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Ellie's
Treasures Paint Shop Pro Translated Tutorials - Paola's Fantasy Blend Tag http://www.ellies-treasures.com/paola/fantasy-psp/fantasy-psp.html |
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For this tutorial you
will need: Jasc or Corel Paint Shop Pro. 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 Filter Factory Gallery N-Wee Scratches; Cybia-Screen Works Supplies in zip file here. 2 of the tubes are both in psp and pspimage format. The rest are in psp format. http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/fantasy-supplies-psp.zip Supplies in zip file here for older versions if the other ones don't work for you. These are in psd format. http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/fantasy-supplies-psd.zip *********** Credits: Orchid and Lady by LaManouche, Castle and spiderweb by Marion und Dieter |
| Preparation Before opening PSP, double click the font to open it and leave it open so it will be available for use in PSP (or install it) Put the plugins into your plugin folder. Put the gradients into your gradient folder. Now open PSP. Open your tubes in PSP, duplicate them (shift-D) and close the originals None of the tubes are used more than once, so each can be closed after use. |
| 1. Open a transparent canvas 550 x 400. Change foreground to gradient and find MistyDelilah_CC, Angle 45, repeats 0. Fill the canvas with the gradient. |
| 2. Highlight the tube "orchid", copy (control-C) and paste as new layer (control-L) Effects>Image Effects>Seamless Tile, default settings of Corner-Bidirectional-0-0-50-Linear Lower the opacity to 60 Right click on layer palette and merge visible. Effects>Filters Unlimited 2.0>Filter Factory-Gallery N - Wee Scratches, default value of 255 and ok |
| 3. Selections>Select all (control-A). Selections>modify>contract by 50. New raster layer. Fill the selection with the gradient SN_Archrival gradient angle 45 Leave selected Selections>Modify>Contract by 2 New raster layer Fill the selection with the gradient used in the beginning (MistyDelilah_CC) with angle set at 45, Leave selected Remaining on this layer, go to Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur set at 25 Effects>Cybia>Screen Works-Dot Screen at default of 0 and ok. |
| 4. Highlight the tube "mds3431 Fantasycastle", copy and Edit>Paste into selection Deselect Turn off the merged layer 1 (click on eye) and, making sure you are on one of the other layers, merge visible. Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings 0-0-50-25, black. Turn bottom layer back on. |
| 5. Highlight the tube "Royos_lady" Copy and paste as new layer. Move to the left as shown Drop shadow with values:2-2-50-5 |
| 6. Highlight the tube "mds2039Spinnennetz22.01.07" Copy and paste as new layer Adjust>Hue and Saturation>Colorize with values: 208-124 Image>Rotate>Free Rotate>90 left Arrange to the right as shown. Adjust>Sharpness>Sharpen Merge visible |
| 7. Selections>Select all. Selections>Modify>Contract by 10 Selections>Invert New raster layer Fill with the gradient SN_Archival angle 45, Effects>Texture effects>Ancient mosaic with these values: symmetrical checked, Grid settings: 40-40, Mosaic settings: 33-3-41 and ok |
| 8. Text Set the material palette to gradient, both background and foreground, and use the 2 gradients used in this tutorial, foreground to SN_Archival and background to MistyDelilah_CC, both set at angle of 45, repeats of 0, linear. Set the text tool to Vector, Pick font of your choice. I used Brock Script. Size 48. Stroke width 1. Antialias sharp. Type your text. I typed the word "Fantasy". Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow (click ok when it wants to convert to raster layer), settings as before: 3-3-50-5-black (Optional) Adjust>Brightness and contrast set at 5-10 (I use this setting and this command a lot) You're done! |
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Resizing To resize, make sure, to retain the texture and the clarity, resize at 90% bicubic and repeat till you get close to the size you want. At that point you can resize by pixels as usual. You will find this makes a big difference in your final result. If you resize, use the Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp Mask or Adjust>Brightness/Contrast to sharpen it a bit. Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp mask at Radius 1, strength 60, clipping 4. or Adjust>Brightness and Contrast set to Brightness of 5-contrast of 15. |
| 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. |
| If you have any questions or suggestions, email me at this page: http://www.ellies-treasures.com/email/email.html |
| 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. ©2003-2007 Ellie's Treasures |
