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Ellie's
Treasures Tutorials - Whirlwind Stationery |
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For this tutorial you will need: ULead PhotoImpact, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, or Jasc Paint Shop Pro This tutorial will work in any of these programs. Filters and Materials needed Simple filters - Quick Tile; Sinedot II filter A tube, object or psd file My preset for Sinedots II (unzip and put into Sinedots II folder in your plugins folder) My plugin windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my plugins I am assuming you know the basics of your graphics program and where the tools can be located. Some abbreviations I used: PSP is Paint Shop Pro, PI is PhotoImpact, PS is Photoshop, and PSE is Photoshop Elements. |
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Let's get started! Very easy. |
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1. Open the tube,
object (PI) or PSD file (Adobe) that you want to use, 2. Pick a color from it that you want your background to be 3. Create a new canvas, 1280 X 300 pixels and flood fill with the dark color. |
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2.
Go to
effects (or filters) Dragonfly>Sinedot II, set as screenshot
shows
or pick the preset I have made for you  (in PS and PSE it would not work in the default screen blend (see just above the color bar). I used max weight and it seemed the best of the blends available for PS and PSE). To change the color, just left click on the color box and a color picker will open.  |
3. Go to Effects (or
Filters)>Simple>Quick Tile |
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4. Basic step: Open tube, object
or psd file, resize to 280 height, copy and paste into stationery strip, lower transparency in layer palette PSP: Edit>Copy, to your stationery strip, Edit>Paste as new layer, turn transparency down to 66 PI: Edit>Copy to your stationery strip, Edit>Paste as object, turn transparency down to 50 PS and PSE: Select>All, Edit>Copy, to your stationery strip, Edit>Paste (PS, PSE) into the stat strip; move to the left border, in layer palette, turn transparency down to 66(PS) or 36 (PSE) These numbers are a guide only, apply transparency at the level that looks right to you, with the background slightly showing through the tube  |
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5. Basic step: Duplicate layer, mirror it, move to right
side, lower transparency and merge all PSP: Duplicate layer, go to Image>Mirror, (it will have placed itself near the right edge) and turn opacity down to 26 PI: Duplicate layer, using transform tool, click on the rotate horizontally icon in the toolbar, move this image to the right side, turn this layer opacity down to 89 PS: right click and duplicate layer in layer palette, go to Edit>Transform>Flip Horizontally, in layer palette, move to right side, turn opacity down to 26; PSE: duplicate layer, go to Image>Rotate>Flip Layer Horizontally, move to the right edge, in layer palette, turn opacity down to 10 These numbers are a guide only, apply transparency at the level that looks right to you, with the background showing through the tube a lot, so it's like a light reflection Merge all or flatten image, watermark and you're done! Done in PSP  |
Done in PhotoImpact |
Done in Photoshop |
Done in Photoshop
Elements |
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Have a wonderful day! |
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These tutorials are all my own creations. |