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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

My own work and ideas

No tutorials were made to make these tags.
My own ideas and thoughts.
Tubes and graphics used I have collected.























Monday, June 29, 2009

Summer Drive




Tutorial by Jcuttlebear01 aka JoAnn
6/29/2009


I do these tutorials for fun and not
for any profit. I use them also as a learning tool to
help others learn the fun and art of paint shop pro.
All things I use are collected, the only thing I claim
Is the tag I make with these as my work.
Supplies I used HERE

Tube of choice
eye candy 4 HERE
Filter factory F HERE
Filters Unlimited HERE
Font of choice
PSP 9

Open a new image 600 X 500

1. Pick a light color from your tube for the foreground I used #9db16e
and a dark color for you background I used #647c46

2. Add a new raster layer and rename this background, flood fill with
your background color you have picked.

3. Get selection tool, and click on the selection option.


Settings I used......

you can use what you would like for the tube you use.

3. Selection modify select borders,


4. Add a new raster layer and rename it frame.
Flood fill with the foreground color.

5. Effects eye candy bevel boss



Bevel type is up to you.......play around with it.
I used a curver.
6. Selection and none......click on the border part of the frame.

7. Effects and texture effects~blinds


selection and none.......or another way is to ctrl+D

8. Click inside the frame and find the tube
you wish to use, add a new raster layer
then copy and paste into selection.

9. Close off all layers except for the tube and the frame.
Merge visible layers. Now you can move the frame any where
you would like it to be. Reopen the back ground layer now.

Now your ready to add any accents you wish.

10. I added some Doodle art, which I have included in the supplies.
You can use them or pick some of your own choice.
If you use the ones I used, then you will need to re size them,
down to around 70 percent depending on where you want to place them.
Copy and paste as a new layer. Move down below the frame. and move it
where you wish.
This is what I have so far.

11. Now I added another doodle, to the tag, I decided I didn't want as many
of the flowers showing on the one side so I cut them off of the first doodle there
on the bottom. Then moved the word doodle to where I wanted it.


12 If your happy with the way everything looks then close off the background and
merge visible.
Add a drop shadows.

13. Take your


and get rid of the extra back ground you don't need,
make sure you don't get any of your picture.

click on your

it's up in your top tool bar, in psp 9 and it
will take the picture down to where you want it. If not right then
edit undo and just redo it.....you can pull out on the little squares you see
around your picture also if you get to close.

13. Click on your background layer
and go to filter factory F
Add border fade 2
Settings I used
is 17, 1, 144
This is all up to you and how you would
like your tag to look.

14. Take your

and click on your merged layer and bring it
in so it's not touching the border.

15. Click on the inside there in the background and
you can add a texture if you wish.
I added Filters unlimited special effects 1 and just
played until I got something I liked. It is all up to you.

When it's like you want it you can now
merge all layers.

Your ready to add your Water mark
You can also add a name or anything else you wish.
Re size your tag to what you want.
Now your ready to save it.

Would love to see what you do with this.

Thank you for giving my tutorial a try.
I do hope you have enjoyed this tutorial, and learned
something new.
Have any questions or need help.
Just let me know, I'm always happy to help any way I can.
Jcuttlebear01@aol.com

Hugs
Another Example by me

Friday, June 26, 2009

So buggin cute


I used a scrapbook kit from

Patricks scrapbook called choclate.

Sorry don't have the link for it.


TUTORIAL CAN BE FOUND HERE



This is my example fun and easy to do tut.



Monday, June 22, 2009

Rounder

Tutorial by Jcuttlebear01 aka JoAnn
6/22/2009
I do these tutorials for fun and not
for any profit. I use them also as a learning tool to
help others learn the fun and art of paint shop pro.
Supplies

Plug ins
VM instant art HERE
Eye candy 400 glass HERE
Tube of choice
Font of choice

PSP 9 is what I used, can use any really.

Open new image 600 X 600

1. Copy and paste tube of choice to your new image.

2. Duplicate this layer and close it off
Click on layer 1 on your layer pallet.

3. Go to effects and apply the VM instant art to this layer
Round and Round

4. These are the settings I used, you might have to make adjustments on the and one
depending on how you want it to look, so just play around with the settings.

This is how mine looks.
Take with the move tool and move it up toward the top of your image.


5. Layer duplicate, image flip........


I took my mover tool and moved them a bit closer.....then merge layers.
Layer duplicate, image rotate 90 to left or right don't matter.


This is how it should look now or close to it.

If your happy with it then merge all layers.

6. If you wish add eye candy glass to this to give it some highlighting effects.
This is what I did.



Then the bevel was a hump effect.
Went from looking like this to




this

It's all up to you that's the fun of playing.

7. Add a drop shadow to this .


8. Now go to the layer pallet and open up the tube we closed off.

Now the back ground will be larger then your tube so you need to re size it.
I went down to 80 percent, it will be up to you, so it looks right with your tube.

9. Move your tube to where you want it. Then add the same drop shadow as
before. Then merge layers

10. Take your crop tool and get rid of the extra that you don't need around this layer.

11. Layer new layer and flood fill with a color from your tube.

12. Layer move down.

You can a add some kind of effect to the back ground if you wish.

I added eye candy 5 texture weave........it's all up to you.
I just keep playing until I found a pattern I was happy with.

Then I added a 2 pixel border with a color from the tube I used.
Another 2 pixel border with another color.
Then added 10 pixel with the first color selected and added the same effect
I used on the back ground. Then added a bevel of choice.

Add a 2 pixel border of the second color or one of choice.

Add your water mark and anything else you wish.

