~*Attic Whispers*~

~*Attic Whispers*~



~Attic Whispers~


Paint Shop Pro
C/2007 AngelEyesEsprit Kathleen

For this tutorial you will need the following:
Lace Frame
Trunk Image
Bride Image
Mom and Bride Image
Flower Image
BKDFloralBacks_05 Pattern attached
Natfl07422 Pattern attached
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Eye Candy 4000 Glass


Put the Pattern in your PSP Pattern Folder.
Open the 5 images in PSP Shift D on all of them to duplicate. Close Originals so we don't over copy on them.
On Trunk, Mom n Bride, and Bride images please do the following:
Go to Image resize 75% lock aspect ratio checked and resample to pixel resize from the lil drop down menu.



Go to Effects Art Media Effects Sepia Toning set at 75 and click ok...for all 3 images.
Open the Lace image and with Magic Wand set to Tolerance 0 and Contiguous Checked...select the outer area of the lace all round...hold shift key down while touching all the outer areas..then finally touch the inner area of the lace...keep selected and go to Effects 3d Effects and Inner Bevel with the following settings...Repeat this one more time.



Open new work space 400x400 transparent.
Click on one of your pics and Go to Edit Copy and click on New Work Space Edit Paste as a New Layer.
Do this with the other 2 graphics and place as I have shown.
Go Layers Add New Raster Layer.
Go to Select All and then click on your Lace and Go to Edit Copy click back onto your Working Space and Go Edit Paste Into Selection.
Now you should have all 3 Graphics and Lace onto its own layer making 4 layers.
Go to Layers Add New Raster Layer.
Go to Layers Arrange Send to Bottom and rename this layer BackGround.
Click Flood Fill Can and on Materials Pallette chose Pattern BKDFloralBacks_05 set to angle 0 and Scale 100.
Flood Fill the BackGround Layer.

Rename your Layers and slide the Opacity Sliders on the Layers indicated in the pic below.



You should now have this below.




Go to your Selection Tool and select the settings below.




Click on your Back Ground Layer.
Click your mouse on your working image and let the guides line up to 200x200
To get your Rulers on your work Go to View Rulers.



Once you have your Guides set to 200 on Top and Left Rulers. Click and draw a circle on your image to Frame just to the edges of the Lace. Selections Invert and press delete key to eliminate the outer back ground layer.
Now you should just have the BackGround Pattern in a Circle Feathered a bit to the lace inner edges.
Now we need to add a Darker BackGround to the Outer Area under the Lace that we just removed.
Click on Layers New Raster Layer and it should fall in place on top of the BackGround Layer.
Chose from your Material Pallettte Pattern the natfl07422. Set to 0 and Scale 100. Staying on the New Layer flood fill the Outer BackGround.
Go to each of Layers 1,2 and 3 and to your Eraser Tool and erase an bits as shown in the pic below.
Just to the slight edge of the back ground oval.



Do a File save as psp image..call it Attic Whispers Layers
This way we have it saved in layers before we add the final Frame Edge.

Go to Image Add Border 10 symetric.
Select with Magic Wand..make sure feather is back to 0.
Flood fill with color 823b36.
Go to Effects 3d Effects Inner Bevel



Take our flower Image and resize it 85% and place in lower left hand corner.
Take Eraser brush and erase any that gets on the frame edge...set the image right into the corner so no feathering shows.
Add Text of your Choice.

Add your water mark and save it as your initials AEETutName2007 psp image. So that you have it saved with your layers.
Then resize the image if you like and save as a jpeg or gif.

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