Whispering Warp Stationery Set

This Tutorial is entirely my own work and any resemblance to any other is purely co-incidental. This tutorial is not to be copied, scripted, translated or shared in any groups without my permission.

My thanks, as always to my wonderful group of testers at Force Fantastic. You rock girls!! Also special thanks to Cal for his valued input.

This is what we will be making:-

The tube I have used in this example is by Patries and in the Top Border and Side Border examples at the foot of the page the tube is by Mull.

With Thanks.

You will need:

PSP. I have completed this in X but it should work in other versions.

A tube

Filter's Unlimited 2

Simple Filters

Mezzy. Dusty (this may be in your Cybia plugins)

So let's begin:-

1. Open your chosen tube in PSP duplicate and close the original

2. Resize to no more than 350 pixels on it's longest side.

3. Minimise for now.

4. Open a new transparent, raster image 500 x 500 pixels

*5. Materials Palette/Foreground/select colour #f6a018. Add to swatches and name it Chrome 1

*6. Materials Palette/Background/select colour #fdfc9f. Add to swatches and name it Chrome 2. Now if you choose to repeat this tutorial at any time the colours will be in your swatches ready for use.

Note: These colours will not be present when the tut is completed but they must be used now in order to achieve the colour of choice for your frame.

7. Materials Palette/Gradient/Foreground-Background/using the following settings: Foreground-Background/Repeats 0/Invert NOT checked/Style Sunburst/Centre Point H & V 50/Link Centre and Focal Points CHECKED

8. Flood Fill Tool/Flood fill your blank canvas with the gradient.

9. Effects/Plugins/Filters Unlimited 2/Tile and Mirror/Radial Tile/Default (88/169)

10. Selections/Select All

11. Selections/Modify/Contract 40

12. Press Delete on your keyboard.

13. Selections/Select None

14. Effects/Distortion Effects/Warp/using the following settings:-Horizontal -100(minus)/Vertical 0/Size 48/Strength -100(minus)

15. Effects/Plugins/Simple Filters/Top Left Mirror.

16. Effects/Geometric Effects/Circle/Transparent CHECKED

17. Effects/Reflection Effects/Kaleidoscope/using the following settings:- Everything at 0 apart from Number of Petals which wants to be at 4/Repeat CHECKED.

You should now have this:

That is your basic frame made. Now we just need to pretty it up a little!

18. Effects/Artistic Effects/Chrome using the following settings:-Flaws 5/Brightness 0/Use Original Colour CHECKED

19. Effects/Geometric Effects/Spherize/using the following settings:-Strength -31(minus)

20. Maximise your tube but keep your frame image highlighted

21. Effects/Artistic Effects/Chrome using the following settings:-You have a choice here and I will show examples of both: UNCHECK the Use original colour box and move your cursor over to your tube and choose a colour from your tube that you want for your frame. Flaws 1/Brightness 0/Colour/Your choice.

Gives a softer look with an even colour tone

or Flaws 3/Brightness 0/Colour/Your choice

Gives more depth and intensity and works well with some colours but not with others.

I have chosen Flaws 1 for this tutorial.

22. Effects/Plugins/Cybia Mezzy/Dusty/using the following settings:- Intensity 100/Contrast 0

23. Selection Tool/Magic Wand/Using the following settings/Select the centre space of your frame.

24. Selections/Modify/Select Selection Borders using the following settings:-

25. Selections/Promote Selection to Layer

26. Materials Palette/Flood Fill your selection with the gradient.

27. Effects/Artistic Effects/Chrome using the following settings.:-*Flaws 5/Brightness 0/Use Original Colour NOT checked/Colour same as you used for your main frame* These are the settings I have used for this colour. You can change the Flaws setting to suit your personal preference. Leave other settings the same.

28. Selections/Modify/Feather/Number of Pixels 3

29. Selections/Invert

30. Press Delete on your Keyboard 5 or 6 times

31. Selections/Select None

32. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel/Using the following settings:-Bevel 2/Width 7/Smoothness 30/Depth 3/Ambience and Shininess 0/Angle 315/Intensity 40/Elevation 40/Colour White

33. Close this layer and open and highlight your bottom layer

34. Selection Tool/Magic Wand/select the 8 tear shaped spaces in your main frame.

35. Selections/Promote Selection to layer.

36. Selections Modify/Expand 3

37. Using your Eye Dropper Tool choose a contrasting colour from your tube. You can go either darker or lighter whichever you prefer. Save it to your Materials Palette/Background

38. Flood Fill Tool/Flood fill your selections with this colour.

39. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel

40. Selections/Select None

41. Layers/Arrange/Move Down.

42. Highlight your Main Frame Layer and Layers/Merge/Merge Down or Merge Visible.

43. Open your top Inner Frame Layer/Window/Duplicate and minimise the duplicate for the moment

44. ( Working on the Inner frame Top Layer) Image/Resize/using the following settings:-Percent/80/Smart Size/Lock Aspect Ratio CHECKED/Resize all Layers/UNCHECKED.

