Paint Shop Pro - My translations - Hiver (valyscrappassion)

 

This tutorial is a personal creation from Valérie Savary, better known as

valyscrappassion.com

I have her written authorization to translate her tutorials and you can find the original here. She made it on November 18, 2014.  Any resemblance with another one would be only pure coincidence. It is strictly forbidden to modify tubes, to change their name 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.
Don’t hesitate to warn me if you have any trouble with this translation
and I’ll try to fix the problem as quickly as I can.  You can reach me here.

 

Colors
Color 1 #a4a4a4
Color 2 #ffffff

1
Open all the images, make duplicates and close the originals

2
Open the image 'Alpha_Hiver_VSP', make a duplicate and close the original; work on the duplicate only
Selections - Select all
Open, Copy/Paste inside the selection your duplicate of 'fond neige'
Selections - Select none

3

 Effects - Geometric effects - Vertical perspective -80 check Wrap

View - Rulers
With your Pick tool, lower the top of your image to 500

4
Layers - New raster layer
Selections - Select all
Copy/Paste in the selection your duplicate of 'Paysage hivernal'
Selections - Select none
Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur at 25

5
Copy/Paste as a new layer your duplicate of 'flocon'
Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling

Selections - Load/Save selection from the alpha channel and select Selection 1

Selection invert
Hit the Delete key or use Scissors
Selection - Select none
Layers - Merge - Merge down
Layers - Arrange - Move down

You should have this now:

6
Highlight the top layer
Layers - New raster layer
Selections - Load/Save from the alpha channel and select Selection 2

Copy/Paste in the selection your duplicate of 'Paysage hivernal'
Selections - Modify - Select selection borders - Both sides checked and enter 3 for the width

Layers - New raster layer
Flood fill the selections with color 1 #a4a4a4
Adjust - Add noise - Uniform and Monochrome checked at 45%

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 0 / 0 / 60 / 20 with color black

Layers - Merge - Merge down
Repeat the Drop shadow effect
Selections - Select none

7
Open, Copy/Paste as a new layer your duplicate of 'maelledreams-femme124'
Image - Resize at 80% uncheck 'Resize all layers'

Effects - Image effects - Offset Horizontal -166 and Vertical -50

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 0 / 15 / 60 / 40 with color black

8
Open, Copy/Paste as a new layer your duplicate of 'ours blanc VSP'
Image - Resize at 80% uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Repeat the resize a second time
Effects - Image effects - Offset Horizontal 273 and Vertical at -128

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 0 / 15 / 60 / 40 with color black same as before

9
 Open, Copy/Paste as a new layer your duplicate of 'déco Hiver VSP'
Effects - Image effects - Offset Horizontal 15 and Vertical 247

10
Image - Add symmetric borders of 3 px with color 2 (black)
 Image - Add symmetric borders of 3 px with color 1 #a4a4a4
Selections - Select all
Image - Add symmetric borders of 15 with color 1 #a4a4a4
Selections - Invert
Adjust - Add noise with same settings as before

Selections - Invert
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 0 / 0 / 60 / 20 with color black

Selections - Select none

11
 Edit - Copy
Selections - Select all
Image - Add symmetric borders of 40 px with color 1 #a4a4a4
Selections - Invert
Edit - Paste in the selection
Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur at 10%

Selections - Invert
Repeat the Drop shadow effect
Selections - Select none

12
 Image - Add symmetric borders of 3 px color 2 #ffffff
 Selections - Select all
Image - Add symmetric borders of 15 px with color 1 #a4a4a4
Selections - Invert
Adjust - Add noise with the same settings as before
Selections - Invert
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow with the same settings as before
Selections - Select none

13
Open, Copy/Paste as a new layer your duplicate of the title 'titre'
It is well placed
Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten)
Image - Resize your image at width of 900 'Resize all layers' checked
The height will adjust automatically

Adjust - Sharpen - Unsharp mask 2 / 60 / 4 check Luminance only

14
Sign your image and save it as a jpg or File - Export as an optimized jpeg

We are done!

I hope that you enjoyed making this tutorial. 
Valérie has a gallery of all the results that she receives
from all over the world and she loves to see your creations and include  them in her gallery. Click here to send yours!!

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Paint Shop Pro - My tutorials - Transparent Letters

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. You can write to me here if you need.

I made this tutorial for PSPX but you can use any version of PSP; the results might be slightly different.

