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 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, available here
Xero filters, available free here
Supplies in zip file here.
They are in ufo format and the bird tube is psd format, which PI can use.
Supplies in psd format here, if you would like to try this tutorial with another program
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Credits
Tubes from Alejandro Rosales, Mtm Brigitte, Daisy and Kara with their permission
Bird tube by White Wolf. You can use it or a bird tube of your choice.
Alexandra and Mtm Brigitte are at For Your Eyes Only Sweety
Daisy is at StudioCreationsGoodies
Kara's site is here
I have no web address for White Wolf
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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
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. In color palette, change foreground color to #bccae3 (light blue) and background color to #0f5cb5 (dark blue)
2. Open a new canvas 650X500 white
Fill with gradient of these two color, arrow pointing down
3. Effects>Filters Unlimited 2>Render>Clouds (Fore/background) at default settings
4. Activate your tube Alexandre Rosales (lady on rock with umbrella)
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as object (control-V)
Place at the bottom right as shown, hand not quite touching right edge, toe of bottom foot just touching bottom edge.


Effects>Xero>Porcelain at default settings: 50-128-128-0-0-255


Object (or right click)>Shadow: the third thumbnail from left, settings: 10-10-50-100-72
5. Activate your tube Mtm Brigitte (lady with balloon)
Image>Resize>Selected Object checked at 85%, repeat once


Click on your Transform Tool (or Q on keyboard), in toolbar click on Flip Horizontally


Edit>Copy (control-C), Edit>Paste as object (Control-V)
Place at the bottom left as shown.
Effects>Xero>Porcelain at default settings
Object (or right click)>Shadow: the third thumbnail from left, settings: 10-10-50-100-72
6.  Activate your tube from Kara
Edit>Copy (control-C), Edit>Paste as object (Control-V)
Place in the center
Click on your Transform tool, in toolbar rotate to the left 5 degrees


Effects>Xero>Porcelain at default settings
Object (or right click)>Shadow: the third thumbnail from left, settings: 10-10-50-100-72
In layer palette, drag it down to the bottom or Object>Arrange>Send to back
Merge mode of this layer: soft light
7. Activate your DaisyWeb tube (lighthouse)
Edit>Copy (control-C), Edit>Paste as object (Control-V)
Layer palette>drag this layer to the bottom or Object>Arrange>Send to back
Place on the right side behind the woman on the rock, move it up and right until the top of the
lighthouse almost touches the top edge and you can still see most of the house on the right edge.


Merge Mode: Overlay
Transparency of layer: 50


Object (or right click)>Shadow: the first thumbnail from left, default settings: 10-10-50-100-10
(this will make it seem too dark but that gets fixed later)
8.  Highlight the layer with the woman and balloon.
Pick your lasso tool, on the toolbar, click on select on object, then select a
circle around the red balloon, click on the check mark to finish the selection




Edit>Copy (control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-V)
Place the second balloon on top of the first one
Change the merge mode of this layer to overlay
The balloon will now be more luminous

Deselect
9. Make sure no layers are selected.
In your Easy Palette, click on Galleries>Particle Gallery>Clouds,
and double click on Cloud 8 (check for spot in pi 12)
10. Decorate to your taste with birds, merge mode>overlay, apply a shadow, settings: 3rd thumb from left, 10-10-50-100-18
11. Merge all (I didn't want to merge so I just held down the shift key and
selected the top and bottom layers in the layer palette, this selected all the layers).
Format>Brightness and contrast,  top right thumbnail, settings: 12-12-1-12
(In PI 12 it's under Photo>Light>Brightness and Contrast)
12. Format (Adjust in PI 12)>Expand Canvas: 1 pixel color #3c5b8d
13. Format>Expand Canvas: 5 pixels color #bccae3
Select with magic wand (if you didn't merge like me, instead of selecting with magic wand,
go to Selection>Select All; Selection>Border, and pick border width of 5, inward, box, soft edge 0.


Effects>Xero>Fritillary at default settings


Format (Photo in PI 12)>Focus>Top right thumbnail




Deselect

Now you'll see why I didn't want to merge all. Now the rock is a bit over the edge of the frame, which I like,
and I moved the lady with the balloon down so she is over the frame as well.

Now I merged all.
14. Format>Expand Canvas: 1 pixel color #3c5b8d
(I did it a bit differently. I used colors #153398 (dark bright blue) and #4C89D0 a medium blue.
I added 1 pixel dark, 2 pixels medium, 1 pixel dark, 3 pixels medium and a last 1 pixel dark.)


You're done!
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.
Watermark and save
Watermark, right click and merge all
Web>Image Optimizer>save as jpg at about 80.
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 "Blend Lorianne" tutorial header is Beatrice.
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.