NOT A WHOLE CIRCLE TUTORIAL



    PREPARING
  1. Open tube, height maximum: 400 px. or resize to max. 400
  2. Duplicate tube (Shift D) and close original
  3. Chose a light color from tube and select it as foreground color
    in the material box
  4. Chose a darker color for your background color box
  5. Edit - Copy
  6. Minimize Tube

    BACKGROUND TILE
  7. File � New Image (200x200, transparent)
  8. Selections � Select all
  9. Edit � Paste into Selection
  10. Selections � Select none
  11. Layers � New layer (raster)
  12. Floodfill layer with light foreground color
  13. Layers � arrange � send to bottom
  14. Layers � Merge � Merge visible
  15. Effects � Image effects � Seamless tiling (default)
  16. Funhouse: Spyrozag: settings of 25 Amplitude



    settings: Amplitude: 25
  17. Effects � Image effects � Seamless tiling: default
  18. Your background tile is now ready
  19. Minimize

    BACKGROUND
  20. File � New Image (1280 x 400, transparent)
  21. Go to your material pallet and put your background color
    (box) to pattern



  22. Chose your settings: angle 0, scale 100,
  23. Chose your background tile as pattern
  24. Floodfill the Background with your pattern
  25. Optional: Effects � Image effects � Seamless tiling: default
    (should not be necessary)
  26. Layers � New raster layer
  27. Floodfill with your foreground color (material box)
  28. Lower the opacity of your layer to 40 - 80
    You should be able to see the tile through it.
    I chose for: 56 and once 71. Try it out.
  29. Layers � Merge � Merge all (flatten)
  30. Layers � New raster layer
  31. Go to your toolbar and chose selections

    Settings: selection type: circle, Mode: add, Feather: 0 Anti-Alias checked
  32. Start in the top-left corner at 0. Draw a circle until 300
    down and 300 to the right.
  33. Floodfill with your darker background color (floodfill tool)
  34. Effects � Texture Effects: Blinds: with these settings:

    Settings: Width: 8, Opacity: 27, color: light foreground color
    Light from left/top: checked
  35. Selection � Select none
  36. Effects � 3d Effects � Inner bevel: with these settings:
    Bevel: 2, Width: 4, Smoothness: 40, Depth: 4, Ambience: 0
    Shininess: 0, Angle: 315, Intensity: 50, Elevation: 30
  37. Edit � Paste as a new layer
  38. Move with your mover tool to the left end
  39. Make bottom layer invisible (click on eye)
  40. The tube layer should still be activated
  41. Layers � Merge � Merge Visible
  42. Effects � 3dEffects � dropshadow: to your likings
    I used: horizontal & vertical: 4, opacity: 55, blur: 15, black
  43. Make bottom layer visible again (click eye)
  44. Layers � new raster layer: add your watermark
  45. Layers � Merge � Merge all (flatten)

    FINISHING
  46. File � Export � JPEG Optimizer (between 22-26)
  47. In Letter Creator open your background in Body
  48. Tile in your Body
  49. Chose matching color for the text, chose margins
  50. Don�t forget your credits in your footer
  51. Finish
Another example:


I hope you will have fun doing this tutorial.
Please show me your results as I love seeing my tutorials
used and I love seeing nice letters. So please do.
My email is: [email protected]

Please give credit to me in your tutorials. Best to put a
link to my group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IMtutorialsbyJetty
or to my homepage:
http://www.geocities.com/ladyluna37/index.htm

If you want to use this tutorial groupswise or include
it in lessons please ask my permission.
I probably won�t refuse but I would like to hear when
it is used.

If there is any resemblance to another tutorial by another
author, it is purely coincidental.

Thanks to the women who have thought me more about Paint
Shop Pro and Incredimail and to the women who test for me.
Without you I couldn�t have done it.

Hugs
Jetty

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