FREDERIEK'S HEADER TUTORIAL




SKILLS/LEVEL
Beginner with knowledge of PSP, Letter Creator and the some working experience with tutorials

NEEDED
  • tube of your choice
  • PSP & Letter Creator

    PREPARING
  • Open tube (maximum height of less then 400, width of less then 600)
  • Duplicate(shift-D)your tube
  • Close out original
  • Chose a light color from the tube for your foregroundcolor box in your materialbox
  • Edit - Copy
  • Minimize tube

    HEADER
  • File � New - New image of 600 x 400 (or if you have a smaller tube you can always make this new image smaller like: 500 x 330)
  • Selections � Select all
  • Edit � Paste � Paste into Selection
  • Selections � Select none
  • Effects � Image effects � Seamless tiling: default settings
  • Adjust � Blur � Gaussian Blur: settings: radius of 25
  • Layers � New raster layer
  • Floodfill your new layer with your foregroundcolor
  • Layers � Arrange � Send to bottom
  • Layers � Merge � Merge all (flatten)
  • Effects � L en K Landksiteofwonders � L en K�s Frederiek: with the following settings: control 0: 27, control 1: 3

  • Duplicate (Shift D) and minimize copy
  • Edit � Paste � Paste as new layer
  • Effects � 3d effects � Dropshadow to your liking. I used: Horizontal: 3, Vertical: 3, Opacity: 45, Blur: 15.
  • Layers � New raster layer: add your watermark
  • Layers � Merge � Merge all (flatten)

    BORDER
  • Effects � 3dEffects � Inner Bevel: with the following settings:

  • With your dropper tool chose a contrasting color and put it as your background color in your materialbox
  • Image � Add borders � 20 Pixels with symmetric checked: top 20, left 20, right: 20, bottom: 20. You should select your background color
  • With your magic wand select this border
  • Effects � L en K Landksiteofwonders � L en K�s Frederiek: with the following settings: control 0: 27, control 1: 3
  • Effects � 3d Effects � Inner Bevel: same settings as before
  • Selections � Select none
  • With your dropper tool chose a contrasting color and put it as your background color in your materialbox
  • Image � Add borders � 20 Pixels with symmetric checked in your background color
  • With your magic wand select this border
  • Effects � L en K Landksiteofwonders � L en K�s Frederiek: with the following settings: control 0: 27, control 1: 3
  • Effects � 3d Effects � Inner Bevel: same settings as before
  • Selections � Select none
  • Your header is now ready
  • Minimize

    BACKGROUND
  • Open the minimized copy of your header without tube
  • Open your selection tool

  • Go to Custom Selection and use the following settings: Top: 0, Left: 0, Right: 200, Bottom: 200
  • Image � Crop to selection
  • Effects � Image Effects � Seamless tiling with the following settings

    settings: Mirror checked, Bidirectional checked and width: 50
  • Your background tile is now ready
  • File � Export � JPEG optimizer with a compression of 20
  • You can close this tile now


    • OPTIONAL: ADDING TEXT TO HEADER
  • Activate your header
  • Activate your text tool
  • Chose one of the border colors for your background color
  • You can chose another or the same color for your foreground color box or close this off.
  • Chose a font to your liking, as big as possible
  • Put your text somewhere in the header, make it bigger if necessary
  • Effects to your liking
  • Layers � Merge � Merge All (flatten)


    • FINISHING
  • Export your header (with out without text) with a compression of 20
  • Open Letter Creator.
  • Go to your body and open your background tile
  • In your body �tile�
  • In your header go to your �header content and lay-out� and open in image your header and put it in the center
  • Put your credits in the footer
  • Finish.

    I hope you enjoyed making this letter. I would love to see the results. You can mail them to me at:
    [email protected] My tutorials can be found in my groupfiles:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cuteIMlettersandtagsbyJetty
    You can also visit my website:
    http://www.geocities.com/ladyluna37/

    With thanks to the brilliant women who have given me lessons in PSP and Incredimail letters. Many of the things I learnt have been used by me in creating my letters.
    Any resemblance to other tutorials is purely coincidental. Special thanks to my testers...

    You are free to share my tutorials. If you want to use them for lessons or a groupshare please ask me and please awknowledge it as my tutorial.

    Hugs
    Jetty

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