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Ellie's Treasures Translated PSP Tutorials - Violette's Cadre Valentin http://www.ellies-treasures.com/violette/cadre-valentin/cadre-valentin.html |
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For this tutorial you will
need: PSP, either Jasc or Corel versions. I've done this tutorial in PSP 9 and Violette has done it in PSP 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; Pentacom>VTR2 and Jeans; Graphics Plus>Cross Shadow Supplies in zip file here for version 8 and up http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/cadre-valentin-supplies-psp.zip Supplies in zip file here for older psp versions has .psd tubes instead of pspimage. these can be opened in any program. http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/cadre-valentin-supplies-psd.zip Both Zips contains the tubes, the texture and the font. ************* Credits: Boy and girl tube is by LaManouche; Corner tube is by unknown tuber ************ My plugin windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my plugins. |
| 1. 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 None of the tubes are used more than once. Put the bmp texture file "ET Pixelated 4" in your textures folder Double click the font to open it and keep it open to make it available in your program. Save my creation and keep it open while you work for reference |
2 - Make your foreground color #e0d6d1 (pale smoky rose) and the background color #6f1d2d (burgundy) |
3 - Make your foreground a gradient, style Linear, angle 45°, repeats 1, invert checked |
4 - Open a transparent image of 400 X500 pixels/With your bucket took, fill with gradient |
| 5 - Activate the couples tube "K__Anderson_34"/Edit/Copy (control-C)/Edit/Paste as new layer (Control-L) Blend Mode: Luminance (Legacy)    |
6 - Duplicate layer/Close the copied layer (click the eye to turn off) |
| 7 - Highlight the original layer Image/resize 120%, aspect ratio checked, resize all layers not checked Effects/ Distortion Effects /Twirl: 720 Blend Mode: Overlay Opacity: 65%  Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur, set at 7 Effects/Pentacom/Jeans at default of 62-4   |
| 8 - Turn on the top layer (the copy of the couples tube layer) and keep that layer selected Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow: 0/0/60/25 color #470a0c (very dark burgundy)   |
| 9 - Duplicate this layer Blend Mode: Soft light Opacity: 60%  |
| 10 - Layers/Merge all |
| 11 - Selections/Select all Effects/3D Effects/Cutout: 0/0/80/40/color #470a0c   |
12 - Image/Add borders: 3 pixels color #e0d6d1 (foreground color) |
| 13 - Image/Add borders: 2 pixels color #6f1d2d (background color) |
| 14- Image/Add borders: 3 pixels color #e0d6d1 (foreground color) |
15 - Image/Add borders: 25 pixels color #6f1d2d, select with Magic Wand |
16 - Effects/Pentacom/VTR2 at default: 26-0-169-0  Deselect |
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17 - Image/Add borders: 3 pixels color #e0d6d1 Select with magic wand Selections/Invert |
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18 - Repeat the cutout effect Deselect |
19 - Repeat steps 13 and 14 (add borders 2 dark, 3 light) |
| 20 - Image/Add borders: 40 pixels color #6f1d2d (background color) |
21 - Effects/Textures Effects/Texture, find ET Pixelated 4: 125-1-3-54-56-332-32-32-white If you change the texture file you use, you may have to play with these numbers a bit to get the effect you want. |
22 - Effects/3D Effects/Interior Bevel: Bevel 2-5-40-2-0-10-315-67-21-white  Deselect |
| 23 - Repeat steps 12, 13 and 14 (add borders 3 light, 2 dark, 3 light) |
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24 - Image/Add borders: 20 pixels color #6f1d2d (background color) Select with magic wand Effects/Graphic Plus/Cross Shadow at default  Deselect |
| 25 - Repeat steps 12, 13 and 14 (add borders 3 light, 2 dark, 3 light) |
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26 - Image/Add borders: 30 pixels color #6f1d2d (background color) Select with magic wand Effects/Pentacom/VTR2 with these settings: 76-0-196-0   Deselect |
27 - Repeat steps 12, 13 and 14 (add borders 3 light, 2 dark, 3 light) |
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28. Activate the corner tube, place in top right corner, in the cross shadow section. In the layer palette, duplicate layer, then Image>Mirror; duplicate this layer, then Image>Flip; duplicate this layer, then Image>Mirror to put in all 4 corners.  |
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29. Duplicate the corner at the top right again. Move to the inner frame as shown in the next screenshot. Using your selection tool, crop off the left end and the bottom end so it doesn't extend past the ends of the original corners, as shown, 1 dot past the diamond.  You can't reduce the size for this as it would make the diamonds too small. Now duplicate, mirror and flip as in step 28 to get in all 4 corners. See screenshot in next step to see how the corners ended up. |
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30. If you want to add text, I've included the font I used, Needlepoint Regular. I put my foreground color on white, background color #6f1d2d as used in the tut. Set text toolbar at Vector, size 18, typed the text, moved it to the right spot, Objects>Align, center horizontally.   You're done. Merge all. |
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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. |
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Watermark and Save 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. |
| If you have any questions or suggestions, email me at this page http://www.ellies-treasures.com/email/email.html |
| Tutorial translated February 23, 2008 * * * 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. ©2003-2008 Ellie's Treasures |