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Ellie's Treasures PSP Tutorials - Natural Starmaker Stationery http://www.ellies-treasures.com/psptuts/natstarpsp/natstarpsp.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 Visual Manipulation (VM) Natural filters>Starmaker Convolution filter>Emboss strong - available with Filters Unlimited Texturizer Filter The edge mask I used, available here: http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/masks/NatStarMsks.zip 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. Pick two complementary colors from the tube. I used an ivory, #f9f5db, and a sage green, #c6cdae |
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1024 X 400. Fill with the lighter color, Layer>New raster layer, fill with darker color. |
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2. Open the mask you
want to use, duplicate and close the original (go to my Great Beginning page here (will open in new window) for a list of sites that have masks available. Many more available on the web). If it is meant for a left border, rotate it 90 degrees clockwise (Image>Rotate>Rotate Clockwise 90). |
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Back to your stationery strip, with the top layer selected in the layer palette, go to Effects>VM Natural>Starmaker with these settings: 130-131-223-59-216-255-255-85, apply |
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Layers>New Mask Layer>From Image Pick the mask image you have open, source luminance (invert mask if the edge is black on white, if it's white on black don't invert. Go to layer palette and delete mask layer, say yes to merging to the layer below. Now in the layer palette, with the group layer selected, right click and merge group. You should now have a raster layer and a group-raster layer. |
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With the group-raster layer selected in the layer palette, go to Effects>Convolution>Emboss-Strong, set at 255 |
| 6. With bottom layer selected in layer palette, go to Effects>Texturizer>Sandstone, settings: Scaling 67, Relief 2, Light Direction Top, Invert not checked. OK |
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Go to your tube, copy, minimize, back to stationery, paste as new layer, move to the center of the "star". Apply drop shadow. I used 10-10-50-5. Apply watermark and merge all. |
| 8. Open new canvas 200 X 200, fill with the lighter color, apply same sandstone texture as above. Leave open. |
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Open new canvas, 1024 X 3000, in material palette, change to pattern and find the sandstone tile you made and still have open. Flood fill new canvas with this tile. Go to your finished strip, copy, paste as new layer onto the stationery canvas. Position at the top, making sure you see no visible seam at the top or either side. Merge and save as jpg. |
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In Letter Creator, in body tab, click on image, and find your saved stationery. In the image position field where you see top, click on center. Your picture will look like it's gone but don't worry, now click on tile and it will reappear and stay in place without an edge around it. Finish as usual. Don't forget to add the footer information, font, artist name if you know it, your logo. Save with unique name and for collection name, make your own. If you let it go into the default My Collection it will be lost amongst the zillions of others in there. You're done! I cropped the bottom out of mine to make it smaller for viewing here. It should be much longer! LOL |
| Merge all, watermark and save, you're done! |
| If you have any questions or suggestions, email me at this page: http://www.ellies-treasures.com/email/email.html |
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