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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Paint Shop Pro - My translations - Ezia (valyscrappassion)

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

valyscrappassion.com

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 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’ll try to fix the problem as quickly as I can.  You can reach me here.

Valérie made this tutorial on September 19, 2020, with PSPX8.  I have used PSPX 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.

 

Colors

Foreground color 1 #8a9a98

Background color 2 #8ea837
Additional color 3 #3f4a4c
Additional color 4 #ffffff

Plugins

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 – Impact – Perspective Shadow - Drop Shadow Blurry

Filters Unlimited 2.0 – Two Moon – WarmCloth…

Filters Unlimited 2.0 – Tile & Mirror – Seamless Blend (horizontal)

Richard Rosenman – Solid Border

 

Let's start!!

1
Foreground color 1 #8a9a98
Background color 2 #8ea837
Create a Linear gradient

 

Open the Alphafile 'Alpha-Ezia-VSP'
Window – Duplicate and close the original
(we always work on the duplicate in
order to have it untouched if we need to start all over again)
Flood fill with the gradient
Effects – Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 – Two Moon – WarmCloth…

2
Layers – New raster layer
Flood fill with color 3 #3f4a4c
Layers – New mask layer – From image 'Narah_mask_0345'

Layers – Merge – Merge Group

Effects – Image effects – Offset Hor -217 and Vert 0

Layers – Duplicate

Layers – Merge – Merge Down

3
Layers – New raster layer
Flood fill with color 2 #8ea837
Layers – New mask layer – From image Narah_mask_0344

Layers – Merge – Merge Group
Effects – Plugins - Richard Rosenman – Solid Border
First, click on Lock Vertical to Horizontal then the settings

After this, we should have this in our Layers palette:

4
Highlight the bottom layer
Layers – Duplicate
Layers – New mask layer – From image VSP279

Layers – Merge – Merge Group

You don’t see anything yet, but that’s normal;
it all happens in the next step
Layers – Properties – Blend Mode Difference and Opacity 46
View – Rulers

Activate the Pick tool (K) – Mode Scale – Position X to 0 and Position Y at 365 px

Type M to close the Pick tool

 5
Highlight the bottom layer
Activate the Selection Rectangle Tool – Custom selection

and enter these settings:

Selections – Promote selection to layer

Selections – Select None
Effects – Distortion effects – Curlicues

Effects – Edge effects – Erode

Effects – 3D Effects – Drop Shadow  0 / -20 / 65 / 45 with color black
Your layer palette now looks like this

Your work now looks like this

6
Activate the Selection Rectangle – Custom selection
Enter these settings:

Edit – Copy special – Copy merged

Layers – New raster layer

Edit – Paste into selection
Selections – Select None
Layers – Properties – Blend mode Multiply

7
Effects – Image effects – Seamless Tiling – Default settings
Check  the materials palette that you have color 2 in the background
Effects – Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 – Tile & Mirror – Seamless Blend (horizontal)

Effects – 3D Effects – Drop Shadow  0 / -20 / 65 / 45 with black

Layers – Merge – Merge Visible

 8
Selections – Load /Save Selection – Load selection from alpha channel – Load Selection # 1

Layers – New raster layer

Flood fill the selection with #ffffff (white)
Selections – Select None
Effects – 3D Effects – Drop Shadow -2 / 30 / 78 / 20 with color black

9
Selections – Load /Save Selection – Load selection from alpha channel – Load Selection # 2

Layers – New raster layer

Flood fill the selections with white
Selections – Select None

 10
Open the tube 'Fleurs50VSP' – Remove the watermark
Copy/Paste as a new layer
Selections – Load /Save Selection – Load selection from alpha channel – Load Selection # 3

Selections – Invert

Edit – Cut (or use the Scissors)

Selections – Select None

Layers – Arrange – Move Down

 11
Highlight the top layer
Effects – Texture effects – Blinds with color 2 #8ea837

Effects – Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 – Impact – Perspective Shadow / Drop Shadow Blurry

12
Layers – New raster layer
Flood fill with white (color 4)
Layers – New mask layer – From image Narah_mask_0348

Layers – Merge – Merge Group
Effects – Image effects – Offset Hor 0 and Vert -36
Layers – Properties – Blend mode Overlay
Your layers palette now looks like this

Your work now looks like this

 13
Layers – New raster layer
Flood fill with color 2 #8ea837
Layers – New mask layer – From image Narah_mask_0418

Effects – Edge effects – Enhance More

Layers – Merge – Merge Group
Image – Flip
Image - Free rotate Left at 90°
Effects – Image effects – Offset Hor 49 and Vert 35
Effects – 3D Effects – Drop Shadow -2 / 30 / 78 / 20 with #000000

Adjust – Brightness and Contrast / Brightness/Contrast

14
Open the tube Deco1-Ezia-VSP - Copy
Back to your image, Paste as new layer
Activate the Pick tool – Mode Scale - Position X 6 - Position Y 69

Type M to close the tool

 15
(If you want to keep this nice border frame, start the script here!!)

Image – Add symmetric borders of 2 px color 3 #3f4a4c

 Image – Add symmetric borders of 2 px color 2 #8ea837

 Image – Add symmetric borders of 2 px color 1 #8a9a98

Selections – Select All

Image – Add symmeric borders of 75 px color 4 #ffffff

Selections – Invert
Keep selection active 

16
Effects – Texture effects – Blinds / Color 1

Effects – Texture effects – Blinds / Color 3 #3f4a4c

Selections – Promote selection to layer

Effects – Texture effects – Blinds - Color 2 #8ea837

Selections – Select None
(End the script here)

17
Layers – Duplicate
Image – Flip
Activate Selection tool Rectangle (S) – Custom selection

Note from the translator: for me, this setting had the custom selection too small and it was selecting in the middle of the frames, so I modified these settings like this:

which allowed for the 3 frames to stay intact after the delete step thereafter)
Press Delete on the Keyboard
Selections – Select None
Layers – Merge – Merge Visible

 18
Selections – Select All
Selections – Modify – Contract number of pixels 75
Effects – 3D Effects – Drop Shadow  0 / 0 / 50 / 35 with color #000000
Selections – Select None

 19
Open the tube Deco2-Ezia-VSP 
Copy and Paste as new layer
Don’t move it. It is in its place.

 20
Open the tube Deco3-Ezia-VSP
Copy and Paste as new layer
Don’t move it. It is in its place.

21
Open the tube Deco4-Ezia-VSP
Copy and Paste as new layer
Objects – Align – Right
Note from the translator: in my PSPX, 'Objects - Align' doesn't work so I use the Move tool.

 22
Activate the tube 'femmeVSP206'
Copy and Paste as new layer
Image – Resize – Resize 2 times by 75% uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Adjust – Sharpness – Sharpen
Activate the Pick tool / Mode Scale / Position X 206 and Position Y 152
Type M to close the tool
Effects – 3D Effects – Drop Shadow -19 / 23 / 50 / 45 with color #000000

23
Layers – Merge – Merge All (Flatten)
Image – Resize the width to 800 pixels

24
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 translating it.
Valérie has a gallery of all the results that she receives
from all over the world and she loves to see your creations. Click here to send yours!!

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