DA-Flux Emboss Background
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©Designs by Donna Ann
April 15, 2006
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Needed for this tutorial:
PSP
Tube image of your choice
Filters: http://www.chezkiki.com/les_filtres.htm
1. DBS Flux/Linear Transmission
2. FM Tile Tools/Blend Emboss
3. Simple/Quick Tile
Open your tubed image in PSP
Windows/Duplicate -- close your original
In your Materials box, select a gradient that compliments your tubed image
Make a new transparent image, 200 x 200
Flood Fill
the "new" image with your gradient
Effects/Plugins/DBS Flux/Linear Transmission. Use the following settings.
Repeat, but change the Direction to Horizontal as shown below.
Effects/Plugins/FM Tile Tools/Blend Emboss
Effects/Plugins/Simple/Quick tile
This next step is optional. If you wish, you can resize your embossed background image. In the example above, I reduced the image 50%
Re-activate your tubed image.
Layers/Add new raster layer
Layers/arrange/move to bottom
In your Materials box, select the Pattern of the background image
Flood Fill
your new layer with this pattern.
Layers/Merge/Merge all flatten
Layers/Promote background layer
Image/Canvas Size
With your Magic Wand
,
select the unfilled area, and flood fill
with a color and texture of your choice.
Layers/Merge/Merge all flatten
Add your watermark if you use one, and save the completed image as a JPG. to be assembled in Letter Creator.
