EASY VERTIGO TUTORIAL
NEEDED:
- PSP
- Letter Creator
- Tube of your choice, largest side not longer then 350 px
- Filter Factory D: Vertigo:
http://www.stevesdesktopphotography.com/plugins.htm
LEVEL:
Beginner with basic knowledge of paint shop pro, letter
creator and filters
PREPARING
- Open tube
- Duplicate tube (Shift D) and close original
- Chose a light color from tube and select it as
foreground color in the materialbox
- Chose a dark color from tube and select is as
background color in the materialbox
- Edit - Copy
- Minimize Tube
BACKGROUND
- File � New Image (1280x400, transparant)
- Selections � Select all
- Edit � Paste into Selection
- Selections � Select none
- Effects � Image Effects � Seamless tiling: at default
- Layers � New layer (raster)
- Floodfill layer with light foreground color
- Layers � arrange � send to bottom
- Layers � Merge � Merge visible
- Effects � Filter Factory D � Vertigo: with these settings:
Settings: Intensity: 185
- Optional: lower the opacity of this background if necessary
to make it more textfriendly
- Effects � Image Effects � Seamless Tiling: at default
- Edit � Paste � Paste as a new layer
- With your mover tool move your tube to the far left
of the background
- Effects � 3d effects � Dropshadow with these settings:
horizontal: 4, vertical: 4, opacity: 56, blur: 20, color black
- Layers � new raster layer. Add your watermark.
- Layers � Merge � Merge all (flatten)
FINISHING
- File � Export: JPEG Optimize with compression of 25
- In Letter Creator in your Body open your background
- Tile in your body
- Chose a matching text color and place margins
- In your Footer mention your credits
- 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/cuteIMlettersandtagsbyJetty
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
