, a wonderful Dutch PSP website. At their site you can find a Dutch version and links to the German and Danish translations.
The ladies are happy with my translation, and I am very glad because their tutorials are wonderful!
| Supplies: |
| PSP 8 |
 | Filter Eye Candy 3.1 (free filter) |
| Filters Unlimited (demo version) |
| LN Script Lucifer - put this in your Trusted Scripts Folder (PSP8 files) |
| LN Selections Lucifer - put these in your Selection folder (PSP8 files) |
| LN Gradient Lucifer - put these in your Gradient folder (PSP8 files) |
| LNK Dingbat1 and Computer Amok font - put these in your Windows font folder |
| LNK Tubes - put these in your tube folder |
| Lots of coffee; this is a lóng tutorial *smiles* |
Preparation: |
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- Click your foreground color palette and go to material;
- Switch the gradient to X Peachy Keen-
- Degrees: 294-
- Repeat: 0-
- Invert: Not Checked-
- Style: Radial-
(if you want to use a gradient of your own, pick one with 2 soft colors)
- Click your background color palette and go to material:
- Switch the gradient to Metal Steel-
- Degrees: 78-
- Repeat: 0-
- Invert: Not Checked-
- Style: Radial-
If everything went well you have these gradients:
- Don't forget to save your work often!
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| Step 1: | File - New - 500 x 350 pixels transparent
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| Step 2: | Flood Fill - Fill the image with the X Peachy Keen gradient
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| Step 3: | Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur: 40
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| Step 4: | Go to your Script Toolbar (if you don't have that toolbar: View - Toolbars - Script)
Find the LNscript and click the play button to start the script.
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| Step 5: | Change your foreground to background and vice versa:
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| Step 6: | Layers - New Raster Layer
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| Note: In the next steps we will fill 3 selections with gradients, and for each selection we will pick a different opacity and blend mode.
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| Step 7: | Selections - Load/Save Selections - Load from Disk - LN_selections_lucifer with these settings:
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| Step 8: | Flood Fill - Fill the selection with gradient Metaal-Staal (foreground)
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| Step 9: | Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - Radius: 20
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| Step 10: | Layer Palette - Blend Mode: Burn
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| Step 11: | Selections - Select None
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| Step 12: | Click your foreground gradient - Repeat: 2
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| Step 13: | Layers - New Raster Layer
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| Step 14: | Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection From Disk - same settings, find LN-Les Lucifer number 2.
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| Step 15: | Flood Fill - Fill with Metaal-Staal gradient
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| Step 16: | Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - Radius: 20
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| Step 17: | Layer Palette - Opacity: 44% - Blend Modus: Multiply
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| Step 18: | Selections - Select None
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| Step 19: | Layers - New Raster Layer
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| Step 20: | Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection From Disk - same settings, find LN-Les Lucifer number 3.
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| Step 21: | Flood Fill - Fill with Metaal-Staal gradient
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| Step 22: | Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - Radius: 20
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| Step 23: | Layer Palette - Opacity: 60% - Blend Modus: Hard Light
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| Step 24: | Selections - Select None
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| Step 25: | Layers - Merge - Merge All (Flatten)
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| Step 26: | Layers - New Raster Layer
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| Step 27: | Go to the script toolbar, find LNscript_2 and click the play button
This is what you should have after the script!
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| Note: | If the script doesn't seem to work, please check your PSP version. You can do that by clicking Help - Info Paint Shop Pro. Go to Jasc and check for updates. Probably if you are lower than 8.1 the upgrade will fix this problem, it was a bug in a previous version. Updating worked for me :-)
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| Step 28: | Layer Palette - Switch this layer to Blend Mode: Luminance
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| Step 29: | Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 3.1 - Drop Shadow with these settings:
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| Step 30: | Switch your materials again:
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| Step 31: | Click your Text Tool - LNK dingbat1 with these settings:
- Floating
- Size: 200
- Stroke Width: 0
- Anti Alias: Not Checked
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| Step 32: | Click somewhere in your image and type a capital A
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| Step 33: | Move the dingbat to the right position with your mover tool:
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| Step 34: | Keep the dingbat selected!
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| Step 35: | Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - Radius: 2
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| Step 36: | Selections - Promote Selection To Layer:
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| Step 37: | Selections - Select None
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| Step 38: | Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 3.1 - Drop Shadow (same settings as before)
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| Step 39: | Text Tool - Click on the image - Type a capital B
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| Step 40: | Mover Tool - Move the dingbat B towards the bottom of the image like this:
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| Step 41: | Keep the dingbat selected!
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| Step 42: | Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - Radius: 2
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| Step 43: | Selections - Promote Selection To Layer:
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| Step 44: | Selections - Select None
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| Step 45: | Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 3.1 - Drop Shadow (same settings as before)
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| Step 46: | Get tube_Les_Lucifer (the lady)
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| Step 47: | Edit - Copy
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| Step 48: | Go back to your 500/350 image
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| Step 49: | Edit - Paste - Paste As New Layer
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| Step 50: | Mover Tool - move the tube to the left like this:
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| Step 51: | Open the Rose tube (darQue luna bella bella.psp)
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| Step 52: | Image - Resize: 80% - Lock Aspect Ratio: CHECKED - Resize All Layers: CHECKED
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| Step 53: | Edit - Copy
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| Step 54: | Go to the 500/350 image
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| Step 55: | Edit - Paste - Paste As New Layer
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| Step 56: | Layer Palette - Blend Modus: Dodge - Opacity: 26%
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| Step 57: | Mover Tool - Move the rose to where you want it
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| Step 58: | Text Tool - find font Computer Amok, size: 20
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| Step 59: | Write your text
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| Step 60: | Keep selected
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| Step 61: | Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - Radius: 2
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| Step 62: | Selections - Promote Selection To Layer
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| Step 63: | Selections - Select None
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| Step 64: | Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 3.1 - Drop Shadow, same settings
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| Step 65: | Mover Tool - Move the text to where you want it
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| Step 66: | Image - Add Borders - 1 pixel - black
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| Save your tag and minimize it for later use.
Background
We continue with the background for the tag. We keep it simple because this tag was a lot of steps already... although the original version was even longer. That had 30 (!) layers LOL
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| Step 67: | File - New - size: 1024/400 (if you use a specific HTML script you can change the height accordingly)
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| Step 68: | Flood Fill - fill with X Peachy Keen gradient
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| Step 69: | Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - Radius: 40
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| Step 70: | Effects - IC Net Software - Unlimited - Tile & Mirror - Seamless Blend (vertical)
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| Step 71: | Go back to the script toolbar, find script LNscript_achtergr and click the start button:
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| Step 72: | Go back to your tag
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| Step 73: | Edit - Copy
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| Step 74: | Go to your 1024/400 image
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| Step 75: | Edit - Paste - Paste As New Layer
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| Step 76: | Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 3.1 - Drop Shadow with these settings:
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| Step 77: | Layers - Merge - Merge All (Flatten)
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Tadaaaa! You're finished! Now wasn't this fun? And how much coffee did you have? :-)
If you want to use this background for a OE stationary,
please take a look at Termicat's "Left Sided Script Tutorial"! Of course for this script you'll have to put your tag to the left of the 1024/400 strip.
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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