Orange Spice Tag-PSP 9 Tutorial

This tutorial was written by ©Jmc-Designs, for use with Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9.

(It can also be done in earlier versions for those familiar with the program.)

Download a 30 day Trail copy of PSP, just click the link below.

You will need Winzip and the following Supplies to complete this tag:

My Supplies HERE

Unzip the supplies and extract the tubes to your PSP Tube folder of choice.

Install mymask37 into your PSP Masks folder.

Place the goldenbeads.bmp and jccglitgold.jpg in your PSP Patterns folder.

Font used is AnnabelleJF.tff not included in file. ( Can be dowloaded by clicking the link.)

~Feel free to use your own images, tubes and masks and be creative. Poser tube is ©Dolphins-Dream and is being used with express permission. It is NOT to be used for any purpose other than in this tutorial.~

1. Open a new image 500 X 500 with a white background.

2. Open your FT_pinup3_dd_jcc_03_04sm tube and go to Edit, Copy and then Paste this tube as a new layer on the white canvas that you made.

3. On your layer palette, highlight your tube and right click, then duplicate. Turn off visibility of this duplicated layer and go back to your original tube layer by highlighting it.

4. Go to Adjust, Blur, Gaussian Blur and apply the following settings; Radius 25.00

5. Go back to Adjust then click on Add/Remove Noise, then Add Noise; Uniform, 29% and Monochrome checked.

6. On your layer palette, uncheck the X and turn the visibility of your tube layer on again. Rearrange this tube slightly to the left or position it wherever you'd like so the Gaussian layer shows a little on the right of your tube.

7. Close visibility of the background layer and merge your two tube layers visible. You should now only have two layers, make both visible again. Position your tube in the center of the canvas.

8. With your foreground set to goldenbeads pattern, click on the Flood tool.

9. Layers, New Raster layer and flood fill with your goldbead pattern.

10. Go to layers, Load/Save mask, load mask from disc and find mymask37 and apply with the following settings; Fit to canvas, Source Luminance checked, Invert Transparency and Show all mask checked. Apply the mask.

11. On your layer palette, highlight the mask layer and delete, then click Yes to merge mask into layer below.

12. Highlight the mask layer again, right click and merge group.

13. Now add a drop shadow to your mask by clicking on Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow with the following settings; Verticle = 5, Horizontal = (-5), Opacity = 100, Blur = 17.82, Color = #212317. You can also add this same drop shadow to your merged tube layer at this time.
( We will use the same settings on the drop shadow throughout the rest of this lesson.)

14. Merge all layers visible once you have everything positioned where you like it.

15. Let's add our border. go to Image, Add Borders and use the following settings; Symetric checked and a white border of 2 pixels.

16. Grab your Magic wand and click on the new border, floodfill with your jccglitgold patern. Select none.

17. For the second border, go to Image, Add Borders and change the settings; Uncheck Symetric and make a Left and Right border of 35, Top and Bottom 0, color white.

18. Click on your magic wand again and change the settings to the following; Mode= Add/Shift, Tolerance and Feather set to 0, highlight your border on both sides.

19. Flood fill with your jccgoldglit pattern.

20. Go to Selections, Modify, Contract by 2 pixels.

21. Click on Effects, Texture Effects, Blinds and apply the following; Width =2, Opacity =75, Color = #db5e2d (or you can choose a color that is comparable to whatever tube you are using).

22. Select none.

23. Open your accent tube RoseYellowSunshinesm Copy and Paste it as a new layer, then place it in the lower right corner of your canvas.....I lowered the Opacity of this layer to 78%.

24. Make a new Raster Layer and name it Text Accent.

25. For the text accent, I used AnnabelleJF, size 200, stroke width of 1.0. You may use a font of choice here. Set your foreground to jccglitgold and background to null....type the first letter of your name and apply it ontop of your tag centered over the graphic.

26. Apply a drop shadow using the same settings as we did in Step 13.

27. Now add your name and you are finished. I changed the size of my text to 72 and kept the foreground color setting to my jccgoldglit pattern and my background color set to #552303. Apply your text.

28. Go to Image, Rotate, Free Rotate with the following settings; Direction=Left, Degrees=Free 90.00, all layers Not checked. Position your text to the left of your canvas.

29. Merge all layers visible and save your image to a file. You can re-size your final image if you need to.

Congratulations, you're done!
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial!

This tutorial is a "Featured Tutorial of the Month" at FlyByNightGraphics.

05-28-2005