vendredi 9 mai 2025

Cueillette du jour!!!

 

Elle est probablement à la veille de mettre des petits au monde.  Elle demeure maintenant à Howick.  Michel avait mis des carottes et une pomme et il est évident qu'elle avait un bon appétit pour cela.  C'est notre 24e en tout depuis que nous avons une cage pour les attraper et notre première cette année.

MES HÉMÉROCALLES   MON POTAGER 

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mardi 6 mai 2025

Paint Shop Pro - My tutorials - Lilliput 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.
Thank you to respect my work and the creators work.
Don’t hesitate to write to me here if you have any trouble with this tutorial
and I’ll 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
1 mask
1 texture to be added in your My PSP files under Textures

Plugins
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact – Perspective shadow
Two Moons – BlurCheeks

Colors
Color 1 #acad3d (light color)
Color 2 #5a5932 (dark color)

Let's start!

1
Create a New transparent image of 900 x 700 px
Flood fill with dark color #5a5932
Layers – New transparent layer
Flood fill with light color #acad3d

2
Open and minimize the image ‘lc-masque-lilliput’ check ‘Invert mask data’
Layers – New mask layer – From image and select ‘lc-masque-lilliput’ mask

Layers – Merge – Merge group
Effects – 3D effects – Drop shadow 5 / 5 / 100 / 14 with color black

Layers – Merge visible

4
Layers – New raster layer
In the Materials, click in the Foreground color to open its settings
Check ‘Textures’ and select ‘82872s-vertlaitflot’
(which should be in your My PSP Files under Textures)
and set the Angle at 0 – Scale at 250

Flood fill the layer with Match mode at None, Tolerance at 0,
Blend mode at Normal and Opacity 100% with this texture

Effects – Plugins – Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact – Perspective shadow with color black

Opacity of this layer 60%

5
Copy/Paste as a new layer your duplicate of ‘lc-oeufs-2’
Effects – Image effects – Offset Hor 210 and Vert -22 – Transparent and Custom checked

6
Copy/Paste as a new layer your duplicate of ‘lc-oeufs-1’
Effects – Image effects – Offset Hor -210 and Vert 90 Transparent and Custom checked

Layers – Merge down
Effects – 3D effects – Drop shadow 10 / 10 / 100 / 62 with color black

Repeat this Drop shadow effect with the negatives (-10 / -10)

7
Copy/Paste as a new layer ‘queen-lilliput’
Effects – Plugins – Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact – Perspective shadow

8
Image – Add symmetric borders of 3 px black
Image – Add symmetric borders of 50 px of color #acad3d
With your Magic wand, click in the 50 px border to select it
Effects – Plugins – Two Moon – BlurCheeks
only changing the Size to 255 – the rest of the settings stays the same

Do not deselect
Effects – 3D effects – Inner bevel with color #757454

Selections – Invert
Effects – 3D effects – Buttonize


9
Add a symmetric border of 3 px black
Image – Resize the Width at 800 px and the height will adjust automatically

That’s it, we are done!
Sign and save as a jpg or File – Export – As an optimized jpeg

I hope that you enjoyed making this tutorial as much as I had fun making it!
Send me here your creation and I will gladly add it below.

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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!

 

samedi 3 mai 2025

Paint Shop Pro - My translations - Arum (valyscrappassion)


This tutorial is a personal creation from Valérie Savary - better known as valyscrappassion.comYou can find the original here.  Any resemblance with another one would be only pure coincidence.  It is strictly forbidden to modify tubes - to change their names or take off the watermarks, 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.

Thank you to respect Valérie's work and other artwork creators'work mentioned in the original tutorial.
Don't hesitate to warn me if you have any trouble with this translation
and I will try to fix the problem as quickly as I can.  You can reach me here.

Valérie made this tutorial on June 6 - 2014.  I have used PSPX8 to make my translation;
you can follow this tutorial with any other versions of PSP - but the result might be slightly different.
I always refer to the old scripts of Mirror and Flip.

Thanks to Meli-Melo for her tubes

Download and decompress the Materials file, save the selections in your 'My PSP Files' under your Selections folder.
You can copy/save the mask image in your 'My PSP Files' under your Masks folder for further use
but it goes faster if you open it and minimize it in your workspace while doing the tutorial.

 Plugins
None

Colors
Foreground color 1 #90b401
Background color 2 #fbc800

Let's begin!!

1
Open the tubes - Duplicate them and close the originals

2
Open a transparent layer of 750 x 500 px
Flood fill with linear gradient color 1 #90b401 in Foreground
and color 2 #fbc800 in Background Angle 135 and 5 Repeats

Adjustment - Blur - Gaussian blur at 25

3
Selection - Select all
Layer - New raster layer
Copy/Paste the Krystubes tube into the selection
Selection - Select none
Layer - Duplicate
Mirror - Flip
Modify this layer's properties with opacity at 50%
Layer - Merge - Merge down

4
Adjustment - Blur - Radial blur with the following settings

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more
Effects - Distortion effects - Twist at -266

5
Layers - New raster layer
Flood fill with color 1 #90b401
Open the image ' sg_fractal1'
Layers - New mask layer - From an image
Select the mask 'sg_fractal1' then click ok

Layers - Merge - Merge the group

6
Layers - New raster layer
Selection - Load/Save Selection - Load selection from disk
Select selection 'AruM VSP1'


Selections - Promote Selection to layer
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 0 / 0 / 100 / 25 with black

Selection - Select none

7
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Mirror
Layers - Merge - Merge down
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Flip
Layers - Merge - Merge down

8
Highlight the bottom layer (raster 1)
Selection - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection from disk
and select 'AruM VSP2'

Selection - Promote Selection to raster layer
Effects - Reflection effects - Feedback 70 / 95 / 0 / 0

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow with same settings as before
Selection - Select none

9
Effects - Image effects - Offset 0 / -179

Layers - Properties - Opacity at 50
Effects - Edge effects - Sharpen more

10
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Free rotation 90% Right and Rotate single layer checked

Objects - Align - Left

11
Highlight the top layer
Open, Copy/Paste your duplicate of 'Krystubes' tube
Effects - Image effects - Offset 100 / -80

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 30 / 20 / 55 / 50 with black

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten)

12
Open, Copy/Paste 'deco 1' as a new layer
Effects - Image effects - Offset -300 / 0

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 5 / 5 / 55 / 5 with black

13
Open, Copy/Paste 'deco 2' as a new layer
Effects - Image effects - Offset 330 / 190
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow same as before

14
Open, Copy/Paste 'text' as a new layer
Effects - Image effects - Offset 25 / 190
Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten)

15
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Resize to 97% uncheck Resize all layers

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 0 / 0 / 100 / 30 with black

Layers - Duplicate
Image - Resize to 97%
Layers - Merge - Merge all (flatten)
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

16
Sign your image and save as jpg or File - Export as an optimized file

 That's it, it's finished. I hope you had fun.  Feel free to send Valérie your creations to feature in her gallery. You can reach her here.

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