This tutorial was written by Cathy on April 22, 2002.
This tutorial just shows you what can happen when you are working 
in PSP and doing just about anything else!!!
I happened to be listening to one of my all time favorite songs
"One Summer Night" by The Danleers
and saw an image by Jody Bergsma which seemed to fit the song.
(It was very tempting to put the music on this page, but I resisted!!! LOL)

 


(Click on the above graphic for an explanation of the FBN skill ratings.)

For this part of the tutorial you will need:

My zip file - click the folder and save to your hard drive.

Unzip the file you downloaded, and save the folder "cc_summer_selections2" to your hard drive. 

 

 

Open your "summer_night.psp" file.

Click on Image/Canvas Size and change your canvas size to:

New width: 450
New Height: 600
Center Image Horizontally checked
Center Image Vertically checked

1. Make your merged layer active (sky and ground).

2. Add a new layer and name it "sky".

3. Flood fill with #5B5E8B.

4. Add a new layer and name it "sky2".

5. Change your foreground color to #B5B8D5.

6. Choose your Airbrush Tool and use the following settings:

Round
Size: 255
Hardness: 15
Opacity: 25
Step: 1
Density: 25

7. Using single clicks "paint" some color all over your sky, placing a little more color near the top. (We're doing this on a separate layer so that you can just hit your delete key and start all over without hitting the delete key.)

8. Add a new layer and name it "ground"

9. Load "cc_card_ground1.sel".

10. Flood fill with #4C693F.

11. Add a new layer and name it "ground2".

12. Change your foreground color to #BFD5B5.

13. Using your airbrush (same settings) paint some color on your ground.

14. Deselect.

15. Merge visible layers.

16. Load "cc_card1.sel".

17. Hit delete.

18. Deselect

19. Copy your image. (Ctrl+C)

20. Open a new image:

216x270 for a quarter fold card
532x540 for a half fold card
180 pixels per inch
(Printing resolution tutorial here)
Transparent background
16 million colors

21. Load "cc_card2.sel"

22. Paste your image into selection. (Shift+Ctrl+L)

23. Deselect.

24. Merge All.

25. Save your image in jpg format to import into your favorite greeting card program, or see Barbara's tutorial "Making PSP Quarter-Fold Greeting Cards" 

 

 

All Art Work & Graphics Designed by Cathy
This tutorial originally posted on April 23, 2002
Copyright © 1999 - 2003 by Cathy.
All rights reserved.
Revised: April 06, 2008.


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