one of sweetz

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This is a beginner's tut, and I am using PSPX!

  • Beginner's Tut="Loads of screenshots!"
    This is going to appear to be a long tut, but
    it's very short, just lots
    of instructions and screenshots!

    There are no outside plugins used in this tut!

    Please understand I leave the images large
    so you can see everything, but we will be resizing
    the finished layout to your specifications! :)

    You may download the full kit "Summer Romance"

    Here


    We are going to create the layout above. The photo
    for the center of the layout will have to be
    provided by you. It should be "about 500px X 500px."
    I would love to share it, but can't without permission :)
      You will need
    • Paint Shop Pro

    • The supplies I provide.
      which may be downloaded
      Here
    • And the photo which you will be
      using for the center of the layout!


      • Once you have all your supplies
      you are ready to go!
    • Be Sure to Save often

      • Ok let's start

      Note: I have folders on another drive away from
      Paint Shop Pro, I call it PSP STuff, and inside
      of that I have folders for masks, brushes, tubes,
      plugins and so on!
    • Place your masks in your mask folder.

    • Open the rest of your supplies in Paint Shop Pro


      • If you have not used a mask before, don't be afraid
      of them, they are so cool.. You can create
      some of the best effects with them
      If you have not already done so.. you
      will have to point psp to your folders
      and especially for this tut,to your mask folder

    • File/Preferences/File Locations


      • File Locations

      Add Folder

    • Click on Masks,
    • Click on add
    • Browse to where your mask folder is
    • Click ok
    • Right click on the material palette
    • Click on other


      • Click Other

      Material Choices

    • Click in Window where you see the leopard pattern

    • Browse to Open Images


      • Browse

    • Find pattern.png

    • Clicking on it will bring it to the browse window

    • Click ok

      • It will fill the background palette with your pattern
    • Click on the transparent image with the floodfill tool

      • and like magic the pattern fills the image!

      Using Your Pattern

    • Make sure your layer palette is visible
    • View/palettes/layers


      • Creating your Backgrounds!
    • File/New "Use the below settings"


      • New Image Settings

    • Image Dimensions 500 Width X 500 Height Pixels
    • Resolution 300 Pixels/cm
    • Raster Background
    • RGB 8bits/channel
    • Transparent


      • You will have this open in front of you!
      You may have larger or smaller checks, or
      different colors for your transparency but
      basically it's the same!

      New Image

    • Floodfill your new image with the pattern
      using your floodfill tool
      While using your floodfill tool
      If you click your left button on the mouse,
      the foreground will flood,
      if you click the right button on your mouse,
      the background will flood.


      • Floodfill tool

      Use the settings below
    • Angle 0
    • Scale 75
    • No Texture


      • Pattern Settings Floodfilled Image with Pattern

    • Layers/Load/Save Mask/Load mask from disk
    • Look for 111.kris.pspmask
      • Use settings below

      Load Mask

    • Source Luminance checked
    • Fit To Canvas checked
    • Invert transparency not checked
    • Hide All Mask checked
    • Load


      • Decide where you want to save your working copy,
      even create a folder for this purpose!
    • File/save as
    • Save as pspimage in your folder of choice


      • If you look over at your layer palette,
      you should have three layers,

    • Top pattern
    • The middle mask
    • Bottom Pattern
    • Layers/Merge/Merge Group
      • You now have one layer

      One Layer

      Masked Backgrounds

    • Resize by 80%

    • Image/resize


      • Resize Using Percentage

      Pixel Dimensions
    • Width 80 percent

    • Height 80 percent

    • Skip Print Size info

    • Resample using Bicubic

    • Lock Aspec Ratio checked (don't change the numbers)

    • Resize all layers unchecked

    • Click Ok


    • Layers/Duplicate
    • Move top image up to the top and left using your move tool


      • Moving

    • Move bottom image down to the right bottom


    • Open sromance_darkpinkpaper_edge_rainy.png
    • Edit/Copy
    • Edit/paste on duplicated backgrounds
    • Image/free rotate 12% right
      using the below settings!


      • Rotate right 12%

    • Drop Shadow using the below settings


      • Drop Shadow

    • Layer/Duplicate

    • Image/Mirror


      • Should look like the below image!

      Looking good!

    • File/Save
      • You should have 4 layers now!

      4 layers

    • Two background layers
    • Two "sromance_darkpinkpaper_edge_rainy.png"

    • Be sure you are on the top layer (Just click
      on it)in the layer palette

    • Set Aside

    • Open up the photo you are going to use!

    • Layers/Load/Save Mask/Load mask from disk

    • Look for 2020.pspmask

    • Click on it
    • Load

    • Layers/Merge/Merge group

      • It should look like the image below!

      Masked Photo

      Layer palette should look like this!
      Photo is one layer now

    • Edit/Copy

    • Click on layout you are working on

    • Edit/Paste as new layer


      • With Photo Now

      You may have to resize the pasted masked photo
      to about 90% so it won't be outside of the
      heart frame when you add it
      You should now have 5 layers!

    • Click on "sromance_heart_roundframe_rainy.jpg"


    • Edit/Copy

    • Click on layout you are working on

    • Edit/Paste heart frame as new layer

    • Image/resize by 90%

      • Resize by 90 Percent

      Pixel Dimensions
    • Width 90 percent
    • Height 90 percent

    • Skip Print Size info

    • Resample using Bicubic

    • Lock Aspec Ratio checked (don't change the numbers)

    • Resize all layers unchecked

    • Click Ok

    • Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow


      • Be sure to use the settings below
      Drop Shadows make it pop!!
      Drop Shadow Again

    • Vertical 6

    • Horizontal 6

    • Opacity 34

    • Blur 8

    • No Shadow on new layer

    • Color- Black


      • If you notice I have not merged the layout since
      I like to leave that for the last, just in case
      I want to correct one of the layers!
      Merging layers is also called “flattening” an image.
      You can when we get to that part merge
      visible so the transparency will still be visible.
      Merge Flatten means makes the layers into
      one layer with no transparency.

      Frame added

    • File/Save

    • Click on sromance_beads_rainy.png

    • Edit/copy

    • Click on layout you are working on

    • Edit/Paste as new layer

    • Move beads up to the top of the paper using your move tool

    • Image/free rotate 12


      • Rotate Beads

    • Direction Left

    • Free 12

    • leave last two places blank


    • Click on sromance_stickpin_fourbrads_rainy.png


      • You may want to resize the stickpin, use the
      technique you learn in the earlier
      part of the tut!
    • Edit/Copy

    • Click on layout you are working on

    • Edit/Paste as new layer

    • Move stickpin over to left side of layout

    • Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow (Settings as before)

    • Click on sromance_clusterofhearts_rainy.png

    • Edit/Copy

    • Click on layout you are working on

    • Edit/Paste cluster of hearts as new layer

      • Move to bottom left part of layout similar to image below
    • Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow (settings as before


      • Hearts Added

      I have included several wordart for you to choose from!
    • Click on wordart you would like to use
    • Edit/copy
    • Click on layout
    • Edit/paste wordart as new layer
    • Move to bottom right part of layout

    • Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow (settings as before)



      • Now I would look over the layers and see where you
      might like to adjust position or drop shadow
    • Just click on the layer you would like to fix
      • You Are Done!

      You may resize it at this point, for me,
      I like my creations nice and big so they can be seen! :)
    • Layers/Merge/Merge Visible


    • File/save as (Png format)

      • To ensure the transparency is still
      there, and the file size is not too big!

      Saving as Png

      You ARE DONE!!

      I hope you enjoyed this tut and
      learned something new! Hugs, Rainy