Post by cindi on Nov 8, 2010 15:10:38 GMT -5
Supplies
Paint shop pro
Image of your choice - I used Johnnie Grez,
you have to purchase a license to use his work. You can do so here.
Italian Editors - Effecto Fantasma
Flaming Pear Transline
Ready to go?
1. Resize your image to a size you perfer.
2. Add borders, 5 pixels using a dark color in your graphic.
3. Add borders, 25 pixels using a lighter color.
4. Select the 25 pixel border with your magic wand and go to effects, italian editors and effecto fantasma at the defualt setting.
5. Effects, flaming pear, transline.
6. Effects, 3d effects, inner bevel at this setting.
Selections, select none.
7. Repeat step 2.
8. Add border, 40 pixels, light color as before. Use your magic wand to select this border.
9. Effects, geometric effects, circle. Make sure you have transparent selected and hit ok.
10. Keep it selected and add a drop shadow of your choice and the same innerbevel you had used before.
11. Effects, image effects, seamless tile at default settings. Select none.
12. Go to your layer pallete and right click. Choose promote background to layer. Resize your graphic if it's bigger than 250 in width remember you have to have room to write!
13. Image, canvas size. Change your width to 1200 and your height to your graphics height.
14. Add a new raster layer, and move to bottom. Flood fill this with either white or a light color from your raphic. Remember you will be using this to write on.
15. Go to your image layer. Get your rectangle selection tool ready and make a rectangle selection going down the one side. Make sure to keep this thin you don't want it to take over your graphic.
See my example
16. Add a drop shadow of your choice. Selections, select none.
17. Add your copyright to your graphic and any text if you wish.
18. Make sure you optimize this and not just save it. This will help you if you choose to add music.
Thank you for trying my tutorial. I would love to see what you have created. You can email me a resized copy so it's not any bigger than 400 wide and I'll put it in my results page. Make your stationary in Incredimail or outlook since this is a sideborder. Hope you had fun!