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Ellie's
Treasures Paint Shop Pro Translated Tutorials - Violette's Frame Valeska http://www.ellies-treasures.com/violette/frame-valeska/frame-valeska.html |
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For this tutorial you will
need: Jasc or Corel Paint Shop Pro. 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 Simple Filters; Toadie Filters; Supplies in zip file here http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/frame-valeska-supplies.zip Credits: The tube was made by Gini and shared here with her permission to Violette. My plugin windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my plugins. |
| Preparation Open your tubes, duplicate them (shift-D) and close the originals. I always open all of my tubes and close them 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. |
| 1. Color palette-dark color #0a4280 in foreground and the light color #9fcaf7 in background. Change foreground to gradient: linear-angle 45°-repeats 1 Invert not checked |
| 2. Open a transparent canvas of 400 X 500 Fill with the gradient |
| 3. Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur: 15 |
| 4. Activate your tube Image>Resize to 90% Edit>Copy (control-C), edit>paste as new layer (control-L)in working canvas Move it down a little bit so it matches tag. Duplicate |
| 5. Highlight the original tube layer Effects>Distortion Effects>Wind to the left twice, wind strength 100 Effects>Distortion Effects>Wind once to the right |
| 6. Highlight the duplicated tube layer Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow: 0/0/80/25/color #0a4280 (foreground color) Shadow on new layer checked. |
| 7. Highlight the shadow layer (it will be the second one from the top) Effects/Texture Effects>Mosaic - Antique: 25-25-9-3-58-symmetric Layer palette>Blend mode: Multiply Opacity at 75% |
| 8. Merge all Select all (control-A) Effects>3D Effects>Cutout: 0-0-100-15-black Deselect |
| 9. Image>Add borders: 2 pixels contrasting color. Select with the magic wand Fill with a gold gradient or pattern Deselect |
| 10. Image>Add borders: 20 pixels color #9fcaf7 (background color) Select with magic wand |
| 11. Effects>Texture Effects>Weave: 1-1-100-color of gap and weave: #0a4280 (foreground color), fill gaps checked Deselect |
| 12. Image>Add borders: 4 pixels contrasting color \ Select with the magic wand Fill with a gold gradient or pattern |
| 13. Effects>3D Effects>Inner Bevel: Bevel 2-5-40-2-0-10-315-67-21-color white |
| 14. Selections>Invert Repeat the cutout effect of step 8: 0-0-100-15-black Deselect |
| 15. Image>Add borders: 1 pixel black |
| 16. Image>Add borders: 50 pixels color #0a4280 (foreground color) Select with the magic wand Effects>Toadies>What are You ???, settings: 35-35 Adjust>Sharpness>Sharpen more Deselect |
| 17. Image>Add borders: 1 pixel black |
| 18. Repeat steps 12, 13, and 14, which are: 4 pixel border filled with gold, inner bevel, invert selection, cutout. Deselect |
| 19. Image>Add borders: 1 pixel black |
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20. Image>Add borders: 35 pixels color #0a4280 (foreground color) Select with the magic wand Effects>Texture Effects>Blinds: 3-50-color black- light from left/top checked, horizontal not checked |
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21. Effects>3D Effects>Inner Bevel, same settings as before: Bevel 2-5-40-2-0-10-315-67-21-color white Adjust>Sharpness>Sharpen Deselect |
| 22. Image>Add borders: 1 pixel black |
| 23. Repeat steps 12 and 13, 4 pixel border filled with gold, inner bevel. |
| 24. Image>Add borders: 1 pixel black |
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25. Choose a pretty corner tube Copy and paste as new layer onto working canvas Place in the left corner Effects>Simple>Top Left Mirror which will put it in each corner (or you can put it in the top left corner, duplicate layer, mirror, duplicate that layer, Flip, duplicate that layer and mirror again. This will put one in each corner as well. |
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If you resize To reduce size, reduce by 90% bicubic and keep repeating till it's the size you want. Once you get close you can reduce by pixel size as usual. This is to retain the texture properly. Also, 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. |
| If you have any questions or suggestions, email me at this page: http://www.ellies-treasures.com/email/email.html |
| 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. ©2003-2010 Ellie's Treasures |
