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!

You will need
JASC's PSP7 or 8 - Get it here
Sunglasses Selections.  Unzip the file and place in your PSP Selections Folder. 
If you do not have a Selections Folder, make one now. Use with PSP7
Sunglasses.pspimage file Use with PSP8
Sunglasses Accessories.  Unzip to a folder of your choice.

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 350x300 16 Million Colours Transparent
Open the glasses.pspimage file. Shift D to duplicate and then close the original
Open the "Blue Pattern" that you downloaded to a folder of your choice
Set your foreground pattern to "bluepattern" Scale 100 Angle 0
Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and name it "Glasses"
Go to Selections/Load from Disc and choose "hh01glasses.sel"
Click on the Glasses Layer
Go to Selections/Load Save Selection/Load Selection from Alpha Channel. Use the drop down arrow and select hh01glasses

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Go to Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel and apply these settings:

Deselect

Step 2
Set your foreground to Gradient and select the Metallic supplied with PSP
Linear angle 0 repeats 0
Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and name it "Lens"
Go to Selections/Load from Disc and choose "hh02lens.sel"
Click on the Lens Layer
Go to Selections/Load Save Selection/Load Selection from Alpha Channel. Use the drop down arrow and select hh02lens

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Go to Effects/Noise/Add 4% uniform
Go to Selections/Float
Go to Effects/3D Effects/Cut Out and apply these settings:

Deselect
Go to your Layer Palette and move this layer under the Glasses Layer (no need to do this in PSP8)

Step 3
Go to your Layer Palette and highlight the Glasses Layer
Change your foreground to colour #FFFFFF
Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and name it "Dots"
Go to Selections/Load from Disc and choose "hh03dots.sel"
Click on the Dots Layer
Go to Selections/Load Save Selection/Load Selection from Alpha Channel. Use the drop down arrow and select hh03dots

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Deselect

Step 4
Set your foreground pattern to "bluepattern" Scale 100 Angle 0
Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and name it "Right Arm"
Go to Selections/Load from Disc and choose "hh04rightarm.sel"
Go to Selections/Load Save Selection/Load Selection from Alpha Channel. Use the drop down arrow and select hh04rightarm
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Go to Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel and apply the same settings as in Step 1
Deselect

Step 5
Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and name it "Left Arm"
Go to Selections/Load from Disc and choose "hh05leftarm.sel"
Click on the Left Arm Layer
Go to Selections/Load Save Selection/Load Selection from Alpha Channel. Use the drop down arrow and select hh05leftarm

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Go to Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel and apply the same settings as in Step 1
Deselect

Step 6
Open the "Flower1" and "Flower2" that you downloaded to a folder of
your choice
Select "Flower1" and go to Edit/ Copy
Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and name it "Flowers"
Go to Selections/Load from Disc and choose "hh06flower1.sel"
Go to Edit/Paste/Into Selection
Deselect
Go to Selections/Load Save Selection/Load Selection from Alpha Channel. Use the drop down arrow and select hh06flower1
Go to Edit/Paste/Into Selection
Deselect

On the same layer Select "Flower2" and go to Edit/Copy
Go to Selections/Load from Disc and choose "hh07flower2.sel"
Go to Edit/Paste/Into Selection
Deselect
Click on the Flowers Layer
Go to Selections/Load Save Selection/Load Selection from Alpha Channel. Use the drop down arrow and select hh07flower2
Go to Edit/Paste/Into Selection
Deselect

Go to Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel and apply the same settings as in Step 1



Go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible and 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


Tutorial written June 10 2003

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