45. Highlight your bottom Frame Layer. Image/Resize/using the following settings:-Percent/94/Smart Size/Lock Aspect Ratio CHECKED/Resize all Layers UNCHECKED.

46. Highlight your top layer and Selection Tool/Magic Wand/Click on the empty canvas in the centre of your inner frame.

47. Selections/Promote Selection to Layer

48. Selections/Modify/Expand/Number of Pixels 8.

49. Flood Fill Tool/Flood fill with the same colour you used for your tear shapes in the outer frame.

50. Layers/Arrange/Move Down

51. Selections/Select None

52. Effects/Plugins/Filters Unlimited 2/Paper Textures/Papyrus/using the following settings:-Intensity 30/Lightness 96

53. Maximize your tube and Edit/Copy

54. Highlight your top Layer and Edit/Paste as a New Layer onto your Frame Image.

55. Position as required and adjust the size if necessary by using the pick tool. Sharpen if needed.

56. Eye Dropper/From your tube Select a contrasting colour for your image background and add to your materials palette.

57. Layers/New Raster Layer

58. Layers/Arrange/Send to Bottom

59. Flood Fill Tool/Flood Fill with your chosen colour.

60. Effects/Plugins/Filters Unlimited 2/Paper Textures/Fibrous Paper Coarse/Intensity 25-28/Lightness 128

61. Effects/Image Effects/Seamless tiling at Default

62. Highlight your top (tube) layer Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow using the following settings:- Vertical and Horizontal 2/Opacity 40/Blur 7/Shadow on New Layer NOT checked

63. Highlight your Inner Frame Layer Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow using the following settings:- Vertical and Horizontal 0/Opacity 60/Blur 10/Shadow on New Layer NOT checked

64. Repeat step 65 on your main frame layer.

65. Layers Merge/Merge Visible.

66. Add a new Raster Layer and add your watermark if desired.

Your frame image is complete. Export as a Jpeg with the compression at 25 and close the image.

To complete the sidebars and background

1. Open the frame image you minimised earlier.

2. Close the bottom frame layer and highlight the top inner frame layer.

3. Edit/Copy

4. Edit/Paste as New Image and Minimise

5. Right click on your Inner Frame Layer and Select Delete.

6. Open your remaining main frame layer.

7. Image Resize/using the following settings:-Width and Height 70 PIXELS/Resample using Smart Size/Lock Aspect Ratio and Resize all Layers CHECKED

8. Image/Canvas Size/using the following settings:-Width 95/Height 210/Lock Aspect Ratio NOT checked/Placement Top Right Arrow CHECKED

9. Maximize your inner frame image. Image/Resize/using the same settings.

10. Edit/Copy and close this image.

11. Edit/Paste as New Layer onto your canvas.

12. Move Tool/Move into position under the main frame image.

13. Highlight your bottom layer/Right Click and select Duplicate

14. Image/Flip

15. Layers/Merge/Merge Visible

16. Image/Canvas Size/using the following settings:-Width 1007(this is for a resolution of 1024 x 768 if your screen size is different you should adjust accordingly)/Height 270/Lock Aspect Ratio NOT checked/Placement Centre Left ARROW checked

17. Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen/Repeat if preferred

18. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow using the following settings:-Vertical and Horizontal 2/Opacity 50/Blur 2/Colour Black/Shadow on New Layer NOT checked.

19. Layer/Duplicate

20. Image/Mirror

21. Layers/Merge/Merge Down

22. Layers/New Raster Layer

23. Layers/Arrange/Send to Bottom

24. Flood Fill Tool/Flood fill with the same colour you used for your header background.

25. Effects/Plugins/Filters Unlimited 2/Paper Textures/Fibrous Paper Coarse/Intensity 25 -28 (use the same setting you used on your frame background)/Lightness 128

26. Effects/Image Effects/Seamless Tile/Default.

That's it! You're done.

The tube in this example is by Mtm. With Thanks.

Export as a Jpeg with the compression at 25.

Assemble in Letter Creator in the normal way setting your text at 105 Left and 105 Right.

Please link your letter to www.force50.co.uk. If you have any problems completing this tutorial or would just like to share your result with me you can E mail me Here

This tut converts easily to a Side Border. Resize your completed main frame image to 320 pixels and then increase your canvas size to 1024 x 380 (increase or decrease depending on how much space you like between your side images) Add your background layer and that's it.

For a top border Resize to 341 duplicate twice. Adjust the canvas size to 1024 x 833. Position your images along the top, add your background layer and that's it. Or you can be more creative!

Enjoy!

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