lundi 5 mai 2025

Paint Shop Pro - My tutorials - Japanese Queen

 

This tutorial is a personal creation. Any resemblance with another one would be only pure coincidence. It is strictly forbidden to modify my images, to change their name or take off the watermarks in order to present them on your sites or blog, to share them in groups,
to make a bank of images, or to use them on lucrative purposes.

I have made this tutorial with PSPX5 on February 6, 2024.  I would like to thank Bobbi Fein for her generous contribution in testing this tutorial.  Her comments and suggestions were greatly appreciated.  Thank you to respect my work.  Don't hesitate to write to me here if you have any trouble with this tutorial and I will try to fix the problem as quickly as I can.  

Decompress the zipped Materials file, open the files and save them in your My PSP files folder. For png and other images, duplicate them after taking away my watermark.  Work with your duplicates to preserve originals.
Open the masks and minimize them to tray.
Copy/Paste the gradient into your PSP files in the Gradients folder.
Double-click on the font, click on Install and it will install itself in its right place.
Double-click on the preset and it will be saved automatically in its right place.
Save your work often as pspimage with all your layers just in case your PSP crashes!!


Materials
Tubes made by me with Image Creator from Bing
3 png images
2 masks

Plugins
Filters Unlimited 2.0 – &<Bkg Designer IV – Sunraze
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact – Perspective shadow

Colors
Foreground #f9da97 (light)
Background #b0780c (darker)
Accent color #f6aa18
Drop shadow color #dfd1b0
Additional colors #000000 and #efbf02

1
Create a new transparent image 900 x 700 px

2
Create a sunburst gradient with 17 repeats – Foreground color black and Background color #f9da97 Flood fill your image with this gradient

Effects – Plugins – &<Background Designers IV – @Sun Raze with default settings

3
In your Material, replace the gradient with the Background color #b0780c and make sure that your Foreground color is in the other color window so that you will only have to switch
by clicking in the switching arrows in the next 3 steps (indicated by the red arrow).
You should have this:



Layers - Duplicate
Resize this layer to 90% and with your Magic wand, click in the border around it:
Flood fill with the ackground color #b0780c

4
Layer – Duplicate
Resize this layer to 90%
(the selection stays around the outside border) ‘Resize all layers’ unchecked
Flood fill with the Foreground color #f9da97

5
Layer – Duplicate
Resize this layer to 90%
(the selection stays around the outside border) ‘Resize all layers’ unchecked
Flood fill with the Background color #b0780c
You should have this now:

Selections – Select none
Layers – Merge – All visible

6
New raster layer
Flood fill with Accent color #f6aa18
Load/Save the mask ‘lc-mask-coucher’ Invert checked
Layers – Merge Group
Effects – Plugins – Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact – Perspective shadow
and select ‘Drop shadow Higher’ in the Settings
Merge – Merge all visible

7
New raster layer
Flood fill with your Foreground color #f9da97
Effects – Texture effects – Blinds 2 / 40 with color black


Opacity of this layer at 60%

8
New raster layer
Flood fill with color black
Load/Save mask ‘lc-mask-blanc-noir12’
Layers – Merge – Merge group
Effects – 3D effects – Drop shadow 5 / 5 / 75 / 20 with color  #f6aa18



You should now have this:


Lasyers - Merge - Merge visible

9
Open, Copy/Paste as a new layer your duplicate of pspimage ‘lc-japanese-queen’
Effects – Image effects – Offset Horizontal 80 – Custom and Transparent checked

Effects – Plugins – Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact – Perspective shadow with same settings as before

10
Open, Copy/Paste as a new layer your duplicate of pspimage ‘japanese-peace-word’
Image – Resize at 40%
Effects – Image effects – Offset Horizontal -300 and Vertical 70 – Custom and Transparent checked

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective shadow with these settings and Foreground color #f9da97

11
Image – Add symmetric borders – 2 px with color #efbf02
Image – Add symmetric borders – 10 px with color black
Image – Add symmetric borders – 2 px with color #efbf02
Image – Add symmetric borders – 10 px with color black
Image – Add symmetric borders – 2 px with color #efbf02
Image – Add symmetric borders – 10 px with color black

Optional: zooming if necessary with your Magic wand and holding your Shift key down, click in all the borders, then
Effects - 3D effects - Inner bevel with these setting, color white

Selections - Select none

12
Image – Add borders – 30 px with color #efbf02
With your Magic wand, click to select this 30 px border
Effects – Plugins – Funhouse – Patchwork and select 87 Effects – 3D effects – Inner bevel with these settings and color #ffffcc

Selections - Select none
Image - Add symmetric borders - 2 px color black

13
Image – Resize – check ‘Resize all layers’
Change the height of the image to 700 and the width will adapt by itself.
Sign and save as a jpg or File – Export – as an optimized jpeg

We are done!!
Hopefully, you liked this tutorial and if you send me your result hereI will gladly post it below!

 

Aucun commentaire: