Ellie's Treasures PhotoImpact Translated Tutorials - Freedom Tag

http://www.ellies-treasures.com/missdaisy/freedom-pi/freedom-pi.html
This tutorial will print out on standard 8½" X 11" paper

Translated with permission from the creator, Mabel at MissDaisy's tutorial site.
Translated with permission from the creator, Mabel of Miss Daisy's Tutorials
http://missdaisy.iespana.es
Original tutorial for PSP in Spanish
See the original tutorial here for PSP in Spanish.
For this tutorial you will need:
Ulead PhotoImpact
 I've done this tutorial in PI XL and PI 12
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
 Mura’s Meister / Cloud / Tone
FM Tile Tools / Blend Emboss
Virtual Photographer
Video Rave / Picture Chopper, part of Harry's Filters
Penta/Color Dot
Eye Candy 3.1/Cutout
Supplies in zip file here includes graphics, mask and tubes
and a canvas filled with gradient in case you don't want to make your own gradient.
http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/freedom-material-pi.zip
Please leave the filenames and previews of the tubes intact.
The creators have worked hard to make them.
I am thankful to those who designed the material used in this tutorial:
 Henri Peter, Suzy Sgai Tubes, Patry, brushes from Touchstone’s art, etc.


I am assuming you know the basics of PhotoImpact and where the tools can be located.
My filter windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my filters.
A great program! It's Shareware
Put filters in your plugin folder
Open up your images and your tubes. Duplicate the originals, close them
and minimize the duplicates. They are not needed yet.
1. Open a new transparent image 640X480 pixels (or the gradient canvas if you're using it)
If you use the gradient canvas, skip to step 3.
2. Make foreground color #b6b9bd and background color #798287

 Go to Edit>Fill, Click the gradient tab, click on the color box beside magic gradient,

in the next window change the Mode to 1, and the repeat number to 2.0. Now click on edit under the preview box.

In the next window click on 086 or one of the others in that same area to get a gradient with only 2 color boxes.
To change colors, you right click on the box and choose change color. To see the position just left click on the box.
Make one your darker color (#798287) and one your lighter color (#b6b9bd).
Put the lighter one at position 321 and your darker one at position 191.
Now click between them near the top about a 10 o'clock position to make another box
and make that your lighter color as well (#b6b9bd) and move it to position 34.

