Sherrie's Beginner Effects Tutorial

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This tutorial is for PSP 6 & 7

Make Mosaic Text here

This tutorial will show you how to do just one special effect in Paint Shop pro, and will only show you one way to use it .. but as you can see from the welcome graphic and the separator bars .. there are MANY ways to use it:)

For this tutorial you will need a Picture or graphic to use. You want one that is some what light in color with lots of different colors. I am going to use a person picture so I can offer it if someone does not have one they can use ... PLEASE use whatever type of picture or graphic that you would like to use.

You may right click and save this graphic to your hard drive if you would like to use it. After saving it then open it in Paint Shop Pro.

(Just for information, this is Olivia. She was 13 years old when
she passed away. I know she passed away at a young age. She had
had a respiratory problem all of her life and it finally became to much)

* After opening the graphic you are going to use then Use the shift key on your keyboard and while holding it down also use the D key .. this will make an exact duplicate of your graphic or picture in a new window. Now close your original graphic.
* Now go to COLORS and near the bottom choose INCREASE colors .. make sure that it is set for 16 million colors .. if they are ALL grayed out then you are fine, just click out of it. If 16 million colors is a choice, then choose it.
* Choose your SELECTION TOOL .. Now Open your TOOL OPTIONS window and use the drop down window .. find CIRCLE and highlight it then click it. Set your Feather option to 0 and Antialias is checked.
* Look at your graphic, choose a focal point. Place your mouse pointer in the middle of your "focus point and chile clicking and holding, drag your circle down until you have the area selected that you want.
I have used red paint to show the area that I am selecting. The picture also has been made smaller for faster loading

* Go to Selections, Choose INVERT .. Now you will see a marquee around the outside of your graphic and around the circle that you just added.
* GO TO
      PSP6 .. Image, Effects, Mosaic Glass and use the settings that follow
      PSP7 .. Effects, Texture Effects, Mosaic Glass and use the settings that follow

THE FIRST thing that I do when using an effect that I have not used is to set it so that I can see the effect on the graphic as I change settings. SO if you want to do the same then follow me.
If you want it left on all the time (which is what I do) then click the button that the red arrow points to. If you only want it on "this" time to see what the effect does to to the picture then click on the button that the green arrow points to.
PSP6 Users all you need to do is check mark the AUTO PROOF box on the effects window:)

Use these settings :
    Number of Columns 33
    Number or Rows      33
Symmetric is checked
    Glass Curvature   50
    Edge 3
    Grout width 1
    Grout opacity 70
CLICK OK
* GO TO
      PSP6 .. Image, Effects, Mosaic Antique and use the settings that follow
      PSP7 .. Effects, Texture Effects, Mosaic Antique and use the settings that follow
Number of Columns 40
    Number or Rows      40
Symmetric is checked
    Tile Opacity 100
    Grout Width 3
    Grout opacity 60
CLICK OK
Now you have this but bigger than mine:)

* Go to SELECTIONS .. INVERT .. now your Marquee is around only your "focal point" again
* Go to SELECTIONS .. FLOAT .. if you do not do this then you will cut out your focal point in the next step.
* GO TO
      PSP6 .. Image, Effects, Cutout .. and use the settings that follow
      PSP7 .. Effects, 3D, Cutout.. and use the settings that follow

            Vertical 9
            Horizontal 9
            Opacity 75
            Blur 20

Shadow color is Black for this picture, if you have a VERY light picture then you might want to change the shadow color to a dark gray or light gray. Fill Interior with color is UNchecked.
CLICK OK
* GO TO
PSP6 .. Image, Effects, Drop Shadow .. and use the settings that follow
PSP7 .. Effects, 3D, Drop Shadow.. and use the settings that follow
            Vertical 5
            Horizontal 5
            Opacity 85
            Blur 15
   Click OK
CTRL D to deselect the area.
Now you have this

Now we add a little boarder just so when you send your graphic into your group it doesn't look funny:)
* Go to SELECTIONS, SELECT ALL
* Go to SELECTIONS, MODIFY, CONTRACT .. in the little window that pops up put in 10, click OK (now you see how the marquee has moved in on your graphic)
* Go to Selection, INVERT .. Now you see the marquee around what will be the border around the out side of the graphic.
* Go to Image, Mirror
* Go to Image, Flip
     This will give the border a little definition from the graphic.

* GO TO
PSP6 .. Image, Effects, Inner Bevel .. and use the settings that follow
PSP7 .. Effects, 3D, Inner Bevel.. and use the settings that follow
     Use the TOP drop down menu and find Soft Edge click on it
     Change the Depth to 10
     Click OK
* GO TO
PSP6 .. Image, Effects, Drop Shadow ..
PSP7 .. Effects, 3D, Drop Shadow ..
   Both PSP 6 & 7 use the same settings as you last used.
Go to Drop Shadow again and Change the Vertical and Horizontal to -2 (minus2) Click OK
CTRL D to deselect and save ..

Graphic made by Dee