WEAVE TUTORIAL

WEAVE TUTORIAL

©Designs by Donna Ann

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Tools needed:

PSP8

Tube of your choice

Simple Plug in Filters: Here

Open a tube you like in PSP8

Open a new image 1024 wide X the height of your tube / transparent

Use the eye dropper tool and pick out two colors for

your foreground and background colors.

I used a light color for the foreground and a darker color for the background.

Note: These chosen colors will be written on, so

Choose colors in which text will easily be seen.

Flood fill your transparent image with the lighter Foreground color.

Effects/Texture Effects/Weave-----right click on

the weave color box and select your Foreground color that you have

chosen from the recent selected colors that now show in the selections.

Then right click on the Gap Color box and select the

Background color that you have chosen.

Setting should be: Gap 15/ Width 38/

Opacity 100/ Fill Gaps CHECKED

Make your lighter color the Weave color

and make the Gap color the darker color.

Effects/Plugins/Simple/Blintz - Use default settings

Effects/Plugins/Simple/Centre Tile – Use the default settings

Effects/Plugins/Simple/Pizza Slice Mirror – Use the default settings

Click on your tube—Edit/Copy

Make your Weave Header active

Edit/Paste as a new layer

Use your Mover tool to move your tube over to the far left side of your Header.

Once in place, click on Effects/Drop Shadow with these settings:

Vertical 0 Horizontal 6

Opacity 75 Blur 6, and color Black.

Shadow on new layer UNCHECKED

Layers/Merge/all Flatten

Select All/Modify/Contract 2

Image/Crop to Selection

Layers add a new Raster Layer

Apply your watermark

Layers/Merge/all Flatten

File/Export JPG Optimizer, Compression 25

click OK

Save as a jpg. for assembly in Letter Creator.

Download

IMF File

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