For this
tutorial you will need:
PSP 30 day trial version
here
Supplies
here
(Extract the preset to your Blade Pro or Super Blade Pro -
environments and textures folder)
Xero set 2
here
Blade Pro or Super Blade Pro
here
Remember to save often.
1. Extract the images and open them in PSP. Minimize the
image named handhold.jpg and activate the other, called
md_angel1.jpg. Shift + D to make a copy and close the
original.
2. Colors - Colorize: Hue 26, Saturation 65.
(for psp8 go to adjust --> hue and
saturation --> colorize)
3. Effects - Plug-Ins Filters - Xero - Serious Fog using
these settings:
- Severity: 120
- Whiteout: 50
4. Add a new layer and go to Masks - New - From Image -
Add Mask From Image:(psp8
users go to
Layers--> New Mask Layer --> From Image)
in the Source window, select handhold.jpg, Source
luminance checked, Invert mask data checked. Click Ok. Add
a new raster layer and move it under the mask layer then
Flood fill the new layer with #FDF5E9. Masks - Delete, and
answer yes to the window that pops up.
5. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow: Vertical 0,
Horizontal 7, Opacity 100, Blur 9.9, color #7C705E.
6. Foreground set to Jasc's Old Paper pattern, scale 100,
angle 0. Background set to color black. Image - Add
borders - Symetric: 10. Select the border with your magic
wand (tolerance 0, feather 0).
(psp8 users use the black color
for the border)
7. Flood fill with the pattern. Change your flood fill
options with the following
Match mode - None
Tolerance - 200
Blend mode - color
Opacity - 100
Flood fill with #FDF5E9. Colors - Adjust - Gamma
Correction: 1.50.
8. Selections - Invert. Effects - Plug-Ins Filters - Blade
Pro (or Super Blade Pro): cutout.q9q.
9. Set your flood fill options to Normal and Sample merged
unchecked. Image - Add borders - Symetric: 25. Select the
border with your magic wand (tolerance 0, feather 0).
10. Repeat steps 7 and 8. Do not deselect.
11. Selections - modify - expand 10 pixels
12. Selections - invert. Effects - Plug-Ins Filters -
Blade Pro (or Super Blade Pro): cutout.q9q. Deselect.
Add any ornamental touches you want and you are done. I hope you have
enjoyed this tutorial.
