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:
    or 
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
no 3rd party filters needed, all native psp filters used
Supplies in zip file here.
Supplies in zip file here for older versions if the other ones don't work for you. These are in psd format.
Tubes were made by Kara and used with her permission
You will find Kara's scraps in her group, Creative for Fun
Font used for tag was Lucida Calligraphy download it here
*************
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.
           



1 - Open your tubes, duplicate them and close the originals.
Put the Plaid blue.bmp file into your texture folder
I always open all of my tubes and close as I use them
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.
2 - Make the foreground color #e1e2f7 (pale lavender) and the background color #8c90f9 (medium lavender)
3 - Make the foreground gradient and in the gradient window choose
foreground-background, repeats 1, invert checked, style Sunburst (3rd from left)
4 - Open a transparent image 600 X 600 pixels
fill with the darker (background) color
5 - Effects>Texture Effects>Blinds, settings:
4-100-white-light from left/top checked
6 - Layers>New Raster layer
 7 - Activate the selection tool, settings:
Rectangle, Mode Add (shift), feather 0, anti-alias checked, click on the custom selection icon (see screenshot)


Settings for custom selection: Top and left at 50, bottom and right at 550




Fill with the background color
(you may have to change the tolerance in the bucket toolbar to 100 to get it to fill the whole square)


Deselect
Duplicate twice and click on the eyes to close the two higher layers
Rename these layers : Raster 2, Raster 3 and Raster 4
8 - Highlight Raster 2
Selections>Select All
Selections>Float
9 - Effects>Texture Effects>Texture-find Plaid Blue in textures
Settings: 100-2-1-0-0-315-50-30-white



Deselect
10 - Image>Rotate>Free Rotate>Left>Free 8 °, all layers not checked
11 - Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow : 0/0/50/15/black
12 - Turn on and highlight Raster 3
Selections>Select All
Selections>Float
13 - Effects>Texture Effects>Weave
2-28-25-fill gaps checked, weave color #8c90f9, gap color white


Deselect
Image>Rotate>Free Rotate>Right>Free 8 °, all layers not checked 
14 - Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow : 0/0/50/15/black
15 - Turn on and highlight raster 4
16 - Selections>Select All
Selections>Float
17 - Layers>New raster layer
Fill with the sunburst gradient you made at the beginning
18 - Use the same weave effect you used in step 13
Deselect
19 - Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow : 0/0/50/15/black
20 - Activate your misted tube KaraT4084 (woman and child)
Edit>Copy (or control-C); Edit>Paste as new layer (or control-L)


Adjust>Hue and Saturation>Colorize
set at Hue: 169/saturation:93


Move down and place as shown
21 - Activate your lace ribbon tube KaraLace66-ribbons
Image/Resize to 85%
Make sure you are in the ribbon layer and not the watermark layer.
With your selection tool, select around the blue one.
Edit>Copy (or control-C); Edit>Paste as new layer (or control-L)
Place as shown
22 - Duplicate
Image/Resize again to 85%, all layers NOT checked
Image>Rotate>Free Rotate>Left>Free 45°, all layers not checked
Place as shown
Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp Mask: 4-100-40
23 - Image>Add borders: 2 pixels dark color (I made this a little darker to stand out better #4a4ef4)
24 - Image>Add borders: 1 pixel light color #e1e2f7
25 - Image>Add borders: 50 pixels dark color #8c90f9


Select with the magic wand
26 - Activate your tube lace frame KaraLace52-frame
Edit>Copy; Edit>Paste into selection
Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp Mask: 4-100-40
27 - Image>Add borders: 2 pixels dark color. I used the darker #4a4ef4 again.
28 - Activate the text tool. Turn your foreground color off and change
your background color to the color you want your text to be.
Click down and in the text box that opens, type your text.
I used Lucida Calligraphy size 24.




If you want to use curved text, see my Text on a Path tutorial here. It's a very simple method.
If you click on the link, it will open in a new window.
29- Watermark. Merge all.
30 - Image/Resize, if desired, to 600 pixels. If you resize, go to Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp Mask set at 1-100-40
29 - Watermark and save
File>Export>Jpeg optimizer - compression of 20.
l hope you had fun!
Back to top
If you have any questions or suggestions, click on the email button below to contact me. Have a wonderful day!
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


Back to top

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 "Scrap Fête des Mères" tutorial header is Abracadabra.
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.