Challenge 4

Team 2 ~~ ~Diana~~Pat~ Dawn ~

This Tutorial was written using PSP 7 but you may certainly use PSP 8 if you're familiar with the changes.

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"Fall Fancies"

~~Autumn Fairy~~

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To Begin:

You may use our image available for download below, or one of your own.

You will need Greg's Filter Factory Vol II

Get it here. Scroll down about halfway and you'll see Greg's 2

http://members.fortunecity.com/filfuer/mis/filter2n1.htm

Unzip into your plug-in folder.

Ulead's Particle Plugin

http://www.ulead.com/download/freeparticle/download.htm

Download fairy image and goldsatin.jpg.

ZIP

Download the mask

(fairyleaves.msk)

Extract to your PSP Mask folder.

Step 1:

Minimize the goldsatin.jpg. Duplicate fairy graphic (Shift key +D).

Close original.

Open Layer Palette. Right click on Background and Duplicate.

On Copy of Background, change Layer Blend Mode from Normal to Hard Light

Still on Copy of Background layer, Effects/Blur/Gaussian Blur with Radius 10.00.

Step 2:

Click on Pattern in your Styles Box and find the goldsatin.jpg which you had minimized earlier.

Scale 100; Angle 0. Add New Raster Layer and floodfill.

Masks/Load From Disk and open fairyleaves.msk.

Masks/Delete and respond 'Yes' to prompt. Effects/Sharpen/Sharpen (3 times).

Step 3:

Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow: Vert. 2; Hor. 2; Opacity 100; Blur 10.

Repeat except change Vertical and Horizontal to -2. Save your work as .psp.

Step 4:

Click on Background layer

Selections/Select all/Modify /Contract by 15/Invert selection

Flood Fill with #256716

Go to effects/ Gregs Factory Output Vol 11/ Pool Shadow/ Accept Default Setting

Keep selected

Go to Colours/Adjust Brightness contrast /Brightness 58 Contrast 0

Selections/Select None

Stay on Background Layer

SAVE your work

Step 5:

Selections/Select all/Modify / Contract by 10/Invert selection

Flood Fill with #AC3111

Go to effects/ Gregs Factory Output Vo11/ Pool Shadow/ Accept Default Setting

Keep selected

Colours/Adjust Brightness contrast /Brightness 58 Contrast 0

Selections/Select None

Stay on Background Layer

Selections/Select all/Modify / Contract by 5/Invert selection

Flood Fill with #256716

Go to effects/ Gregs Factory Output Vo11/ Pool Shadow/ Accept Default Setting

Keep selected

Colours/Adjust Brightness contrast Brightness 58 Contrast 0

Selections/Select None

Save Your Work

Step 7:

Stay on Background Layer

Selections Select all / Modify / Contract by 15 / Invert Selection

Keep selected

Go to Effects / Texture Effects/ Soft Plastic / Default Setting

Select None

Save Your work

And this is the result at this point

Step 8:

Hide mask layer then

Go to Layers/Merge/Merge visible.

On the merged layer go to effects/plugins/Ulead Effects/Particle.

Settings:

The effect will vary on how you want it to look using the random tag.

unhide mask layer and merge flatten.

Step 9:

Go to Image/add border size 3 with magic wand activate border and

fill with goldsatin.

add another border size 3,using magic wand to activate fill with #104200

add another border size 3 again using magic wand to activate fill with goldsatin

add another border size 6 using magic wand to activate fill with #104200

add another border size 2 again using magic wand to activate fill with goldsatin

add another border size 20 using magic wand to activate fill with #104200

Step 10:

still seleted go to effects/plugins/Ulead Effects/Particle

using this setting

Step 11:

add another border size 3,using magic wand to activate fill with #104200

add another border size 3 again using magic wand to activate fill with goldsatin

go to your draw tool

Setting

make sure the goldsatin is set for foreground/Background Null

Draw lines anywhere on the center frame this part is totally up to you how you want it to look.

so each frame will be an original.

Now go to your selection tool /Rectangle/feather 0/Antiailas checked.

draw round the last gold border in the center

Now go to selections/invert bevel using these settings.

we want to select only the green border and outside gold border

We hope you enjoyed this tutorial, Team Written just for you. Look for 3 more in October.

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