Thinking Of You Greeting CardTEAM 3 - CHALLENGE 1 by Pat, Ida, Marj, Susie and written by Ravena.
For this tutorial you will need: JASC Paint Shop Pro This background file. (minimize it on your PSP desktop)
This Graphic called The River
Here we go. Open up the graphic and Duplicate it twice (CTRL D) then close the original graphic. Minimize one of the graphics we will be using that later. Now go to Selections/Select all then to Selections/Modify and contract by 5. Now double click your crop tool and choose "surround current selection".
Now go to image/Crop
Use your color picker to pick a color out of the graphic. I used dark green (#7E822E). Set the color as your background color. Go to Image/Add Boarders/ enter 3 with symmetric checked. Grab your magic wand with the settings RGB Value Tolerance 0 Feather 0 now select your outer boarder. Then with the boarder selected go to Effects/3D effects/Inner Bevel and use the metal preset in PSP.
DO NOT DESELECT. Now go to Selections/Invert and then go to Effects/3D Effects/Cutout. Use these settings
You can use the color I selected which is pink (#F67079). Or use your dropper tool to select a color you like out of the picture. Now apply another cutout same settings but change the V/H to 4. Deselect. Okay change your background color to white (#FFFFFF). Go to Image Add Boarders and enter 7 (remember that symmetric is checked). Choose your magic wand tool again with the same settings and click in the white area to select that boarder. Now go to menu Effects/Reflection/Pattern using these settings.
Now back to Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel. Apply the preset "soft edge" settings that came with PSP. Deselect. Your graphic should look like this now.
Minimize this image and open up your other copy of the graphic. Working on the second graphic go to Effects/Texture/Mosaic Antique. Apply these settings.
Then again to Effects/Textures/Mosaic Antique and apply the same settings again. Restore the first image (that we put the boarder on). Go to Image/Resize and use these settings. Percentage of Original checked 85% width 85% heighth Maintain aspect ratio checked. Now go to Effects/Sharpen/Sharpen. Now again open Image/Resize and use the same settings of 85% resize it down one more time. And again go to effects/sharpen/sharpen. Now go to Edit/Copy and then make your mosaic tile image the active image and go to Paste as new layer (This automatically centers the picture). Now to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and use these settings: Vertical and Horizontal =0 Opacity =100 Blur=46.9 Your graphic should now look like this.
Go to Layers/Merge Visible. Grab your color picker and choose a light color from the graphic (if you right click on the color with the mouse it will set it as your background color). Set this as your background color. I chose yellow (#ECD07D) Go to Image/Add Boarders and apply a boarder with these settings. Top=15 Bottom=25 Left=0 Right=0 Symmetric UNchecked. Add a new layer Grab your Text Tool. Click on the top center of your card and with these settings (feel free to choose any color you would like) type in your message. In our card we used "Someone Cares" for our heading. We used Duchess font size 22 color (#2F3130) Floating option checked. If you would like to use the same font you can download it here.
Deselect when you are happy with the position of the text. Use your mover tool to move it to where you want it. Then with your text tool still selected Click on the lower boarder. You can add additional text here though we used a smaller size on our font (16 pt). This is what it should look like now.
We added a bit bigger of a boarder then you will have. Feel free to experiment with the boarder sizes. Last step hold on to your hats.... Go to Layers/Merge Visible and then with your background color set to white go to Image/Add Boarders again. Use these settings.
Click on the magic wand and select your new white boarder. Select your flood fill tool set the foreground to pattern
and then click the box with the pattern in it to open up your pattern cache. Remember that gold glitter that we minimized on the desktop at the beginning? Well browse in your pattern cache until you find that (it will be near the top). Flood fill the gold pattern into the selected boarder. Deselect. That's it we are done and this should be your final graphic :)
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