>Cutout>V1 en H1, Opacity 70, Blur 30. Fill interior with color not checked.

After drop shadow, bevel and cutout

After drop shadow and cutout only, no inner bevel

Now you can add the text.

WIDE EDGE BORDER

1. Duplicate canvas and minimize duplicate
Image>Add borders>1 pixel #2e1709

Image>Add borders>7 pixels #d0a185

Select border with Magic Wand, tolerance at 0
Effects>Penta.com - VTR 2 default setting

Selections>Select None
Image>Add borders>1 pixel #2e1709

2. Maximize duplicated canvas and copy
Image>Add borders>35 pixels white
Select border with Magic Wand, tolerance at 0
Edit>Paste into selection
Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur at 20
Effects>Penta.com - Color Dot, default settings

3. Keep selected
Add new raster layer (make sure it's just above the layer you just applied Color Dot to)
and fill with color #2e1709 (the dark brown)
Effects>Graphic Plus>Cross shadow>default settings

Lower layer opacity to 72
Selections>Select None

4. Repeat step 1
Image>Add borders>1 pixel #2e1709
Image>Add borders>7 pixels #d0a185
Select border with Magic Wand, tolerance at 0
Effects>Penta.com - VTR 2 default setting
Selections>Select None
Image>Add borders>1 pixel #2e1709

Now you can add the text.

ADDING TEXT

Change your foreground color to none, and your background color the dark brown used for the frame (#2e1709)
The original creator used the font Carattere but it's not shareware so I found one that is very similar
and I can share, called ElegeionScript. Size 48, stroke width 0, vector, anti-alias sharp.

Type your text. Right click this layer in layer palette and convert to raster layer.
Now add a drop shadow
V 1 en H1,
Opacity 75,
Blur 2.

In the layer palette, change the blend mode to Hard Light.
If you are going to resize, it's best to do that first and then add the text.
Text doesn't always look right when resized

Watermark and save as a jpg. Don't forget to optimize. I usually optimize at about 20.
Find the jpg optimizer in File>Export>Jpeg optimizer

l hope you had fun!

If you have any questions or suggestions, email me at this page
http://www.ellies-treasures.com/email/email.html
Have a wonderful day!

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