Ellie's Treasures Paint Shop Pro 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:
Corel Paint Shop Pro - available for purchase and trial version here
(or Jasc previous versions)

Filters and materials needed
No filters
Stained Glass mask and 2020 mask-both in supply folder here
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 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 image. Duplicate (Shift-D) and close original. Image>Resize if needed to 300 pix height.
Duplicate and minimize.

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

3. Effects/Artistic Effects/Topography:
width = 25
Density = 94
Angle = 141

4. Layers>Load/Save Mask>Load Mask from disk:
Stained Glass5c
Invert Transparency checked

5. Right click in mask layer>Delete, allow it to merge with layer below it
Merge All

6. With the Magic Wand select the white lines
In your color palette, pick pattern and in the next window, click the arrow and find the minimized image
Fill the white lines with it

Select None

7. Select All
Add new raster layer

8. Maximize your duplicate tube
Layers>Load/Save Mask>Load Mask from disk: 2020 , invert transparency NOT checked

Right click in mask layer>Delete
allow it to merge with layer below it
Edit>Copy and minimize
Over to your working canvas.
Edit>Paste into selection
Select None

9. Resize the image to fit in the center of the center diamond
(In PSP 9 use your raster deform tool - In PSP X! it's the pick tool-behind the move tool)
and click on the bottom right bounding box and push it up and to the left to resize evenly)

Lower the opacity to 40 or to your taste

Merge All

10. Effects>Image Effects>Seamless Tiling: Corner-Bidirectional-Curved and transition at 100

Tile is now ready

11. Open new canvas 1024x300. (I usually make mine 1280 wide, this writer makes hers 1024)
In color palette, find the pattern you just made (don't worry about the different pattern here,
just reusing a screenshot from another tut. LOL Settings are the same.

Fill canvas with it.

12. Maximize the image that already has the mask applied
Edit>Copy
Edit>Paste as a new layer. (control-L) and move to the left.

Merge all, watermark and you're done

l hope you had fun!
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These tutorials are translated with permission from the original writer.
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional.
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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.