Translated with permission from the creator, Paola, at Grafica Paola tutorial site.
 


See the original tutorial here for PSP in Italian
This is not my tutorial, it belongs to Paola. If you would like to translate into another language, you must ask her permission.
You can contact her here.

 They will both 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:
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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, available free here
If you use Filters Unlimited, download Filter Factory N in ffx format here
Cybia-Screen Works, available free here
Supplies in zip file here.  2 of the tubes are both in psp and pspimage format. The rest are in psp format.
Supplies in zip file here for older versions if the other ones don't work for you. These are in psd format.
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Credits
Orchid and Lady by LaManouche: http://www.lamanouche.com
Castle and spiderweb by Marion und Dieter: http://dieterundmarion-online-de/
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 My plugin windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my plugins - available for purchase here
 http://www.icnet.de/filters_unlimited/
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I am assuming you know the basics of Paint Shop Pro and where the tools can be located.
Here are some arrows and bars you can drag and drop where you need to mark or underline where you are. .
Just left click and drag to where you want it then let go.
They will stay where you put them until you close your browser.
           




 Here's a small version of the tag that you can drag with you for reference
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!
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.
l hope you had fun!
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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 all of the text on the buttons is BrockScript
The font I used for the "Fantasy" tutorial header is also BrockScript.
(Click on the font names to download the fonts.)
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.