PLUGINS

Alien Skin Eye Candy which every body has already

and if not, go here under Eye Candy

Thank you Créaline!

MATERIALS

You will need an image

A font that can be large in width

(I have chosen Times New Roman for this tutorial

because everybody has it in its computer)

Let's start!!

1

Open your image

Window - Duplicate

Close the original - always work on the duplicates so that you

can have an intact original in case you encounter a problem with your PSP

2

Layers - Promote Background raster layer

3

Layers - New raster layer

Now, click on your Text tool

In your Materials, you can make your Foreground and Background with

the same color or a gradient in one of them or no color in your Foreground

but select light colors

Select your font

I selected these for the purpose of the tutorial but feel free to change the size and the sroke width

Size 72, Stroke width at 3.0 and Create as 'Selection'

4
Write your text which is transparent.
Apply the changes; now your letters are transparent but can't be moved where you want them but wait, we will change this

5

Selection - Promote as a layer
Your letters are still selected but on a layer of its own
Flood fill the selection with a light color
Zoom in if you need to see the inside of your letters
Reduce the Opacity of this layer to 40 (may vary according to your color)

Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow 1/1/50/2 with color black

6

You can repeat the drop shadow effect twice or even more but

remember that those letters are supposed to be transparent

Do not deselect your letters yet because you can move them in some other place, if you want to

7

With your Move tool, click in one of your letters and place the whole selection where you want to; the original place are still selected

Selections - Select none

Adjust the opacity to your taste by playing with the slider

8

If you want to write another text line in your image, repeat starting from step 3 and either write with the same font or select another font, like I did in my final image
Don't forget to modify the size and other settings if necessary

9

When it is to your liking,

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten)

10

Sign your image or File - Save as an optimized jpeg

You are done! I hope that you enjoyed this tutorial.
Originally made on December 5, 2013 

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Paint Shop Pro - My tutorials - Autumn Princess

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 PSPX on March 26, 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 their respective 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
1 Alien Skin Eye Candy preset
1 selection
1 mask
1 png image

Plugins

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Perspective shadow
Dragonfly - Sinedots II

Colors
Foreground color #b8946d
Background color #dfccac

1
Create a New transparent image 900 x 700 px
Flood fill this image with the 'crème caramel' gradient furnished in the Materials Angle 250 - No repeats

 If you prefer to make this gradient, here are the settings:

It has 7 paint pots and you only have to click in the color in the paint pot to make it. 100% opacity.
Layers - New raster layer
Flood fill this layer with the color black

 2
Layers - Load/Save Mask layer from image
Select mask '303'
Layers - Merge - Merge group
Properties of this layer opacity at 60%

 

3
Layers - New raster layer
Selections - Load/Save selection 'lc-autumn'
Flood fill with Foreground color #b8946d
Effects - Texture effects - Weave with your Background color #dfccac in the Weave color and black in the Gap color

Properties of this layer opacity at 56%
Effects - User defined filter - Emboss_3

4
Selections - Modify - Select selection borders

Zoom to see the selected border
Flood fill with your Foreground color #b8946d
Effects - 3D effects - Inner bevel

Selections - Select none

5
Layers - New raster layer
Effects - Plugins - Dragonfly - Sinedots II with these settings:

Properties of this layer opacity at 30%

6
Open, Copy/Paste as a new layer the image 'lc-autumn-princess'
Use your Move tool to place your png image as the center of attraction
Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Perspective shadow

You should have this in your layers palette:

7
Layers - Merge all (Flatten)
Edit - Copy
Image - Add borders 40 px with color #dfccac
Using your Magic wand, select this border
Copy/Paste into the selection
Effects - Plugins - Fotoframe

Effects - Textures effects - Blinds with color #a1815b and these settings:

8
Selections - Promote selection to layer
Repeat the Textures effects - Blinds uncheck Horizontal

Layers - Merge - Merge down
Keep selected
Effects - 3D effects - Buttonize

Selections - Select none
Image - Add a 2 px border with color black

9
Add a text of if you want
Sign your result
Save as a jpg or File - Export - As an Optimized jpg
We are done!!

I hope that you liked this tutorial and I would be so happy if you would send me your version here; I would add it below.

