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I wrote this tutorial on
November 18, 2010 and it comes from my own creativity.
This tutorial was written for those who have a working knowledge of
Paint Shop Pro. It is meant
to be used as a guide and changes can be made by you as desired.
To do this tutorial you will need Paint Shop Pro. I
wrote this with Paint Shop Pro IX, but the steps can be
done in any version. You may download a free trial at
Corel.
Remember to save as a psp file often!
You will need
Tube of choice. I used
Keith Garvey's gorgeous Thanksgiving girls available at
My PSP Art and
you must have a license to use it
Kit MPD Lovely Fall Arrangement
by Mimi from Bulgaria here
Kit is in September
Monti Circle Mask
Here
Fonts of choice. I used
Impact and Montelago
Plugins: Two Moons and
Photo Effex
Open mask and tube and minimize
for now
Open frame 3 from the kit, shift
D to duplicate and close out the original tube
Image, Canvas size, 600 X 600 pixels

With magic wand select in center
of frame, selections modify, expand by 2.
Open paper 6 from kit, resize to 600 X 600 pixels, Copy, Paste as a
new layer. Selections, Invert, Delete.
Do not deselect. Drag paper layer below frame layer.
Copy main tube, paste as a new layer, delete.
Deselect.
Add a new layer. Flood
fill with white, Drag to bottom of layer pallette
In the materials palette make
the background color #d4b38a
and the foreground color #56a4ca Change the foreground to
gradient at these settings

Open a new image 600 X 600
pixels. Flood fill with gradient. Copy paste as a new
layer above white background layer.
Layers, New Mask Layer,
From Image, find Monti's Circle Mask in the dropdown
and apply, invert mask data NOT checked. Mask, delete, merge
group
Effects, Plugins, Two Moons,
Venitian Builder at these settings

Effects, Photo Effex, Scanlines
at these settings

Repeat scanlines one more time at same settings.
Effects, Drop Shadow on the
frame layer and tube layer as below

Make the words Give Thanks as
follows
Preset Shapes, Ellipse,
Foreground white, background null at these settings

It will look something like this

Using Impact font at 48 run over
the inscribed line till you see the crosshair_A _with bracket
beneath.
Type the words Give Thanks with
a space between each letter and 2 extra spaces between the words.
Make extra spaces at the beginning of the type to help with
placement.
When you're happy with the
placement click Ok
Click on vector layer in layer
palette, close out the circle line, change layer to raster
In the material palette
foreground #56a4ca and background #613311 make gradient the same as
above but with 3 repeats.
Select each letter holding the
shift key down and flood fill each letter with the gradient.
Keep selected
Selections, Modify, Expand by 3.
flood fill each letter with white.
Drag white layer below coloured
layer.
Choose elements from the kit you
wish to accessorize with. Resize as needed (15%)
Copy, paste as a new layer. drop shadow as above. Arrange as
desired
Add name
Layers, merge visible.
Image, resize to 500 X 500 pixels.
Add copyright information
Hide the white background layer,
Save as a png image
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