TREE HEART TUTORIAL



    PREPARING
  1. Open your tube, largest side no more then 360 pixels.
  2. Duplicate tube (Shift D) and close original
  3. Choose a medium colour from tube and select it as foreground
    colour in the material box
  4. Choose a dark colour from tube and select it as background
    colour in the material box
  5. Edit � Copy
  6. Minimize tube
  7. For creating the heart, you can choose here between two
    possibilities: using a selection or a slat.

    Selection
    Open your Tree Heart Selection from the files: While
    downloading choose �open� and not �save� and then your
    selection should open into PSP
    Selections - Load/save Selection - Save Selection to disk
    or if you use the slat.

    Slat
    Open your Tree Heart Slat from the files. While downloading
    choose �open� and not �save� and then your slat should open
    into PSP.
    With your magic wand click once in the black, hit delete
    once and you have your Tree Heart Selection. Here as well:
    Selections - Load/save selection - Save Selection to disk

    BACKGROUND
  8. File � New Image: 1580 x 400, transparent
  9. Effects � Eye Candy 5: Textures � Wood:
    • Settings: Cedar
    • Basic:

      Ring Thickness: 6.00, Pulp Color: foreground color,
      Bark Color: background color, Variation Amount: 28,
      Variation Roughness: 23, Contrast: 30, Wood
      Orientation: 90 and Seamless Tile: checked.
    • Knots, Grain & Panels: default

  10. Layers � New Raster Layer
  11. Flood fill this layer with your foreground color
  12. Lower the opacity of this layer to make it more text
    friendly to a number between 50 and 80. The pattern should
    shine through though.
  13. Layers � Merge � Merge all (Flatten)
  14. Selections � Load/Save selection � Load Selection
    from disk: Select your Tree Heart Selection, Source luminance
    checked, Replace selection checked, Load
  15. Layers � New Raster Layer
  16. In your background color box choose a light color from your tube
  17. Effects � Eye Candy 5: Textures � Wood: settings:
    Same settings. One change. In your basic change pulp
    color to your new background color. Change your bark
    color to your foreground color.
  18. Selections � Invert
  19. Effects � 3D Effects � Outer bevel: settings:



    Bevel: 2, Width: 4, Smoothness: 0, Depth: 6, Ambience: 0,
    Shininess: 0, Angle: 315, Intensity: 50, Elevation: 30
  20. Selections � Select none
  21. Edit � Paste � Paste as New Layer
  22. With your mover tool move your tube to the left
    and position it nicely on top of the heart.
  23. Effects � 3D Effects � Drop shadow: Vertical &
    Horizontal: 3, Opacity: 40, Blur: 10 and Color: Black.
  24. Layers � New Raster Layer
  25. Add your watermark
  26. Layers � Merge � Merge All (Flatten)
  27. File � Export � JPEG Optimizer: save with a
    Compression of 22.

    FINISHING
  28. Open Letter Creator
  29. In your body open your background and tile
  30. Mention your credits in your footer
  31. Finish


Another example:


And the last example, here I used text as well:




I hope you enjoyed making this letter. I would love to see the results.
You can reach me at:
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My tutorials can be found in my groupfiles.
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or when they are released in the creatorscommunity at the
earlier mentioned homepage.

With thanks to the brilliant women who have given me
lessons in PSP and Incredimail.
Many things I learnt have been used by me in creating.
Any resemblance with other tutorials is purely coincidental.
And special thanks to my testers for their testing.

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

Hugs

Jetty
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