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

See the original tutorial here for PSP in Spanish.

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For this tutorial you will need:
Corel Paint Shop Pro - available for purchase and trial version here
(or Jasc previous versions)

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 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
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.