Ellie's Treasures Photoshop-Photoshop Elements Tutorials-Back Stain

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Translated with permission from the creator, Marynez Nardi at PSPIartes.

See the original tutorial here for PSP in Portuguese.

This will 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:
Adobe Photoshop Elements - available for purchase here
OR
Adobe Photoshop - available for purchase here

Filters and materials needed
Convolution filters>Emboss Strong, download free here
Simple>Quick Tile, download free here
Stained Glass mask-in supply folder here
I've included it as a psd files
Image
I find a tube doesn't work too well with this unless you put a coordinating
background behind and merge all before the seamless tile effect.

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/

I am assuming you know the basics of Photoshop/Photoshop Elements 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 image or tube. Duplicate (Shift-D) and close original.
Image>Resize if needed to 300 pix height
Duplicate (right click on canvas title bar and pick Duplicate) and minimize.

2. Filter>Simple>Quick Tile

3. Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur>radius of 8.4

Filter>Convolution Filters>Emboss (Strong) set at maximum of 255.

4 Open the stained glass 5c mask. Select all (control-A) Copy (control-C). Make your graphic active by clicking on it.
Edit>Paste (control-V)>your mask over top of the graphic.

Go to Image>Resize>Scale (In PS it's Edit>Transform>Scale) and use the right bounding
box in the centre to push the mask to fit exactly to the edge of the right side.

Once done, click the checkmark to finish it. In PSE it's on the bottom of the canvas, in PS it's in the toolbar.
Staying in the mask layer, go to the layer palette and change the mode from Normal to Screen.

Right click in layer palette and merge all

Select the white lines with the magic wand.
Open your minimized duplicate, go to Edit>Define Pattern, give it a name and ok

Back to your graphic, Edit>Fill Selection (In PS, it's just Fill), pattern,
click on the dropdown arrow and choose your pattern, click ok.

Your lines will now be filled with the graphic.

4. Add new layer
Maximize your duplicate image
Since a mask doesn't work in PSE and all of the workarounds I tried won't allow a soft edge mask
(although a hard edge mask can be done with these fixes), you will just make a feathered selection of the image.
This method was so much quicker than the mask in PS that you will use this in PS as well.
Click on your selection tool, pick elliptical (the oval), change the feather to 15-20 px,
anti-alias checked, mode normal, and, starting at the top left corner, bring it down to the bottom right,
selecting an oval area of the image. Pick the smaller number (15) if your image is close to the edges,
you can go up to 20 if the edge is further away. You don't want the straight edge to show in the selection.

Once you make the selection you can move it by just moving
your cursor to the center of it and left clicking and moving it.

Control-C to copy the feathered selection, over to your main canvas, control-v to paste it.

5. Now go to Image>Resize>Scale (In PS it's Edit>Transform>Scale) and use the
bounding boxes to resize it to the middle of the middle diamond. Hold the control button
while resizing to keep it in proportion as you resize and use the right bottom bounding box,
pushing it up and to the left. You can move it while still in the resize mode to make sure of the right size.
Once done, click the checkmark to finish it. In PSE it's on the bottom of the canvas, in PS it's in the toolbar.
In the layer palette, change the opacity of this layer to about 40% or to your taste.
Remember that this will be your stationery background so you don't want it to noticeable.

Right click in layer palette and flatten image.

10. Filter>Simple>Quick Tile

Your tile is now done. With the tile as the active canvas,
go to Edit>Define pattern and give your pattern a name and ok.

6. Open new canvas 1024x300. (I usually make mine 1280 wide, this writer makes hers 1024)
Go to Edit>Fill Layer (Edit>Fill in PS) and pick Pattern.
Find the pattern you just made and ok. This will fill the canvas.

Make sure you still have the feathered image in your clipboard or copy it again..

7. Control-V to Paste and move it to the left side.

I found this pattern to be a bit too bright for a stationery background so I muted it by adding a layer,
filling it with a lavender color and reducing the opacity to 50%.
You could use white as well or a color that blends well with your stationery.

Merge All

Watermark and save and you're done!

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 the text on the buttons (except for Email) is BrockScript
The font I used for "Translated from PSPIArtes" is French Grotesque.
The font I used for the tutorial header is Maryland.
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.