Translated with permission from the creator, Lien at X-clusive Designz tutorial site.

See the original tutorial here for PSP in Dutch

This version has all of the screenshots but no backgrounds, etc. and a smaller font.

This version is like the printable above, but has no screenshots, only a small header at the top for an example.
This will take much less paper. The settings are shown as text instead of screenshots.
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:
I've done this tutorial in PI XL and PI 12
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
Bordermania, download it free here
Flaming pear - Transline, free here, look for Free Plugins halfway down the page
Supplies in zip file here includes a background, fonts and tubes in psd format
Also the gradient canvas at correct size if you don't want to make the gradient
Please leave the filenames and previews of the tubes intact.
The creators have worked hard to make them.
 The material has been prepared so that you can open it with different versions of the program.

I am assuming you know the basics of PhotoImpact and where the tools can be located.
My filter windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my filters.
A great program! It's Shareware and you can get it here.
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 to drag with you as you go, for reference
Put the filters in your plugin folder, and either install the fonts or double click
to open the windows font viewer for each one. Leave them open and they will be available in PSP.
As long as you are not in the text tool, you can open the fonts with PI open and they will still load into PI.
Open up your background image and your tubes. Minimize all, they are not needed yet.
1. Open a new white canvas 500X350 pixels or open the gradient canvas I've supplied.
Make your foreground color #ffee9c and your background color #a06b41



Click here for instructions on MAKING THE GRADIENT (skip this step if you're using my ready-made canvas)
2. Go to Effect>Blur>Gaussian Blur>Radius of 5
Selection>All (or control-A).
3. Maximize your background image (the elephants). Edit>Copy (or Control-C).
Go to your working canvas. Edit>Paste>Fit into selection



 In the layer palette, reduce opacity to 40.




Hit enter to Deselect all objects (or right click). Do not merge.
4.  Activate the lion tube (click on the lion to make sure it's selected,
by default, the watermark (top layer) will be selected). Copy (control-c).
Go to your working canvas. Edit>Paste (or control-V).
Move to the correct position as shown in the preview.

In the layer palette, reduce opacity to 30. Hit enter to deselect
5. Activate the lion cubs tube (aren't they cute??:-)). Copy
Back to your working canvas, Paste.



In the layer palette, reduce opacity to 25
6. Activate the woman tube. Copy
Over to your working canvas, Paste.



In the layer palette, reduce opacity to 25
7. Right click on canvas, Merge all (or right click in the layer palette)
Control-C to copy, Control-V to paste back on top, making it a second layer.)
8. Effect>Flaming Pear>Transline



In the layer palette, reduce opacity to 90
9. Click on your object eraser and use the following settings in the toolbar: round, 50-50-50


Now carefully remove the blinds effect from the lion's head, the cubs heads, the woman's head.
As you erase you'll see selection lines (marching ants) appearing (when you erase you make that part into an object)
Zoom up to about 200% to see it better. Once done, the selection lines should be around
the part you wanted to erase from. Continue on till they're all done.


Right click and merge
10. Select a section of your picture at top left, as shown, copy it, paste as a new image (control-shift-v).



Go to Illumination>Creative lighting, pick the Light Bulb effect (4th from the left)


Set as shown: Basic-56-155-85-30-100 light color white ambient light white,


key frame control top slider about the middle (you want it as near to the top right
as you can without going off the screen. See the screenshot.


Advanced: 9-197-1

Click Ok and then click apply to frame


Your sun will be on the wrong side so go to your transform tool and
flip horizontally so the sun will be on the left.



Merge all. Copy,

New canvas, click box for "same size as clipboard" transparent. Paste your picture in.
Now with the eraser set as before, start erasing the right and bottom as shown.
Go to a smaller eraser size to get between the spikes a bit. It doesn't have to be perfect.


Now copy and paste into the working canvas and move into position as shown.
Change opacity of layer to 30. Flatten image.



Go to Effect>Photographic>Sunlight. Set as shown.
4-20-56-4  cool-warm set to 0, enhancement none.
11.  Image>Add border>12 pixels, expand sides equally checked-white


Click on your magic wand with these settings:
select by line, similarity 0, search connected pixel checked



Select the border and fill with your gradient.

Skip to next step if you've made the gradient and applied it.

If you haven't made the gradient, go to Fill>Gradient>Multiple colors,
pick the diagonal arrow 3rd from left.


click on the gradient box to edit and pick number 008

Ok then ok to finish.

Now go to Hue and Saturation, leave it on master, and set as shown. -13-+22-+16


It should look like this now
12. Select all
Selections>Expand-Shrink>Shrink 12 pix

Effects>Bordermania>Frame #2 with the following settings
3-3-110-130 bevel and notch corner NOT checked



Select all. Use Bordermania again at the same settings. Deselect.
Merge all.
13. Activate your text tool and use these settings:
Sloop Script Three-60-pixels-Bold-3d round color white, type "African".

Go to the Easy Palette, Gel, double click on G19.
Then go to the Material attribute gallery>Color and double click on black, then brown, then Tan 2.

Right click on selected text, go to Shadow, change the settings to 2-2-35-100-0
14. Repeat step 13 with the font "Where is the rest", type "Dream"
Go to the Easy Palette, Gel, double click on G19.
Then go to the Material attribute gallery>Color and double click on Brown and then Tan 1,
Right click on selected text, go to Shadow, change the settings to 2-2-35-100-0
Merge all. Copy.
15. New canvas, foreground color (the golden yellow), "from image in clipboard" checked.
Paste your canvas on it. Reduce opacity to 10. Merge.
16. Go to Format>Focus and pick the top right thumbnail.



This is the finished frame using the gradient that was made for the tag



This is the framed tag using the ready-made gradient that was altered with Hue and Contrast

In this bottom tag I also brightened it by going to Format>Brightness and Contrast
and picking the thumbnail at the right, middle row. I do this a lot of times with my creations.
With this particular tag it made it seem more sun-drenched to me and I liked the effect.
You can see the difference by comparing it to the one just above.
Watermark. Merge all (flatten)
Save as a jpg with at about 70-80, depending on how small a filesize you want it to be.
Your African Dream tag is done!
l hope you had fun!
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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


MAKING THE GRADIENT
Go to Edit>Fill, Click the gradient tab, click on the color box beside magic gradient,

in the next window change the Mode to 1, and the repeat number to 1.0 if it isn't already.

Now click on edit under the preview box.
In the next window click on 086 or one of the others in that same area to get a gradient with only 2 color boxes.

To change colors, you right click on the box and choose change color.
To see the position just left click on the box.
Make one your darker color and one your lighter color.
Put the lighter one at position 321 and your darker one at position 191.
Now click between them near the top about a 10 o'clock position to make another box
and make that your lighter color as well and move it to position 34.
Click Add to add it to your palette (You'll need it again later)
Click ok, in the next window click ok, and in the next window, make sure the
arrow is pointing down (even though the gradient is diagonal, it's made on the diagonal
and needs to go straight down) and click ok. Your canvas will be filled with the gradient
Back to step 2

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 the text on the buttons is BrockScript
The font I used for "Translated from X-clusive Designz" is Calligraphia.
The font I used for the "African Dream" tutorial header is Sloop ScriptThree.
 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.
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