Hope you have enjoyed doing this fun little tutorial.
If you have any trouble and need help just ask.
Jcuttlebear01@aol.com

Would love to see what you do with this.
Thank you for trying my tutorials.
Hugs and God Bless JoAnn


2 more examples by me


















Friday, June 19, 2009

Independence day

6/19/2009

Tutorial by Jcuttlebear01 aka JoAnn

I do these tutorials for fun and not
for any profit. I use them also as a learning tool to
help others learn the fun and art of paint shop pro.


Supplies
Tube of Choice
Font of Choice
I used American bush shame
which I found here.
http://www.fontspace.com/category/4th%20July?p=1
Scrapbook kit of choice


Scrapbook kits

I collected these from not sure where, found them on a disc.
If anyone knows who made these kits let me know so I can give them
the credit, I never made any of these kits.
STARS n STRIP
By Beth

Red White and Blue

PSP 9 can be done in any PSP

1. Open new image 500 X 500

2. Find a paper you want to use, and copy and paste as a new layer.

3. Find a frame from the kit you want to use,
and copy and paste as a new layer.

4. Click on the inside of the frame and hit delete.
If you have a white background in the center
of it. If you don't then skip this step.

5. Keep selected find another paper and add a new layer,
expand by 4,then copy and paste this
paper into the frame.

6. Layers move down so its below the frame.
Find the tube you wish to use and copy and paste it as a new layer,
Resize it to fit like you wish.

NOTE
Make sure your on the right layer before you do this.
Need to be on the tube layer.
What I did was use the Mickey mouse tube then
lowered my opacity down until you could see the
frame and used my selection tool, and eraser to
get rid of what I didn't want.
I wanted him to look like
he was marching out of the frame.
When finished bring the opacity back
up to normal.


BEFORE


AFTER

7. When your happy with the way your frame looks......close off
paper 1 and merge visible layers.

8. Add any accents you wish to this. When happy with
what you have merge all layers.

9. Now resize all layers to your liking, I used my crop tool
to get rid of a lot that I didn't want.

10. Add a 2 pixel border use what you want to go with the background.

11. Add another 2 pixel border and use a different color

12. Add another 2 pixel border of a different color.

13. Add a 15 pixel border, and select it and copy and paste
into the border the paper you used for the background
or one of your choice.

14. Add a bevel to this border this is what I used.



Add your water mark your now ready to save your work of art.
You can add a name or anything else you wish to your tag.


Would love to see what you do with this.

Thank you for giving my tutorial a try.
I do hope you have enjoyed this tutorial, and learned
something new.

Have any questions or need help.

Just let me know,
I'm always happy to help any way I can.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Busy bee


Tutorial by Jcuttlebear01 aka JoAnn

I do these tutorials for fun and not
for any profit. I use them also as a learning tool to
help others learn the fun and art of paint shop pro.

We are going to make a tag today using a ding font.
I know some of you will say what is a ding font.
It's a font that you can use to make many different things with,
it comes in all shapes and sizes. I love to play around with them.

Supplies
HERE
Tube of choice
Super blade pro HERE

Find your tube you wish to use, and minimize it for now.

Find the font Whirlygigs which I have supplied in my supplies.
You don't have to install this just open it up and minimize it, it will show
up in your psp.

1.Open a new image 500 x 500

2. Pick a color from your tube that you want to use
for this ding font I used a color from my tube for it.

3. Click on your font tool and find your whirlygigs font which will be probable toward
the bottom some where of your font list.

Now there are many different shapes you can use, play around and see what you like.
I used the letter j for this one.
I used these settings Size is 300


Take and stretch it out larger, so you have more room to work, with it.

Then layers and convert to raster layers
I change the name of each layer so its easier for me to keep track
at where I'm at.

4. Get magic wand and click on the inside of some of the empty spaces.
I did the large ones first.......to use magic wand in more then one at a time, space
I change my setting to add shift, I use that almost all the time.

5. Selection modify and expand by 5 or so it goes past the spot your going to flood fill.
Add a new layer, then flood with a different color, layer then arrange move down.
You can add a plug in effect.......which I used Super blade pro
on this first one.........you decide.
When happy with what you have then deselect.


Make sure you go back to the shape layer before this step.

6. Select another set that you want to do some effects on.
I picked the other parts or the peddles that I did do the first time.
Then selection modify and expand by 5, layer new raster, arrange
move down.


Then flood fill with another color of choice.
I used Filters unlimited and added special effects 1.
Then added an inner bevel


If happy with what you see deselect.

7. Go back to your shape layer, and click on the center, and
selection and modify expand by 5 layer new, flood fill with another color,
use another effect on it. I used eye candy glass on this layer.

8. On the main shape you can click on it and add an effect to it also, if you like.
I added a blind effect



Then the same bevel except reduced the width by 5.
If your happy with everything you have now, you can
merge all layers.

This is what I have so far.



9. Find the tube you wish to use, and copy and paste to
your little background shape you just make.

Re size it if needed to make it fit right, move to where you want it.

Add any other accents, or saying you wish.
Then add your water mark and merge all layers.
Re size it to your liking, also sharpen image if needed.

Your now ready to save and share your new work of art.

Would love to see what you do with this.
Thank you for giving my tutorial a try.
I do hope you have enjoyed this tutorial, and learned
something new.
Have any questions or need help.
Just let me know, I'm always happy to help any way I can.
Jcuttlebear01@aol.com

Hugs



Another example I did using letter M





Sample by
Fairladi101 aka Pati




Sample by :
GGMOM9 or Mary
I first used the letter A then added J and twirled it