Snowy Fun Stationery Set Tutorial
Snowy Fun Stationery Set Tutorial
Things Needed:
**Graphic of your choice
**Gold or Silver Beads & Gold or Silver Pattern Fills (Download Here)
The Frame
1. Open graphic in Paint Shop Pro and duplicate once and close out original...
The graphic needs to be be no wider or taller than 400 pixels so if your graphic is larger, resize so it's not bigger than this on either side.
2. If you have resized your graphic go to Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen
3. Duplicate your image once and go to Edit/Copy..You can now minimize one copy of your graphic
4. Choose a Medium to Dark color from your graphic using your eye dropper. Open a new image 100x100 and flood fill with your color. This may come in handy for later....You can now minimize this and go back to your graphic...
5. Image/Add Border and add a 2 pixel boder in either white or a color not in your graphic.
6. Select your border with your magic wand tool with the following settings:
Mode: Add(Shift), Match Mode: RGB Value, Tolerance 0, Sample Merged and Contiguous both checked, Feather 0, Anti-alias Not checked
7. Flood fill with your gold or silver beads pattern
8. Leave your graphic selected and go to Selections/Invert
9. Effects/3D Effects/Cutout with the following settings:
Vertical 1, Horizontal -1, Opacity 100, Blur 7, Shadow Color = Black
10. Selections/Select None
11. Image/Add Border/ and add a 3 pixel white border
12. Select with your magic wand
13. Flood fill with the Gold or Silver Pattern Fill
14. Selections/Select None
15. Image/Add Border and add a 15 pixel white border
16. Select border with your magic wand and go to Edit/Paste/Paste into Selection
**If your graphic isn't in your clipboard maximize the copy we minimized earlier and go to Edit/Copy. Instead of minimizing this copy again you can close it out as we won't need it again **
17. Once you have pasted your image into the selection go to Effects/Plugins/VM Instant Art/Four Rings with the following settings:
18. Effects/Art Media Effects/Brush Strokes with the following settings:
19. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel with the following settings:
20. Selections/Select None
21. Image/Add Border and add a 2 pixel border in white or a color not in your graphic
22. Select your border with the magic wand and flood fill with the gold or silver beads pattern fill
23. Selections/Select None
24. Image/Add Border and add a 3 pixel white border
25. Select with your magic wand and flood fill with the Gold or Silver Pattern Fill
26. Selections/Select None
27. Image/Add Border and add a 20 pixel in the Medium/Dark color you have chosen from your graphic
28. Select the border with your magic wand and go to Effects/Art Media Effects/Brush Strokes and use the same settings as last time
29. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel using the same settings
30. Selections/Select None
31. You can text to your header if you'd like to and also your watermark. When you are done go to File/Export/Export to JPEG Optimizer and Optimize at either a setting of your choice or somewhere around 20-25...Don't close it out though, we will need it for the next step...
Side Bordered Background
1. Using your selection tool set on these settings make a selection along the side of your graphic:
Selection Type: Rectangle, Mode: Add (shift), Feather 0, Anti-alias checked
2. Edit/Copy and then Edit/Paste/Paste as a new image
3. Effects/Plugin Effects/Simple/Top Left Mirror
4. Image/Add Border and add a 2 pixel border in white or a color not in your graphic
5. Select the border with the magic wand and flood fill with the gold or silver pattern
6. Selections/Select None
7. Layers/Promote Background Layer
8. Effects/Image Effects/Seamless Tile with the following settings:
9. Image/Canvas Size with the following settings:
3. Effects/Plugin Effects/Simple/Top Left Mirror
4. Image/Add Border and add a 2 pixel border in white or a color not in your graphic
5. Select the border with the magic wand and flood fill with the gold or silver pattern
6. Selections/Select None
7. Layers/Promote Background Layer
8. Effects/Image Effects/Seamless Tile with the following settings:
Corner, Vertical, Transition 50
9. Image/Canvas Size with the following settings:
Width 1400/Height is the height of your graphic, Placement is left middle arrow and Top 0, Bottom 0, Left 10, and your right will self adjust
10. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow using the following settings. Make sure Shadow on new layer is checked:
Vertical & Horizontal 2, Opacity 50, Blur 2, Color Black, Shadow on new layer checked
11. Effects/3D Effects/Seamless Tiling with the same settings we used earlier
12. Layers/Merge/Merge Visible
13. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow using the same settings except change the V and H to -2
14. Effects/Image Effects/Seamless Tiling using the same settings as we did earlier
15. Layers/Merge/Merge Visible
16. Layers/Add New Raster Layer
17. Layers/Arrange/Send to Bottom
18. Flood fill this new background layer with the Medium/Dark color you chose from your graphic
19. Layers/Merge/Merge Visible
20. File/Export/Export to JPEG Optimizer using your own settings or somewhere between 15-20
Arrange in Letter Creator and Credit Tutorial back to Jodi M at:
Thank you to my testers at Crazy Creative Creators!!
I hope you enjoyed my tutorial :0)
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**Jodi M**