Tutorial and Graphics are the
copyright of havasu hideout. It is strictly forbidden to copy or upload to your own server other than for printing purposes
for your own personal use. The image you make from this tutorial is yours
to do with as you wish!
PLEASE NOTE where instructions differ for
PSP8, these will be shown in blue
otherwise follow the regular instructions
To keep the loading time down, I have tried to keep the screen captures to a minimum so
when the same effect is used more than once, I have just made a reference to it!
Remember to save your work often!!!
Step 1
Open a New Image 300x300 16 Million Colours Transparent
Open the
flipflop.pspimage file. Shift D to duplicate and
then close the original
Open the "Stripe Pattern" that you downloaded to a folder of your choice
Set your foreground pattern to "stripepattern" Scale 50 Angle 0
Go
to Layers/New Raster Layer and name it "Back"
Go to Selections/Load from Disc and choose "hh01back.sel" Click on the Back Layer Go to Selections/Load Save Selection/Load Selection
from Alpha Channel. Use the drop down arrow and select hh01back
Floodfill
Go to Selections/Float/Effects/3D Effects/Cut Out and apply these settings:
Deselect
Step 2
Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and name it "Edge"
Go to Selections/Load from Disc and choose "hh02edge.sel" Click on the Edge Layer Go to Selections/Load Save Selection/Load Selection
from Alpha Channel. Use the drop down arrow and select hh02edge
Go to Selections/Float/Effects/3D Effects/Cut Out and apply the same settings as in Step 1
Deselect
Step 3
Change your foreground to colour #F53DF5
Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and name it "Straps"
Go to Selections/Load from Disc and choose "hh03straps.sel" Click on the Straps Layer Go to Selections/Load Save Selection/Load Selection
from Alpha Channel. Use the drop down arrow and select hh03straps
Floodfill
Go to Selections/Float/Effects/3D Effects/Cut Out and apply the same settings as in Step 1
Deselect
Step 4 Change your foreground to colour #FFFF00
Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and name it "Decor1"
Go to Selections/Load from Disc and choose "hh04decor1.sel" Click on the Decor 1 Layer Go to Selections/Load Save Selection/Load Selection
from Alpha Channel. Use the drop down arrow and select hh04decor1
Floodfill
Go to Effects/Noise/Add 6%
Go to Selections/Float//3D Effects/Cut Out and apply the same settings as in Step 1 but change the colour to #79570D
Deselect
Step 5
Change your foreground colour to #45F345
Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and name it "Decor2"
Go to Selections/Load from Disc and choose "hh05decor2.sel" Click on the Decor 2 Layer Go to Selections/Load Save Selection/Load Selection
from Alpha Channel. Use the drop down arrow and select hh05decor2
Floodfill
Deselect
Go to Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel and apply these settings:
Go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and apply these settings:
Step 6 Go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible
Go to Image/Rotate/90 Left
Go to Image/Flip
You can now resize or rotate
Save as a tube or psp image for later use.
I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial. Please feel
free to email me if you have any
questions to
fran@havasuhideout.com