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Xylia

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translate your great tutorials.
Here is the URL
to the original Tutorial
http://home.hetnet.nl/~diamonds2/Xyl/Xylia.html
With a click on
Diamonds Banner you will come to
her wonderful site
just klick
on
Lessens Diamonds

I made this
tutorial with PSP 8
Diamonds´s Zip File
what includes the Font and the
Selection Files
here
Plugin:
Graphics Plus
1.
Resize both
images from the Zip File to 172
X 130

2.
Choose 2 colors a
light and a darker color I used
#221813 and #8c5c44
klick on Gradient
now - Foreground -Background
with the following settings.

3.
Activate your
first image - Selections -
Select All - Selections - Modify
- Contract by 2 pix
Selections -
Invert - fill with your light
color.
Repeat with your
second image.
4.
Open a new Image
- 400 X 309 - fill with your
gradient.
Layers - New
Rasterlayer - Selections - load
- Sel - Dia 2 - fill with your
gradient.
Effects - Texture
Effects - Blinds - for the color
use your light color

Effects - 3D
Effects - Drop Shadow

5.
Reduce the
Opacity from this Layer to 55%
Selections -
Select None -
6.
Layers - New
Rasterlayer - Selections - Load
from Disk - Load Dia 1
fill with your
Gradient - I had to klick 5
times to fill it.
Effects - Plugins
- Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow
with the Standart settings.
Repeat - the
Blinds and the Drops Shadow from
step #4
Reduce the
Opacity of this Layer to 40%
7.
Activate one of
your images - Edit - copy - back
to your working area - edit past
as a new layer -
Layers - Arrange
- Move down - repeat Move down.
Repeat the Drop
Shadow - Reduce the Opacity of
this Layer to 28 % and set it to
Luminace
8.
Layers - New
Rasterlayer - Load the Sel - Dia
4 from the Zip File -
fill the 1 pix
Selection with your light color.
9.
watch the Layers
are Arranged like my see my
screencopy

10.
Selections -
Select None - klick with your
Magic Wand in the Middle
of the Rectangle-
Activate your second Image - use
your Selection Tool and crop a
Rectangle
see my Screencopy

back to your
working Area - Edit Past as a
new Layer -
place it with
your Mover Tool in the Rectangle
-

Selections -
Invert - klick on your Del Key
on your Keyboard
11.
Selections -
Invert - Effects -
Distortionseffects - Wind -

12.
Keep Selected -
your copy of the image should
still be in your chache - Edit -
past as a new Layer
Place it with
your Mover Tool - Selections -
Invert - hit the Del Key again.
13.
Aktivate your
Smodge Tool with the following
settings

soften the parts
from wind and image -
14.
Layers - Merge
visible - Repeat the Drops
Shadow -
Layers - View All
-
15.
Layers -
Duplicate - Image - Mirror -
Move with your Mover Tool
16.
Open the Font
from the Zip File - so you can
use it in PSP - Write your Name
and Repeat the
Drops Shadow
Layers - Merge -
Merge All -
Selections -
Select All - Selctions - Modify
- Contract by 2 -
Selections -
Invcrt - Effects - 3D Effects
Inner Bevel - use the Preset
Metalic
That was it I
hope you liked this tutorial if
you have questions feel free to
mail me
mary@psp-traumland.info
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