How to use Masks

How to use Masks

The DOWNLOAD file contains the following files...

frame4.jpg

prose.tub

sparkle.tub

wineglass.msk

Download the file. Unzip it. Go to EXPLORER>PROGRAM FILES>PAINT SHOP PRO make sure you have a file there named Masks. If you don't with PSP still highlighted go to FILE>NEW>FOLDER and name it masks. Now go to where ever you unzipped the files to and cut the file called wineglass.msk and paste it in the masks file.

Open PSP.

Go to FILE>NEW with the following settings...

Width: 175

Height: 175

Background Color: Black

Click ok

Here's the tube we will be using...

Click the Picture tube tool Select the purple rose, size 39.

Place the rose like this...

Now click Toggle New Layer Palette .

When you do that this box will come up..

Click the add new layer button... that will bring up another box. At the bottom of the new box click ok. Pick pale yellow as your foreground in it. Click the flood fill tool and flood fill the pic. Go to MASKS>LOAD FROM DISK pick the wineglass.msk click ok. Now it looks like this...

Now I want to color the roses. Click on the foreground color box on the right and pick a color and click ok. I picked a light red. Now on the layers box...

If you move your mouse over the words Layer1 & Background it will tell you which layer has the purple rose on it. Which should be the background layer. Click it. Now click the airbrush . Use the following settings on your control palette...

Shape: Round

Size: 7

Opacity: 100

Hardness: 90

Density: 33

Step: 25

Now color in the 2 black & white roses.

If you mess up, go to EDIT>UNDO AIR BRUSH.

Now it looks like this...

Go to LAYERS>MERGE>MERGE ALL.

Click the bottom box on the right and select Black.

Go to IMAGE>ADD BORDERS with the following settings...

Check Symmetric and set the all to 24. Click ok. Now it looks like this...

Now open the frame. It looks like this...

Now make sure your tag is selected. You can select it by clicking on it's toolbar.

Now go to MASKS>NEW>FROM IMAGE use the following settings...

Source window: frame4

Create mask from

Do not check Invert mask data

Click ok. Now you can close out the frame4 pic.

Go to FILE>SAVE AS give it a name and click ok.

Close it out, then open it again. Now it looks like this...

Go to IMAGE>EFFECTS>BUTTONIZE with the following settings...

Height: 11

Width: 12

Opacity: 63

Transparent edge

Click ok. Now it looks like this...

Now we want to add a sparkle on the right hand side of the glass where the yellow goes in alittle. Click the tube tool. Select the sparkle. (attached) Place it where you want it. Here's what it looks like now...

Now I want to add text to the bottom of the frame. Pick pale yellow as your foreground color. (The same yellow you flood filled the pic with earlier). Click the text tool. Click on the bottom of the border. Select your font. I picked Arial font, Bold, Size 18. Click ok. Go to IMAGE>EFFECTS>DROP SHADOW with the following settings...

Color: Black

Opacity: 100

Blur: 2.4

Vertical: 1

Horizontal: 1

Click ok. You can move the text around by dragging and dropping it where you want it. Go to SAVE>SAVE AS give it a name and click ok.

Now it looks like this...

If you have any questions, please just ask...

I, LovlyGypsy, Give my permission to Ldy Archrr aka Artists for PSP to place any and all tutorials that I have made on her site.. this 22nd day of February 2001. These tutorials were made solely by me and permission is mine to give.