, a wonderful Dutch PSP website. At their site you can find a Dutch version and links to the German and Danish translations.
We'll create the image you see above, it has 3 parts: the tag, the tag background and the background.
| Supplies: |
| PSP 8 |
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Filter LenN Kaithlyn |
| Filter NVR Border Mania |
| Filter MuRa's Seamless |
| Butterfly Tubes |
| Mask LenN Kaithy |
| A tube of your own choice
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Preparation: |
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- Don't forget to save your work often!
- Pick a dark color and a light color from your tube, dark as foreground and light as background color;
- Material Palette - Gradient with these settings - Foreground/Background:
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| Tag
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| Step 1: | Open a new image - width: 450 pixels, height: 350 pixels, transparent
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| Step 2: | Flood Fill - Fill the image with the gradient
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| Step 3: | Effects - Plugins - L&K landksiteofwonders - LenN Kaithlyn with these settings:
- Buiten cirkel = outer circle: 92
- Binnen cirkel = inner circle: 117
- Schaduw = shadow: 0
- Helderheid = clarity: 23
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| Step 4: | Layers - New Raster Layer |
| Step 5: | Flood Fill - Fill with your dark foreground color |
| Step 6: | Layers - Load/Save Mask - Load Mask From Disk - LN-kaithy with these settings:
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| Step 7: | Layer Palette - Delete Mask Layer - Answer Question with YES. |
| Step 8: | Layers - Merge - Merge Group |
| Step 9: | Activate the tube |
| Step 10: | Resize the tube (max 350 pixels height or width) |
| Step 11: | Edit - Copy |
| Step 12: | Go to the tag image |
| Step 13: | Edit - Paste - Paste As New Layer - Move the tube if you wish |
| Step 14: | Layers - Arrange - Move Down |
| Step 15: | Activate the mask layer (the top one) |
| Step 16: | Eraser tool - Erase the text where you don't want it (for the preview we erased them from the face)
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| Step 17: | Open the butterfly tube - Edit - Copy - Go to tag: Edit - Paste As New Layer |
| Step 18: | Mover Tool - put the butterflies where you want them |
| Step 19: | It looks great when you color the butterflies to match them with the tag. To find out which color you need, go to your foreground or background color, click the properties and jot down the H/S values.
Adjust - Hue and Saturation - Colorize - enter the values you wrote down. |
| Step 20: | Layers - Merge - Merge All (Flatten) |
| Step 21: | Effects - Plugins - NVR Bordermania - Frame #2 with these settings:
Save the tag and put it aside.
Tag background
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| Step 22: | Open a new image: width 480 pixels, height 380 pixels |
| Step 23: | Flood Fill - Gradient - fill the image with the gradient we used for the tag |
| Step 24: | Effects - Plugins - L&K landksiteofwonders - LenN kaithlyn with these settings:
- Buiten cirkel = outer circle: 103
- Binnen cirkel = inner circle: 111
- Schaduw = shadow: 0
- Helderheid = clarity: 21
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| Step 25: | Effects - Image Effects - Offset with these settings:
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| Step 26: | Effects Plugins - NVR Bordermania - Frame #2 with these settings:
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| Step 27: | Save the tag background
Edit - Copy - put it aside.
Background |
| Step 28: | File - New - Width: 1024 pixels, height: 400 pixels, transparent |
| Step 29: | Material Palette - Background - Gradient with these settings:
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| Step 30: | Flood Fill - Fill the image with the gradient |
| Step 31: | Effects - Plugins - L&K landksiteofwonders - LenN kaithlyn with these settings:
- Buiten cirkel = outer circle: 94
- Binnen cirkel = inner circle: 123
- Schaduw = shadow: 0
- Helderheid = clarity: 21
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| Step 32: | Effects - Image Effects - Seamless
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| Step 33: | Edit - Paste - Paste As New Layer |
| Step 34: | Mover Tool - Move the tag background into position |
| Step 35: | Layers - Merge - Merge All (Flatten) |
| Step 36: | Effects - Plugins - MuRa's Seamless - Polkadot with these settings:
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| Step 37: | Go back to your tag |
| Step 38: | Edit - Copy |
| Step 39: | Go to the 1024 background image - Paste As New Layer |
| Step 40: | Move your tag to the center of the tag background |
| Step 41: | Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow with these settings:
- Vertical: 1
- Horizontal: 1
- Opacity: 40
- Blur: 7,91
- Color: Black (#000000)
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| Step 42: | Repeat Drop Shadow, vertical and horizontal -1 |
| Step 43: | Layers - Merge - Merge All (Flatten) |
That's it! :-)
I hope you liked my translation of this LNK Site of Wonders tutorial!
If you have any questions please email me at asdb@zeelandnet.nl
Liefs,
Annemarie
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