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For this tutorial you will need: Adobe Photoshop Elements - available for purchase here OR Adobe Photoshop - available for purchase here Filters and materials needed Visual Manipulation (VM) Natural filters - Starmaker - click here Convolution filter-Emboss strong - available with Filters Unlimited (see below) Eye Candy 3.1 - click here Texturizer Filter - click here The edge mask I used, click here My plugin windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited to manage my plugins. You can purchase it here. I am assuming you know the basics of Photoshop Elements/Photoshop and where the tools can be located. |
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1. Open tube,
duplicate by going to Select>All; Edit>Copy; Edit>Paste (make
sure transparent is picked), Close original, resize this
duplicate to 350 at it's tallest or widest point. Pick 2 colors from the tube, one light and one med or darker. For darker color I picked #88A644, for lighter color I picked #FBF78F. |
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2. Open new canvas,
1024 X 400 Flood fill with color you want the top border to be. |
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3. Open the mask you
want to use, duplicate and close the original (click here 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. After you open the mask, go to Select>All, Edit>Copy; Edit>Paste onto your canvas, Image>Resize>Scale, with the little handles, pull out so that it covers the canvas exactly, top to bottom, side to side. If it looks out of proportion done this way, then you can paste it down, duplicate the layer and move it so that they layers are side by side and match up. This is a wide mask so it looks ok pulled out to match. This mask is black on white, if it was the opposite you would want to go to Filter>Adjustments>Invert. |
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| 4. Now look at the layer palette, you will see two layers, the original one and the mask one. just above the layers you will see a box that says normal. With the mask layer selected (click on it) change that normal in the dropdown menu to screen. Your mask will now be applied. |
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5. Layer>Merge
Visible Select>All Edit>Copy New, the new window will pop open with the measurements of what's in the clipboard already set. Just make sure you pick transparent and ok. Now in this new transparent canvas, paste the canvas you just copied. |
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6. With the magic
wand, tolerance of about 5, set at add to selection; (see
screenshot) select all of the white parts and hit delete, it
will be transparent underneath. Go to
Effects>Convolution>Emboss-Strong, set at 255 |
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7. go to Effects>VM
Natural>Starmaker with these settings:
130-131-223-59-216-255-255-85, apply Optional: reapply Effects>Convolution>Emboss-Strong, set at 255 |
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8. Open your tube,
Select>All; Edit>Copy; with stationery picked, Edit>Paste. It
will paste as a new layer and should be right in the center.
Move it with the move tool if you need to. Go to Effects>Eye Candy 3.1>Drop Shadow and use these settings: 10-10-50. Go to Layer>Merge visible.Select>All; Edit>Copy. |
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9. To use in Letter
Creator make a full stationery. Open new canvas, 1024 X 3000, Flood fill new canvas with darker color you chose from tube. Edit>Paste, and you will see your finished strip pasted as a new layer. Position at the top, it should snap into place at the top and side edges. Layer>Flatten Image, add watermark and save as jpg. |
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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. You're done! I cropped the bottom out of mine to make it smaller for viewing here. It should be much longer! LOL |
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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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