DA-Arch and Squares
by
©2005 Designs by Donna Ann
*Do NOT copy and/or past this tutorial on any website or send through any groups.
Please link to this web site: http://www.davose.com
Needed for this tutorial:
PSP
A tube
Simple/Quick Tile
Mehdi/Fur and Sorting Tiles
A Gradient selection from PSP that compliments your tube or graphic
*If you use a tube, with your eyedropper, pick a color from your tube,
or use a gradient, to use as a background color for your tube.
Open your tube
Windows/Duplicate three times.
Close the original and minimize one of the remaining copies.
Layers/Add new raster layer
Flood fill
with this color or gradient
**I used a green gradient behind my tube image in this example.
Layers/Send to bottom
Layers/Merge/Merge all flatten
With your eyedropper tool
select a color from your image for your arch.
Minimize this image for now
Now you are ready to begin:
Make a new image 1018 X 1500
With your selection tool
,
set to Ellipse, make a selection on your new image.
Start about 400 pixels down and 509 pixels across and pull your ellipse until the top of the selection is in an arch shape and the sides of the arch meet or extend over the side edges.
Selections/Invert
Flood fill
with your arch color
Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow
Selections/Select none
Layers/Add new raster layer
Layers/Arrange/Send to bottom
Re-Activate your tube that you filled in the background.
Layers/Promote background layer if needed.
Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur set at 10
Effects/Plugins/Simple/Quick Tile
Effects/Plugins/Mehdi/Fur
Effects/Plugins/Mehdi/Sorting Tiles
Layers/Merge/Merge all flatten
Effects/Plugins/Simple/Quick Tile
* OPTIONAL: Some will look like the picture below, but some will not.
If yours does not, than skip this step.
Layers/Promote background to layer
In your Materials Box, Select this pattern
Make sure the bottom layer of your background is active.
Flood fill
with this new pattern
In your Materials Box, the bottom layer you just filled,
reduce the opacity to where you like it. I used 60% for this example
Layers/Merge/Merge all flatten
Layers/Promote background layer
Activate your tube image
Edit/Copy
Edit/Paste as a new layer
Add a drop shadow
Layers/Merge/Merge all flatten
**Optional: You can also add smaller tubes on the sides of the arch, or text.
Add your Watermark.
File/Save/Export as a jpg image with the compression set at 25.
Assemble in Letter Creator
|
Download
|
