Candy Kisses Header PSP X This tutorial was created 15th April 2007©Copyright Artwork by EssexGirl please do not copy it, or put it anywhere else without my written permission. *NOTE* Sometimes the links for filters change, it's difficult (and a lot of work) to keep changing them on individual pages, so I have created a page with links to filters and programs that I have used in my tutorials. That way it is easier for me, because when there are changes I will only have one page to update and hopefully better for you, because I'm less likely to miss a page out when doing the updates :) You will find links to filters/programs used in this tutorial Here the link will open in a new window Filters and programs used in this tutorial :- Paint Shop Pro Flaming Pear's Solidify Mura Seamless Filters C Materials :- A tube of your choice the wordart files, moonsurf texture the and mask Here Unzip into a folder for your current work, move the mask into your masks folder and the moonsurf.bmp into your textures folder One of the wordart files is mine, but the other 2 and the mask were not created by me, I'd like to thank whoever did create them. some images have been made smaller to shorten file size

Step 1. Open your tube in psp resize if necessary to a maximum height of 420 pixels Go to Image...Canvas Size... Change the canvas size to 400 pixels width, 420 pixels height in the placement section choose the centre left box Your tube should be on the left side of yout canvas. Use the Dropper Tool to pick a light colour from your tube as the foreground of your palette, I used #F1D3B7.

Step 2. For the background you could add a layer and flood fill with a gradient, but I'm going to show you a little trick I often use to get interesting backgrounds in colours that go well with the tube. Your results won't be exactly the same as mine, but I always think a bit of individuality is a good thing :) Go to Layers...Duplicate... Hide the copy of your tube layer by clicking the eye for that layer in the layers palette then make the original tube layer active With the Freehand Selection Tool Selection type=Point to point Mode=Add Feather=0 Smoothing=0 Anti-alias=ticked Select some small areas on your tube that have good colours. There isn't really a right or wrong place to select, but the the areas at the edge of the selection are where the colour is going to come from, so the selection needs to go through the colours rather than around them. See my screenshot below for an example Go to selections...Invert... then hit the Delete key... Deselect You should have something similar to this

Step 3. The tube that I am using doesn't have a wide colour range and The results over the next few steps are going to vary according to your tube and the selections that you made, so my screenshots are just examples, your results won't be exactly the same Go to Effects...Plugins...Flaming Pear...Solidify A Note* I used Solidify A, but you can use Solidify, or Solidify B if you prefer. Solidify generally gives a more subtle blend of colour and Solidify B is stronger and more wildly spread. The position of your little peices of colour from the tube can also have an effect on the result, you could try moving them to different positions before the filter is applied. Have fun and do some experimenting. You can always use the 'undo' option, or delete the layer, duplicate the tube and try again.

Step 4. At this point there are a lot of opportunities for variation, you could just use a gaussian blur to the bits of the original image, or you could apply a plugin filter, or one of psp's own effects, so I hope you will do some experimenting of your own. This is what I did for this tutorial:- Go to Effects...Artistic Effects...Topography... Width=25 Angle=106 Density=6 Colour=#b82f25 Feel free to play with the settings This is what mine looked like

Step 5. Effects...Art Media Effects...Brush Strokes... Softness=23 Bristles=56 Width=17 Opacity=100 Length=5 Density=17 Angle=266 Colour=black feel free to play with the settings here too This is what mine looked like

Step 6. Add a new raster layer and flood fill with the light colour that you picked as your palette foreground colour. Go to Layers...Load/Save Mask...Load Mask from Disk... From the dropdown list of masks choose 18MaskkelsWWA Create mask from Source luminance Fit to Canvas Invert transparency=unticked Hide all mask (alternatively you could open the mask in psp and go to Layers...New Mask Layer... From image...and choose the 18MaskkelsWWA mask from the dropdown list) Go to Layers...Merge...Merge Group... Go to Effects...Plugins...MuRa's Seamless...Emboss at Alpha Use the default settings

Step 7. Make your tube layer active and unhide the layer by clicking the eye on the layer palette Go to Effects...3D Effects...Drop Shadow... These are the settings that I used Vertical= -2 (minus 2) Horizontal=2 Opacity=40 Blur=10 Colour=Black Apply the same drop shadow to your 'masked' layer

Step 8. Open the 3 wordart files which were in the download zip They are called 09 words.psp, sg_justforyou-text.psp and DDHeartSong0600111.psp All 3 of the wordart files need to be changed to your foreground (light) colour, do this by locking the transparency of the layer on each one (click the padlock on the right side of the layer palette) then flood fill with your light colour. Click the padlock again when you have finished the flood fill The 09 words.psp is larger than we want so resize it (Image...Resize...) to 150 pixels wide Edit...Copy...it can now be closed. Back on your main image Add a new layer Edit...Paste...Paste as New Selection... placing it in the top right section, see my screenshot below Deselect

Step 9. Open the sg_justforyou-text.psp go to Edit...Copy...it can now be closed Back on you main image go to Edit...Paste...Paste as New Selection place it in the section just below the previous text image, see my screenshot below Deselect On the layer palette change the Blend Mode of this layer to Luminance(Legacy)

Step 10. Open the DDHeartSong0600111.psp go to Edit...Copy...it can now be closed Back on you main image Add a new layer then go to Edit...Paste...Paste as New Selection place it in the bottom section text image, see my screenshot below Deselect This time change the Layer Blend Mode to Hard Light Depending on your colours, you may want to add a drop shadow (same settings as previously) to the wordart layers this is optional

Step 11. Go to Layers...Merge...Merge All(Flatten) Selections...Select All... Image...Add Borders... Add a symmetric border of 10 pixels any colour Selections...Invert... Add a new layer and flood fill the selected border with your light colour Go to Effects...Texture Effects...Texture... use these settings Texture=moonsurf Size=70 Smoothness=6 Depth=1 Ambience=0 Shininess=0 Colour=white Angle=315 Intensity=50 Elevation=30 Deselect Go to Effects...Plugins...MuRa's Seamless...Emboss at Alpha Use the default settings

Step 12. Go to Effects...3D Effects...Drop Shadow Vertical and Horizontal=1 Opacity=50 Blur=5 Colour=Black Repeat the drop shadow but change the Vertical and Horizontal setting to minus 1 Go to Layers...Merge...Merge All... If you want to create a side panelled background make an Incredimail letter with this header go to Page 2 Here

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. The technique of applying MuRa's Seamless Emboss at Alpha to the mask layer, I learned from a tutorial by Kevin of Kevin's Creations so I would like to thank Kevin for that and also for testing this tutorial for me To see my other tutorials click Here

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