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Recettes retrouvées

Je suis en train de refaire mes pages. J'ai tellement eu de misère ces derniers temps.  Bref, en faisant le tour de mes pages, j'ai retrouvé le site où j'enregistrais mes recettes.  C'est ici.  Il y a aussi un autre site chez Wordpress. Il y a des pages qui vont partir bientôt pour ne conserver que quelques-unes et il est bien probable que j'enlève tout pour tout replacer ici. Bref, beaucoup de pain sur la planche.

Paint Shop Pro - My translations - Haute Couture (valyscrappassion)

 

This tutorial is a personal creation from Valérie Savary, better known as

valyscrappassion.com

I have her written authorization to translate her tutorials in english and you 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 name 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’ll try to fix the problem as quickly as I can.  You can reach me here.

This tutorial was made on July 30, 2014, with an earlier PSP version.  I have used PSPX5 to make my translation; you can follow this tutorial with any other versions of PSP, but the result might be slightly different.

Plugins

Medhi - Wavy Lab

 Let's begin!!

 1

Decompress the zip file, make duplicate copies of the originals. Never work on the originals. Make your work in a PSPimage format so that you can save your work with its multilayers and save often to avoid loss of time and efforts in case of a PSP crash of some sort.

Save presets by double-clicking on them, they will install themselves in their right place. Save selections in your My PSP files Selections folder. Open masks and minimise to tray until requested in the tutorial.

2

Foreground color 1 #dbdad7

Background color 2 #252523

3

Open a New transparent Image of  900 x 600 pixels

4

Effects - Plugins - Medhi - Wavy lab - Bow with settings 5 / 141 / 55 / 41 mode normal

Effects - Image effects, Seamless Tiling
Corner - Bidirectional - Curved 23 / -15 / - / 63

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur at 50

5

Copy/Paste as a new raster the woman tube 'Goodyear-Haute-Couture-1'

Image - Resize at 40% uncheck 'Resize all layers'

Adjust - Blur - Radial blur with Twirl and Eliptical checked

and these settings:  65 / 38 / 12 / 8 / 0

Effecs - Image effects - Seamless tiling with only Corner, Horizontal checked and Transition at 63

Effects - Texture effects - Mosaic - Antique with these settings: 50 / 50 / 87 / 4 / 77

6
Layers - New raster layer
Flood fill with color 2
Layer - New mask layer - From an image and load mask 'Jillmask_verdi'
(the mask should be in your tray but you can also save it in My PSP folder under Masks)

 Layers - Merge - Merge group
Effects - User defined filter -  Emboss_8

 Blend mode of this layer at Multiply
Layers - Merge - Merge all visible

7
Selections - Load/Save a selection - From the disk and select 'Haute couture VSP1'

Selections - Promote selection to layer
Selection - Select none
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow with the settings -1 / -5 / 80 / 10 and color black

Layers - Duplicate
Image - Resize at 90% uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Effects - Image effects - Offset with these settings 20 / 0

 8
Copy/Paste your duplicate image of the woman in your image
Image - Resize at 38%
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
Effects - Image effects - Offset with Transparent and Custom checked and these settings:  -200 / 0

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow with settings: 0 / 50 / 85 / 79 and color black

9
Copy/Paste your duplicate image of the shoes in your image
Image - Resize at 40%
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
Effects - Image effects - Offset at 250 / 20
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow with settings:  -4 / 25 / 70 / 40 and color black

 10
Layers - New raster layer
Load/Save a Selection - From disk and select 'Haute couture VSP2'

Flood fill with color 1
Selections - Select none
Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten)

11
Copy/Paste your duplicate of the text VSP image
Effects - Image effects - Offset at 40 / 0

12
Copy/Paste your duplicate of the deco image VSP

13
Highlight the bottom layer raster
Layer - Duplicate
Close the visibility of the bottom layer raster (the eye)

14
Highlight the top layer raster
Layers - Merge - Merge visible
Image - Resize at 90%
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow with these settings:  0 / 0 / 100 / 50

15
On the bottom layer, reopen the visibility (the eye)
Adjust - Blur - Radial blur with the same settings as before

 16
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Resize at 98% uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow with the same settings as before

17
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Resize at 98%

18
Repeat step 17
You should have this

19
Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten)
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

20
Sign and save as a jpg or File - Export - As an optimized jpeg

I hope that you enjoyed making this tutorial.
Valérie has a gallery of all the results that she receives
from all over the world and she loves to see your creations and include them in her gallery. Click here to send yours!!

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