Click Add to add it to your palette if you want it to use again another time.
Click ok, in the next window click ok, and in the next window, make sure the arrow is pointing down
(even though the gradient is diagonal, it's made on the diagonal and needs to go straight down) and click ok.
Your canvas will be filled with the gradient.
3.Effect>Mura's Meister>Cloud, settings at default
Light, FG and BG checked
100-100-3 and the rest at 0, blend mode, source base not checked
4. Control-C to copy, Control-V to paste (this duplicates the layer).
Effect>Mura's Meister>Tone, settings at default
300-50-10-45-0-0 Thru BG/FG checked, FG color grey #b6b9bd
Set blend mode to Inverse of Multiply, layer opacity to 60%,
 Effect>FM Tile Tools>Blend Emboss at default settings of
-1, -1, .250, 64, 0.938, 0.938, 0.938, edge wrap checked
Right click and merge all.
5. Selections>Select All.
Open and copy tube “SS_Art14” (Landscape). Back to working canvas and edit>paste>fit into selection.
Blend mode of hard light, opacity of 30%. Right click and merge all.
6. Apply 20-20 mask to the 2 Henri Peters pictures, Lady Dragonfly and Seven Seas
Make your graphic active by clicking on it and copy it (control-C). Change colors in palette to Black and White.
New>New Image>make sure "Same as image from clipboard" is checked and transparent. Ok.
Control-V to paste your image into it. Select all. Click on the mask tool in your toolbar
(it looks like a mask). You won't see any difference yet. Edit>Paste>Fit into selection
your 2020 mask over top of the graphic. You will now see some red.
Click the mask tool again to toggle it off. You will see marching ants around the mask selection
and the outside edges of the image will turn transparent. It will be an object on a transparent layer now.
Repeat with the Seven Seas image.
7. Copy (control-c) and paste (control-v) your now misted image: “lady_dragonfly_c”.
Image>Click on the transform tool and in the toolbar, click on flip horizontally.
Move to the right and place as shown. Opacity of 30%
8. Copy and paste your now misted image: “seven_seas_c”. Move to the left as shown, Opacity of 30%
9. Copy and paste the image “Animal03” (horse).
Move a little towards the left and place between the two previous images.
10. Right click and Select all objects, merge as single object
11. On the merged layer, go to Effect>FM Tile Tools>Blend Emboss at
default settings of -1, -1, .250, 64, 0.938, 0.938, 0.938, edge wrap checked
12. With that layer selected, shift-D to duplicate layer (or right click).
Format (In PI 12 it's Photo>Light)>Brightness and Contrast,
at these settings: 12-36-1, channel: master.
Set opacity of layer to 30.
13. Right click, merge all.
14 Effect>Optik Verve Labs>Virtual Photographer, preset Radiant, leave at default
Film #1, on/off checked, original checked, film speed of 25, effect set to soft, b/w not checked.
Click process to finish.
Copy.
15. Format (In PI 12 it's Adjust)>Expand canvas, Expand sides equally
NOT checked, top, left and right at 30, bottom at 70, white
16. With Magic Wand set to similarity of 0, line and search connected pixels checked, select this border.
Edit>Paste>Fit into selection the image you copied earlier.
Effect (in PI 12 it's Photo)>Blur>Gaussian Blur, click on options button-radius of 15
17. Effect>Video Rave>Picture chopper, default settings of 229-229-13
18. Effects>Penta>Color Dot at default 90-2-255-255-255
Effects>FM Tile Tools>Blend Emboss, default settings. Deselect.
19. Using your rectangular marquee tool, select around the inside of the
frame, right at the edges of the graphic, as shown.
Go to Effect>Eye Candy 3.1>Cutout. Change color to #404040 or RGB of 64-64-64.
Set distance at 2, blur at 5 and opacity at 100. No fill color or solid fill.
20. Expand canvas, symmetrical 2 pixels white, repeat with 1 pixel black, then 2 pixels contrasting color.
Select this last border with your magic wand, and fill with the pattern "silver" provided in the supplies.
(copy the silver picture, back over to working canvas, Edit>Fill>Image>clipboard>Tile the image).
Format>Brightness and Contrast>pick thumbnail middle row right. Deselect.
21. Open and copy tube "flores". Back to working canvas, paste. Place to the right on the frame
as shown. Effect>FM Tile Tools>Blend Emboss at default settings.
22. Open and copy tube "freedomtext". Return to your canvas and paste. Place as shown.
23. Open the pincelparafreedom.psd and copy and paste it on the left bottom corner side
just inside the narrow white edge. Duplicate it twice, place one in the middle and one on the right
at the narrow white edge again. Arrange so there is a small vertical gap between each one.
They will be hard to grab so it's easier just to make sure you are in that layer,
click on your move tool and use your arrow keys to move them in place.
In the layer palette, drag these layers below the freedom text layer and the flora layer
and check to make sure there is a small gap between the three of them. (Compare with the finished tag)
24 (optional). Resize tag if you want to (merge all layers first if you do). Use unsharp mask
(Adjust (In PI 12 it's Photo)>Sharpen>Unsharp Mask) if needed after resizing. Set unsharp mask at 1/64/4.
25. IMPORTANT: in new layer, with a small, legible font place the copyright to the artist:
©Henri Peter - www.henripeter.com. I've included the copyright file in psd format for you to use if you like.
(copyright symbol is Alt-0169, hold down the alt key and type 0169 in the number pad while
holding it down. When you let go of the Alt key, the copyright symbol will appear
Note: not all fonts include the copyright symbol. If it's not showing up, that's probably why).
26. Watermark your tag.
Merge all, save as jpg, don't forget to optimize. I usually save mine at about 80.
Your Freedom Tag is done!
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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