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Welcome to My Garden PSP Tut Pt. 1

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Welcome to My Garden

It's been a while since I last had time to write a tutorial. This one is the product of nothing more than inspiration. I was feeling the need to write a new tutorial and this is the result. It's just a fun image that you can either use to make a complete Web set with or change things a bit to turn it into a sigtag. I don't use sigtags, so I made a header image for a Web set. This tutorial uses one of my all-time favorite plugins (aka filters), Dragonfly's Sinedots II. While you're there, you may want to download the Sinedots I and Retro Dots filters too. Me being the plugin piggy that I am, I download any and every filter that I come across!

As with all of my tutorials, this one is a bit long but, it contains a lot of screenshots and what I think are clear, step-by-step instructions. When studying Education, as I did, you learn about a thing called the "zone of proximal development." This zone is where we do our learning. When in the zone we are able to easily accomplish many parts of the task at hand but need help to do the rest. That is what I aim to do for you in writing my tutorials: put you into the zone. Whether you are a novice, intermediate, or advanced user of PSP, I hope that you find this tutorial to be somewhat easy, a bit challenging and, overall, fun to do.

My other lenses:
Anasazi Prayers | Music for Your Soul
Zazzle ProSellers | Designs by Hafapea
The Anguish Languish | Donate Money for Nothing
Paint Shop Pro Tutorial 1: Come Sail Away | Paint Shop Pro Tutorial 2: Buddha Blessings
Paint Shop Pro Tutorial 3: Flower & Butterflies | Paint Shop Pro Tutorial 4: Bow & Carriage
Paint Shop Pro Tutorial 6: Orange Lily

An Overview

In these next few pages I am going to teach you how to use many of Paint Shop Pro's features. By completing these tutorials you will become familiar with where certain tools are located and what they are capable of doing. You will learn about PSP's built-in tools and effects as well as how to use text and plugins. So grab yourself a cup of coffee, open up Paint Shop Pro and let's get to creating!

*This tutorial was written using PSP 9. All versions of PSP should have the tools that I've used here, but they might not be in the same place. If you can't find the tool that I'm using in your version, then just look it up in the "Help" section. This tutorial also assumes that, even though you may be a beginner, you have at least a working knowledge of PaintShop Pro . In other words, that you at know how to open a new image, access your folders, and open the tubes and images that you have saved there.

Designs by Hafapea

the complete abstract fractal art collection

Materials you will need:

Paint Shop Pro, preferably version 7 or newer, but any will do. You can download a free trial version, if you don't already have the program. You can get PSP 9 here
This font and these tubes
Once unzipped, open the tubes in your work area and minimize them.
If you have Windows Vista or earlier, open the font on your desktop and minimize it. If you have Windows 7, you will need to change a setting and do something a bit different. To use fonts without installing them in 7, open your Windows Fonts folder. On the left you will see the words "Font Settings," click on it. Then, on the window that opens, tick the box next to where it says, "Allow fonts to be installed using a shortcut (advanced)." Close that window and then find the Papyrus font. Right click on the font, copy it and paste it to your desktop. Right click on this copy and click on "Install as shortcut." This will temporarily install the font for you. When you've finished using it, delete it from your desktop and the shortcut will gone as well.
Dragonfly's Sinedots II
Graphics Plus
Kiwi's Oelfilter, Guck mal
*If you don't already have these filters, install them before opening Paint Shop Pro so that they will be loaded into the program.

Preparing the soil

Step 1

Open a new 800 x 600 image with a transparent background.
Rotate the image Clockwise 90°
Press Ctrl+A (or click on Selections, Select All).
Right click on the blue bar at the top of your working image and place your cursor over "Paste," then click on "Paste into selection on the menu that appears."

RSS: Add your blog

Get your trowel ready...

Step 2:

Press Ctrl +D (or click on Selections, Select None)
Use your cursor to move the tube to the left side of the image until you have a solid line of tube along the side and bottom as shown. This tube is a little different than the one I started out with because I didn't add the butterfly until just before I framed it, so you will have a bit of blue in places that I don't. If you don't want the blue, then just move the tube down so that the butterfly isn't showing.

and fill'er up!

Step 2 continued:

Once you have the tube where you want it, right click on the layer in your layer palette and duplicate it.

Keep a shovelin'!

Step 2 contined:

Then, click on "Image," and then "Flip."
Right click on the flipped image in your layer palette and duplicate it.

and shovelin'...

Next, click on "Image," and then "Mirror."
Right click on the mirrored image, duplicate it, and then move it to the left so that it covers as many of the spots that you can see through as possible.
Duplicate and flip.
Duplicate and mirror.
Duplicate and flip.
Duplicate and move to the center.
Duplicate and flip.

Welcome to My Garden PSP Tut Pt. 1

Welcome to My Garden

Contents at a Glance

Contents at a Glance

An Overview

Designs by Hafapea

the complete abstract fractal art collection

Materials you will need:

Preparing the soil

Step 1

RSS: Add your blog

Get your trowel ready...

Step 2:

and fill'er up!

Step 2 continued:

Keep a shovelin'!

Step 2 contined:

and shovelin'...

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