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Thank you Renate and Erika for translating my tutorial


 
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
 Visual Manipulation (VM) Natural filters>Starmaker, available free here
Convolution filter>Emboss strong - available with Filters Unlimited (see below)
Texturizer Filter, available free here
The edge mask I used, click here.
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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.
Pick two complementary colors from the tube. I used an ivory, #f9f5db, and a sage green, #c6cdae
1. Open new canvas, 1024 X 400.
Fill with the lighter color, Layer>New raster layer, fill with darker color.
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).
3. 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
4. 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.
5. 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
7. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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!
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,
but do not copy and send the entire tutorial to anyone or any group.
You may also save it to your hard drive (go to File>Save As, and save as an mht file-
this will save the pictures with the page in one single file and will open in a browser)
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 "Natural Starmaker" tutorial header is Night Sky.
 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.