This tutorial is written in psp11

This we're gonna create

 

Materials

*** Tubes

*** Filter Graphic"s Plus ==> in the zipfile provided

*** Font

*** Pattern

*** Outlook Express script Here

Materials Here

 

Extract and install your plugins to your own plugin folder

Open your font and minimize it

Extract your pattern to the folder:

Open your tubes in psp

 

Especially for this tutorial Annemarie wrote a beautiful script

I herewith thank Annemarie very much for her effort

Her gorgious scriptsite you will find Here

Some tubes are by Marif - Marie -Thanks ladies! Their tubegroup you can find here

The Party -Fashion6- tube is modified by me

Thank you so much Lisette, for testing and correcting my tutorial

Thanks Mac for translating into English

 

Use the arrow to help you remember where your are

1. Materials - Obligatory colour-Pattern ! ==>foreground colour white # FFFFFF- Background on pattern

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2. File - New -New Image - Transparent

3. Flood fill - Flood fill layer with white

4. Materials - Swap materials

5. Layers - New rasterlayer - ==> flood fill this layer with the pattern

6. Effects - Graphic's Plus- Emboss ===> Repeat this once

7. Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more

8. Layers - Merge - Merge down

9. Effects -Textuureffects - Straw wall - Default settings

10. Window - Duplicate - Put this aside for now j

11. Materials -Foreground colour #FFFFFF =  background colour #A0A0A0 =

12. Layers - New layers

13. Selection Tool ( S )- Custom selection

 

14. Flood fill the Selection with foreground colour white

15. Materials - Swa[ materials==> #A0A0A0 = grey is now your foreground colour

16. Selections - Modify - Contract - Number of pixels 1

17. Flood fill the selection with your foreground colour ==>

 

18. Materials - Gradient - Sunburst - ( Corel_06_029 = foreground/background colour gradient)

19. Selections - Modify - Contract - number of pixels 1

20. Layers - New layer ===> flood fill the selection with your gradient

21. Selections - deselect

22. Effects - Graphic's Plus - Quick tile II

23. Effects - 3D effects - Dropshadow - Colour - Black

24. Layers - Duplicate

25. Image- Resize - resize all layers ===> unchecked !!

26. Adjust - Sharpness- Unsharp mask

27. Effects - Graphic's Plus - Quick tile II

28. Layers - New rasterlayer

29. Selection Tool( S )- Custom selection

30. Flood fill selection with your gradient

31. Selections - deselect

32. Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more

33. Effects - Graphic's Plus - Quick tile II

34. Effects - 3D effects - Dropshadow - Colour Black

 

35. Layers - New layer

36. Selection Tool (S )- Custom selection

37. Flood fill selection with your gradient ===> Selections - deselect

38. Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more

39. Effects - 3D effects - Dropshadow - Colour Black ==> as in step 34

40. Layers - Merge - Merge all flatten

41. Effects - Graphic's Plus - Quick Tile II

42. Image - Rotate right

43. Effects - Graphic's Plus - Quick Tile II

44. Image - Rotate left

45. Adjust - Hue and saturation - Colorize ( Shift-L )

46. Let's give the image a name==>

47. Layers - Properties - Name ===> Basis

48. Activate tubelayer Mtm_Kerst-bol-9 ==> Edit - Copy

49. Activate image Basis ==> Edit - Paste as a new layer

50. Effects - Image effects - Offsett.

51. Activte tubelayer Marif_2006_octobre_misted_decor078

52. Edit - Copy -===> Activate image BASIS

53. Edit - Paste as a new layer

54. Layers palette - Blendmode ==>OVERLAY - Opacity 100%

55. Activate tubelayer MarieL_2006_10Octobre_FaSm01t

56. Adjust - Hue and saturation - Colorize ( Shift-L )

Hue 146 - Saturation 43

57. Edit - Copy - Activate image BASIS ====> Edit - Paste as a new layer

58. Move the tube to the right upper corner==>

59. Layer palette - Blend mode ==>OVERLAY - Opacity 100%

60. Activate tubelayer PatryTubes_06_Fashion_01 Edit - Copy

61. Activate image BASIS ==> Edit -paste as a new layer

62. Move the tubeto the right bottom corner==>

63. Materials - Foreground and background colour to #a2acb4

64. Text tool

65. Type the word " Season's "

66. Layers - convert to rasterlayer

67. Text tool==> Type the word= " Greetings "

68. Layers - convert to rasterlayer

69. Put both words in the right place

70. Layers - Merge - Merge down

71. Layers palette - Blend mode -Burn - Opacity 100%

72. Layers duplicate

73. Layers - New rasterlayer =====> Flood fill with your foreground colour

74. Select all ==> Selections -Modify - Contract - number of pixels 1

75. hit delete on your keyboard==> Selections- deselect

76. You're finished the tag, save as jpg

77. Background and "Kerstbal" for your outlook script

78. Activate the image we put aside in step 10

79. Adjust - Hue and saturation - Colorize ( Shift-L )

Hue 146 - Saturation 43

80. Selections ( S )- Custom selection - Feather - Anti -alias unchecked !!!

81. Image - crop to selection ( Shift +R )

82. Effects - Image effects - Seamless Tiling

83. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

84. Save this background file

85. Activate the tube layer Mtm_Kerst-bol-9 ==> Edit - paste as new image

86. Image - Export - Gif-optimalisation

!!!!Attention: if you are using the colours of this tut, the blend colour should be white!!!

Opacity 8%

Love Mtm- Brigitte

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