FUR ON THE CARPET TUTORIAL



LEVEL
Advanced Beginner

NEEDED
PSP, Letter Creator and a Tube

PREPARING:
  1. Open a tube (maximum height must be 380, maximum width
    must be 260). Or resize the tube
  2. For the carpet effect use an animal or person or object
    that can be standing on a carpet on the floor.
  3. Duplicate tube (Shift � D)
  4. Select two colors of your tube: a light color for the
    background, a dark color for the foreground
  5. Close original (don�t save).
  6. Edit - Copy

    BACKGROUND IMAGE
  7. File � New Image: 1450 x 400, transparant.
  8. Selections � Select all
  9. Edit � Paste into Selection
  10. Selections � select none
  11. Layers � New Raster Layer
  12. Floodfill with your background (light) color
  13. Layers � Arrange � Move down
  14. Layers � Merge � Merge all (flatten)
  15. Effects � Image Effects - Seamless tile at default
  16. Adjust � Blur � Gaussian Blur with radius 25

  17. Effects � Texture Effects � Fur: settings:

    settings: Blur: 0, Length: 50, Density: 37 and
    Transparency: 30
  18. Optional: Effects � Edge Effects - Enhance.
  19. Lower opacity (for better contrast with text).
    I chose for 84, in another letter I didn't lower it.
    Look what is best for you.
    Layers � promote to raster layer before you can
    lower the opacity.
  20. Effects � Image Effects� Seamless Tiling: default
  21. Optional: if you lowered Opacity: Layers � Merge �
    Merge all
  22. In your toolbar with the preset shapes chose Ellipse
  23. For Mode chose for an Ellipse shape
  24. In your Materialbox: your foreground color must still
    be the dark color you chose before and the background the
    lighter color.
  25. Now you are going to draw an ellipse.
    Your startpoint must be around 20 width and 300 below.
    You continue to draw until width 280 � 300 and
    height 360 - 380.
    You now must have a colored Ellipse with a dark edge.
    You can skip �Optional� if your ellipse form has an edge.
    Please continue with step 26!

    If you don�t have the edge now, please follow �Optional�.

    OPTIONAL:

    • Selections � Select all
    • Selections � Float
    • Selections � Modify � Contract: 3 px
    • Selections � Invert
    • Selections � Float
    • Floodfill selection with the dark foregroundcolor
      (floodfill tool in toolbox)
    • Selections � Select none
    • Close visibility of background layer (click on eye)
      (activate ellipse or edge layer)
    • Layers - Merge - Merge visible
    • Make your background layer visible again (eye)
    • Skip step 26 and continue with step 27.


  26. Layers � Convert to Raster Layer
  27. Effects � Texture Effects � Blinds with these settings:

    settings: Width: 5, Opacity: 25, Color: dark color you
    chose before, Light from left/top
  28. Adjust � Add/remove noise � Add noise:
    Gaussian between 15-20, monochrome
    (Depends on the contrast and darkness of both colors)

  29. Add a dropshadow to your liking
    Mine is: Horizontal/Vertical: 4. Opacity: 55, Blur: 15
  30. Layers � Merge � Merge visible
  31. Edit � Paste � Paste as a new layer
  32. With mover tool move tube to the left
  33. Add a dropshadow to your liking, same as before
  34. Layers � new raster layer. Add your watermark.
  35. Layers � Merge � Merge all (flatten)

    FINISHING
  36. File � Export: JPEG Optimize with compression of 25
  37. In Letter Creator in your Body open your background
  38. Tile in your body
  39. In your Footer mention your credits
  40. 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

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