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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:
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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.
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Filters and materials needed
 Stylize Filter>Wind - available free here
A tube
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I use a little program called the The Image Tiler to preview my tiles to see if they're seamless.
It's license says it's free to be redistributed and all of the links I found for it are dead, so I've uploaded it.
Download it here: http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/plugins/The%20Image%20Tiler%20v3.0.zip
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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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I am assuming you know the basics of Paint Shop Pro and where the tools can be located.

Here are some arrows you can drag and drop where you need to mark your spots.
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.
           



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
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.
3. 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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
l hope you had fun!
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These tutorials are all my own creations.
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional.
Feel free to share any of my tutorials on this site by a link back to my site,
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or print it out for your own personal use.
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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 is BrockScript
The font I used for "Icicle Stationery" tutorial header is Zapf 'Snowbound' Heavy.
 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.