Top Style

 

This we're gonna create

 

Materials

*** Tubes

*** Plugin Eye candy 3.01

*** Plugin Van der lee Here

*** Plugin Phpshares-Hdj1 Here

*** PluginMura's Meisters - Copies

*** Selections

*** Font

*** Outlook Express Script Here

Materials lesson Here

 

 

Especially for this tut Annemarie wrote a beautiful script.

I herewith thank Annemarie very much

her beautiful script site you can find Here

Lisette, thank you so much for checking and testing this tut

Some tubes are made by Marif - Marie -Thanks ladies, their tubegroup you can filnd here

Thanks Mac for checking the English translation

Thanks Jeany & Colette for translating into french

Thanks Romana for translating into german

Thanks Annarella for translating into italian

 

 

Install your plug ins in your Corel plug in folder

Open your font and minimize it

Extract the Selections in folder==> Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI\Corel_12

Reboot Paint shop pro if necessary

Open your tubes in PSP

Procedure

Use this arrow to mark where you are in this tut

1. Materials - foreground colour #ff8cb1 - Background colour #f5ddc3

2. Materials - Gradient -- Linear

3. File - New - New Image - Transparent

4. Flood fill (F) Flood fill with your Gradient

5. Effects -Phpshares-Hdj1-Blocks

6. Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more

7. Layers - Duplicate

8. Image -Free Rotate

9. Edit - Copy

10. Edit - Paste as a new image- You should have two of these backgrounds

Background 1 ==> <=== Background 2

( Put this images aside for now )

11. Activate working area 750/500 ===>Layer Palette - Blendmode -Multiply - Opacity 100%

( The opactity / Blendmode can differ depending on the colour you're using)

12. .Activate tube layer Marif_2006_novembre_misted_decor0100 ==> ==>Edit - Copy

13. Activate working area 750/500 ===>Edit - Paste as a new layer

14. Effects - Image effects - Offset

15 .Layer Palette - Blendmode -Overlay - Opacity 63%

16. Activate tube layer Marif_2006_octobre_misted_fleurs077===>   <===Edit- Copy

17.Activate working area 750/500 ===>Edit - Paste as a new layer

18. Effects - Image effects - Offset

19.Layer Palette - Blendmode -Overlay - Opacity 100%

20. Activate tube layer Marif_2006_octobre_misted_fleurs090 ==> Edit - Copy

21. Activate working area 750/500 ===>Edit - Paste as a new layer

22. Effects - Image effects - Offset

23. Layers - New raster layer

24. Selections - load/save selection - load selection from disk ==>-Mtm-Topstyle 1

25. Flood fill - Fill selection with your gradient

26. Selections - Deselect

27. Effects- VanDerLee -Unplugged X v2.0 - Verticale tile -Normal

28. Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more

29. Effects - Mura's Meisters - Copies -colour #ff8cb1

30. Layer Palette - Blendmode -Soft light- Opacity 100%

31. Materials - Swap materials

 

32. Text tool( T ) ==>

33. Text Tool ( T ) ===> Type in upper case the first letter of your name

34. Move to the upper left corner ==>

35. Layers - Convert to raster layer

36. Effects - Eye Candy 3.01 - Drop shadow- colour black= #000000

37. Text tool( T ) ==>

38. Type in lower case the rest of your name

39. Move the rest of your name in or next to your beginning letter

39. Layers - Convert to raster layer

40. Effects - Eye Candy 3.01 - Drop shadow- colour black= #000000===> As step 36

41. Layers - merge - Merge visible layers !!

 

42. Activate tube layer Mtm-photos 43-Top style-27 jan 2007

43. Edit - Copy

44.Activate working area 750/500

45. Edit - Paste as a new layer

46. Effects - Image effects - Offset

47. Effects - Eye Candy - As step 36

48. Materials - foreground colour #FF008A Backgrouncolour #cacba4 = ====>

 

 

Tip ==> To add borders

 

 

 

Choose your colours ==> foreground colour- and backgroundcolour if you want borders with 2colors

Go to Image - Add borders ==>, Just click right mouse in color

There will open a little page with your recent used or chosen color

On the left you see your chosen fore- and backgroundcolour

Just click in the colour of your choice and click ok

 

49. Image - Add borders - Size in pixels 1 - Symmetric checked - ==> foreground colour

50. Image - Add borders - Add borders - Size in pixels 5 - Symmetric checked ==>background colour

51.Image - Add borders - Size in pixels 1 - Symmetric checked - ==> foreground colour

52. Selections - Deselect

53. Selections - Modify - Contract by 7

54. Selections - Invert

55. Effects - Edge effects - Enhance

56.Selections - Deselect

57. Image - Save as jpg

 

Background for outlook express

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58. Activate your new images ===>see step 10

59. Effects - Image effects - Seamless Tiling( Repeat on the second new image )

60. Save this 2 background files as jpg

61. Fill out in a nice script

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Extra Example

 

Test example by Lisette