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©Donna Ann
February 24, 2005
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Needed for this tutorial
PSP
A graphic of your choice
Filters: Simple/Quick Tile and 4-Way Average
Toadies/Ommadawn
FM Tile Tools/Seamless and Blend Emboss
You can find them here: http://www.fleursauvage.be/utilitaire/filtres/filtres.htm
about 350 pixels works the best.
Layers/Add new Raster layer
In your Materials box, select a gradient that
compliments your graphic colors.
Effects/Simple/Quicktile
Adjust/Blur/Gaussian blur set at 15 (the results may be
hard to see, but do it anyway)
Effects/toadies/Ommadawn with the following settings.
Layers/Merge/Merge flatten
Effects/FM Tile Tools/Blend Emboss with the following
settings and with Edge Wrap checked.
Layers/new raster layer
with either a lighter or a darker color,
whichever compliments your graphic.
In this example I used a dark green flood fill.
Adjust the opacity to about 50% or what ever number gives you the prettiest color result.
Layers/merge/merge all flatten.
In your Materials box, select this new Pattern
Activate your original graphic.
Image/information and look to see the height of your graphic.
Image/Canvas size 1280 X the height of your graphic
With your magic wand, select the empty area.
with your pattern.
Effects/Plugins/Simple/4-way average.
Selections/Invert
Effects/drop shadow
Assemble in Letter Creator
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