Ellie's Treasures Photoshop-Photoshop Elements-Tuts African Dream Blend

This is done with Text style C
2 alternate text effect versions shown here and two done by friends.
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 believe it can be done in most versions of PS or PSE.
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
Penta-VTR2, download it free here (scroll till you see the words "[penta's "VTR Filter2" Win・Mac]", about 2/3 of the way down)
Supplies in zip file here includes a background, fonts, a gradient and tubes in psd format
and a gradient canvas at the correct size if you don't want to use my gradient
Layer style: go here for the free Sue's Styles 6, about halfway down the page
Go here to see how to add layer styles to Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. It will open in a new page.
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 Photoshop/Photoshop Elements 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 filter 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.
Put the gradient into your gradient folder. You'll need to load it into the program to use it.
Click on your gradient tool and in the gradient toolbar, click on the drop down arrow next to the gradient.
Click on the little arrow as shown and click on Load Gradients. You can then browse to where you saved it.
It will show up last on the list of thumbnails. It looks black and white and that's ok.
It will take on the colors of your foreground and background.

Open up your background image, your tubes and the fonts. Minimize all, they are not needed yet.

1. Open a new white canvas 500X350 pixels
Make your foreground color # ffee9c and your background color #a06b41
Either use my supplied gradient or use my gradient canvas.

2. Go to Layer>New Fill Layer>Gradient. First window don't change anything, click ok,

next window pick the Foreground-background-3repeats gradient, change angle to 38, linear.

Click ok. Your canvas will be filled. Right click in layer palette, flatten image

3. Layer>New Layer (or click the icon above the layer palette in PSE, below it in PS). Select>Select All.
Maximize your background image. Select all (control-A), copy (control-C)
Go to your working canvas. Edit>paste into selection
It won't fill the selection so you need to move it to the upper left and then go to
Image>Resize>Scale in PSE or Edit>Transform>Scale in PS and pull it out by the box
on the bottom right and then the right middle box. It will be out of proportion but that's ok.
Pull it just a bit beyond the edges to make sure none of the background shows.
Click on the checkmark to finish it, in PSE it's on the canvas as shown, in PS it's in the toolbar.

In the layer palette, reduce opacity to 60

4. Activate the lion tube. Make sure you are in the lion layer, not the background or the watermark.
Control-a to select and control-c to Copy. Go to your working canvas. Control-v to paste as new layer.
Place as shown.

In the layer palette, reduce opacity to 70

5. Activate the lion cubs tube (aren't they cute??:-)). Copy
Back to your working canvas, Paste.

In the layer palette, reduce opacity to 75

6. Activate the woman tube. Copy
Over to your working canvas, Paste.

In the layer palette, reduce opacity to 75

Merge visible. Right click and click on layer from background.

7. . In the top layer go to Filter>Penta>VTR2 at default settings.

Turn the opacity of this layer down to 90.

Layers>Merge Visible (or right click in the layer palette)

8. Click on your eraser and use the following settings in the toolbar
round, size 50, mode brush, opacity 50 (In PS, flow is 100%).

Carefully remove the blinds effect from the lion's, the cubs, and the woman's heads and faces

Layers>Flatten image

9. Go to Filter>Render>Lens Flare at these settings,
Pull the cross up to the top left corner, brightness at 100, Lens type 35mm prime

10. Go to Filter>Render>Lighting Effects, pull the direction to the top left corner,
and pull out the top and bottom boxes so it includes the whole picture, as shown,
light type spotlight, color golden yellow, intensity 3, Focus -36
Properties: 50-50-67-28-white, texture channel none.
If you adjust from the top down, your picture will look black till you adjust the exposure.

11. Click on your brush tool, make sure the golden yellow is your foreground color,
size 10 pix, mode normal, opacity 50% (in PS flow is at 100%).
Put a bit of the golden yellow on the sun as shown.

