Caitlin

This lesson was written by me, Jille, on April 25th, 2010 in the Dutch version of PSP X3. The lesson can be made in other versions as well.
I followed my own ideas, any connection with an existing lesson is a coincidence.
second exemple from Mokkie (Mieke)

Credits and Material: I used
- Font FiresideChatNF
- Tube jhanna_269 tube from Johanne please visit her group
- Tube scenery_peperina07042010a

Tubes here
Font here
Selections : here

Filter
L&K Paris

I thank the tubers for their beautiful work. This creation would not exist without their effort

Preparation
Install Filters
Extract the selections in your Selection folder
Install or minimize the font
Open PSP
Open the tubes in your program or extract to a folder of your choice
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Material
I took a light color #eae4de for the foreground and a darker one #918c7c for the background

Change foreground material into gradient (Foreground-background)

The lesson

  1. File - New - New image - transparent checked - 800/600 pixels
  2. Flood Fill tool - Fill your image with the foreground gradient
  3. Effects - Plugins - L en K landsiteofwonders - L&K Paris

  4. Layers - New Raster Layer
  5. Selections - Load/Save selection- Load selection from disk - Caitlin_1
  6. Flood Fill Tool - fill the selection with the background color
  7. Selections - Modify - Contract with 2 pixels
  8. Flood fill Tool - fill the selection with the gradient
    Selections remains
  9. Layers - New Raster layer
  10. Open the scenery tube - scenery_peperina07042010a
  11. Close watermark layer and make the tube layer actif
  12. Selections - Load/Save selection- Load selection from disk and load Caitlin_scenery
  13. Edit - Copy special - Copy merged
  14. Close or minimize this tube
  15. On your working area : Edit - Paste into Selection
  16. Layer palette -Opacity = 59 and blend mode = Luminance (Legacy)
  17. Selections - Select None
    This is the result

  18. Layers - New Raster layer
  19. Selections - Load/Save selection- Load selection from disk and load Caitlin_2
  20. Flood Fill Tool - fill the selection with the background color
  21. Selections - Modify - Contract with 2 pixels
  22. Flood fill Tool - fill the selection with the gradient
  23. Layers - New Raster layer
  24. Edit - Paste into Selection
  25. Layer palette -Opacity = 100 and blend mode = Luminance (Legacy)
  26. Selections - Select None
  27. Layers - New Raster layer
  28. Selections - Load/Save selection- Load selection from disk and load Caitlin_3
  29. Flood Fill Tool - fill the selection with the background color
  30. Selections - Modify - Contract with 2 pixels
  31. Flood fill Tool - fill the selection with the gradient
  32. Layers - New Raster layer
  33. Edit - Paste into Selection
  34. Layer palette - Opacity = 21 and blend mode = Luminance (Legacy)
  35. Selections - Select None
    This is the result

  36. Layers - Merge - Merge all (flatten)
  37. Layers - Duplicate
  38. Selections - Select all
  39. Selections - Modify - Contract with 5 pixels
  40. Selections - Invert
  41. Flood Fill Tool - fill the selection with the background color
  42. Selections - Select None
  43. Image - Resize (smart size)

  44. Make bottom layer actif
    Effects - Distortion effects - Wind
  45. Repeat Wind, from the right
  46. Make top layer actif again
    Selections - Select all
  47. Selections - Float
  48. Selections - Defloat
  49. Selections - Invert
  50. Effecten - 3D Effects - Cutout
  51. and repeat with vertical and horizontal = -5
  52. Open the tube jhanna_269 tube
  53. Make tube layer actif - Edit - Copy and close
  54. On your working area -Edit - Paste as new Layer
  55. Image - Resize - 80% - Resize all layers not checked
  56. Move tool - move see example
  57. Layers - Duplicate
  58. Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur radius 20
  59. Move tool - move a little to the right
  60. Layers - Arrange - move down
    Make top layer actif again
  61. Material - Close the foreground color
  62. Text tool with these settings - size 200

    Typ capital C and click apply
  63. Layer palette - Convert to Raster layer
  64. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
  65. Activate Text Tool again - size = 72
    write aitlin and click apply
  66. Layer palette - Convert to Raster layer
  67. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
  68. Move both text layers to a nice place see example
  69. Layers - Merge - Merge all (flatten)
  70. Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 1 pixel background color
  71. Add Watermark
  72. File - Save As- Give_a_name.jpg

    So this was it, I hope you enjoyed this lesson
    Hugs
    Jille