Ellie's Treasures PSP-Tuts Violette's Blend Joslyne

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Translated with permission from the creator, Violette at Violettegraphic tutorial site.

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

They will both open in a new window and print out on standard 8½" X 11" paper

For information about which fonts, programs, etc I used to construct my pages and my headers, click here.

For this tutorial you will need:

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
Xero>Porcelain, in set 1, Xero>Fritillary, in set 4, Xero filters free here
Filters Unlimited 2, available for trial or purchase here
Supplies in zip file here.
Supplies in psd format here if the psp tubes don't work for you.
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Credits
Tubes by Gini, Patries, Kara and Sorenson
Kara: http://tubes.kara2601.de/
Patries: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/top_design_tubes/
Sorensen: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/For_Your_Eyes_Only_Sweety/
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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.

Here's a small version of the tag that you can drag with you for reference

Preparation
Open your tubes, duplicate them (shift-D) and close the originals.
I always open all of my tubes and close as I use them
No tube is 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. Put your foreground color on #EFEEF0 (very pale purple) and your background color on #A2A5C1 (med smoky purple)

Change the foreground to gradient, foreground-background, with the following settings:
linear, angle and repeats both at 0, invert not selected

Open a new transparent canvas 650 x 500 pixels
Fill with your gradient

2. Layers>New raster layer
Selections>Select all
Activate the tube "GD_BarbaraFelisky -Garden6" by Gini
Edit>Copy (control-C); Edit>Paste>Paste into selection

3. Use your Deform tool (D) and pull out on the red bounding boxes to pull out this image to completely fill the canvas.

4. Effects>Filters Unlimited>Image Enhancement>RGB Balance:
Settings: 128-125-154

5. Effects>Edge Effects>Enhance
Adjust>Sharpen>Sharpen
Reduce the opacity of this layer to 90%

6. Effects>Xero>Porcelain, with the default settings.

7. Activate now the tube "KaraT3988" (the woman)
Edit>Copy (control-C); Edit>Paste>Paste as new layer (Control-L)
Effects>Filters Unlimited>Image Enhancement>Color booster: default setting of 74

Effects>Xero>Porcelain, with the default settings.

Move her to the left and a bit down, as shown

8. Activate the Patries tube "Pat_scanmale_model10-24-1-07"
Image>Resize>35%
Edit>Copy (control-C); Edit>Paste>Paste as new layer (Control-L)
Move it to the staircase as shown.
In your layer palette put the blend mode on Hard Light

Effects>Filters Unlimited>Image Enhancement>Color booster: 55
Reduce the opacity of this layer to 55%

9. Layers>Duplicate
Activate the original tube layer
Effects>Distortion Effects>Wind: from left at 50

Go to the duplicated layer - In your layers palette put the blend mode on Luminance (Legacy)
Reduce opacity to 80%

Effects>Xero>Porcelain, with the default settings.

10. Now activate the Sorensen tube of the little girl "Misted_By_Sorensen_Designs_-_Tube_May_231-07"
Image>Resize>85%, resize all layers not checked, and repeat at 85%

Effects>Filters Unlimited>Image Enhancement>RGB Balance: 128 - 109 - 128

Effects>Xero>Porcelain, with the default settings.
Move her to the right and down as shown

11. Activate your text tube now "textejoslyne" (or use your text tool to make a saying of your choice, as I did)
Edit>Copy (control-C); Edit>Paste>Paste as new layer (Control-L)
If using your own text, turn off foreground color, make background color a dark color.
I made mine with the font Porcelain (click link to download it), size 30, vector.

I typed line 1, Convert to raster then typed line 2.

12. Make sure all is where you want it, merge visible.

Image>Add borders>1 pixel - #272862 (navy)

Image>Add borders>5 pixels #C4B5B6 (taupe)
Select this edge with your magic wand
Effects>Fritillary - Default settings

Effects>Edge Effects>Enhance
Select none.

You're done!

Resizing
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.

Watermark
Layers>New raster layer. Add your water mark on this new layer
Layers>Merge>Merge all (flatten)

Save
File>Export>Jpeg optimizer - compression of 20.

l hope you had fun!
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Made by my friend, Sonel of Sonel's Corner

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 "Blend Joslyne" tutorial header is Porcelain.
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.