This tutorial was written by Elita on April 10th 2007. It's concept is copyrighted to Elita. Any creation you make from my ideas are yours. You may print out this tutorial for your own personal use, but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or rewrite without my permission or worse yet attempt to claim as your own.

This was written for psp X but will work in other versions.

For this tutorial you will need

Paint Shop Pro

Free Patterns by Suzanne Woolcott.
Available Here.
Click on Paint Shop Pro Brushes on the right and scroll down. I used Gorjuss 78 and Gorjuss 94 from the First bumper pack 100 gorjuss tiles.

Staple
The one I used is by Nathy in her Hunny Bunny Mini Scrap Kit. You can find that Here.
I have Nathys permission to supply the Scrap kit.

Fonts of your choice.
I am using BaaBookHmk and ZiptyDo.
Download BaaBookHmk Here.
Zipty Do is a pay font and I am unable to supply it.


Images and tubes of your choice.
I am using the wonderful art of Suzanne Woolcott.
The license for the tubes and images used in this tutorial came from Artistic Minds Inc. but you can now buy her art from Gorjuss Art.

Ok let's get creative.

REMEMBER TO SAVE OFTEN

You can drag this arrow down the page with you to keep your place in the tut.
Script provided by Dynamic Drive.


Step 1:

Open and minimize your font. Open my mask and the tube of your choice in psp and minimize. If you don't have Eye Candy 5 then open the Brick Wall pattern in psp too.

Open a new 450 x 450 transparent image. Flood Fill with pattern gorjuss78.
Copy and paste your first tube onto the background.
Change the blend mode to Hard Light.
Lower the Opacity to 50.
Repeat for the other two tubes.
Rearrange the critters to your liking.


Step 2:

Open the yellow patterned paper (gorjuss94).
Copy and paste as a new image so you aren’t using the original and close the original pattern.
Activate the new image and promote background to a layer.
Selections - Select All - Selections - Modify - Contract by 8
Hit delete on the keyboard.
Deselect.
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 50
Blur = 5
Resize by 90%, ALL Layers Checked.

Choose your first image, I used an image not the tube because I want the background.
I’m starting with the elephant.
Copy and paste it as a new layer, drag it under the frame.
Resize by 50%, ALL Layers UNchecked.
I had to use the pick tool (deformation tool in versions other than PSP X) to stretch the image a little bit so it would fill the frame.
Copy merged and paste onto the large image.
Image - Free Rotate - 30 degrees Left.
Move it to where you want.
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 75
Blur = 20
Repeat Drop Shadow.


Step 3:

Activate your yellow frame image again.
Select your next image and copy and paste it as a new layer over the top of the other, since it’s an image you won’t see the layer below.
Resize by 50%, ALL Layers UNchecked.
I had to use the pick tool (deformation tool in versions other than PSP X) to stretch the image a little bit so it would fill the frame.
Copy merged and paste onto the large image.
Image - Free Rotate - 20 degrees Right.
Move it to where you want.
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 75
Blur = 20
Repeat Drop Shadow.


Step 4:

Activate your yellow frame image again.
Select your next image and copy and paste it as a new layer over the top of the other, since it’s an image you won’t see the layer below.
Resize by 50%, ALL Layers UNchecked.
I had to use the pick tool (deformation tool in versions other than PSP X) to stretch the image a little bit so it would fill the frame.
Copy merged and paste onto the large image.
Image - Free Rotate - 10 degrees Left.
Move it to where you want.
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 75
Blur = 20
Repeat Drop Shadow.

Rearrange the small images around to where you like them.

Step 5:

Open the staple from Nathy’s scrap kit and resize 10%.
Copy and paste as a new layer.
Add the following drop shadow.
Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 1
Opacity = 75
Blur = 3
I used the pick tool to move and tilt each one.

Resize 85% ALL Layers Checked.
Image - Picture Frame - Corners Tape with the following settings:


I used color #CDD597, but you could use any color found in the tag.

Step 6:

Now add the artists copyright information and your watermark.
I used BaaBookHmk in black, size 14, stroke width 0.
For the personalization, I used ZiptyDo.
Font size 72, stroke width 1
Foreground #305E3B and background #EFB84F.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.






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