This PSP7 tutorial is written by Monique, she is my mentor at the Dutch tag teaching group Tag Design. They offer 60 tag lessons, most of them are written by the owner, Tamara, or Monique. Every member is assigned to a mentor and every lesson is checked and has to be ok before the member can move on to the next lesson. It is a very nice group, very helpful and talented people!
Monique doesn't have a website (yet?) and she gave me permission to translate this lesson into English. Thank you so much, Monique!

Let's get going!

Supplies:
	PSP 8 (can easily be done in PSP 7)
	Filmstrip Tube
	Black & White faces
	Funkhouse Font
	Plugin DC Special
Preparation:
	Install the plugin in your plugin folder and start PSP; Don't forget to save your work often!
Step 1:	Open the 3 faces and duplicate them, close the original faces except the lady with the ponytail (we need her lateron). Open the filmstrip tube.
Step 2:	Open a new image, 600 x 400 px transparent.
Step 3:	Go to the filmstrip tube - Edit - Copy. Go to the new image - Edit - Past as a new layer.
Step 4:	Image - Rotate - Free Rotate 90 degrees - All Layers UNCHECKED. Mover the tube a bit more to the top (not too much).
Step 5:	Go to the 3 duplicated black and white ladies tubes and flatten them - Layers - Merge - Merge all (flatten).
Step 6.1:	Go back to the filmstrip image. Magic Wand - Tollerance: 0 - Feather: 0. Select the first rectangle of the filmstrip.
Step 6.2:	Selections - Modify - Expand: 4 pixels. Layers - New Raster Layer. Go to one of the merged black & white tubes - Edit - Copy. Go back to the filmstrip - Edit - Paste - Paste in selection. Selection - Select None. Layers - Arrange - Move to bottom.
Step 7:	Layer Palette - activate the filmstrip layer - Magic Wand - Select middle rectangle. Repeat step 6.2.
Step 8:	Layer Palette - activate the filmstrip layer - Magic Wand - Select last rectangle. Repeat step 6.2.
Step 9:	Layers - Merge - Merge Visible This is what you should have by now:
Step 10:	Layers - Duplicate
Step 11:	Lock duplicated layer by clicking the eye in the layer palette:
Step 12:	Activate the merged layer. Effects - Plugins - DC Special - Rain with settings:
Step 13:	Unlock the duplicated layer - Merge - Merge Visible
Step 14:	Activate the lady with the ponytail tube. Image - Mirror. Edit - Copy. Go back to the merged filmstrip. Edit - Paste - Paste as new layer. The lady is way too big ;-) Image - Resize - percentage of original: 50% - Resize all layers UNCHECKED. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen. Move the ponytail lady a bit to the left and a bit lower (see preview).
Step 15:	Put some drop shadow on the tube: Horizontal and vertical: 5 Opacity: 81 Blur: 7,3 Color: black
Step 16:	Layers - Merge - Merge all (flatten)
Step 17:	Make your foreground color black (#000000) and the background color white (#ffffff)
Step 18:	Go to your Text Tool and find the font Funkhouse. Trick: if you don't want to install the font on your harddrive, open the zipfile, open the font and then go to your Text Tool. Size: 60 px Create as: Vector Anti Alias: checked Write your text
Step 19:	Find the right place for your text. Rotate it if you want. Convert the vector layer into a raster layer (right click on the vector layer in the layer palette):
Step 20:	When you are happy with the placement of your text, apply the same drop shadow as before (step 15).
Step 21:	Apply your watermark. After that: Layers - Merge - Merge Visible.
Step 22:	Edit - Copy - Edit - Paste as New Image (to remove all excess white around the tag) and save with JPEG optimalisation: 20. I hope you had fun with this great tutorial, written by Monique September 2003 and translated by me on July 11, 2004. If you have any questions please email me at asdb@zeelandnet.nl Liefs, Annemarie :: Site Map ::     ::  Tutorial Index ::
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