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Ellie's Treasures Translated PSP Tutorials - Tag Julie http://www.ellies-treasures.com/violette/tag-julie/tag-julie.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 VM Distortion>Radial Pox; Xero>Porcelain (it's in set 1); Supplies in zip file here: http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/tag-julie-supplies-psp.zip Supplies in psd format for older versions of PSP available here: http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/tag-julie-supplies-psd.zip Credits: Tubes by Crystal and Patry, used with their permission. Both of their Yahoo groups are gone My plugin windows may look different than yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my plugins |
| 1 - Open your tubes, duplicate them (shift-D) and close the originals. Put the gold-ca.jpg in your patterns folder. |
2 - Choose a dark color #7384ae (cornflower blue) for the foreground and #e9f2ff (very pale blue) for the background  |
3 - Change foreground to gradient: linear - angle 45°, repeats 3, invert checked |
4 - New canvas 600 X 450 transparent, fill with the gradient |
5 - Effects>VM Distortion>Radial Pox : 175-99-109-39 (default setting)   |
6 - Effects>Edge Effects>Enhance |
| 7 - In foreground, pick the gold pattern "gold-ca" angle 0° scale 100 and in background pick your gradient set at angle 90°, repeats 0, invert checked   |
| 8 - Select the tool preset shape ellipse configured as follows : create as vector/line style-solid (1st one at the top)/width 8 pixels   Trace a large ellipse. I had the ruler on and set the cursor at the top 150 mark and dragged it down and across till it hit the 450 mark on the ruler at the top and the cursor was at the bottom  |
| 9 - Objects>Align>Centre in canvas right click in layer palette and convert to raster layer |
| 10 Activate your face tube, control-C to copy |
| 11 - Back to working canvas Selections>select all; Selections>Float Selections>Modify>Contract 8 pixels Layers>New raster layer Edit>Paste>Paste into selection  |
| 12 - Effects>Xero>Porcelain at default settings: 50-128-128-0-0-255   |
| 13 Layers>New raster layer |
14 - Effects>3D Effects>Cutout>settings : 3/3/70/15/black  Deselect |
15 - Select the layer with the face tube |
16 - Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings: 0/0/70/25/black  Lower layer opacity to 70%   |
| 17 Lock bottom layer (click eye), right click and merge visible |
18 - Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings: 0/0/70/8/black Unlock the bottom layer |
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19 - Duplicate the merged layer/ Image>Resize to 60%, resize all layers not checked  Move the large oval to the left and overlap the small oval as shown, they should both be about in the centre.  |
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20 - New raster layer Color palette, lock foreground color and put your darker color in the background  Activate the preset shapes tool. Click on the down arrow to see all of the shapes. Choose a shape to make the corner, set at anti-alias and create as vector checked, retain style not checked  I chose one called karin1. I don't know where it came from.  Drag a small square till you get the size corner you want I was camping with no internet access so had to make do with what I had! Image/Rotate>rotate it to the right orientation |
| 21 - Effects/Simple/Top Left Mirror-this will put it in each corner |
22 -Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings: 1/1/60/1/black |
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23 - Activate your flower tube Copy (control-C) and paste as new layer in working canvas (control-L) In your layer palette, pull this layer under the other layers (just left click on layer, drag down, and let go) Duplicate and spread out as shown  Put the blend mode of the flower layers at Luminance (Legacy)   |
24 - Image>Add borders: 2 pixels contrasting color Select with magic wand, tolerance set at 0 Fill with your gold pattern  |
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25 - Image>Add borders: 15 pixels contrasting color Select with magic wand Fill with your gradient: angle 45° repeats 6 |
| 26- Selections/Invert |
27 - Effects>3D Effects /Cutout, settings : to 0/0/75/25/black  Deselect |
| 28 - Repeat step 24 - 2 pixel border with gold fill |
| 29 - Make sure all is as you want it. Right click in layer palette and merge all. |
| You're done. If you reduce the size, make sure you use your unsharp mask at 1-64-4. |
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Watermark Layers>New raster layer. Add your water mark on this new layer Layers>Merge>Merge all (flatten) |
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Save File>Export>Jpeg optimizer - compression of 20. |
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