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Translated with permission from the creator, Steffi at Steffi's Tutorials.
 


See the original tutorial here for PSP in German
This is not my tutorial, it belongs to Steffi.
If you would like to translate it into another language, you must ask her permission.
You can contact her here.

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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.

Filters and materials needed
FM Tile Tools>Blend Emboss, available here (it's a trial version but blend emboss is one of the filters that keep working after the trial)
Filter Unlimited 2, available for trial or purchase here
Supplies in zip file here.
Supplies in zip file here for older versions if the other ones don't work for you. These are in psd format.

Credits
Tubes by Kara of Creative for Fun, Marion und Dieter, Angie, Stephane and Yoka
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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 and bars you can drag and drop where you need to mark or underline where you are. .
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
I always open all of my tubes and close them as I use them
 None of the tubes are used more than once so you can close each one after using.
I also keep a copy of the tag example open to refer to.
Save mine from the top of the page and keep it open if you would like to do this.
1. Open your tubes, duplicate them (shift-D) and close the originals.
2. Open a new canvas 600 x of 480 pixels with transparent background.
3. Place your foreground color on #f2d7c8 (a bright color from your tubes)
and your background color on #b296a8 (a middle color from your tubes).
4. Fill canvas with the foreground color.
5. Copy (control-C) the tube "paysage26" (beach and water) and paste it as a new layer (control-L) into your canvas.
6. Image>Resize to 160%, resize all layers not checked
7. Effects>FM Tile Tools>Blend Emboss with the default settings.
-1, -1, .250, 64, .938, .938, .938, edge wrap checked
8. Copy tube "Yoka_JdL_Shells" and paste it as a new layer (control-L) into your canvas.
9. Move the tube with the move tool to the strip of sand as shown.
10. Copy tube "KaraT1942" (birds) and paste it as a new layer (control-L) into your canvas.
11. Image>Resize to 90%, resize all layers not checked
12. Move the tube with the move tool to the left upper corner of your picture.
13. Effects>FM Tile Tools>Blend Emboss with the default settings.
14. Repeat Blend emboss.
15. Set the opacity of this layer to 60.
16. Copy tube "mds3169Schiff" (ship) and paste it as a new layer (control-L) into your canvas.
17.Image>Mirror
18. Move the tube with the move tool to the far right of the picture and up, as shown in step 19
19. Set the opacity of this level to 80.
20. Copy "tube-by-stephane-chat-oiseau" (bird) and paste it as a new layer (control-L) into your canvas
21. Move the tube with the move tool to the right upper corner of your picture, as shown in the next step
22. Place the blend mode of this level on hard light.
23. Effects>FM Tile Tools>Blend Emboss with the default settings.
24. Copy the tube "teddy1" and paste it as a new layer (control-L) into your canvas
25. Move the tube with the move tool to the left hand side of your picture.
26. Activate your free hand selection tool and adjust it to point to point.
27. Draw a selection around the dress of the woman, as shown here:
Right click in layer palette, promote selection to layer
28. Adjust>Hue and saturation>Colorize and enter the following values: 228-39
29. Effects>Texture effects>Texture and enter the following values:
Pick the texture "Canvas fine", settings 25-0-1-0-0-315-50-30 white
30. Effects>FM Tile Tools>Blend Emboss with the default settings.
31. Layer palette-right click, merge down (this merges the dress to the woman layer)
32. Effects>3D-Effects>Drop shadow and enter the following values:
Vertical: 3
Horizontal: -3
Opacity: 50
Blur: 30
Color: black
33. Make sure all is where you want it (I decided at this point to move the beach scene a bit to the right).
Right click in layer palette, merge visible
34. Image>Add border>symmetrical edge of 2 pixels in the background colour.
35. Image>Add border>symmetrical edge of 10 pixels in the foreground color.
36. Select this edge with the magic wand. feather and tolerance at 0
37. Effects>Filters Unlimited>Buttons & Frames>3D Glass Frame 3 with the following settings: Frame size 10, contrast 60


38. Effects>FM Tile Tools>Blend Emboss with the default settings.
39. Deselect
40. Image>Add border>symmetrical edge of 2 pixels in the background color.
41. Image>Add border>symmetrical edge of 30 pixels in the foreground color.
42. Select this edge with the magic wand.
43. Set your foreground color to gradient with these settings: Foreground-background, 45-3-linear
44. Fill the selection with the gradient
45. Adjust>Blur>Gaussian blur, set at 10.
46. Effects>Texture effects>Texture and use the fine canvas settings as before,
they should still be set to the same settings from the last time
47. Effects>FM Tile Tools>Blend Emboss with the default settings.
48. Deselect
49. Image>Add border>symmetrical edge of 2 pixels in the background colour.
50.Image>Add border>symmetrical edge of 10 pixels in the foreground color.
51. Select this edge with the magic wand.
52. Effects>Filters Unlimited>Buttons & Frames>3D Glass Frame 3 with the following settings: Frame size 10, contrast 60
53. Effects>FM Tile Tools>Blend Emboss with the default settings.
54. Deselect
55. Image>Add border>symmetrical edge of 2 pixels in the background color.
56. Selections>select all
57. Selections>modify>contract and enter the value 58.
58. Selections>Invert
59. Effects>3D-Effects>Drop shadow and enter the following values:
Vertical: 3
Horizontal: 3
Opacity: 100
Blur: 50
Color: #b296a8 (your background color)
60. repeat with -3 h and v
61. Deselect
62. Copy tube "text" and paste it as a new layer (control-L) into your canvas
63. Move the tube with the move tool to the lower right corner of your picture.
Effects>FM Tile Tools>Blend Emboss with the default settings.
64. Make sure all is where you want it, and merge all.
65. If you resize, use the unsharp mask or Brightness/Contrast to sharpen it a bit.
Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp mask at Radius 1, strength 60, clipping 4.

Or Adjust>Brightness and Contrast set to Brightness of 5-contrast of 15.

New raster layer, watermark. Don't forget to optimize when you save. I optimize at about 20 (File>Export>Jpeg optimizer).
l hope you had fun!
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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 all of the text on the buttons is BrockScript
The font I used for the "In Search of Mussels " tutorial header is Charme Bold.
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.