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Ellie's Treasures PSP Tutorials - Icicle Stationery http://www.ellies-treasures.com/psptuts/iciclestatpsp/iciclestatpsp.html |
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For this tutorial you
will need: Corel Paint Shop Pro or Jasc previous versions Since I rely heavily on third party filters, this tutorial can probably be done in any version. You may have to look around your menus for the menu commands but they will be there.  Filters and materials needed Stylize Filter>Wind - available free here http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/plugins/Stylize.zip A tube 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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Preparation Open tube, duplicate, close original, reduce duplicate in size to about 350 at tallest point. |
| 1. Open new canvas 500 X 1024. Fill with dark color, I used navy #043b78 |
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2. Using Paintbrush,
set to round, size 100, soft edge 0, foreground color white,
ake 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. |
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Effects>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. Now Image>Rotate>90 degrees clockwise, so the light color is at the top. |
| 5. Go to Adjust>Noise>30% monochrome, uniform. Deselect. |
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6. Open your
minimized tube -
Edit>Copy, go to the stationery strip, Edit>Paste as new layer.
Make sure it's placed where you want it and add drop shadow. 5-5-50-30. (you may notice the dark portion has no noise here, I realized afterward that the white and dark can be done together, thus eliminating an extra step) |
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7. Select Pen Tool,
set at Draw Lines and Polylines, Connect segments is checked,
Line style is Opposing Arrowheads Equal, width set at 5, holding down shift key to keep it straight and with the foreground color set to your light color, draw a line straight across the width of the stationery to make a decorative line. Select it with the magic wand, Go to Adjust>Noise>Add Noise, 30%, uniform, monochrome. Keep it selected. |
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8. Go to
Effects>3D>Inner Bevel and apply these settings. Bevel style 1, width 8, smoothness 2, depth 1, ambience 0, shininess 50, angle 315, intensity 43, elevation 35, color white. |
| 9. Background: open a new canvas 200X200, fill with the dark color, Go to Adjust>Noise>Add Noise: 30%, monochrome, uniform. |
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10. Open new canvas
1024X3000 white, in color palette, choose pattern, and find the background tile you just made and choose it. Flood fill the new canvas with this pattern. Back to header strip, Edit>Copy, back to full canvas, Paste>As New Layer. Move it to the top and make sure it fits at top, left and right margins. Merge all and watermark. You're done! Now on to Letter Creator if you are an Incredimail designer. |
| 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. |
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