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Ellie's
Treasures Paint Shop Pro Translated Tutorials -
Water Tag
http://www.ellies-treasures.com/missdaisy/water-psp/water-psp.html |
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For this tutorial you
will need: Corel Paint Shop Pro (or Jasc previous versions)  Filters and materials needed Virtual Photographer, available free here http://www.optikvervelabs.com/default.asp Supplies in zip file here http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/water-psp-material.zip 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 Paint Shop Pro and where the tools can be located. |
| 1. Put teom005.jgd in your PSP gradient folder Open a new canvas 640X480 |
| 2. Fill with the gradient from the supplies folder, teom005, settings as shown: 45-0-linear   |
3. Filter>Texture>Texturizer>Canvas with these settings: 65-4-top |
| 4. Copy and paste into the canvas the three images of the children (not the girl holding the seashell) which have each been reduced to 90%. Each one goes in a new layer To paste Control-L.. Distribute as shown.  |
5. Copy and paste in new layer the image of the snails. Drop shadow: black, 2/2/70/10. It should look like this now:  |
| 6. Right click in layer palette and merge visible. Duplicate the layer. Make sure you are in the top layer, Go to Filter>OptikVerve>Virtual Photographer: Blue Tone and Softest Light as shown  In the layer palette, reduce opacity of this layer to 46%  Right click in layer palette and merge visible layers Duplicate layer |
7. Activate the bottom layer>Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur: 20% |
| 8. Effects>Texture Effects>Blinds-settings as shown 3-80-color c0c0c0, horizontal checked, light from left/top checked  Repeat but this time without selecting Horizontal |
9. Activate the top layer>Resize to 80% |
| 10. Selections>Select all - Selections>Float - Selections>Modify>Select selection borders>settings as shown- Outside, Anti-alias checked, border width 2. Fill border with white.  |
| 11. With Paint Brush tool, size 1, Square, white, fix the corners of the frame where you see grey. Zoom if needed. Before  After  |
| 12. Select everything. Float. Drop Shadow: black, 2/2/70/2. Apply again but v and h are now -2. Deselect. See next step to see how it should look. |
| 13. 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.  |
| 14. Open and copy "silvernleader" (metallic adornment). Paste into canvas as new layer. Resize to 90%; Free rotation 15 degrees left.  Drop Shadow:2-2-70-10 as in step 5. Move to correct location (see next step for screenshot) |
| 15. Open and copy "tarjeta". Paste into canvas as new layer. Apply drop shadow as in step 19. Place in correct location. Merge all (flatten) It should look like this now  |
16. Image>Add borders, symmetrical: 1 pix, black then 2 pix white, then 1 pix black. |
Your finished tag should look like this |
| 17. Resize if necessary. If you do go to Adjust>Sharpen>Unsharp Mask: 1-64-4 18. Watermark in new layer 19. File>Export>JPEG Optimizer: 20 |
| You're done! l hope you had fun! |
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If
you have any questions or suggestions, email me at this page http://www.ellies-treasures.com/email/email.html Have a wonderful day! |
| These tutorials are translated with permission from the original writer. Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional. Feel free to share any of my tutorials on this site by a link back to my site, but do not copy and send the entire tutorial to anyone or any group. ©2003-2006 Ellie's Treasures |