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Ellie's
Treasures Paint Shop Pro Translated Tutorials - X-clusive Designz Love and Devotion Tag http://www.ellies-treasures.com/x-clusive/love-and-devotion-psp/love-and-devotion-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 FM Tile Tools; Xero>Porcelain; Mura's Meister>Clouds Supplies in zip file here http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/love-and-devotion-supplies-psp.zip Supplies in zip file here for older versions if the other ones don't work for you. These are in psd format http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/love-and-devotion-supplies-psd.zip My plugin windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my plugins - available for purchase here http://www.icnet.de/filters_unlimited/ |
| Preparation Before opening PSP, double click the fonts to open them and leave them open so they will be available for use in PSP (or install the fonts) Put the plugins into your plugin folder. Now open PSP. Open your tubes in PSP, duplicate them (shift-D) and close the originals None of the tubes are used more than once, so each can be closed after use. |
| Step 1 Open a new transparent canvas 640 x 480 pix. |
| Step 2 Set your foreground color to #777157 and your background color to #e2d5b3. Effects>Mura Meister>Cloud - default settings     |
| Step 3 Activate the tube "Marif-paysage18". Copy (control-C) and paste as a new layer (control-L) into working canvas Move up and to the left as shown  In your layer palette, change the blend mode to soft light  Effects>FM Tile Tools>Blend Emboss-default settings   |
| Step 4 Activate the tube "Marif-paysage7". Copy (control-C) and paste as a new layer (control-L) into working canvas Move the tube to the right. Make sure the house in this tube and the house in the last tube come together as if one house, as shown  |
| Step 5 Put bottom layer on lock by clicking on the eye. Right click in layer palette, merge visible Select your raster deform tool and pull the edges on all sides out until the picture fills the whole canvas and you don't see the large cloudy parts   In the layer palette, change the opacity of this layer to 80 Click on the eye to turn the bottom layer back on |
| Step 6 Activate the tube "Marif-paysage5". Copy (control-C) and paste as a new layer (control-L) into working canvas Image>Mirror Select your freehand selection tool Change to "Point to point" - feather 50.  And make a selection around the pump, boards and flowers as shown. Don't forget this is feathered so it will select a much larger area, so just try and stick close to the main part of the picture. What you see here is after I double clicked to make the selection so you see the feathered part selected as well.  Selections>Invert. Now hit your delete key. The feathered tube should remain but the outer area of it should delete Deselect Image>Resize>85%. Resize all layers not checked.  Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp mask with the setting 1 - 64 - 4.  Move to the bottom left as shown Change the opacity in the layer palette to 80  |
| Step 7 Make sure all is where you want it. Layers>Merge visible Effects>Xero>Porcelain at default settings  Shift-D to duplicate image, minimize the duplicate till needed Image>Resize>85% - Smart Size  Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp mask with these settings: 1 - 64 - 4.  Select your Sharpen brush, these settings: Size 50, hardness 25, step 10, opacity 50.   Apply the brush to the little girl, flowers at the pump and the house.  |
| Step 8 Image>Add borders>3 pix in your light color.  Select edge with the magic wand, tolerance and feather at 0 Effects>3d Effects>Inner bevel with these settings: bevel 2 - settings 2-3-6-0-0-315-50-30-white  Effects>3d Effects>Drop Shadow with these settings: H+V 1, opacity 80, blur 10, then repeat with H+V on -1.  Deselect |
| Step 9 Image>Add borders>3 pix in your dark color. Image>Add borders>40 pix in your light color. Select edge with the magic wand, tolerance and feather at 0 Activate your duplicate image which you made earlier Image>Mirror Copy and Edit>Paste>paste into selection.  |
| Step 10 Effects>FM Tile tools>Blend Emboss - default settings Repeat Blend Emboss Effects>3d Effects>Inner bevel with these settings: Bevel 1 - settings: 2-10-6-30-0-315-40-33-white   Deselect Image>Add borders>3 pix in your dark color. Select edge with the magic wand, tolerance and feather at 0 Fill the edge with your light color. Effects>3d Effects>Inner bevel with these settings: bevel 2 - settings 2-3-6-0-0-315-50-30-white Deselect |
| Step 11 Activate the tube "best-friends" Copy (control-C) and paste as a new layer (control-L) into working canvas Move the tube to the bottom right as shown.  Select your eraser tool with these settings: size 100, hardness 5, step 1, Opacity 13.  Carefully run the tool along the very outer edges of the top and left of the tube for a light misting effect  Effects>3d Effects>Drop Shadow with these settings: H+V 1, opacity 80, blur 10, color black.  |
| Step 12 Effects>Xero>Porcelain at default settings Change the opacity of this layer to 90.  |
| Step 13 Activate the "touwtje" tube (rope). Copy (control-C) and paste as a new layer (control-L) into working canvas Image>Rotate>Free Rotate>45 degrees to the left, all layers not checked  Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp mask with these settings: 1 - 64 - 4. Move the tube to the top left corner as shown  Effects>3d Effects>Drop Shadow with these settings: H+V 1, opacity 50, blur 5, color black. |
| Step 14 Activate the "Tag-element" tube Copy (control-C) and paste as a new layer (control-L) into working canvas Move it to the rope so it seems to be hanging from it, as shown  |
| Step 15 Activate the eraser tool with these settings: size 4, hardness 5, step 1, opacity 100.  erase a small part of the top ring so it looks like it's going around the rope, as shown,  Zoom in if needed to see better |
| Step 16 Put some text or your name on the tag. Play with the drop shadow to get it the way you want I used Ajile, size 34, stroke width 2. bold, for my name   Apply a drop shadow with these settings: V+H-1, opacity 100, blur 2, black  |
| Step 17 Layers>New raster layer Text Tool - font used is PassionsConflictROB, Size 36 but the capital letters are 48. Background color on white, foreground color off The bottom and top are on separate layers so they can be moved independently I typed the L, changed the font size, then the "ove". Move to the correct spot and convert to raster, Now do the same for D and "evotion". Make sure you have the capitals and the small text in the right spot to one another as they will be grouped after you convert to raster. Move the bottom text layer so L and D seem to loop in each other.  Effects>3d Effects>Drop Shadow with these settings: H+V 1, opacity 80, blur 3, color black. Do this for both text layers. |
| Step 18 Activate the eraser tool, using the same settings as before, they should still be in there. size 4, hardness 5, step 1, opacity 100. Select the text layer containing the D Click once on a spot on the D to erase it and make it look like it's looping around the L If you find the letters now too large, Image>resize them with Smart Size so they look right  |
| Step 19 Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp mask with these settings: 1 - 64 - 4. |
| Step 20 Make sure all is where you want it, right click in layer palette and merge all. |
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You're done. If you reduce the size, make sure you use your unsharp mask at 1-64-4. Reducing the size may be hard due to the texture effect on the frame. I find the best way to do this is to use your zoom tool and zoom down as far as you can without losing the effect, then hit Alt-print screen to copy it, hit control-V to paste it back into the program as a new image and use your selection tool to cut out the picture. You can either repeat to make it smaller or sometimes you can reduce in the normal way to make it a bit smaller. Another way is to use your resize command, but set at about 95%, bicubic. Repeat this till you get it the size you want. Whichever style floats your boat should work for you! LOL |
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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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| 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 |