T1062403ch3

Team 3

Challenge 3

"Home Sweet Home"

This Tutorial was written using PSP7, you may use version 8 if you are familiar with the changes.

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This is the image we will be working with. You may right click to save it, or you may have a favorite you'd like to use.

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For this tutorial you will need the following:

Plugin: Ulead Art Texture

NVR Border Marina

Two Moon Filters

VM PlugIn

Click here for the two Super Blade Pro presets -- 'Terrycloth'and 'Kepf'. Terrycloth.bmp here. The Terrycloth, Kepf, and Terrycloth.bmp all go into the Evironments and Textures folder in Flaming Pear-Super Blade Pro. Also in the zip is the ivy tube and corner image. Please download to the proper folders.

Right-Click to save this image.

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1. Open our image as shown or your chosen image and duplicate it twice

(Shiftkey+D). Close the original.

Go to Edit - copy before you minimize the duplicated image. You will need

that copy in step 6.

2. Go to your color palette and change your foreground color to a color from

your image and your background color to white.

3. Add a border size 5. Select the border with your magic wand and go to

effect - plug-in - Filter - Ulead Art Texture - gold (5) and choose a pattern.

I used number 6 for this one.

While still selected go to effect - plug-in - NVR Border Marina - Frame #2

and apply the following settings

Select none.

4. Background color set to your chosen color. Add a new border size 5.

Select the border with the magic wand go to effect - plug-in - NVR Border

Marina. Same settings as before.

Select none.

5. Repeat step 3.

6. Set your background color to white and add a border size 25. Select the

border with the magic wand and go to Edit - Paste - Paste In To Selection.

(The copy of your image)

Go to Effects - Blur - Gaussian Blur - Radius set on 20,00. If your image is

too dark, maybe you would need to adjust the color a little

using - colors - Adjust - Brightness/contrast.

7. Keep selected. Add a new layer and name it border. Flood fill the selected area with white.

Toggle off your background layer. Go to effect - Texture effect - Weave

and apply the following settings

Select none.

Select the white weave with your magic wand and go to

effect - plug-in - Filter - Ulead Art

Texture with the same setting as earlier. Go to Selection - Invert and hit

delete on your keyboard. Selection - Invert - and then Selection Float. Go

to Effect - 3D Effect Inner bevel with the following settings

While still selected go to 3D Effect - Drop Shadow with the following

settings

Select none. On your Layer Palette, Toggle your background back on.

8. Layers - Merge - merge/merge visible.

9. Repeat step 3.

10. I made a corner to use for this frame. If you would like to use it, open the

cr2 - copy and paste it into your image as a new layer. Place it in the right

upper corner. Go to yourLayer Palette and duplicate your layer 2, then go

to Image - Flip. Once again duplicate in your Layer Palette, go to Image -

Mirror, and once again duplicate and go to Image - Mirror.

11.Add Border size 5 symetrical color #AF8D9E or the color you chose at

the beginning of this tutorial

12. Add Border size 5 symetrical Repeating Step3

13. Add a new Raster Layer

Open your vine tube resize to 80% maintain aspect ratio and all layers checked

Copy and paste vine as a new layer where you would like it rotating and

duplicating it to suit your needs

14. Toggle off your main picture and merge the vine layers

15. Drop Shadow as used before and merge all layers

16. Go to Image--Canvas Size---

Choose width 568 and height 465 Background WHITE.

You can vary these numbers to suit your taste.

17. Add a new raster layer. Make sure it is the active

layer.

18. Open t3062403bkgrnd.jpg. Change the foreground style to pattern.

Click on the jpg picture. Click on the pattern arrow and find the pattern.

Click on it and say OK.

Flood fill the new layer with this pattern.

19. On the layer pallet duplicate the background layer.

Move this layer to the top of the stack.

Turn the original off by clicking on the glasses for the red X.

20. Select the magic wand With tolerance and feather

set at 0.

21. Click on that white border of the duplicated layer.

This should provide a double set of running ants

around it. Apply the cut tool (scissors).

You should now see the background around the

framed picture.

22. Go to the layer palette and hilight layer 1 to make

it active.

23. Go to selections. Choose Modify. Choose Expand.

Select 8 and say OK.

24. Go to Effects, Choose Two Moon Filter. Select

RotoBlades. Apply all slides as shown on

Screenshot

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*** In case you do not have Two Moon filters. I am providing an

alternative finish. After completing step 8 proceed as follows.

25. Go to Effects, Choose the VM Natural filter. Select Cross Weave.

Apply all slides as shown

26.. Then continue on from step 24.***

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27. With "copy of the background" layer active.............add a drop shadow with these settings:

Vertical - 4 Opacity 47

Horizontal - 4 Blur 6.2

Then: Vertical set at -1 and Horizontal set to -2

Same opacity and blur settings

28. Now select Layer 1 which should be your RotoBlade image

Layer/New Raster Layer

Flood Fill with #F5D6B0 or a medium color from your image choice

On the layer palette move the slider bar over to about 65

Close the Copy of Background and make sure that the Background is still

closed with the red X's over both. Now, Layer/Merge/Merge Visible.

Remove the red X from the Copy of Background layer once again and go to

your Merged Layer which would be the RotoBlade layer.

29. Effects/Artistic/Topography

Width--1

Density--13

Angle--48

F5D6B0

30. Image/add borders/symetric---11

Have the #F5D6B0 color in the lower styles box

Click in the border with the Magic wand - Tolerance 5 Feather 0 - for marching ants

31. Super Blade Pro/Terrycloth-diz.q9q using default settings except

move slider bar on Height more towards middle until it suits you, about 21-26

Leave Marching Ants selecting the frame

SBP/Kepf5-default settings.

Leave Selected

32. Selections/Invert/Cutout settings:

Vertical and Horizontal - 1 Opacity 33

Blur 1.8 Shadow color - black

Now go back and change the Vertical and the Horizontal to - (minus) 1 Selections/select none

33. Delete the original background. Merge and flatten all layers. Resize and sharpen.

Here is your completed image

We hope that you have enjoyed our tutorial. We thank you very much for trying it.

More to come in September....Team Written Just For You

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