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Ellie's
Treasures Paint Shop Pro Translated Tutorials - African Dream Tag http://www.ellies-treasures.com/x-clusive/african-dream-psp/african-dream-psp.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 Bordermania Supplies in zip file here includes a background, fonts and tubes http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/african-dream-material-psp.zip 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 Paint Shop Pro and where the tools can be located. |
| 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. Open up your background image, your tubes and the fonts. Minimize all, they are not needed yet. |
| 1. Open a new transparent canvas 500X350 pixels Make your foreground color #ffee9c and your background color #a06b41 or colors of your choice to go with your tubes |
| 2. Click on your gradient tool, pick Foreground-Background, Angle of 45 and repeats of 3. Do not check invert. Fill your canvas. Then go to Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur>Radius of 5 |
| 3. Layers>New Raster Layer. Select>Select All. Maximize your background image. Edit>Copy (or Control-C). Go to your working canvas. Edit>Paste into selection Deselect. In the layer palette, reduce opacity to 60 |
| 4. Activate the lion tube. Copy. Go to your working canvas. Edit>Paste as new layer (or Control-L) In the layer palette, reduce opacity to 70 |
| 5. Activate the lion cubs tube. Copy Back to your working canvas, Paste as new layer. In the layer palette, reduce opacity to 75 |
| 6. Activate the woman tube. Copy Over to your working canvas, Paste as new layer In the layer palette, reduce opacity to 75 |
| 7. Layers>Merge>Merge Visible (or right click in the layer palette) Layers>Duplicate (or right click in the layer palette) |
| 8. Make sure you are in the top layer and go to Effects>Texture Effects/Blinds and use these settings: 3-100-color is your brown color-horizontal checked, light from above NOT checked. In the layer palette, reduce opacity to 90 |
| 9. Click on your eraser and use the following settings in the toolbar round, 50-10-24-100-100-0-50 Now remove carefully the blinds effect from the lion's head, the cubs heads, the woman's head Layers>Flatten layers |
| 10. Effects>Illumination Effects>Sunburst with the following settings. Color is your foreground color. 20-0-0-48-20-5. |
| 11. Image>Add border>12 pixels symmetrically-white Click on your magic wand with these settings: Replace-RGB-tolerance of 0-contiguous-feather 0-anti-alias checked-outside Select the border and fill with your gradient |
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12. Select all Selections>Modify>Contract 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. |
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13. New raster layer. Activate your text tool and use these
settings Sloop Script Three-60-pixels-Bold-centred-vector-direction arrow down-stroke width of 1. Leave the gradient as foreground color and the leave the background color the brown color #a06b41. Type "African" with this font. Convert to raster layer Effects>3D effects>Drop Shadow, with the following settings: 1-1-100-0 black |
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14. Repeat step 13 with the font "Where is the rest" - type
"Dream" - this font only has capitals so it doesn't matter whether you type lower case or upper. Add the shadow. Lock your bottom layer by clicking on the eye. Activate your top layer and go to Layers>Merge Visible. Reduce the opacity to 90. Make the bottom layer visible again by clicking on the eye. Merge visible Yours should look like this (mine is resized a bit smaller) |
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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 |
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16. Layers>New raster layer. Watermark. Merge all (flatten) Go to File>Export>Jpeg optimizer and set it at about 20. Your African Dream tag is done! |
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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. ©2003-2007 Ellie's Treasures |
