MOUNTAIN PARADISE

 

 

Supplies

Jasc/Corel's Paint Shop Pro. 

Tube of Choice  -  For this tutorial, I used a delightful image created by Suzanne Woolcott.  You can purchase her wonderful art in tube and full form at AMI which stands for Artistic Minds, Inc. 

Accessories - Mountains.jpg graphic - from Microsoft Clipart Media - a great place for graphics, Deer (136) and Antelope (antelopes-02) animations.

Summer Fair Scrap Kit by Fiona Tomlinson.  This beautiful scrap kit link is being distributed with permission.  If you love scrap kits, please do join Fiona's Yahoo Group, ScrappyDayz, by clicking here. 

Any additional decorative items for your tag.

Please remember, when creating your signature tags, to only use permission art and to apply the copyright information on the tag.  If  you have purchased a commercial image, do add your license number as well.

**When creating your Signature tags with Paint Shop Pro, do remember to save continually.  Nothing worse than to use up your memory resources and lose everything!**

SETTING USED IN THIS TUTORIAL

Drop Shadow Settings:

Vertical Offset 2, Horizontal Offset 2, Opacity 65 Blur 2.60, Color Black

CREATING THE TAG

Step 1

Open up the mountains jpg graphic and go to Image/Add Borders.  When the border selection window opens up select the color black, symmetric and border width 4.

Step 2

Open up your tube graphic and go to Edit/Copy.  Make your mountains graphic active and go to Edit/Paste as New Layer.

Step 3

Go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and use the drop shadow setting from above.

Step 4

Open up the Summer Fair Scrap kit and select one of the daisies.  Go to Edit/Copy.  Make the tag image active and go to Edit/Paste as new layer. Go to Image/Resize using the percent option at 80%, Bicubic and Resize all Layers checked. Left click the mover tool and move the daisy to the bottom left side of the tag.  (See above tag).

Step 5

Select the other daisy and repeat copying, pasting and resizing it on the tag.  Go to Image/Mirror.  Left click the mover tool and move the second daisy next to the first one.

Step 6

Open up the layer palette and make sure you are on the layer with the daisy you added in Step 4.  Go to Layers/Duplicate.  Left click the mover tool and move this daisy to the bottom right side of the tag.

Step 7

Select the sun graphic from the scrap kit and copy, paste and resize it  on the tag. Left click the mover tool and move it to the top left of the tag, over the mountains.

Go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible.

Step 8

Add your text to the tag and your copyright information as well as license information, if applicable.

Step 9

Go to Image/Resize using the percent option at 80%, bicubic and resize all layers checked.

Save this file as a psp or psd file.  We will add the antelope and deer in animation shop.  Click here to continue.