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Skill level: Beginner. This tutorial assumes the user is familiar with installing and using plugins.
Remember To Save Your Work Often!
Required Supplies:
Programs: Paint Shop Pro (),
Incredimail Letter Creator ().
Materials:
A tube of your choice,
Accents if desired.
Textures:
Old Paper (Default in PSP),
Fine Paper (Default in PSP).
Settings remain the same unless otherwise noted.
Let's Begin!
Part 1: Prepare Your Tube
1. Open your tube. Duplicate (shift +D) your tube. Close the original. If necessary, crop your image.
2. Image, Resize:
Width: No more than 300 pixels
Height: No more than 370 pixels
Resample Using: Smart Size
Lock Aspect Ratio: Checked
Resize All Layers: Checked.
Note: Take note of?the new width and height of your tube.
3. Optional: Adjust, Sharpness, Sharpen or:
Adjust, Sharpen, Unsharp Mask:
Radius: 5.00
Strength: 25
Clipping: 2
Luminance Only: Not Checked
Or use settings of your preference.
Note: Not all versions of PSP have the Unsharp Mask option.
4. Use your Dropper Tool to choose a medium color for your foreground and a dark color for your background.
5. Edit, Copy.
Part 2: Create Your Side Border
6. Image, Canvas Size:
Width: Width of your tube + 25 pixels
Height: Height of your tube + 25 pixels
Lock Aspect Ratio: Not Checked
Placement: Middle Arrow Checked
Numbers: Default.
7. Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow:
Vertical Offset: 0
Horizontal Offset: 0
Opacity: 80
Blur: 8
Color: Black
Shadow on new layer: Not Checked.
Note: Do not add a drop shadow to a misted or transparent tube.
8. Layers, New Raster Layer.
9. Layers, Arrange, Send to Bottom.
10. Activate your Flood Fill Tool with these settings:
Match Mode: RGB Value
Tolerance: 20
Use All Layers: Not Checked
Blend Mode: Normal
Opacity: 100.
11. Flood fill the bottom layer of your canvas with your darker background color.
12. Effects, Texture Effects, Texture:
Texture: Paper Fine
Size: 100%
Smoothness: 5
Depth: 2
Ambience: 2
Shininess: 2
Color: White
Angle: 315
Intensity: 50
Elevation: 30.
13. Effects, Edge Effects, Enhance.
14. Effects, Image Effects, Seamless Tiling:
Tiling Method: Edge
Direction: Vertical
Width: 51
Transition: 50.
15. Selections, Select All.
16. Selections, Modify, Contract, Number of Pixels: 25.
17. Layers, New Raster Layer.
18. Flood fill the selected area with your medium foreground color.
19. Effects, Texture Effects, Texture:
Texture: Old Paper
Size: 50%.
Smoothness: 5
Depth: 1
Ambience: 0
Shininess: 0.
20. Effects, Edge Effects, Enhance.
21. Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow.
22. Selections, Modify, Expand, Number of Pixels: 10.
23. Layers, New Raster Layer.
24. Layers, Arrange, Move Down.
25. Using your Eye Dropper Tool, choose a third complementary light color from your tube and place it in your foreground palette.
26. Flood fill the selected area with your new foreground color.
27. Adjust, Add/Remove Noise, Add Noise:
Gaussian: Checked
Noise: 8%
Monochrome: Checked.
28. Selections, Select None.
29. Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow:
Opacity: 45
Blur: 6.
30. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible.
31. Optional: Image, Resize:
Width: Maximum of 295 pixels
Height: Allow height to self-adjust.
32. Optional: Adjust, Sharpness, Sharpen.
33. Image, Add Borders:
Symmetric: Not Checked
Top: 0
Left: 1
Right: 1
Bottom: 0
Color: Your new foreground color.
34. Image, Add Borders:
Left: 3
Right: 3
Color: Your background color.
35. Image, Add Borders:
Left: 1
Right: 1
Color: Your new foreground color.
36. Layers, Promote Background Layer.
Part : Create Your Background
37. Image, Canvas Size:
Width: 2000 pixels
Height: Height of your side border image
Placement: Right Middle Arrow Checked.
38. Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow:
Horizontal Offset: -6 (minus)
Shadow on new layer: Checked.
39. Effects, Image Effects, Seamless Tiling.
40. Layers, New Raster Layer.
41. Layers, Arrange, Send to Bottom.
42. Flood fill the bottom layer with your background color.
43. Effects, Texture Effects, Texture:
Texture: Paper Fine
Size: 100%
Smoothness: 5
Depth: 2
Ambience: 2
Shininess: 2.
44. Optional: If you feel your canvas is not text-friendly, add a new raster layer and flood fill it with your background color. Lower the opacity of the layer until you achieve a text-friendly background that still shows the texture nicely.
45. Optional: Add accents, text or other embellishments as desired. Remember to add appropriate drop shadows, inner bevels, etc. If you want, add these on separate raster layers.
46. Add your watermark. If necessary, add any additional artist credits or license numbers required. Again, you may add these on new raster layers if you wish.
47. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible.
48. File, Export, Jpeg Optimizer, Compression Value 15 (or your preference), Click OK, Save.
Part 4: Assemble Your Stationery In Letter Creator
49. Open Incredimail Letter Creator and assemble your file as a new stationery.
50. In the "Body Tab" choose "Image" and enter your canvas you have saved. Be sure to "Top Right" is selected and click "Tile".
51. Choose your fonts, margins, create your footer, title your stat, etc.
52. Please remember to give credit to any artist's work which you may have used in your work. If the TOU requires use of a license number, e.g., don't forget to include it.
53. Please link to my group at and to my website when assembling your footer information. Please note in your footer the name of the tutorial. Thanks!
Thank You very much to my tutorial testers! They bless me so much with their time, talent and effort in helping make these tutorials the best they can be.
