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Translated with permission from the creator, Marijke at Marijke PSP Design tutorial site.
 


See the original tutorial here for PSP in Dutch
This is not my tutorial, it belongs to Marijke. 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:
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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 filters needed
1 picture of your choice
I used Tropical Castaway by TC Chiu (link is dead but I'm providing it in case it comes back online again)
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Marijke's terms of use, click here, scroll down for the English
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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.
           



1. Make your picture 400 pixels high, pick a beautiful color from it and make that your foreground color, background color is black
In picking your color, pick on the light side as it will darken with the effects.
Or you can colorize the whole frame afterward or use Brightness and Contrast.
 2. Selections>Select all (control-A)
Effects>3D Effects>Cutout, settings: V 0 - H 0 - Opacity 90 - Blur 5 -black



Deselect
3. Image>Add borders>1 black, 2 with your color, 1 black
4. Image>Add borders>22 with your color,
Select with magic wand
Effects>Texture Effects>Blinds: W 151 - O 75 - color: black - horizontal checked, light from left/top checked
5. Effects>Edge Effects>Erode- you may not see a lot of difference yet.
Effects>Distortion Effects>Punch 50%,

Deselect
6. Image>Add borders>1 black, 2 with your color, 1 black
7. Image>Add borders>27 with your color,
Select with magic wand,
Layers>new raster layer, fill with black
8. Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur at 50,
Effects>Distortion Effects>Curlicues: 10 - 10 - 100 - 1, both boxes checked



Deselect
9. Image>Resize to 80%
10. Image>Add borders> 1 black, 2 with your color, 1 black
11. Image>Add borders>30 with your color,
Select with magic wand
Effects>Texture Effects>Blinds: W 160 - O 75 - color: black - both boxes checked
12. With your edge still selected, Effects>Edge Effects>Enhance
Keep selected
13 Effects>3D Effects>Cutout as before, settings: V 0 - H 0 - Opacity 90 - Blur 5 - black

Deselect.
14. Image>Add borders> 1 black, 2 with your color, 1 black
After I was done, I decided I wanted the frame bluer, less grey in it, so I selected around the picture itself,
then inverted so only the frame was picked, then I went to Adjust>Hue and Saturation>Colorize
and I gave it more saturation and more toward the green-blue in hue.


You could also use the Brightness and Contrast (Adjust>Brightness and Contrast>Brightness/Contrast)
command on it, instead of colorizing, just play with the sliders till you like what you see.
You're done.  If you reduce the size, make sure you use your unsharp mask at 1-64-4.
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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These tutorials are translated with permission from the original writer.
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional.
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Alternate versions
(this picture is also by TC Chiu "Summer Garden")
 
After the last borders                                           After colorizing


After colorizing, then brightness and contrast (Adjust>Brightness and Contrast>Brightness/Contrast)

Made by my friend, Sonel of Sonel's Corner, isn't it just toooo adorable!!! I love it.

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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 "Babette" tutorial header is ATOldFashionScript.
 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.