Tutorial for PSP-Old post

You can join a group to learn Paint Shop if you have version 8, 9 or 10 of PSP. That are the versions they cover. The group is Stepping Stones Through PSP. They are fun guys. They get to be kind of time consuming but you are each given a moderator to help you and you can do it at your own pace.

I am all about texture. I love textural things so that is what this tutorial is about.

If anyone sees anything in this tutorial that belongs to someone or knows the contributor, let me know so I can give credit and or a link back.

You can download a limited time plugin that I used from here. FMTile If you don't want to download this, just skip this part and play with your picture or leave it out. You can also use the oil brush settings in psp in effects for added texture.

Copy this texture to your PSP texture folder. I got it from a free texture site.

The flower is a picture I just took in my yard so it is ok to use.
First copy the picture (shift D) and close the original. I know it is blurry but we are going to apply effects to it. I wanted to show you how sometimes the not so great photos make great graphics.

Go to Effects-Art Media Effect-Brush Strokes and use these settings. I have these saved because I use them a lot for flowers. Click on the little disk looking symbols and save it with a name you can remember if you like. Color #ecdf08. The dark gold gives it a little extra depth. Ok

Go to Effects-Image Effects-Seamless tiling,Settings default.

Effects-Plugin-FM Tile Tools-Blend Emboss settings-
-1.000
-1.000
0.250
64
0.938
0.938
0.938
Edge wrap checked

In your Layers palette pull the opacity of your flowers down to about 70.

New Raster Layer

Now pull up another new Raster Layer-pull this one below your flowers. Now you have a new blank raster above and below your daffodils. If you can't pull that bottom layer up, you need to right click while you are in layers and convert that to a layer.

Thanks toStephanie for this screen shot.

Make your foreground color #c49812 and check texture with the iron 58 that that you put in textures.

Make your background color color #c49812

On the layer on the bottom under your flowers flood fill with your solid background.

On your top empty raster left click to put the texture on top (I used settings 45 on angle and scale of 50 for the texture) of your flowers. Lower the opacity to around 60. You can use the paint brush or the airbrush or just your little paint can to flood fill. Whatever effect you like the best. Remember you can always use your back arrow to get rid of anything and redo it.

Take your eraser, use these settings
Size-24
Hardness-40
Step-10
Density-50
Thickness-100
Opacity-50

Erase the texture off of the yellow of the flowers, some of the green and from around the edges of the picture making sure you are on the top layer.

Go to Effects-Image Effects-Seamless tile with the same settings you used before on the texture layer.

You can do tons of things with this tile just like it is. You can right click with your solid gold on the top raster and it drabs your picture down so you can use it as stationary. You can change your background to white and put it over this top layer to make a whitish looking stationary, or you can use it as a pattern, making the daffodils as small or large as you want. Be sure to use a new layer to put your white or gold over so you can drag the opacity down to see your flowers showing through.

Here are the examples. The white and gold would go separately over your texture on the top layer. You back out each time with your back button and save each as a jpeg.

To go on with this tile, if you played with it, click your back button until you get back to the three layers. Texture on top, flowers in the middle and dark gold on bottom. Highlight your texture layer or top layer, right click, Merge, Merge Down.

Now you should have two layers. Your flowers and your dark gold layer. Change the dark gold layer to black. Just flood fill black over the gold. I want to put a mask on this and it will look better to me if the background is black. We are going to make a mask for this right over the picture.

With the flowers highlighted in layers, get a new raster layer. Take your selection too and draw out a rectangle so you can see most of the three yellow daffodils in the middle. It doesn't have to be right in the center. Make your background white and foreground black in your materials palette. Fill the center of your rectangle with white.

Go to selections- Invert and get a brush, I had corner brushes and put one in each corner. then I just found a grunge brush or any brush used at low density hardness and opacity and kind of smudged around the edge. When you get it like you want, save as .jpg to your mask folder in your psp file. Now that layer over the flowers that you did your mask on you can just right click and delete this layer. Select none

Make sure your flowers are what is highlighted in the layers palette.

Go to Layers-Load/Save Mask, Load Mask from Disk. Find your new mask in there. These settings, load.

Source Luminance

Fit to Cavas

Show All Mask

Invert Transparency unchecked

Merge-Merge group in layers palette.

Merge-Merge All Visible

Click on your text tool, I used Dr Sugiyama and minimize it in your palette along with your font folder unless you use one that is in your fonts folder that you find in your psp.

Background #ebe206 in materials palette. Size 36. Stroke width 0-I wrote Love makes everything lovely. It was a saying I found but there was no author named. Place it where you want.

Image-Add Border 6 symmetrical, touch with selection wand and make color #ebe206 or you can put this color in when you bring up the border box. I added an Inner Bevel to each of these. The original one I got from Stepping Stones because you know I love it so much. I have these settings saved.

Width-15
Smoothness-5
Depth-4
Ambience-5
Shininess-40
Angle 315
Intensity-30
Elevation-50
color white

Image-Add Border 20 symmetrical, bring your texture back up in foreground, in materials palette, Iron-58, color #a1a605, touch edge with selection wand, Fill with greenish texture, Inner bevel, same settings.

Image-Add Border 6 symmetrical yellow border number #ebe206, touch edge with selection wand, Inner Bevel same settings.

Image-Add Border 6 symmetrical black, touch with selection wand, Inner Bevel. Select none

Select all-Modify-contract 32-Effects-3D Effects-Drop Shadow 1, 1, 100. 1 are the settings then do this again only make the H and V -1

Merge all, resize save as jpeg. I even took this saved it as a .gif and saved it in masks. I put the mask on a white background and did it in greyscale, colorized it, used the Negative Image on it, colorized that in yellow and then adjust-sharpen. I could play with one image for hours. So get out those old blurry pictures and use them. These would even make great cards or gift tags.

This is the finished flower