12. Select>All, Select>Modify>Border 6 pixels, Select>Inverse
Effects>Bordermania>Frame #2 with the following settings
3-3-110-130 bevel and notch corner NOT checked

13. Image>Resize>Canvas Size (or right click on canvas title bar and pick it),
check the box 'relative' and put 24 in each box (this will add 12 pixels symmetrically)-
white or a color that will contrast with picture

Click on your magic wand with these settings:
Tolerance of 0-contiguous and anti-alias checked

Select the border and go to Layer>New Fill Layer>Gradient,
set as shown at linear, angle of 125, scale 100

Right click in layer palette and simplify layer
Select all.

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

14. ADDING THE TEXT
There are three different ways you can do the text.
Method A just below; Method B, click here, Method C, click here or scroll down

METHOD A
Photoshop Elements just below, click here for Photoshop steps or scroll down.

Add a new layer. Activate your text tool and use these settings.
Sloop Script Three-72. Use this color: c1ad72. Type "African" with this font.

PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS
Layer styles palette, drop shadows, double click on Low.

In layer styles palette, go to Image Effects>Sun Faded Photo

Now go to Layer>Layer Style>Style Settings>Drop Shadow,
change to the following settings: 3-2-100 black

Right click in layer palette and simplify layer
Now go to Enhance>Color>Color Variations: leave it at midtones and click once on the
increase red, once on the increase green, once on the decrease blue and once on the darken.

Now go to Enhance>Adjust Lighting>Brightness and contrast. Change brightness to +23 and contrast to +26

Making sure you are in the background layer and not in the previous word's layer,
repeat with the font "Where is the rest" and type Dream. Go to the Color Variations step,
but leave out the increase green step. So just increase red once, decrease blue once and darken once.
Now continue with the Brightness and contrast as before.
Pull this layer below the "African" layer and move it to just under
the word African as shown so the top layer overlaps a bit.
Click here for the next step.

PHOTOSHOP
After typing African, go to your styles palette, if you don't see it, in your menu bar
go to Window and check Styles, you should now see your styles palette.
In the Styles palette, pick Sun Faded Photo, it should be the 9th thumbnail over.
Right click in layer palette and rasterize type.

After rasterizing the type, go to Layer>Layer Style>Gradient Overlay and apply
the Orange-Yellow-Orange gradient as shown, Blend mode normal,
opacity at 80%, Linear, angle 90, scale 100%

then go to the layer palette and reduce the opacity of this layer to 90, then back to Layer>Layer Styles
and click on drop shadow and apply the drop shadow, settings: Multiply, black, 100, angle 120, 3-2-1

Making sure you are in the background layer and not in the previous
word's layer, repeat with the font "Where is the rest" and type Dream.
Just repeat the same steps as you did with the first word.
Pull this layer below the "African" layer and move it to just under
the word African as shown so the top layer overlaps a bit. (click here to see tag)
Click here for the next step.

METHOD B

Add a new layer. Activate your text tool and use these settings.
Sloop Script Three-72. Use this color: a06b41.

PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS
Click on the T at the top of the layer palette and in the text palette, double click on Outline.
The words Your Text Here will appear. Click on it and type African.

PHOTOSHOP
Type "African", then go to your Styles palette, and click on the style between the outline box
and the white box with a red line through it, it's called 1px stroke 100% fill opacity.

METHOD C
involving text style and adding a custom layer style

See here on how to add layer styles to Photoshop and Photoshop Elements
This link will open in a new window. Just close it when done.
For this method, you need to load Sue's Styles 6, see top of tutorial for the link to get it.

Add a new layer. Activate your text tool and use these settings.
Sloop Script Three-72. Use this color: a06b41.

PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS
Click on the T at the top of the layer palette and in the text palette, double click on Outline.
The words Your Text Here will appear. Click on it and type African.
Now, in the styles palette, to wherever you have put your imported styles,
go to SuesStyles6 and double click on Golden Glow.

PHOTOSHOP
Type the word "African".
In the styles palette, in your imported styles, go to SuesStyles6 and double click on Golden Glow.
Now go to Layer>Layer Styles>Stroke and pick the color black,
change the size to 2 and leave everything else at default

15. (optional) You may need to sharpen, do that before you add the watermark.
Go to Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp Mask with the settings 1-64-4

16. Add a new layer. Watermark. Flatten Image.
Save and optimize at Medium (8)

Your African Dreams 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

Diet Programs

ALTERNATE TEXT STYLES
Method A

Method B

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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