Side Border Series Tutorial 6
Side Border Series Tutorial 6
Things Needed:
**Paint Shop Pro (This was done using version 9)
**Penta (Drag)
**Mask
**Graphic of your choice. Must be no bigger than 500 pixels wide
**Font of your choice
***Supplies found Here***
Before opening Paint Shop Pro, please install the plugin into your PSP/Plugins folder
Please note that all settings remain the same unless otherwise stated also :)
Let's Begin!
1. Open graphic and mask in Paint Shop Pro. Duplicate your image twice by hitting Shift+D (Twice) and close out the original picture. You can now minizime one of your copies along with the mask...
2. With one of your graphic copies active, go to Layers/Promote to background layer
3. Image/Rotate/Free Rotate:
Left, 90 degrees and make sure All Layers is checked
4. Using your eye dropper tool, left click on your graphic and choose a medium color..
Next open a new raster image 100x100 and flood fill with this color. Move this new color image to the top left corner of your workspace in Paint Shop Pro. We are saving the color you have chosen just incase it disappears from your color palette later when we need it.
5. Now back to your graphic and go to:
Effects/Plugins/Penta - Drag and Threshhold should be at 204
6. Effects/Image Effect/Seamless Tile and use Mirror and Vertical
7. Layers/New Mask Layer/From Image and find the 1fadebgmask. Make sure
source luminance is checked
8. Layers/Merge/Merge Group
9. Image/Canvas Size and canvas size it 1400xheight of your graphic. If your screen resolution is higher than 1400 wide, you can make it wider to accomodate that. Height must be the height of your graphic though...
10. Layers/New Raster Layer
11. Layers/Arrange/Send To Bottom and flood fill with the color you have chosen
12. Effects/Texture Effects/Blinds and use the following settings:
13. Make your top layer the active layer and lower the opacity to around 40:
14. Layers/Merge/Merge Visible
15. Now bring up the other copy of your graphic you have minimized and go to edit/copy (this is just so we have it in your clipboard)
16. Still working on this copy of your graphic go to:
Layers/New Mask Layer/From Image and apply the 1fadebgmask
17. Layers/Merge/Merge Group
18. Layers/New Raster Layer and move this layer to the bottom
19. Flood fill this bottom layer with the color you have chosen (same one we used before)
20. Image/Add Border and add a 2 pixel border either in black or a different darker color from your graphic (I am using brown)
21. Image/Add Border and add a 5 pixel border in white
22. Using your magic wand tool, select the white border:
Mode=Replace, Match Mode=RGB Value, Tolerance=0, Sample Merged and Contiguous both checked, Feather=0, Anti-alias is Not checked
23. Edit/Paste/Paste Into Selection
24. Effects/Edge Effects/Enhance and Select none
25. Image/Add Borders and add a 2 pixel border either in black or the other color you have chosen
26. Image/Add Borders and add a 5 pixel border in white
27. Select white border with your magic wand
28. Edit/Paste/Paste Into Selection
29. Effects/Edge Effects/Enhance
30. Image/Flip
31. Image/Mirror and select none
32. Image/Add Borders and add a 2 pixel border either in black or your other color
33. Image/Rotate using the same settings as before (Left/90 degrees/All Layers)
34. Image/Resize and resize it 75%
35. Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen
36. Edit/Copy
37. Back to your background image (your first image) and go to Edit/Paste/Paste as a new layer
38. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow:
V&H=0, Opacity=100, Blur=12, Color=Black
39. Move this over to the side so it is positioned in the middle but not all the way over to the left edge...
40. Now we want to duplicate this image layer by going to Layers/Duplicate
41. Image/Resize and resize at 75%
Make sure Resize All Layers is Not Checked
42. Move this to the left edge and centered on your first graphic copy:
43. Layers/Arrange/Move Down
44. You can now use your mover tool to move these closer together if you'd like to. You need to leave a little room in between them on top for your writing though so please allow enough space for that :)
45. When you are happy with the placement of the side graphics, go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible
46. Now you can add your text and watermark...You could also add a tall tube in front of your graphic for a nice touch (Optional) Here is a preview of another one I did adding the tube:
You can add the same drop shadow to your text that we used previously, or one of your choosing...I also used the same rotate settings on my text that I did for my graphics
47. When you are done, go to File/Export and export to JPEG Optimizer and Optimize at anywhere from 20-25 to reduce the file size
48. Assemble in Letter Creator and you are done :)
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Jodi M