Marble Stripe Tutorial

For this Tutorial you will need the following:

PSP8 (will also work in PSP7)

MuRa's Seamless/Shift at ZigZag (version B - http://www.geocities.com/murakuma/plugins.html )

FM Tile tools/Blend Emboss http://www.fleursauvage.be/utilitaire/filtres/filtres.htm

A Tube of your choice

In PSP, open your chosen tube.

With your Eyedropper select a light color for your background.

Also select a darker color from your tube for your marble effect.

Shrink this image.

Make a New Image 1024 X the Height of your tube plus about 40 pixels

(You want a little head room above your tube when you apply it to your background image).

Flood Fill your new image with your light background color.

Layers/New Raster Layer.

With your Airbrush Tool Set the Preset at Marble-2/Shape-Round/Size 255/Step 32/Density 100/Rotation 0/Opacity 50/Blend Mode normal/Rate-5

Using your darker color, Left click and floodfill your light colored background

with the darker colored marble effect.

In your Layers Pallet, reduce the Opacity to 50%.

Adjust/Blur/Blur.

Layers/Merge/Merge Flatten.

Layers/Add New Raster Layer

With your Selections Tool , make a "rectangle" selection 100 Pixels wide.

Do this from the 100 pixel mark to the 200 pixel mark.

Floodfill with a Gradient that compliments your tube colors.

Set the Angle at 120 and Repeats at 0.

I prefer to use the gradient from my two chosen colors.

It's in the gradient selection box listed as "Foreground/Background"

While still selected, Effects/Texture Effects/Blinds with the Width-3 and the Opacity-40

Effects/Plugins/MuRa's Seamles/Shift at ZigZag with the settings in the picture below.

Effects/Plugins/FM Tile Tools/Blend Emboss

Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow

Selections/Select none.

Layers/Add New Raster Layer

With your Selections Tool , make a thin selection as you did before, to the left of your large stripe. Make this selection 20 pixels wide, from the 40 pixel mark to the 60 pixel mark.

Flood Fill with your Gradient.

Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow with the same settings as before.

While still selected, Edit/Copy.

Edit/Past as a new selection on the other side of your large stripe.

Place it at the 240 to 260 pixels mark.

Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow as you did before.

Activate your tube, Edit/Copy

On your striped background image, Edit/Paste as a new Selection and move on to your stripes.

Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow as before.

Layers/Merge/Merge all flatten.

Selections/Select none.

Selections/Select All

Selections/Modify/Contract 2

Image/Crop to Selection

(This makes sure you don't have a space at the to or bottom of your background image.

Apply your watermark and assemble in Letter Creator

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