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Ellie's
Treasures Paint Shop Pro Translated Tutorials - Violette's Blend Alyséa Tag for PI http://www.ellies-treasures.com/violette/blend-alysea-pi/blend-alysea-pi.html |
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For this tutorial you will
need: Ulead PhotoImpact. I've done this tutorial in PI XL and Violette did it in PI XII 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 Filters Unlimited 2 Xero filters Eye Candy 3.1 Supplies in zip file here. http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/blend-alysea-supplies-pi.zip They are in ufo format and the bird tube is psd format, which PI can use. ************* Credits Tubes from Alexandra Rosales, Monique42, and Sorensen with their permission Bird tube by White Wolf. You can use it or a bird tube of your choice. Alexandra, Monique42 and Sorensen are at For Your Eyes Only Sweety I have no web address for White Wolf ************* I am assuming you know the basics of Paint Shop Pro and where the tools can be located. |
| Preparation Open your tubes (ufo and psd files), duplicate them (shift-D) and close the originals. I always open all of my tubes and close as I use them No tubes are used more than once. 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. Color palette, set foreground to color #8b9fd9 (med blue) and background color to #ffffff (white) |
| 2. Open a new canvas 650X500 white |
3. Effects>Filters Unlimited 2>Render>Clouds (Fore/background) at default settings   |
| 4. Activate your tube Alexandre Rosales1537 (scenery with water and boat) Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (control-V) Place to the left as shown. It will be pretty well in the correct spot when pasted, move it up just a bit. Effects>Xero>Porcelain at default settings: 50-128-128-0-0-255   |
| 5. Activate the tube Alexandre Rosales1536 (boy painting bird) Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (control-V) Click on your Transform tool (or click on Q) and in the toolbar, click on Flip Horizontally  Place to the right as shown . Line up the horizon line along the sea of the other tube, paint can just touching the right edge of the canvas.  Merge mode: Hard light Transparency of layer: 10  Effects>Xero>Porcelain at default settings  |
| 6. Activate your tube Monique 42 (the ship) Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (control-V) Place at the top right as shown Object>Arrange>Send to back Merge mode>Hard light Object (or right click)>Shadow>left thumbnail, settings 10-10-50-100-10   |
| 7. Activate the tube Sorensen (mother and child) Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (control-V) Click on your Transform tool (or click on Q) and in the toolbar, click on Flip Horizontally Format>Image Size>Selected object checked, 85% Bicubic  Place at bottom left as shown  Right click and Duplicate Select both tube layers Right click and Merge as single object Effects>Xero>Porcelain at default settings Object (or right click)>Shadow>left thumbnail, settings: 50-82-79-100-10   |
| 8. Activate the tube of the bird Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (control-V) Place in the sky as shown Merge mode: hard light Object (or right click)>Shadow>left thumbnail, settings: 32-181-83-100-10   |
| 9. Merge all |
| 10. Photo (Format in PI XL)>Brightness and contrast, click on the 9th thumbnail, which will be the bottom right one, settings: Brightness -12, contrast 12, gamma 1, thumbnail variation 12, Channel set at Master   |
11. Effects>Xero>Mistifier at default settings (you won't see much difference here) |
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12. Effects>Eye Candy 3.1>Cutout, settings: 0-18-93 (Violette said default settings but since Eye Candy doesn't reset itself to default after use, I didn't know what they were and a 3 hour search on the net yielded me nothing, I checked Eye Candy 4000 Cutout and found these settings there, they looked ok so I kept them!)   |
13. Adjust (Format in PI XL)>Expand Canvas>3 pixels color #303975 |
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14. Adjust (Format in PI XL)>Expand Canvas>25 pixels color #8b9fd9 Select this border with your magic wand (click on the tiny arrow by the selection tool to find it) Effects>Xero>Fritillary at default settings  Format>Focus>pick top right thumb  |
15. Adjust>Expand canvas>3 pixels color #303975 You're done! |
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If you resize Because of the texture effect on the frame, it won't look right to just resize, you will need to resize it down by 90% each time till it gets to nearly the size you want, then you can do a direct resize by pixels from there. If you resize, use the unsharp mask or Brightness/Contrast to sharpen it a bit. Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp mask at Radius 1, Amount 60, Threshold 4. or Adjust>Brightness and Contrast set to Brightness of 5-contrast of 15. |
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Watermark and save Right click and merge all |
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| These tutorials are translated with permission from the original writer. 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. ©2003-2007 Ellie's Treasures |