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Color Dot Frame Side Border Tutorial by Sha's Designs
Please link your results to my
site:
www.shasdesigns.com
Would love to see your
results. You can email them to me HERE. Today I am using clipart by Trina Clark. If you would like to use the same tube, please purchase from the website www.digiscrapkits.com.
Supplies Needed Fantastic Machines: Paint Engine
Skill Level This tutorial assumes you have a basic working knowledge of PSP.
Part 1: Preparation
**Notes**
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1. Open Tube of Choice in Paint Shop Pro, Duplicate (shift+D) and close the original
2. Image > Resize (If your tube is smaller than 300 pixels than you do not need to resize) Settings: Resample using: Smart Size: Checked Lock aspect ratio: Checked Width: 275 - 300 Height: Will self adjust Note: If your tube isn't very large, Bicubic might be better than using Smart Size. If your tube is smaller than 300 pixels you don't need to resize.
3. Adjust > Sharpness > Sharpen (if necessary)
4. Using your Dropper Tool (E) choose two colors from your image. A lighter and a dark color of the same hue. (You can also choose contrasting colors if you would like)
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1. Image > Canvas Size Settings: Add 40 pixels to width and height Middle center placement
2. Layers > New Raster Layer
3. Layers > Arrange > Send to Bottom
4. Flood Fill new layer with your light color
5. Effects > Plugins > Fantastic Machines > PaintEngine Settings:
Brushes Pull Intensity: .52 Lighten: .6 Bias: .15 Pull Intensity: .64 Lighten: .1 Bias: .17 Effect Amount: 1.54 Wrapped Edges: Checked Stroke Type: Downhill Input: Checked Line: Not Checked Length: 26 Radiate: 1.04 Motion Angle: 17 Curl: 60 Operation Angle: 108 Curl: 56 Direction Channel: R CHECKED
6. Effects > Image Effects > Seamless Tiling Settings: Default (click black arrow next to the drop down menu)
7. Selections > Select All (Ctrl+A)
8. Selections > Modify > Contract by 10 pixels
9. Layers > New Raster Layer, flood fill with your dark color
10. Effects > Plugins > penta.com > color dot Settings: Value: 92 Distance: 2 Color R: 255 Color G: 255 Color B: 255
11. Selections > Modify > Contract by 5 pixels
12. Layers > New Raster Layer
13. Flood fill with your light color
14. Effects > Texture Effects > Blinds Settings: Width: 3 Opacity: 30 Color: Dark Color Horizontal: Unchecked Light from left/top: Checked
15. Effects > Plugins > penta.com > color dot
16. Layers > New Raster Layer
17. Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout (you can play with this settings for different effects) Settings: Vertical/Horizontal: 0 Opacity: 75 Blur: 30.00 Shadow Color: Dark Color Fill interior with color: Unchecked
18. Selections > Select None
19. Move to your tube layer
20. Optional -- If you feel your tube should be a little smaller, now is the time to do it. You can resize by 90-95%. Resize all layers: Unchecked.
21. Effects > 3D Effects > Drop Shadow Settings: Vertical/Horizontal: 0 Opacity: 50 Blur: 5.00 Color: Black Shadow on new layer: Not checked
22. Layers > Merge > Merge All (Flatten)
23. Image > Add Borders Settings: 11 pixels, Symmetric checked: dark color
24. Selections > Select All (Ctrl+A)
25. Selections > Modify > Contract by 10 pixels
26. Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout (you can play with this setting for different effects) Settings:
Blur: 15.00
27. Selections > Invert
28. Effects > Plugins > penta.com > color dot
29. Selections > Select None
30. Image > Add Borders Settings: 1 pixels, Symmetric checked, dark color
******************************************** Part 3: Background
1. Layers > Promote Background Layer
2. Image > Canvas Size Settings: Width: 1700 (or whatever suits your monitor) Height: height of your image + 20 Middle left placement Change left to 10
3. Layers > New Raster Layer
4. Layers > Arrange > Send to Bottom
5. Flood fill new layer with your light color or dark color. Personal preference
6. Effects > Plugins > Fantastic Machines > PaintEngine
7. Effects > Image Effects > Seamless Tiling
8. Move back up to your frame layer
9. Effects > 3D Effects > Drop Shadow Settings: Vertical/Horizontal: 0 Opacity: 50 Blur: 10.00 Color: Black Shadow on new layer: Not checked
10. If you would like to add accents, now is the time to do it.
11. Layers > New Raster Layer
12. Add your watermark and add the credits for the artists work to your image.
13. File Export, jpeg Optimizer. I usually set to 20%, but you can set to your liking.
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Thank you
for taking the time to try my tutorial. I hope you
had as much fun trying it as I did writing it.
Thank you to the
Tenacious Tut Testers for testing this tutorial for me.
Without their help and encouragement, this would not
have been possible.
Any similarity to
other tutorials is completely coincidental.
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