Paint Shop Pro - My tutorials - Irish 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, 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 14, 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 selections into your My PSP files Selections folder. Double-click on the presets, if any, to install them and they will be saved automatically in their right place.

Save your work often as pspimage with all your layers just in case your PSP crashes!!

Materials
‘lc-irish-queen2’ made with Image Creator from Bing
‘lc-clover’ tubed by me
text tubed by me (optional)
2 masks: NarahsMasks_Nature1590 and Narah_mask_Nature016
Open the masks and minimize to tray

Plugins
Two Moon – Rotoblades
AAA Frames – Transparent frame
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 – Impact – Perspective Shadow
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 – Textures
Alien Skin Xenofex 2 – Stain

Colors
Foreground color #83a976
Background color #4f7463
Accent color #354f43

Make a new image of 900 X 700 pixels
With both background #4f7463 and foreground #83a976 colors,
make a #1 Foreground-Background Radial gradient
Angle 0 and Repeats 12 – Invert unchecked

Flood fill the image with this gradient

2
Selections – Select all
Open, Copy/Paste into the selection your duplicate of ‘lc-irish-queen’
(delete the watermark)
Adjust – Blur – Radial blur – check Zoom and Elliptical and these settings

Selections – Selection none

3
Layers – Duplicate
Image – Image Mirror
Image – Image Flip
 Effects – AAA Frame – Transparent frame of 30 – uncheck Stroke

Effects – Two moon – Rotoblades with default settings

Effects – Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact – Perspective Shadow – Drop Shadow, Lowest

Layers – Merge – Merge down
Adjust – Sharpness – Sharpen

4

Layers – New raster layer

Flood fill with Background color #4f7463

Layers – New Mask Layer – from image and select ‘NarahsMasks_1590’

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

5

Layers – New raster layer

Flood fill with Accent color #354f43

Layers – New mask layer – Load/save from image ‘Narah_mask_Nature016’

Layers – Merge – Merge group
Effects – Alien Skin Eye Xenofex 2 – Stain
with Stain Color white

Image – Resize at 85%

6
Open, Copy/Paste as a new layer your duplicate of ‘lc-irish-queen-2’ (delete the watermark)
Effects – Image effects – Offset – Custom and Transparent checked
Horizontal 170 and Vertical -47

Effects – Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 – Perspective shadow
lowering the bottom offset direction at
the same bottom line as the image (see red arrow)

Layers – Merge – Merge down twice
You should have this

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Layers – New raster layer
Flood fill with Foreground color #83a976
Selections – Load/Save selection ‘irish-queen-selection1’
Hit the delete key or Scissors
Layers – Arrange – Move down
Select none
Layers – Merge – Merge visible

8
With the Text tool and a font of your choice, write ‘Amhrán na bhFiann’,
which is the Irish national anthem or something irish of your choice
I used the JAHMAL font at size 26 (included it in the Materials)
with color #eaf4e9 in the foreground and the gradient made
at the beginning of the tutorial in the background

Omit the next Drop shadow steps if you use the text image in the Materials:
Effects – 3D effects – Drop shadow 3 / 3 / 100 / 41 with color black

Repeat the drop shadow once more.
With your Moving tool, place at the bottom of the image as shown in the final result

9
Copy/Paste your duplicate of ‘lc-clover1’
Image – Resize – uncheck ‘Resize all layers’ at 55%
Effects – Image effects – Offset

Effects – 3D effects – Drop Shadow

10
Image – Add symmetric borders of 80 px with whatever color is in the window
With your Magic wand (Tolerance and Feather at 0),
click in that border to select it
Effects – Plugins – Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 – Textures – Diamond plate
Basic settings and Color and Lighting settings as follows with Foreground color #83a976

Effects – 3D effects – Cutout

Selections – Select none
Image – Add a border of 2 px black
Resize your image at width 900 px – the height will resize by itself

That is it, we are done!!
I hope that you enjoyed yourself making this simple tutorial and if
you make it and send it back to me here, I will be honored to include it in this page, below.

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Paint Shop Pro - My tutorials - Dragonfly 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
4 png images
1 font
1 preset
1 mask

Plugins
VM Extravaganza – White lines
AP lines – Silverlining – Lines – Breaks in Fence
AAA Fotoframe – Frame Works
Filters Unlimited 2.0 – &<Bkg Designer sf1011 – Fan blades
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact – Perspective shadow

Colors
Foreground color #a9bdd9
Background color #323e4a
Accent color #7a90a4
Other color #8fadc3 (inner bevel)

Before starting the tutorial, minimize the mask and your duplicates of
the tubes in your workspace without my watermark.

