This tutorial was created by Mystic on February 11, 2007.
~~ Credits ~~
I would like to thank Sandi and Isharimal for the tubes used in this tutorial.
~~ Supplies ~~
I used PSP X for this tutorial you may find Corel/Jasc Paint Shop Pro X here.
Download Xero Filter here.
Download the supplies here.
Place the filters in your plugins folder.
Place the tubes in your tubes folder.
Place the font in your fonts folder.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Do not colourize anything as I found that you can't get the same effect with other colours. You will have 7 choices of colour combinations at the end of the tutorial. If you would like to see the choices before starting, scroll to the bottom of the tutorial as I have supplied an example of each effect that can be added after completion of your tag.
Now lets get started with the tutorial
1. Copy and past the image below for your work area.
2. Copy and paste your waves tube and leave where it lands.
3. Go to your layers palette and change the opacity to 36 and the Blend Mode to Overlay.
4. Copy and paste your lighthouse tube and move to the top of your work area, as in the sample below.
5. Now on your layers palette change the Blend Mode to Overlay, I know it looks nice the way it is but trust me on this one please.
6. Copy and paste your sand heart and arrange slightly to the left and up so it, no need to do anything to this tube as it is already done.
7. Open your Isharimal_glamour tube, and arrange to the left.
8. On your layers palette set the opacity to 67 and the Blend Mode to Overylay.
9. If using the tube provided you will need to clean some waves up so go to your freehand selection tool (lasso) and select basically what I have in the sample below.
10. Go to Selections/Modify/Feather and set this to 40.
11. On your layers palette click on the waves layer, which is layer number 2.
12. Hit your delete key twice and deselect by going to Selections/none.
13. Staying on the wave layer, add a new layer.
14. Click on your text tool, close your foreground colour, any background colour will do and set to the following.
Font: Esperanza Size: 36 Pixels Create: Floating
15. Type your name and click apply, leave selected.
16. Add a new layer.
17. Go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and apply the following.
18. On your layers palette go to the layer with the typing on it (layer 3) and close it, leaving only the drop shadow layer open.
19. If you like the colour combination above you can go to step 27.
20. If creating one of the colour combinations below, activate your bottom layer.
21. To create this colour combination go to Effects/Xero/Soft Vignette and use these settings below.
22. To create this colour combination go to Effects/Xero/Serious Fog and use these settings.
23. To create this colour combination go to Effects/Xero/Alienmist and use these settings.
24. To create this colour combination go to Effects/Xero/Greyscaler and use these settings.
25. To create this colour combination go to Effects/Xero/Ultraviolet and use these settings.
26. To create this colour combination go to Effects/Xero/Duochrome and use these settings.
27. Now to add the border, copy the pattern below.
28. Set your foreground colour to any colour you want and your background colour to black #000000.
29. Go to Image/Add Border and with the symmetric box checked set to 1 with the colour black #000000.
30. Using your magic wand select this border.
31. Go to Selections/Invert.
32. Now to Effects/3D Effects/Cutout and apply the following settings.
33. Toggle your colours (this is for benefit of PSP 7 users).
34. Go to Image/Add Border and set to 7 and make sure the colour is anything but black.
35. Using your magic wand select this new border colour.
36. Right click on your image and Paste into Selections, this will paste in the border fill that you copied earlier.
37. Now for those that used the Xero effect on their final work, use the same effect.
38. Toggle your colours.
39. Go to Image/Add Border and set this to 1 using the colour black #000000.
40. Add your watermark and save.
I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.
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