Translated with permission from the creator, Mabel at MissDaisy's tutorial site.

See the original tutorial here for PSP in Spanish.

This will 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:
Ulead PhotoImpact - available for purchase or trial here

Filters and materials needed
Virtual Photographer, available free here
Supplies in zip file here
 The material has been prepared so that you can open it with different versions of the program.

Credits from Miss Daisy's original tutorial:
"I am thankful to those who designed the material used in this tutorial:
CherSwitz, Daisy Web, Mz Kels, DoziBaer, etc."

I am assuming you know the basics of PhotoImpact and where the tools can be located.
1. Open the gradient canvas I provided, duplicate and close original
2. Filter>Texture>Texturizer>Canvas with these settings: 65-4-top
3. Copy (control-C) and paste (control-V) into the canvas the three images of the children
which have each been reduced to 90% (do not add girl holding seashell yet).
Distribute as shown.
4. Copy and paste the image of the snails. Stay in this layer. Right click>Shadow: black, 2/2/30/100/10.

It should look like this now:
5. Right click>select all, right click>merge as single object
In layer palette, duplicate layer
6. Make sure you are in the top layer,
Go to Effects>OptikVerve>Virtual Photographer: Blue Tone and Softest Light as shown

Still in this layer, reduce opacity in layer palette to 54%
7. Right click>select all, right click>merge all, now use your selection tool to crop right around the edges.
I found that later in this tutorial, if I didn't do that, some of the misting of the objects was still visible
when I reduced the size, going outside of the borders. This way you make sure you have a nice clean edge.
8. Control-C to copy, control-V to paste twice. This will make it into two layers.
9. Activate the bottom layer>Effect>Blur>Gaussian Blur>Options: 80%
 
10. Open new canvas 1280X400 (I prefer the 1280 width as most modern monitors are fairly large.
You can pick another width if you like. The height has to stay at 400 as it's the height of the tile.
11. Duplicate bottom layer, make sure it is just above the bottom layer.
If not, drag it there in the layer palette or right click>arrange>send backward.
12. Effects>Cybia>Screenworks>Hollow Dot at default of 255




Reduce opacity of this layer to 85%



With bottom layer and second layer selected, right click and merge as single object.
13. With the top layer selected, resize it to 80%, make sure selected objects is checked.

Move the resized layer to the center (right click> align>center both)
14. Merge all. Zoom up to about 150%. With selection tool, rectangular, select around the middle picture.
It has to be very close, you can even go just inside the edge of the picture.
Selection>Border-2, outward, box, soft edge 0.

Click on fill tool. Set similarity at 100 in the tool panel or it won't fill the whole border.
Anti-aliasing checked. Fill border with white.
15. Select carefully around edge of white border, control-C to copy, Control-V to paste. Right click>None.
This will add this framed part as an object.
Leave the object layer selected. Right click>Shadow:4th icon from left. Settings: 5-100-15.

See next step screenshot to see what it should look like.
Merge all
16. Open and copy the image "Sound of the Sea" (child with snail). Paste into the canvas as a new layer.
Move into place as shown.
17. Open and copy "silvernleader" (metallic adornment). Paste into canvas.
Resize this object to 90% (make sure selected object is checked);
Transform tool-in the toolbar pick Rotate by Degree, put 15 degrees in the
window and click on the left rounded arrow (counterclockwise).

Right click>Shadow:2-2-30-100-10 as in step 4.

Move to correct location.
18. Open and copy "tarjeta". Paste into canvas as new layer.
Apply drop shadow as in previous step. Place in correct location. Merge all (flatten)
Your tag should now look like this
19. Image>Expand canvas, symmetrical: 1 pix black-then 2 pix white-then 1 pix black.
Your final tag should look like this
Resize if necessary. If you do resize, go to Effect>Sharpen>Unsharp Mask: 1-64-4.
Watermark.
Save by  going to Web>Image Optimizer>jpg: move slider to 80
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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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 the gel text not on buttons and on the Email button Aristocrat SF.
 The font I used for the text on the buttons (except for Email) is BrockScript
The font I used for the tutorial header is Walt Disney Script.
The font I used for "Translated from Miss Daisy" is Floralies.
 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.