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Silver
Heart Frame
This tutorial
has been written for Paint Shop
Pro (PSP) 8.
It
should be possible to complete
it with later versions, but some
tools may have different options
and be located
differently. It can also
be completed in PSP 7, but text
options are set after you click
to place it and with an
additional filter.
If you do not
know how to apply Super Blade
Pro presets, you will find it
helpful to look at my SBP Text
tutorial HERE
Supplies you will need:
Super Blade Pro filter -
Download from Flaming Pear HERE
My Super Blade Pro presets -
Download my Zip file HERE
Unzip the file to your "Plugins\Super
Blade Pro\Environments and
Textures"
folder
If you don't have a heart
shape, you can download mine
HERE - unzip it to your preset
shapes folder (My
Documents\Paint Shop Pro\Preset
Shapes).
The font I have used is
Duvall, which you can download
from HERE
- choose from the pull down list
and then click the download
link.
For
PSP 7 you will need an
additional filter MURA's
Pole Transform
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| Create a new
image 350 x 300 pixels,
Raster, White background
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| Click on the
Flood Fill tool.
On the Materials
pallet, set the Foreground
colour to a dark shade of
the colour you want the
tag to be and set the
Background colour to a
very pale shade of the
same colour.
Set the Foreground
material to Gradient, then
click the gradient block
and set the following
options:
Gradient = Foreground
- Background
Style = Linear
Angle = 0
Repeats = 1
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| Click on the
canvas with the flood fill
tool to fill it with the
gradient.
Adjust menu, Add/Remove
Noise, Add Noise
Uniform
20%
Monochrome = ticked
Effects menu,
Distortion Effects, Polar
Coordinates - select
"Polar
To Rectangular"
Layers menu, Duplicate
Image menu, Flip
On the Layers Pallet,
change the Blend Mode for
the upper layer to
Lighten.
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| Layers menu,
Merge, Merge All (Flatten)
Selections menu, Select
All
Selections menu,
Modify, Contract - 10
pixels
Selections menu, Invert
Click in the selected
border with the Flood Fill
tool.
Selections menu, Select
None
Image, Add Borders -
right click the colour box
and select the foreground
colour. Set the
border size to 1 pixel all
round.
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| Layers menu,
New Vector Layer
Click on the Preset
Shapes tool
Set both foreground and
background materials to
the solid colour option
and then swap the foreground and
background colours over
(click the double ended
arrow between them) so
that the dark shade is the
Background colour.
Set the
foreground material to
Null (no-entry sign)
On the Tool Options,
select the heart
shape. On the Tool
Options pallet, make sure
Retain Style is unticked.
Draw a heart filling
most of the canvas, inside
the border area.
Objects menu, Align,
Centre in Canvas
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| Layers menu,
Duplicate
On the Layers pallet,
select the middle layer
Layers menu, Convert To
Raster
Adjust, Add/Remove
Noise, Add Noise - 20 %
(you won't see any change
in your image because it
is covered by the top
layer still)
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| On the
Layers Pallet, click on
the top layer Click on the Object
Selector tool (Picker tool
in PSP Photo XI), and the
heart shape should become
selected. If it
doesn't, click the + sign
on the top layer and then
click on the name of the
shape on the layer pallet
(if you try to click on
the heart itself it will
probably move).
Objects menu,
Properties
Turn (tick) the Stroke
colour, and turn off (untick)
the Fill colour. Set the
Stroke Width to 8 and the
line style to Solid.
Anti-Alias and Visible
should both be ticked.
Selections menu, From
Vector Object
Layers menu, Convert to
Raster Layer
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| Effects
menu, Plugins, Flaming
Pear Super Blade Pro
Load my silver_heart-jh
preset and then click OK
Effects menu, 3D
Effects, Drop Shadow
Horizontal = 1
Vertical = 1
Opacity = 60
Blur = 10
Colour = black
Selections menu, Select
None.
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| Layers menu,
New Vector Layer
Select the Preset
Shapes tool - it should
still be set to the heart.
Swap the Foreground and
background colour over
(click arrow between the
small boxes), so that the
foreground is still set to
Null and the background is
set to the very pale shade
of the colour you are
using.
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| Draw a small
heart approximate 1/3 of
the height of the one you
already have.
Click on the Object
Selector tool
Use the centre spot to
drag the heart into
position just above the
bottom of the big
heart.
Objects menu, Align,
Horz Centre in Canvas.
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| Selections
menu, From Vector Object
Layers menu, Convert to
Raster Layer
Effects menu, Plugins,
Flaming Pear, Super Blade
Pro
Load the
silver_heart_solid-jh
preset and click OK
Effects menu, 3D
Effect, Drop Shadow - same
settings as before.
Selections menu, Select
None
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| Layers
menu, new Vector Layer
Click
on the Text tool
The
materials pallet should
remain as before, with the
light shade as the
background material, and
the foreground material
set to Null.
On
the Options Pallet, set
the font to Duvall, and
size to 36.
Click
in the centre of the
heart, type in your text
and click Apply.
Click
on the Object Selector
tool (Picker tool in PSP
Photo XI)
Use
the handles on the sides
to adjust the width and
height of the text, and
drag the centre spot to
position the text so that
there is an even gap
between both ends and the
edge of the heart frame.
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| Selections
menu, From Vector Object
Layers
menu, Convert to Raster
Layer
Effects
menu, Plugins, Flaming
Pear, Super Blade
Pro.
Load
my silver_text-jh preset
and click OK
Effects
menu, 3D Effects, Drop
Shadow - use the same
settings as before.
Selections
menu, Select None
Save
in .jpg format, making
sure you click options on
the save dialogue and set
the compression to 1. |
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