Mariannes Creations

July 2007

Note:

This Tutorial has been made for fun.. No Infringement of Copyright intended.

This Tutorial comes about from me playing with ideas. Any similarities to other

tutorials is purely not intentional.

Beginners to Intermediate

Written for PSP 9

What you will need

Filters Unlimited 2.0

My Supplies Here

or you can use your own graphic and tube.

Here is a arrow you can drag and drop when you need to mark where you are. .
Just left click and drag to where you want it then let go.
It will stay where ever you put it, until you close your browser.

Step1

Open my supplies in PSP or your own that you would like to use.

Choose a Light Colour for your foreground - I used #b5c6f1

and A Dark Colour for your background - I used #163486

Open a New Transparent Image 500 w X 400 h

Choose your Selection Tool and use custom settings.

Selections / Invert.

Now open Sky.jpg or the graphic your using and

Edit / Copy.

Now Back to the image we are working on and

Edit / Paste into Selection.

Effects / 3D Effects / Inner Bevel

with the following.

Selections / Select None.

Step2

Effects 3D Effects / Drop Shadow

with the following.

Image Canvas Size

550 width X 500 height

Placement Centre

Layers / New Raster Layer.

Layers / Arrange / Send to the Bottom.

Step 3

Using your Flood fill tool, Fill your bottom layer with your light colour.

Adjust / Add Remove Noise / Add Noise

with the following.

Step 4

Now click on your top layer to make it active.

Now open best friends tube or the tube of your choice

Edit / Copy.

Back to the image we are working on and

Edit / Paste as a new layer.

Move the tube down and to the left,

Look at my image for placement.

Step 5

Effects / 3D Effects / Drop Shadow

and use the following.

Layers / Merge / Merge All Flatten

Step 6

Image / Add Borders - 7 in your Dark colour

(symmetric ticked)

Effects/ Plugins / Filters Unlimited 2 / Buttons & Frames / Glass Frame 1

Step 7

Open your Ribbon tube and Edit / Copy

Now back to your image and Edit / Paste as a New Layer

Move this to your top right corner

Look at my image for placement

You may wish to change the colour of your ribbon

If not then skip to step 8

Adjust / Hue & Saturation / Colourize

move the hue and saturation bars until you have a colour you like.

Step 8

You can now add your own text.

I used Lucinda Handwriting font for all grown up text at the top of my image.

And I used Arial font for my verse at the side.

I create my text as a vector and then convert to a raster layer.

Add a inner bevel of your choice or I used

and a drop shaddow

Now it's time to add your watermark

Resize your image to your liking, but remember the smaller you resize the more distorted your image will become.

File / Export / Jpeg Optimizer

set compression to 25.

That's it,

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.

Please link all creations made from my tutorials to my website.

Marianne's Creations

http://members.dodo.com.au/madgiles/mariannescreations.htm