Tutorial 2017
 

This tutorial is written by Denise D. on 14th February, 2020

 from my own ideas.
Any resemblance to other tutorials is co-incidental and unintentional.
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easter blessings

EASTER BLESSINGS

http://escapingtopsp2.altervista.org/EasterBlessings/EasterBlessings.html


GERMAN

Thank you Inge-Lore for this German Translation:

italian
Thank you Mina for this Italian Translation:


box

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Click on Arrow to follow Tutorial


Supplies
  Images:
Easter_8_CibiBijoux.pspimage
You can join this Group at:

http://www.cibi-bijoux.com/

borders 17.2.png
PA-Lace.png
Vintage-frame-with-birds-7.png

Signature.png

Some of these image were obtained from the Internet

If you are the owner of this image, please contact me
so that credit can be given to you   

Textures:
29-cmv.bmp

Fonts:
Splendid ES

 Mask:
sg_lace-bouquet-frame.jpg

Selections:
D.D.EasterBessings


Plugins:
Filters Unlimited 2.0
Alien Skin Eye Candy 4000
MuRa's Seamless
&<Sandflower Specials"v">
(Import into Filters Unlimited 2.0)


Found here:

PLUGINS AND  PLUGINS


Notes:
This Tutorial was created in Corel 2019.... other versions may need adjustment
Some of the graphics may be from Free to Use sites or Share Groups. 
If you are the creator of one of these please let me know so that appropriate credit can be given. 
No infringement of copyright is intended or intentional.
Before opening PSP, download plugins and install

Some helpful information:

You can change the blend mode, opacity and drop shadow, as well as colourise the materials,
according to the tubes/colours you are using.

When applying the Resize with the All Layers option checked, this will be informed in the tutorial,
otherwise, apply the resize with this option unchecked.

Remember always to save your work.

Whenever you reduce an image, apply Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen, to maintain the sharpness of the image.

Some tools or features have other names in earlier versions of the PSP.

tools

Please Note:   Offset settings provided in this tutorial may vary according to size of your image.
Please adjust to suit.

The settings remain the same throughout this Tutorial unless otherwise stated.
Set your Foreground colour to #e8cd7c
Set your Background colour to #7c9092

Step One:

Open Mask and Minimise for now 
Place Texture in PSP Texture Folder
Place Selections in PSP Selection Folder
Install Font
Open graphics in PSP, duplicate (Shift D) and close the original.


File/New/New Image 900 pixels x 650 pixels as follows:

NL

Change Foreground Colour to Foreground/Background/Linear Gradient as follows:

GRADIENT

Flood fill with Gradient

Step Two:
Maximise borders 17.2.png
Edit/Copy    Edit/Paste as New Layer
Effects/Image Effects/Offset as follows:

offset border

Select Pick/Deform Tool and drag the sides out to the edge of the layer on both sides as follows:

drah

Deselect Pick/Deform Tool

Step Three:
Layers/Duplicate
Image/Mirror/Vertical OR Image/Flip
Effects/Distortion  Effects/Wave as follows:

wave

Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen
Select Raster 1
Layers/New Raster Layer
Flood Fill with Background Colour
Effects/Texture Effects/Texture 29-cmv.bmp as follows:

texture

Step Four:
Layers/New Mask Layer/From Image (find sg_lace-bouquet-frame.jpg) as follows:

mask

Effects/Edge Effects/Enhance
Layers/Merge/Merge Group
Effects/Plugins/Filters Unlimited 2.0/Convolution Filters/Emboss (light,inverse)  as follows:

convolution

Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow as follows:

ds

Step Five:
Image/Resize/75% as follows:

75

Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen
Effects/Image Effects/Offset as follows:

OFFSET MASK

Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel as follows:

bevel

Step Six:
Selections/Load/Save Selection/Load Selection D.D.EasterBlessings from Disk as follows:

selection

Select Raster 1
Effects/Artistic Effects/Halftone as follows:

halftone

Effects/Edge Effects/Enhance More
Selections/Select None

Step Seven:
Maximise PA-Lace.png
Edit/Copy  Edit/Paste as New Layer
Image/Resize 85%
Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen
Effects/Image Effects/Offset as follows:

OFFSET LACE

Layers/Duplicate
Image/Mirror/Horizontal OR Image/Mirror
Layers/Merge/Merge Down
Change Blend Mode to Hard Light or blend of your choice
Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow

Step Eight:
Swap the Foreground Gradient and Background Colour as follows:

materials


Text Tool with the following settings:

text
text2

Settings may vary according to your version of PSP

Write

Oh what a beautiful morning
I’ve just dropped in to say,
I hope you have a beautiful
And peaceful, Easter Day.

Objects/Align/Horizontal Centre
Convert to Raster Layer
See my image for placement
Effects/Plugins/MuRa's Seamless/Emboss at Alpha/Default Settings
Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow as follows:

DS1

Swap the Foreground Gradient and Background colour back to their original positions

Step Nine:
Select Copy of Raster 2
Layers/Merge/Merge Down
Effects/Plugins/Eye Candy 4000/Shadowlab as follows:

shadowlab

Repeat Shadowlab with the following settings:

shadowlab2

Step Ten:
Image/Add Borders/5 pixels/Background Colour
Selections/Select All
Image/Add Borders/10 pixels/White
Selections/Invert
Change Background Colour to #895556
Change Gradient to Angle 45 Repeats 10
Flood fill border with Foreground Gradient
Effects/Plugins/Filters Unlimited 2.0/&<Sandflower Specials"v">/Pool Shadow as follows:

poolshadow

Selections/Invert
Selections/Modify/Contract 5 pixels
Effects/3D Effects/Cutout as follows:

cutout

Selections/All

Step Eleven:
Image/Add Borders/10 pixels/Background Colour #7c9092

Selections/Invert
Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel as follows:

bevel2

Selections/Select All
Image/Add Borders/40 pixels/White
Selections/Invert
Flood fill with Foreground Gradient
Effects/Texture Effects/Texture
Effects/Plugins/Filters Unlimited 2.0/&<Sandflower Specials"v">/Pool Shadow
Effects/Plugins/Filters Unlimited 2.0/&<Bkg Kaleidoscope>/Kaleidoscope Flower as follows:

kaleid

Step Twelve:
Selections/Select All
Image/Add Borders/10 pixels/
#7c9092
Selections/Invert
Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel
Selections/Select None

Maximise Vintage-frame-with-birds-7.png
Edit/Copy Edit/Paste as New Layer
Image/Resize/75%
Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen
Effects/Image Effects/Offset as follows:

OFFSET ELEMENT

Layers/Duplicate
Image/Mirror/Horizontal OR Image/Mirror
Layers/Merge/Merge Down
Effects/Plugins/MuRa's Seamless/Emboss at Alpha/Default Settings
Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow BUT change colour to Black

Step Thirteen:
Maximise Easter_8_CibiBijoux.pspimage
Edit/Copy Edit/Paste as New Layer
Image/Resize/115%
Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen
Effects/Image Effects/Offset as follows:

offset chickens
 

Step Thirteen:

Maximise Signature.png
Edit/Copy  Edit/Paste as New layer
Place at bottom of Layer
Layers/New Raster Layer
Add your Watermark
Layers/Merge All Flatten
Image/Resize/900 pixels wide - height will adjust itself
File/Export/JPEG Optimiser/Compression Value 20

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial
A big thank you to the ladies who test my Tutorials
TESTERS' RESULTS

fran
FRAN

SHIRLEY
SHIRLEY NZ

BETTY
BETTY

LILLIAN
LILLIAN

INGE
INGE-LORE


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