Let’s begin!!!

1
Create a transparent new image 900 x 700 px
Flood fill it with this linear gradient
#1 Foreground-Background colors –  Angle 130 and 5 Repeats

2
Layers – New raster layer
Flood fill with the Foreground color #a9bdd9
Layers – New mask layer
From image and select mask ‘lc-masque-libellule’ – check ‘Invert’

Layers – Merge – Merge group
Effects – User defined filter – Emboss_8
Layers – Merge – Merge all visible

3
Layers – New raster layer
Flood fill with the same gradient ‘lc-libellule’
Effects – Plugins – VM Extravaganza – White lines

(Save in Pspimage often in case you encounter some problems with your PSP)
Layers – Merge visible

4
Layers – New raster layer
Flood fill with the Accent color #7a90a4
Effects – Plugins – AP lines – Silverlining – Lines – Breaks in Fence by default

Layers – Arrange – Move down

5
On the top layer
Image – Resize at 85% uncheck ‘Resize all layers’
With your Magic wand (Tolerance and Feather at 0),
click in the border space just created to select it
Return to the bottom layer Effects – 3D effects – Inner bevel with these settings and the Other color #8fadc3

6
Selections – Invert
Highlight the top layer
Effects – Plugins – AAA Fotoframe – Frame Works
and only change the color (Blue Stain) and the type (Double 20)

You should have this now

Selections – Select none

7
Open, Copy/Paste as a new layer your duplicate of ‘frame3’
Effects – Filters Unlimited 2.0 – &<Bkg Designer sf1011 – Fan blades with default settings

Before merging everything (next step), save your image as a PSPimage so that you can return to it if you want to change something in the rasters, then
Layers – Merge – Merge visible

8
Copy/Paste your duplicate of the tube ‘dragonfly-queen’
Effects – Image effects – Offset

Effects – Plugins – Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact – Perspective shadow
and select ‘lc-dragonfly-1’ preset

9
Copy/Paste your duplicate of ‘lc-bouquet’
Image – Resize at 60% uncheck ‘Resize all layers’
Effects – Image effects – Offset

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

10
Image – Add borders – 3 px with Background color
Image – Add borders – 3 px with color white
Image – Add borders – 3 px with Background color

11
With a font of your choice, write ‘Dragonfly Queen’ in whatever choice of colors
that will blend nicely with your image
If you want to use my text, please do, no charge!!
(I used the font Lutin Paniquangoisse – download here, included in the Materials)
With your Move tool, place the text in the left corner as shown in final result To your text, apply an Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact – Perspective shadow with color white

Merge – Merge all (Flatten)

12
Sign and save as a jpg or File – Export – As an optimized jpg file.
We are done!

I hope that you enjoyed making this tutorial and if you send me
your result here, I will gladly post it below!

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Paint Shop Pro - My tutorials - Blur Mosaic

 

This tutorial is the exclusive creation of Julia. At the time she wrote this tutorial, she had a site but after checking, that site no longer exists. I do not have her email address anymore and cannot reach her but be assured that it was with her permission that I translated her tutorial.

To obtain a result similar to the one presented here, you will need the following tools:
a) a  png image or a tube that you like
b) a font that you like;
I used Sloop Script Three that you can download here

Plugin needed for this tutorial:  Toadies

Let's start!!

1
Open a new 800 x 800 image, transparent background

2
Open your tube, resize it if necessary.
Edit - Copy your tube as a new layer. Rename this layer "tube1".

3
Layers – Duplicate
Rename the duplicate layer "tube2" and make it invisible

4
Return to your “tube1” layer
Effects - Plugins - Toadies - Plain Mosaic Blur with these settings:

5
With your Magic Wand (Tolerance and Progressivity at 0), select the grid cells (using the capitals key to add some cells if this is the case)
and delete with the scisors or your Delete key

6
In your Materials and Textures, Foreground with
one of PSP gold gradient - I used this one (Corel_06_017):

Flood fill the grid cells
Do not deselect

7
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow Vert 0, Hor 2, Opacity 70, Blur 4 with color black

Deselect and reduce the opacity of this layer to 75%

8
Activate the “tube2” layer and resize it to 75% (uncheck Resize all layers)
With the Move tool place on the bottom left side
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow with the same settings as before

9
Highlight the bottom empty layer
Layers - Arrange - Bring to top
Rename this layer "text"
Select the Sloop Script Three font
(or another font of your choice) Size 160 - Mode Vector
(or a size that will suit you) Stroke Width at 1
Background with gold gradient and Foreground with a color from your image
Float and antialias checked
Enter your text, using the vector dots to size it as you like
and placing it using the Move tool
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow with the same settings as before
Selections - Select none

10
Layers - Merge - Merge visible layers
Now, you can save this as a png image, a tube or you can add a color background and use this as an image that you can frame.

