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Ellie's Treasures Paint Shop Pro Tutorials - This Little Light Scrap Blend Tag http://www.ellies-treasures.com/psptuts/little-light-psp/little-light-psp.html |
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For this tutorial you
will need: Corel or Jasc PSP 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 Xero - Radiance and Porcelain Porcelain is in set 1, Radiance in set 4 Supplies Supplies in zip file here for any version of psp http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/little-light-supplies-psp.zip Credits Heart Charm and Pastel Buttons by Melissa of Scrappy Expressions Baby tube by Sandi of Creative for Fun Ribbon, frames and word art tubes by myself Two misted bear tubes misted by myself, original art by Janet Kruskamp These tubes are all in psd format and can be used in any version and any program Gradient "This Little Light ET-pastel stripe 3" by myself. .pspimage for newer versions, .jgd for older versions (I understand that just changing the extension from .pspimage to .jgd will make it work for older versions. If this is not true, use the gradient canvases I have supplied instead. There is one for the working canvas, and two for the frame fills.) ***************** I am assuming you know the basics of Paint Shop Pro and where the tools can be located. This is an extremely easy tutorial and can be done by beginners. |
| I would suggest saving the tag at the top of my tut and keeping it open while you work to refer to for placement. I have included the frames and word art as separate files in case you just want to use mine instead of making your own. Open your tubes, duplicate (Shift-D), and close the originals. Put the gradient into your gradient folder. |
| 1. Open a new transparent canvas 650X500 |
| 2. Change material palette foreground color to gradient, click on swatch to pick gradient, find the gradient "This Little Light ET", angle of 135, repeats of 0. Invert not checked. Linear.   Fill canvas with flood fill tool.  Or use the gradient canvas I have supplied. |
3. Adjust>Blur>Gaussian blur 50% |
| 4. Copy (control-C) - paste as new layer (control-L) baby head "cutie04-Sandi", place in centre and near the top as shown  |
5. Xero>Radiance, these settings: 61-76-70-255  |
6. Xero>Porecelain, these settings: 128-200-140-0-0-255  |
7. Copy and paste as new layer Teddy Bear Collection, move to bottom right, put blend on soft light  |
8. Copy and paste as new layer Sleepy Time Bears, move to bottom left.  In layer palette, put blend on soft light In the layer palette, pull it down to below the baby head, it will end up as layer 2   |
| 9. Highlight the top layer of canvas, now copy and paste as new layer Pastel Ribbon ET across top - move up till the top dark edge is not showing  |
10. In layer palette, right click and duplicate layer and Image>flip, make sure the bottom dark edge is not showing |
| 11. Text across bottom ribbon. Baby Font, size 20, background color #8080C0, foreground color turned off (click on the O with the line through it). Vector, Direction down, stroke width 1, Bold, Aligned left, Anti-alias sharp   Type text and center it on ribbon.  You can also use the word art tube I've supplied instead of typing on the ribbon. You can colorize it if you like. I have supplied "This Little Light . . ." repeated, and also "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine" Merge all (flatten)* *If you are using my frames, do not merge all, but merge visible. Scroll down for the rest of the instructions if you are using my frames instead of making your own. |
| If you are making your own frames, continue here 12. Format>Add borders 10 pixels contrasting color, symmetric checked.  Pick with magic wand, tolerance at 0. Fill with same gradient as before. angle of 135, repeats 0, linear If you are using my gradient fill canvases instead, use "Gradient Canvas 1 for frame filler" Open it and change your material palette to pattern, click on the color box and in the next window, find this pattern. Effects>3D Effects>Inner Bevel: Bevel 2, 10, 40, 2, 0, 0, 315, 50, 30, color white  Effects>3D effects>Cutout: 2-2-100-3, color #626B71(dark grey). Deselect.   |
| 13. Add borders 10 pixels, fill with same gradient as before, except you change the angle to 45. This is so you get a different color selection than the frames. Deselect. If you are using my gradient fill canvases instead, use "Gradient Canvas 2 for frame filler"  |
| 14. Same as step 12, gradient angle changed back to 135. If you are using my gradient fill canvases instead, use "Gradient Canvas 1 for frame filler" Bevel and cutout as before. The settings should still be the same in your effect windows when you open them.  |
| 15. Copy and paste 1 of each color button as new layers and place in the 4 corners. I placed according to color of the frame. Place shadows on buttons. 1-1-70-5, color #626B71(dark grey)   |
| 16. Copy and paste as new layer the "Blue Satin Bow", place upper right. Effects>3D Effects>Drop shadow - color #626B71 (dark grey), 2-2-50-10,  Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp Mask, settings: 5-50-4   |
17. Copy and paste as new layer the Heart charm, move to upper left so the spiral seems to be hanging from the frame.  Click on the eraser brush, Settings: round, size 10, hardness 100, step 10, density 100, thickness 100, rotation 0 and opacity 100.  Now erase the parts that look like they should be behind the frame. It should only take one click right on top of the spiral part you want erased, maybe a couple to clean up a bit after. Not much effort! LOL  Drop Shadow-1-1-25-5 color black. With your selection tool, select around the spiral part of the charm.  Go to Adjust>Brightness and contrast, change settings to 18-10.  Select none.  |
| 18. Select layer 1, the background one, go to Adjust>Brightness and contrast, change settings to 10-10. Go to Sharpness>Unsharp mask and set to 4-50-1 if you're not going to resize it. If you are resizing it, do this step after resizing. If it's too late, and you've saved it sharpened, then use these settings: 2-50-2, so it won't be over-sharpened. Your final tag will be 710X560 before resizing.  You're done! Don't forget to optimize (File>Export>Jpeg Optimizer). I usually optimize at about 20. |
| ALTERNATE METHOD: USING MY SUPPLIED FRAMES |
| 1. Add borders 30 pixels symmetric with color #dbcdd5. Select with magic wand set at tolerance of 0. Fill with the gradient but change angle to 45. Adjust>Blur>Gaussian blur, set to 50. If you are using my gradient fill canvases instead, use "Gradient Canvas 2 for frame filler" then apply the gaussian blur.  2. Copy Frame 1 and paste as new layer. It should go in exactly the right place. Merge,  3. Now copy and paste as new layer Frame 2. It should fit right around the outer edge. Merge all.  4. Now carry on as in tutorial for adding buttons, bow and charm etc, starting at step 15. It will look like this when done. Same as the other method but the frame is slightly different.  |
| You're done! Don't forget to optimize (File>Export>Jpeg Optimizer). I usually optimize at about 20. |
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