Flood Side Border and Background




Graphic is framed for example only.
Artist: Jim Warren Used with permission.

This tutorial is my own creation. Any resemblence to another is purely co-incidental.
Please do not tear it apart and call it your own.
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Tools needed to complete this tutorial:-

Paint Shop Pro V8

20/20

FM Tile Tools

The mask I used which you can download HERE.

A graphic of your choice.

Ok, if you have everything you need, let's get started.

  1. Open your graphic in PSP and resize so that it is no wider than 350 pixels.

  2. Shift + D twice. Minimize one of the copies.

    BACKGROUND

  3. Effects, Plugins, Flaming Pear, Flood and use the following settings:-

    • Horizon:    50 (so half the image is flooded)
    • Offset:    0
    • Perspective:    57
    • Altitude:    50

    • Waviness:    32
    • Complexity:    34
    • Brillance:    56
    • Blur:    34

    • Size:    0
    • Height:    33
    • Undulation:    40

    • Glue:    Normal

  4. Effects, distortion effects, wind and use the default settings:-

  5. Duplicate the background layer.

  6. Effects, distortion effects, wind and use the following settings:-

    • From left:    Checked
    • Wind Strength:    100

  7. Lower the opacity of this layer down to 50%.

  8. Merge all flatten.

  9. Save as a jpeg, name it background, and open it in 20/20.

  10. Image, muted background, make sure seamless tile is checked.

  11. Lower the opacity slider to around the 90 or 95% mark. We don't want to lose the flood effect, so don't take it too much lower than that.

  12. Save and take it back to PSP, minimizing for now.

    SIDE BORDER

  13. Maximize the graphic that we haven't worked on yet.

  14. Right click on background and promote to layer.

  15. Layers, load/save mask and apply right edge dc mask.

  16. Layers, merge, merge group.

  17. Image, mirror.

  18. Layers, load/save mask and apply the right edge dc mask again.

  19. Layers, merge, merge group.

  20. Image, Mirror.

  21. Image, canvas size and use the following settings:-

    • Width:    1024
    • Height:    (original height of your graphic)
    • Placement:    Click on the left middle arrow.

  22. Effects, 3D Effects, drop shadow and apply the following settings:

    • Vertical:    0
    • Horizontal:     5
    • Opacity:    55
    • Blur:    8
    • Color:    Black
    • Shadow on new layer:    UNchecked

  23. Repeat the drop shadow but change the horizontal to minus 5.

  24. Add a new raster layer.

  25. In your colour palette, set your foreground to pattern and select the flood background pattern we made earlier, Scale 100, Angle 0.

  26. Layers, arrange send to bottom.

  27. If the background is still too dark, lower the opacity a little on this layer.

  28. Merge all, flatten.

  29. Effects, Plugins, FM Tile tools, seamless tile and use the following settings:-

    • Border width:    0.160
    • Stretch Control:    0.160
    • Vertical:    Checked.

      • Add a new raster layer and add your watermark.

      • Merge all, flatten.

      • File, Export, JPEG optimizer. I used a setting of 10.

        You can now take it to letter creator, remembering to tile.



        An aushorty creation.