ATTACK FRAME

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Tools needed to complete this tutorial:

PSP 9

A tube of your choice.
The tube I have used is used with permission from McHooii at Jazzl Updates

Filter Attack.

Due to filters shifting constantly online, I am no longer offering links to them. Please use a search engine to find them.

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1. Open your tube in PSP and using your eye dropper chose two complimenting colours from your tube for the foreground and background colours. Minimize for now.

2. Open a new transparent 350 x 450 image.

3. Flood fill your transparent image with the darker of your chosen colours.

4. Effects, Plugins, Filter Attack and use the Border: Zerstauber with following settings:-

   

5. Add a new layer and flood fill with your lighter colour.

6. Effects, Plugins, Filter Attack, Border: Zerstauber with the default settings.

7. Merge visible.

8. Image, canvas size and use the following settings:-
   • Width:      400
     
   • Height:      500
     
   • Placement:      Middle arrow.

9. Right click on the blue bar of your minimized tube, edit, copy.

10. Right click on the blue bar of our working canvas, edit, paste as new layer.

11. Image, resize. We want the tube to be larger than the frame.

12. Effects, 3D Effects, drop shadow and use the following settings:-
    • Vertical:      3
      
    • Horizontal:      7
      
    • Opacity:      55
      
    • Blur:      7
      
    • Color:      Black
      
    • Shadow on new layer:      Unchecked.

13. Repeat the drop shadow changing the Vertical and Horizontal to –1 (minus).

14. Merge visible.

15. Ctrl + C, and then Ctrl + V to copy and paste as a new image getting rid of any excess transparency.

16. Add a new layer and drag to the bottom of your layer palette.

17. Chose another complimenting colour from your tube, and flood fill your new layer.

18. Add a new layer and drag it to the top. Add your watermark.

19. Merge all, flatten.

20. Save as your header in jpeg format to your desktop or somewhere you will be able to find it later.

    SIDE BARS

    
    

21. Open a new 100 x 450 transparent image.

22. Flood fill with the background colour of your header graphic.

23. Right click on the blue top border of your tube, copy.

24. Right click on the blue top border of your side bar graphic, edit, paste as new layer.

25. Resize the tube so it fits nicely.

26. Using your mover tool, move this graphic so that it’s at the top of your side bar.

27. In your layer palette, duplicate this layer.

28. Image, flip.

29. Using your mover tool, move the flipped image up so that it’s touching the top one.

30. Close the bottom layer off, and making sure that one of the top two layers is active, merge visible.

31. You can open the bottom layer now.

32. Right click on your merged layer and duplicate.

33. Image, flip.

34. Again, close off the bottom layer, making sure one of the top two layers is active, merge visible.

35. You can open the bottom layer now.

36. Effects, 3D Effects, inner bevel and use the following settings:-
    • Pie Bevel:
      
    • width:      8
      
    • Smoothness:      2
      
    • Depth:      2
      
    • Ambience:      0
      
    • Shininess:      2
      
    • Color:      White
      
    • Angle:      357
      
    • Intensity:      40
      
    • Elevation:      35

37. Effects, 3D Effects, drop shadow and use the following settings:-
    • Vertical:      0
      
    • Horizontal:      3
      
    • Opacity:      55
      
    • Blur:      7
      
    • Color:      Black
      
    • Shadow on new layer:      Unchecked.

38. Merge all, flatten and save as left side border.jpg.

39. Window, duplicate.

40. Image, mirror.

41. Save as your right side border.

42. Open a new 200 x 200 transparent image and flood fill with the same background colour you’ve used previously.

43. Merge all, flatten and save as your background.

44. You can now put it altogether in Letter Creator.

    
    
    

    
    
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