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For this tutorial you will need: Jasc Paint Shop Pro - available for purchase here This was done in PSP 9, but can be done in versions 7 & 8 also If you use version 7 you will need a third party filter for seamless effects, such as 20-20, available free here No outside filters needed for this tutorial I am assuming you know the basics of PSP and where the tools can be located. |
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1. Open tube, duplicate, close original, resize to abt 300-350 pixels at longest edge; |
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2. Using eyedropper,
pick 3 colors from it, one light, one med, for gradient, and one
dark for bg. I used Light: fbd0d0; med: f37979; dark: 356235 Make your foreground color a gradient using foreground-background, angle 90, repeats 1, first style |
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3. Open new canvas,
1280 X 25-30 pixels higher than your tube. Flood fill it with the gradient |
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4. Go to
Effects>Distortion Effects>Spiky Halo (in PSP 7 it's at
Effects>Geometric Effects). Use these settings:
Horizontal -100, Vertical 19.00, Amplitude 50, Frequency 20, Radius
1, color the dark color you chose from your tube. Apply. The
color in this screenshot looks black but it's actually a very
dark green. |
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| It should look similar to this. |
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5. Go to
Effects>Image Effects>Seamless tiling, these settings: Edge, Vertical, Width and transition both at 100%. |
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| It should now look similar to this. |
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6. Go to your tube,
copy, paste onto your strip as new layer. |
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7. Apply dropshadow,
settings: 10-10-50-5.0-black (or whatever suits you). Watermark, save as jpg. Done! |
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| Here's another one I did. |
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| To assemble it in Letter Creator, in the body tab, click on Image and browse to where you have this image and select, now click on Tile. Change the left margin so it clears the left border graphic, probably between 300-400 pixels, you don't want it larger than that or there will be no room for text. Change the top margin to about 20 pixels. Leave the right margin alone. Don't forget to add your information in the footer tab and to save it with a unique name and change the collection name to anything other than my collection or it will sit in there with a zillion other ones. I hope you had fun! | |
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If you have any questions or suggestions, click on the email button below to contact me. Have a wonderful day! |
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