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Snow Scene
Supplies Jasc/Corel's Paint Shop Pro. Supplies to Download. This file contains a winter scene from Microsoft clipart media and the incredible graphics of Rainbow Coffi which includes the holly, snowman, winter tree and peace dove. The full collection of Rainbow Coffi's wonderful images is housed at PSP Playground. Anyone can join, free of charge. To view and obtain Rainbow Coffi's superb graphic tubes, do join PSP Playground, where Rainbow Coffi's and many other wonderful artist tubes are shared. For this tag tutorial, do join PSP Playground and download the graphics of your choosing, or you can use the ones I selected for my tag. Tubes of Choice - This tag tutorial is utilizing the beautiful graphics of © Rainbow Coffi. Since Rainbow Coffi's graphics do not require a copyright, and they are usually mixed with other artist's work, her copyright information usually is not supplied. In this instance, this tutorial is focusing on her art, so please, do add her copyright to your tag.
SETTING USED IN THIS TUTORIAL
Magic Wand: Mode: Add/Shift, Match Mode: RGB Value, Tolerance 51, Contiguous checked, Feather: 0, Anti-Alias checked and outside selected. Drop Shadow: (1)Vertical Offset 2, Horizontal Offset 2, Opacity 80, Blur 5, Color White (2)Vertical Offset 2, Horizontal Offset 2, Opacity 80, Blur 5, Color Black CREATING THE BASIC TAG Step 1 Open up the snow jpg and a new transparent image 700 width x 700 height. This will give you plenty of room to add graphics. Step 2 In the top color box, select the color black, and in the bottom color box, select the color white. Left click the preset shape tool and set it to Circle, solid line and line width of 10.10. DO NOT HAVE CREATE ON VECTOR SELECTED. Going from left to right and down, draw a large circle but do leave room on the top, bottom, and left hand side of the palette to later add some graphics. Step 3 Left click the magic wand and left click it within the circle to select it. Open up the snow jpg and go to Edit/Copy. Make the tag graphic active and go to Edit/Paste into Selection. Go to Selections/Select None. Step 4 Go to Effects/Geometric Effects/Spherize and for strength select 80%. You will notice your circle is not as flat as it was previously and has expanded in size somewhat. Step 5 Go to Image/Resize using the percent option at 90%, bicubic and resize all layers NOT checked. Step 6 Now comes the fun part, decorating your tag with your tube graphics. For each tube element, paste it on a separate layer and resize as you did in Step 5. Left click the mover tool to move the tag elements where you want them placed on your tag. You do not have to use the supplies offered. Do use your own tube graphics or do download more of the wonderful graphics by Rainbow Coffi to make your sig tag unique. For each tube element you add, go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and use the (2) Drop Shadow which uses the color black. Step 7 When you have all your elements on your tag, go to Layers/Merge/Merge All (flatten). Step 8 Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and add your text to the bottom of the tag. Step 9 Go to Effects/3D Effects Drop Shadow and apply Drop Shadow (1) - with the white color. Go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and this time apply Drop Shadow (2) with the black color. Step 10 Add your copyright information and go to Layers/Merge/Merge All (flatten). ADDING CIRCULAR TEXT TO THE TOP OF THE TAG Step
1 Now draw a large ellipse around the entire outside border of your tag by holding down your left mouse button, and starting your circle at the top left, and moving right and down, to complete the circle. It is very important that you
use this direction going from left to right and down, otherwise your text will
not come out right. Left click your text tool and bring it to the area somewhat close to the top
center node of your ellipse. When you see a curved line appear under the text
tool, (it looks like a smile under the A), left click and your text entry screen
will appear. Type in your text and click apply. If your text is off center, left
click the undo key, at the top of the Paint Shop Pro desktop, and reapply at a
different location. It may take a few tries to find the exact spot where your
text is centered. Open up the layer palette and go to your Vector Layer. Right click the Vector Layer and go to where it says ellipse. Left click on the eye to close off the ellipse layer. Step 6 Repeat Step 9 under creating the basic tag, applying both the black and white drop shadow. Step 7 Go to Layers/Merge/Merge All (flatten). FINISHING THE TAG Step 1 Go to Image/Resize using the percent option at 90% or smaller, bicubic and resize all layers checked. Step 2 Left click the crop tool and draw a rectangle around the area you wish to keep, eliminating and excess white palette. Double left click within the rectangle or left click the check mark at the crop ribbon. Save this file as a jpg. We hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Purrs, Nikki, Nichie and Sue
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