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Tutorial Nine - Background and Header Stationery
 
 
Open the graphics supplied HERE
 
Shift D - to duplicate both images
 
This tutorial has two parts: The Header and the Background strip.
 
 
The Header
 
Open a new canvas 500 x 500
 
Make this the active image
 
 
Select your Magic Wand Tool and these settings:
 
 
 
Select the paint brush in the image like this
 
Edit Copy - Edit Paste as New Layer on your 500 x 500 canvas. Using your mover tool, move the paint brush image like this
 
Make the graphic the active image again - Selections Select None,  and using your magic wand tool again  select the paint palette like this
 
 
Edit Copy - and Edit Paste as new layer on your 500 x 500 canvas. Using your mover tool move the palette graphic to the lower right of the canvas
 
 
Layer - New Raster Layer - default setting.
 
Select a background color of your choice, and flood fill the new layer with it.
 
Layer palette, right click -  Arrange - send to bottom
 
Layer - New Raster Layer - Default Setting
 
Select your Text Tool and add some text of your choosing - font and font color of your choice
 
Click Apply and using your mover tool, place the text as you want it.
 
 
Make your text layer the active layer. Right click and select Convert to Raster Layer
 
Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel with these settings:
 
 
Or anything you like on this!!  Play with the settings here and find something you really like.
 
 
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow with these settings (or something you like)
 
 
With your selection tool click on the graphics and add the same drop shadow, if you like
 
Using your crop tool, select around the text and graphics to exclude all excess blue area.
 
 
Double click in the light area to crop the image
 
Save your header
 
File - Export - JPEG Optimiser with compression at 2 %
Name your header PaintShopLoverHeader
(or something similar) and save to a folder of choice.
 
Minimise for now
 
 
The Background Strip
 
Open a new canvas 1600 x 350 - default settings
 
Layer - Add New Raster Layer - default settings
 
Flood fill this layer with the same color your filled your header with.
 
Activate the second graphic
 
Edit Copy
 
Edit paste as new layer onto your background strip
 
Using your mover tool, move the graphic to the left of the strip - place it approximately in the centre of the strip.
 
Activate your second graphic and with your magic wand tool select the paint brush image, as before
 
 
Edit Copy - Edit paste as new layer on your background strip
 
With your mover tool place the paint brush under the palette graphic like this
 
 
Activate the graphic page again - Selections, Select None
 
Using your magic wand tool, select the lower paint brush graphic
 
Edit copy - edit paste into the background strip as new layer
 
With your mover tool move the paint brush above the paint palette graphic in your strip, like this:
 
 
You can move these graphics around to positions that you like, just try to get them about even in the centre of the strip on the left
 
You may add drop shadows to these images if you wish
 
When you are happy with your background strip
 
Layers -Merge - Merge all (Flatten)
 
Just to be sure that you don't have a line here, it's best to do seamless tile
 
Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tile with these settings
 
 
Save your strip
 
File - Export - JPEG Optimiser -
 
 
Save as PaintShopLoverstrip (or something similar)
 
 
Assemble in Letter Creator
 
Your strip goes in the Background tab
 
Your Header goes in the header tab - centered
 
You will need to adjust the Left Margin to move the header across so that it does not cover the graphic at the left margin.
 
Choose your font and color
 
This is the settings I used
 
 
 
Please link this tutorial to mailto:wwpspclasses@yahoo.com.au
 
 
 
This tutorial was written by me, and any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental. I wrote this tutorial exclusively for the Wendy's Works PSP Beginners class.