It is a fun tutorial that can serve many purposes!

I hope that you enjoyed making it and that it will be useful.
Once again, a big Thank you to Julia.

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Paint Shop Pro - My tutorials - Barbie, Beautiful Barbie!!

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
4 png images originally made as jpg by me with Image Creator from Bing
1 selection
2 Alien Skin Eye Candy presets
1 mask

Plugins
Photo tools
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact
Mura Meister's Perspective tiling
VM Exravaganza - Vasarely
Some of these plugins could be in I.E. Net Software - Unlimited Filters 2.0

 Colors
Foreground color gray #666564
Background color pink #dea8b8
Accent color dark pink #d74671

Let's begin!
1
Create a new transparent image of 900 x 700 px
With your colors already designed in your Materials,
select a radial gradient #1 Foreground-Background
Angle 0 and 2 repeats

Flood fill your new image with this gradient

 2
Selections - Open/Load from disk - Select selection 'barbie-selection'
Flood fill this selection with the Background color #dea8b8
Selections - Select none
Effects - Plugins - VM Extravaganza - Vasarely

Effects - Texture effects - Mosaic - Antique

3
Layers -Duplicate
Effects - Plugins - Mura's Meister - Perspective tiling

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy Impact - Perspective shadow

 4
Layers - New raster layer
Flood fill with Background color #dea8b8
Layers - New mask layer from disk and add 'Narah_Mask_0473-reverse'

Layers - Merge - Merge group
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 1 / 1 / 100 / 5 with black

Layers - Merge visible

5
Copy/Paste as a new layer your duplicate of 'lc-barbie'
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
Effects - Image effects - Offset

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Perspective shadow
Select the preset 'lc-barbie-girl'

and if you could not save the preset, here are the settings:

6
Layers - New raster Layer
With your Text tool, select a nice font to write your compliment to Barbie
I selected Curlz because I think that everybody has it. If not, you can
download it here.
Make sure that both your Foreground and Background
colors is the accent color #d74671
Effects - 3D effects - Inner bevel with color #d74671

Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow

7
Note: I have already made a script of this step because it is used very often; if you want to make a script too, start it HERE
Image - Add borders - 2 px color black
2 px color #dea8b8
2 px color black
2 px color #dea8b8
2 px color black
35 px color #dea8b8
End it HERE.

8
With your Magic wand, select the 35 px border
Effects - Plugins - Photo Tools - Frosted edges color
(this filter could be under your Filters Unlimited 2)
with the settings 73 / 204 / 204 / 40 / 60

Effects - Texture effects - Straw Wall with these settings and color black

Effects - 3D effects - Cutout

Selections - Select none

9
Image - Resize to 80%
Image - Add symmetric borders of 50 px with color #dea8b8
With your Magic wand, select that border
Effects - Texture effects - Weave and enter these settings
with weave Background color#dea8b8
and Gap Accent color #d74671

Effects - Alien Skin Eye Candy Impact 5 - Bevel,
using the preset 'lc-barbie-cadre'


and if you could not install the preset, here are the settings:

Selections - Select none

10
Copy/Paste as a new layer your duplicate of 'lc-barbie-rose-big'
Image - Resize at 65% - 'Resize all layers' unchecked
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
With your Move tool, place the rose bouquet at the bottom left corner
as shown in the final result

11
Copy/Paste as a new layer your duplicate of 'lc-barbie-rose-small'
Image - Resize at 65% - 'Resize all layers' unchecked
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
With your Move tool, place the flower at the bottom right corner
as shown in the final result

 12
Copy/Paste as a new layer your duplicate of 'lc-barbie-rosebuds'
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
With your Move tool, place the buds at the top right corner
as shown in the final result

 13
Layers - Merge - Merge down twice
(or take out the visibility of the bottom layer and Layers - Merge - Merge visible)
Effects - User defined filter - Emboss_3
Note: if you do not have this filter yet, here are the settings:

Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow with the same settings as previously
Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten)
14
Sign and save as a jpg or File - Export as an optimized jpeg
That's it, we are done!! 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 in my gallery!

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