Ellie's Treasures PSP-Tuts PSPIArtes Back Spiro

Translated with permission from the creator, Marynez, at PSPIArtes tutorial site.

See the original tutorial here for PSP in Portuguese
This is not my tutorial, it belongs to Marynez of PSPIArtes.
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

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For this tutorial you will need:

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
DC Special>SpiroFX (in The New Stuff Collection), available free here
FM Tile Tools>Blend Emboss (optional), available free here (it's a trial but Blend Emboss keeps working after)
1 tube of your choice
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Credits
Tube I used in this tutorial was tubed by GreatKris
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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.

1. Open your tube, duplicate (Shift-D) and close original.
Duplicate again and minimize one.
With the one you have open, resize it to 300X300, Lock aspect ratio unchecked.

2. Right click in layer palette and create new raster layer. Drag it below your tube layer.
Pick a pale color to coordinate and fill the background with it.
Right click in layer palette, Merge all

3. Effects/Image Effects/Seamless Tiling:
default with transition in 100

4. Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur/Radius=30

5. Effects>DCSpecial>SpiroFX:
526/590/46/199/500/238/31/0/0
in colors that coordinate with your tube.

6. Effects>Image Effects>Seamless Tiling:
default with transition in 100
Filter FM Tile Tools>Blend Emboss (optional)

Pattern is ready.

7. Open new canvas of 1024x300. (I usually make mine 1280 wide)

8. Fill with this pattern

9. Back to your minimized tube. You can either use it as is or you can make it seamless vertically,
depends on the tube you're using. With this one, I made it seamless vertically. Go to seamless tile, it should still be
set at the default setting as before. Tiling Method to corner, Direction to Vertical, width at 50, transition at 100.

Paste tube as new layer again and move to the left side.

See here for other versions using a tube on the side without making it seamless

Merge All

10. New raster layer to place watermark.

11. Your stationery strip is ready!! Watermark and save
File>Export>Jpeg optimizer - compression of 20.

l hope you had fun!
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Alternative versions

*Note: I found when I was done this floral heart one that I didn't quite like the color
of the background pattern, so I created a new raster layer, pulled it below the tube layer,
filled it with a bright pink, and reduced the opacity of that layer in the layer palette to 28.
Drop shadow on tube if desired. I applied a drop shadow of 1-1-50-2, with a dark grey color (looks more realistic than black).

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 "Back Spiro" tutorial header is Whimsical.
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.