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Welcome!
I have been thinking it's time I ought to try my hand at writing
a tutorial to share with others, and try to give back a little
of what I have learned since I began using Paint Shop Pro! I
was dabbling one evening and stumbled on an effect that I find
very exciting, it's creating Ruffles! Since I have never seen
a tutorial on this subject, I thought it would be fun to share
the steps I took to achieve this effect! :o)
Valentines
is a perfect time to share this technique with you, so let's
get started!
This
tutorial has been written using PSP version 7 but I'm sure it's
adaptable to version 6 as well.
This tutorial also assumes you have a good working knowledge
of PSP.
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For
this tutorial you will need the following:
1. Paint Shop Pro (if you don't have it you may download an
evaluation copy
here)
2. My Ruffled Lace Materials Package (which includes 1 strip
of lace tubed, 1 Gold Heart, and 1 White wire frame Bow) PSP
7 users Right click here
and select 'Save Target As' to download this zipped package.
PSP 6 users Right
Click Here for compatible files.
3. The Jama 3D Plugin (it's free) for your PSP, if you don't
have it you can download it here it comes bundled with 8 other fun plugins.
Once
you have the Jama 3D installed into your plug-ins folder and
you have your Materials Zip file downloaded, unzip the file
and open all images in your PSP and we'll begin.
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Open
a New Image with the following settings:
150 wide X 500 high / Resolution set at 100 / Transparent Background
/ 16.7 million colors (24 bit)
Add a New Raster Layer and flood fill it with any color you
choose, this will only serve as a backdrop so you can see the
lace easier since it's so light. Add another new layer to place
your strip of lace on.
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With
your Butterfly lace strip tube either open in PSP or installed
in your tube folder you need to copy/paste it (or apply
the tube, if you installed it) onto your New Image window,
and move it to the top & center of this window. Then
duplicate this layer and go to Image up top and select
Flip, and arrange this layer to meet up with the ends
of your first layer, now your lace is twice as long, you
may want to zoom in so you can match the ends exactly.
Now
you should have something that looks like this on the
left. Once ends are matched up you need to hide your backdrop
layer and with a lace layer active, go up top to Layers/merge
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| There have been several updates to the Jama 3D plugin.... the settings shown here are for the latest version v1.70 which I have updated as of Feb. 6, 2006 |
Next
we're going to make the lace ruffle. Working with your Lace layer
active, go to Effects/ PlugIn Filters/Redfield/Jama 3D and use
the settings shown here.
Cool
huh?! :o) While your here with Jama open you might want to save
these settings, if you drop the window by clicking on the small
arrow you'll see at the bottom of the drop list SAVE USER PRESET,
select it and a small box will pop up for you to Name this setting,
then it's saved for you to use again another time.
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Ok
you have your lace ruffled you ought to save this image
as .psp now, then continue. We need to be sure the very ends of
the lace are square (by this I mean level and even, I use the
grid to help me judge this), when you applied Jama it set them
off just a bit so select your deformation tool and hold down your
shift key then nudge the corners so they are squared up top and
bottom (otherwise you'll have a hard time aligning the lace around
the hear). When you have it all squared up hit apply/ then sharpen.
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your image again now. Next we need to resize the lace for use
on the heart project, I used Image Resize, 50 %. Once again sharpen.
An
important note here, I wish to extend my Thanks to 'Linda' for
allowing me to share this Lace tube with you for the purpose of
this tutorial, she tells me this piece is handmade, over 20 yrs
old and quite expensive in it's real life form, she scanned it
and tubed it for people like us to enjoy.
Thank You so much Linda!!
You can visit Linda's
Gallery and browse through her collection for more lace selections,
there's some nice ones there! :o)
The
bow provided in your materials package was freely distributed
thru the Annexcafe.psp.tubes newsgroup as well as FlyByNightsGraphics
Group and I'd like to Thank them as well, it's a beautiful bow!
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the sole purpose of sharing instruction of this technique with
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