HHR_PSP9SparklyVeilTag

Tutorial Created May2005 Updated July 2007

Sparkly Veil Tag

Part 1

Firstly, if you haven't installed plug-ins before, click here for Jj's tutorial 'Installing Plugins and Filters'.

You will need:-

PSP9 [will work in any version though the screenshots may be different]

Animation Shop Visit Corel.com to purchase Animation Shop

Dragonfly Sinedots II filter for the veil. You can download the Sinedots II filter here

VM Natural Filter - Sparkle for the sparklies. Click here to go to PhotoShop's Visman filters [VM] where you can download the set.

A gold foil click here and right click and 'Save Picture As'...... save it to a folder on your pc.

A fairy/ballerina tube click here if you would like to use the one in this tutorial. The tube has my watermark layer, you may delete it if you like.

A font of your choice downloaded from the net or you can use one which is already in your PSP program..

Open the folder where you have downloaded your chosen font to,double click on the font file to open it and leave it onscreen

or reduce it to your taskbar.While it remains open or reduced to your taskbar it will appear in the list of fonts in your PSP program.

Open your PSP, go to 'File' 'Browse', locate your gold foil , double click to open it and leave it onscreen.

Now to start...

go to 'File' 'New' and open a 'New Image' 450 x 350 pixels, transparent.

~~ The Background ~~

In the 'Materials' palette, click on the solid black dot of the 'Foreground and Stroke Properties' box

and click on the centre of the 3 dots which appear - the 'Gradient'.

Click on the gradient which appears in the box............

.........to open the 'Materials Properties' box.

Click on the gradient showing there to open its menu..........

.............and click on a silver/grey gradient to select it.

Click 'OK' and it will appear in your 'Materials' palette, in the 'Foreground and Stroke Properties' box.

Click on the 'Food Fill Tool' and click on your blank image to floodfill with your gradient.

~~~ The Netting ~~~

We will be making the black netting on a separate canvas and copying it across to the main one,

so go to 'File' and open a 'New Image' this time size 200 x 300 pixels, transparent.

Working with this new blank image [the bar at the top of its window should be blue]...go to 'Effects' 'Plugins' 'Dragonfly' 'Sinedots II'

and apply these settings. To move the dials you can click hold and drag the pointers clockwise/anticlockwise

Make sure the 'Blend' is set to 'Alpha Add' and the colour showing in the bar is white...if not just click on the colour showing to open the colour palette and select white

'OK' it...and your netting will appear on the new blank image.

With that image still active [top bar blue] go to 'Edit' 'Copy'....click on the top bar of your other image to activate that and go to 'Edit' 'Paste' 'Paste as New Layer'

Your netting will now be on your floodfilled image and there will now be a 'Raster 2' in your 'Layer' palette. We will be working on this image from now on so you can close the small one with the netting. Click 'No' to save any changes.

To add the fairy/ballerina...go to Layers' and open a 'New Raster Layer'

Click on the 'Picture Tube Tool click on the picture which appears in its preview window to open the menu.

Select your fairy/ballerina from the menu ..........

......and she will appear in the little preview window. Alter the scale down to about ' 50 '....

and click once on your image to place the fairy, then go to 'Adjust' 'Sharpness' 'Sharpen'

You can leave the netting as it is or you can turn it round if you like.

Make sure you have the netting layer' highlighted in your palette [Raster2] then go to 'Edit' 'Mirror'

Be careful when moving the netting that you click on the net itself and not the background.

Now to add some gold highlight.

Go to 'Layers' and 'New Raster Layer'. This will be 'Raster 4' and for now click, hold and drag it to the top of the layers in the 'Layer' palette if it's not already there, we will move it later.

In the 'Materials' box, set the 'Foreground and Stroke Properties' box to 'Pattern'

Click on the pattern which appears in the box to open the 'Materials Properties' box, click on the pattern showing there to open the menu.

Click on your gold pattern to select it, and 'OK'

The gold will now appear in the little box in the 'Materials' palette

Set the other box, the 'Background and Fill Properties' box to 'Transparent' as we want to make an outline of a rectangle not a solid one.

Select the 'Rectangle' preset shape ..............

........ set the settings to these.....

Draw a rectangle inside your image

Go to 'Effects' 'Texture Effects' 'Mosaic Antique' .

Set your settings to these, use the 'Navigate' button to move over your preview image.

Click 'OK'

The gold rectangle is on 'Raster 4' in your 'Layer' palette and we now want it to go behind the fairy and net, so click hold and drag 'Raster 4' down your 'Layer' palette to below Rasters 3 and 2

Part 2

This tutorial was created and written for High Heel Renders and for Upsited.

Please do not reword or upload the tutorial onto another website or group. You may however link to the tutorial by using a text link to the specific page.

Have fun !