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This tutorial is written in
and for PSP9 and assumes you have a working knowledge of PSP. This
can easily be done in PSP8.
YOU WILL NEED: Paint Shop Pro 9 (30 day free trial)
- You can get it HERE A Graphic - I used a graphic from FreeStockPhotos.comOf course you can use any floral picture that you might have.
I also used a Picture Tube from Patao
You can use any tube or picture that you would like to add.
Tools that we will
be using in PSP9 are the Seamless Tiling, Floodfill tool, Copy and
Pasting, Layers, Drop Shadow, and Resize.
My tutorials are only guidelines to help you accomplish
a certain creation. Please feel free to be inventive and take whatever
liberties you would like. I encourage each of you to do your "own
thing" and make your creation yours! Your finished creation is
yours to do with as you please. SAVE YOUR WORK OFTEN!
This tutorial is written, by request, for Marcy.
While browsing through web sites, Marcy had seen a multi-layered,
geometric looking frame that was muted and used both a photo and backgrounds.
She wasn't quite sure how to achieve the same type of effect and requested
my help. I was more than happy to oblige. ~smiles~
I will start off by showing you my original,
resized, picture that I used from Free Stock Photo and then take you
step by step, with a lot of screenshots, in order for you to create
the same effect.
Step 1:
Open your original picture in Paint Shop Pro. Make 3 copies of the
original by going to Windows/Duplicate or using the Shift+D keyboard
shortcut. Close out your original picture as we will be working on
the copies. The reason for doing this is you want to save your image
frequently and you don't want to do that to your original, in case
you want to use it again for another project.
Step 2:
On the first copy of your picture, go to File/Save As. Give your image
a name, you can always change it later. Make sure you are saving it
in .pspimage format. Make sure you keep saving your image often, you
can use the Ctrl+S shortcut or click on the Save Icon on your Standard
Toolbar.
Go to Effects/Image Effects/Seamless Tiling.
Press the curved arrow on top of your dialog box to have your settings
reset to the default settings.
Click OK and your picture is now seamless.
Step 3:
To quickly mute your seamless picture, choose white for your foreground
material.
Activate your Floodfill tool, ,
on your tools toolbar. Go to your tool options palette and use the
following settings.
Match Mode RGB Value; Tolerance = 200; Opacity = 65
Click on your image and your picture is now
muted. Save your image.
Step 4:
Activate the 2nd copy of your image. Go to Image/Resize and resize
your image by 60%.
Step 5:
We now want to copy our resized image and paste it on our muted seamless
image. Go to Edit/Copy (Ctrl+C) to copy your resized image. Activate
your muted image and go to Edit/Paste/As a New Layer (Ctrl+L). The
copy will be perfectly centered on your muted image. Save.
Step 6: To give our copied image depth I added a drop shadow. Go to
Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow. I used the default settings, again
click on the curved arrow on the top of your dialog box to quickly
get back to the default settings.
Add another drop shadow, but this time change
the vertical and horizontal offsets to MINUS 10 (-10). Save.
Step 7:
Go to Layers/New Raster Layer. If you are going to be using a picture
tube, as I did, activate your Picture Tube tool
on your tools toolbar. If you are totally brand new to PSP and not
sure about the picture tubes tool options palette, please view my
PSP8 tutorial on tubes HERE. I chose
the lady tube that I wanted and changed the scale to 60. Depending
on the size of your tube and picture, you may need to play around
with the scale size. Click on your image and your tube will be on
a separate layer and you can use your mover tool to move it into place.
I also added a slight drop shadow using 3 as the vertical and horizontal
offsets. Save.
Step 8:
Activate the 3rd copy of your original image. Go to Image/Resize and
resize it at 40% this time. Copy your resized image, activate your
muted image and paste your copied image as a new layer. Use your Mover
tool to move the copied layer into place where you would like it.
On this layer I added a drop shadow of 5 vertical and horizontal offsets
and then another drop shadow of MINUS 5 offsets.
Step 9:
As you can see above, I also added a narrow
black border to my image. Go to Layers/Merge/All (flatten). Go to
Image/Borders. I changed the border to a size of 3 and the color to
black.
Click OK and you are done. You can now save
your final image as a .jpg if you like. I prefer using the Optimizer
myself. Go to File/Export/Jpeg Optimizer. I used a compression value
of 15 and chroma subsampling of None.
To show you how different images or tubes can
change your outcome, here is another that I made.
I do hope you have enjoyed this tutorial. If
you have any problems, comments or questions please do not hesitate
to E-mail me.
Tutorial written and
created by Patti Wavinak for Moon's Designs. These Tutorials are copyrighted
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on your tools toolbar. Go to your tool options palette and use the
following settings. 
on your tools toolbar. If you are totally brand new to PSP and not
sure about the picture tubes tool options palette, please view my
PSP8 tutorial on tubes 
