Silence


This lesson was written by me, Jille, on April 17th, 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.

Credits and Material
- Lettertype PC Americana
- Tube k@rine_ dreams _Elégance219_Mars_09
- Tube k@rine_ dreams _Woman_in_Black_1028_AVRIL 2010
- Tube ametista_antique_petals_05.pspimage
- Tube Kikirou1512_ethnic
- Texture from Ann TD-Studio

Material and font download here
Texture here

Filters
Mura's Meister
Jeux de Lignes


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

Preparation
Extract Filters into your Plugin Folder
Extract texture into your map with textures
Install or minimize the font
Open PSP
Open the tubes in your program and minimize or extract to a folder of your choice
.
Material
Foreground color #fefefe and background color #8a8080.


The lesson

  1. File - New - New image
  2. Effects - Texture Effects - Texture
  3. Image - Add Borders - symmetric checked - 1 pixel #c0c0c0
  4. Edit - Copy - and close
  5. Material foreground:
    Replace the color with gradient RedEye (Corel 06_042)
  6. File - New - New image - transparent checked - 800/600 pixels
  7. Flood Fill Tool - Fill your image with the foreground gradient
  8. Selection Tool - Custom selection

  9. Edit - Paste as New Layer!!!!!!
  10. Move Tool - drag your image into the selected area
  11. Effects - plugins - Mura's Meister - Perspective tiling
  12. Selections - Select None
    Example

  13. Layers - New Raster Layer
  14. Selection Tool - Custom selection
  15. Flood Fill Tool - fill selection with the background color #8a8080
  16. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel
  17. Selections - Select None
  18. Layers - Merge - Merge Down
  19. Materials: change background color in #be4845 (foreground color is still #fefefe)
  20. Material foreground
    :replace the color with a foreground-background gradient with these settings

  21. Open the tube kikirou1512_ethnic and make the tube layer active
  22. Edit - Copy. Close the tube
  23. On your working area - Edit - Paste as New Layer
  24. Image - Resize
  25. Move Tool - Move to the left
  26. Image - Negative
  27. Selections - Select All
  28. Selections - float
  29. Selections - defloat
  30. Flood fill Tool - fill with the gradient
  31. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
  32. Layers - Duplicate
  33. Image - Mirror
  34. Layers - Merge - Merge down and place see example
  35. Effects - plugins - Jeux de lignes - Enterlacement
  36. Layer palette - decrease the opacity to 65
  37. Layers - Arrange - Move down
    Layer palette looks like this

    This layer stays active
  38. Open the tube k@rine_ dreams _Elégance219_Mars_09 and make the tube layer active
  39. Edit - Copy and close
  40. On your working area - Edit - Paste as New Layer
    Your layer palette looks like this
  41. Image - Resize - 75% (Resize all layers not checked)
  42. Layer palette -decrease opacity to70
    Move see Example

  43. Open the tube k@rine_ dreams _Woman_in_Black_1028_AVRIL 201 0
    make tube layer active
  44. Edit - Copy. Close the tube
  45. On your working area - Make top layer active !!!!!
  46. Edit - Paste as New Layer
  47. Image - Resize (Resize all layers not checked) 60%
  48. Move Tool - Move to the left
  49. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
  50. Layers - Duplicate
  51. Image - mirror

  52. Open the tube - ametista_antique_petals_05.pspimage
  53. Edit - Copy and close
  54. Edit - Paste as New Layer
  55. Move tool - move a little down
  56. Layer palette - opacity = 44
    Example

  57. Preparation for the text
    Material palette, flip the colors
  58. Text tool with these settings

    Type Silence
  59. Click Apply or the check mark (PSP X3)
  60. Layer palette: Convert to Raster layer
  61. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
  62. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel - same settings
  63. Effects - plugins - Jeux de lignes - enterlacement - same settings
    Example
  64. Layers - Merge - Merge all (flatten)
  65. Image - Add Borders - symmetric checked - 5 pixels #8a8080
  66. Magic Wand Tool - Tolerance and Feather= 0 - Select this border
  67. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel - same settings
  68. Selections - Select All
  69. Image - Add Borders - symmetric checked - 25 pixels #444444
  70. Selecties - Invert
  71. Effects - plugins - Jeux de lignes - Enterlacement - same settings
  72. Selections - Select None
  73. Image - Add Borders - symmetric checked - 1 pixel black
  74. Add your Watermark
  75. File - Save as- Give_a_name.jpg

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