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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.

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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
Filters Unlimited 2, available here
Xero>Porcelain, available free here, it's in set 1
Supplies in zip file here for version 8 and up
Supplies in zip file here for older psp versions has .psd tubes instead of pspimage. these can be opened in any program.
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Credits
The tubes were made by Suzy; Marcio and Sorensen, both here; Gini, and Patry
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 My plugin windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my plugins.
It's 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.
           




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 each can be closed after using.
You can drag the tag just above with you as you go.
1. Set foreground color to #820f00 (burgundy), and background color to white.

Open one transparent canvas 750 x 500
Fill with the burgundy color
2. Effects>Filters Unlimited>Render>Clouds (fore-/background color), settings: 65-128 (default settings)
3. Open tube "SS_Art_15"
Copy (Control-C), back to working canvas, paste as new layer (Control-L)
Position up and to the left, as shown
4. Duplicate layer
Layers>Arrange>Move down, Position to the right as shown.
5. Click the eye of the bottom layer to turn off,
go into one of the other layers, right click and merge visible.
Turn the background layer back on.
6. Open the tube "Gateway-to-a-Fairytale_MistedByGini"
Copy (Control-C), back to working canvas, paste as new layer (Control-L)
Position up and to the right as shown, ivy touching right edge, point of door almost touching top edge
7. Duplicate the door
Turn off the the background and the landscape layers
Merge visible.
Effects>Xero>Porcelain (Default settings of 50-128-128-0-0-255)


Turn all layers back on.
8. Open the tube "Misted_By_Sorensen_Designs_Tube_July_120-07"
Copy (Control-C), back to working canvas, paste as new layer (Control-L)
Position on the bottom right, as shown, so it looks like the orange and yellow path is right up to the door.


In the layer palette, change the Blend Mode to Multiply


Effects>Xero>Porcelain (Default settings)
9. Open the tube "Marcio mc-2909"
Copy (Control-C), back to working canvas, paste as new layer (Control-L)
Image>Resize to 90%


Move down and a bit to the left as shown, bike tire touching bottom edge, woman's foot
not quite to the bottom edge, woman's shoulder just at the edge of the doorway.


Change the Blend Mode in layer palette to Luminance
10. Highlight the landscape layer and with the eraser tool, settings:
round, size 10 to 20, hardness 100, step 13, density, thickness and opacity at 100, rotation at 0,


go over the entire man including his face and hair. Be careful not to go over the edges.


Now do the bike and the lady's face, cleavage and legs and hand.
11. Now highlight the layer with the yellow pathway and erase the colors to the left of the pole
the woman is leaning against. the pole, and on the legs, on the face and the dress.


Also, setting the opacity lower, to about 10, erase the big black blob by the flowers
12. Duplicate the layer of the woman
Turn off the original layer (click the eye)
Making sure you are on the duplicate layer, erase all so that all that remains is the bicycle and the woman,
don't erase to the right of the woman or between the woman and the bike.


Changed the blend mode to Overlay
Effects>Xero>Porcelain (Default settings)
Open all the layers.


Check to see that all of the extra colors and shadows are erased as you like them.
You can go layer by layer, turning them off and on to see what's causing the streaks and extra colors and erase as needed.
That's when I noticed the big black blob by the flowers, if you go back to step 11 you can see it, in the screenshot just above, it's gone.
13. Open tube "PatryMists_06_Daisy_06"
Copy (Control-C), back to working canvas, paste as new layer (Control-L)
Move to the bottom left corner as shown


Duplicate and move this layer up and left, and then, in the layer palette, drag this layer below the first flower layer.


Highlight the top flower layer and merge down to merge the two layers of the flowers
Effects>Xero>Porcelain (Default settings)
Merge visible
14. Adjust>PhotoFix>Digital Camera Noise Removal at default of 50-50-50-70-0


Adjust>Brightness and Contrast>Clarify: strength of effect - 5
15. Selections>Select All (control-A)
Selections>Modify>Contract by 25 pixels
Layers>New raster layer
Fill with color #820f00 (this will fill in the middle)
Selections>Modify>contract by 2 pixels
Edit>Cut (or hit delete key)
Selections>Invert
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow: 5/5/60/5/black


Repeat with -5 in V and H.
16. With your eraser tool, change the opacity to 20 and erase the border on
the woman's foot, the bicycle, the flowers and the top of the door

Merge all.
17. Image>Add borders>4 pixels #820f00


Select with the magic wand, tolerance and feather at 0
Effects>3D Effects>Inner Bevel: Bevel 2/31/100/50/-46/0/0/40/90/white




Deselect
18.Select the text tool, font, size and color of choice (set the desired color in the background, turn off the foreground color
unless you want an outside stroke color, then you set the foreground color to that color).


Write what you would like. The English translation of Rencontre is Meeting so you could write "The Meeting".
 I wrote "Love is a gift . ." I used Affair 1, size 36, stroke width of 1, vector. Foreground #820f00, background white.




Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow: 2/1/70/1/black


Image>Rotate>Free Rotate>25 degrees left, all layers not checked


Unsharp mask at 1-64-4 

You're done!


Resize if needed, watermark and save. See notes below.
Resizing
To resize, make sure, to retain the texture and the clarity, resize at 90% bicubic and repeat till you get close to the size you want.
At that point you can resize by pixels as usual. You will find this makes a big difference in your final result.
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

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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 Rencontre" tutorial header is Affair 1.
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.