For this tutorial you will need:
ULead PhotoImpact - available for purchase here

Filters and materials needed
Stylize Filter>Wind - available free here
My star ufo to make stamp, click here

I am assuming you know the basics of PhotoImpact and where the tools can be located.
This was done in PhotoImpact 10 but can also be done in previous versions.
 


Instructions

Screenshots
1. Open tube, object or psd file (a wide one works best), duplicate (Control-D), close original; Open new canvas 500 X 1024.
Edit>Fill with dark color, I used dark blue #072295
 
2. Using Paintbrush, set to round, size 100, soft edge 0, foreground color white, make undulating waves in the left 1/3 as shown.Set brush to size 50 and smooth out the angles of the waves if any.
I make the outline of the undulating line first and then you can quickly paint the rest of the left side.


 


 

 
3. Effect>Stylize>Wind>from right; I repeated twice using blast setting and three times using wind setting until I had a number of nice long horizontal icicles.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 
4. Go to Edit>Rotate and Flip>Rotate Right 90 degrees.

 

 

 

 

 

 
5. Go to Photo>Noise>Add Noise, click on options and in the next window choose Uniform, Variance 15, and check Monochromatic, click ok. Right click, deselect.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




 
It should look like this now.

 

 

 

 
6.  Open your minimized tube (object, psd file) - Edit>Copy, go to the stationery strip, Edit>Paste as Object. Resize if necessary. Make sure it's placed where you want it. Right click, Shadow, apply shadow at these settings: 5-5-50-100-10, leave the default shadow type, far left. Deselect.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 
7. Set to path tool, rectangle, 3d round, white, draw a narrow line across the width from one end to the other, a little bit under the tube. Click on the stamp tool and pick a stamp you like or click on export a picture tube and browse to your psp tubes if you have some. Pick one you like. You may use my star if you like. This may take a little experimentation but start at scale 50, spacing 50, random, trail, separate objects.

Go to Effects>Creative>Paint on edges. See if you like the result, if not, click on undo, change the tube, spacing, scale, etc and find an effect you like. You can use the white star I have provided as a ufo, go to the stamp tool, click on add, browse to the star to select. Set up the stamp toolbar as shown, trans 0, scale and shape at 50, order - random, placement - stamp , Object - single object. Look in layer palette and select the top two layers, that will be the star line and the 3d bar behind it. Right click on the layer palette and merge these two objects as a single object. Now you can move it around to find the best place for it.  Your Header strip is done.



 
8. Background: New canvas, 200X200, fill with the same dark color and go to Photo>Noise>Add Noise, 15%, uniform, Monochromatic. Edit>Copy.

 

 

 

 

 

 
9. Open new canvas 1024X3000 white. Go to Edit>Fill>Image tab, click on Clipboard and tile image.
Back to header strip, Edit>Copy, back to full canvas, Paste>As Object. It should paste exactly in the right place, at the top and filling the top at right, left and top margins. Right click, Merge all, add a watermark, and you're done.

 

 


To use in Incredimail Letter Creator, open LC, click on the body tab, click on Image, find this full stationery and for image position, leave at the default "Left", but where it says "Top" click on "Center"; your picture will disappear but don't worry, now click on "Tile" and you will see it in the correct place. Now the text won't scroll over your header. Change the top margin to a setting that will put the text a little bit under the decorative bar. Choose your font, font color, link color. Click on Footer to add your footer information. I always put the font name there, as well as a tutorial link and any other pertinent info, tuber name or artist name if you have it, etc. To add a link here, just type in the text or add the image, highlight it and click on the link icon, and add the link info there.

 Full stat - cropped at bottom


Letter Creator settings

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These tutorials are all my own creations.
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional.
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