Shadow Side Border


Border around image for show purposes only.



This tutorial is my own creation. Any resemblence to another is purely co-incidental.
Please do not copy it or claim it as your own. do not translate it or put it on another website without my written permission.
You are more than welcome to use this tutorial in a group setting. Please link to this page only.


Tools needed to complete this tutorial:

Paint Shop Pro V8

FM Tile Tools

A graphic of your choice.
The graphic I have used is by Jonathon Earl Bowser. You can visit his site by clicking on his banner.



For the German translation of this tutorial, please click on the banner below.


If you have everything you need, let's begin.

  1. Open a graphic of choice.

  2. Resize so that it is no wider than 350 pixels, Sharpen if needed.

    Note: Graphics larger in length than width are the best ones to use.

  3. Shift + D twice. Close the original and minimize one of the copies left open.

  4. In your layer palette, duplicate the background layer.

  5. Chose your selection tool set to rectangle. Feather 0 antiaalias checked.

  6. Click on the custom selection button and use the following settings:-

    • Top:    0
    • Left:    10 pixels less than the total width of the graphic.
      Mine was 350 in width, so this setting became 340.

    • Right:    Total width of the graphic, so of course, mine was 350.
    • Bottom:    Total length of the graphic. Mine was 467.

  7. Click on ok.

  8. Hit the delete key. It won't look any different at this stage, but you will see what has happened with the next couple of steps.

  9. Selections, invert.

  10. Effects, 3D effects, Drop shadow and apply the following settings:-

    • Vertical:    0
    • Horizontal:     3
    • Opacity:    85
    • Blur:    12
    • Color:    Black
    • Shadow on new layer:    UNchecked.

  11. Click ok.

  12. Your image should look a little like this.

  13. Back to your layer palette and duplicate copy of background.

  14. Repeat the custom selection, but change the left to less another 10. Mine became 330,
    all other settings stay the same.

  15. Again hit the delete button.

  16. Selections, invert and add the same drop shadow as before.

  17. Deselect.

  18. In your layer palette, duplicate the copy (2) of background.

  19. Again, set your custom selection and again, make it another 10 pixels less again on the left.
    Mine is now 320.

  20. Hit the delete key.

  21. Selections, invert and add the same drop shadow.

  22. Deselect.

  23. Merge all, flatten and minimize for now.

  24. Open the graphic that we minimized at the beginning of the tutorial.

  25. Adjust, Blur, Gaussian Blur and set to a radius of 10.

  26. Effects, Art Media Effects, brushstrokes and use Brush strokes4 default settings:

  27. Click on ok.

  28. Adjust, Blur, Gaussian blur, and change the radius to 3.

  29. Effects, Distortion effects, Wave and use the following settings:-

      Horizontal displacement:

    • Amplitude:    27
    • Wavelength:    30

      Vertical displacement:

    • Amplitude:    50
    • Wavelength:    95

      Edge Mode:

    • Wrap:    Selected.

  30. Click Ok.

  31. Effects, Image Effects, Seamless tiling and apply the following settings:-

    • Tiling Method:    Mirror
    • Direction:     Bidirectional

    • Horizontal offset:    0
    • Vertical offset:    -64 (minus)
    • Width:    79

  32. Click ok.

  33. Effects, Image Effects, Seamless tiling and apply the following settings:-

    • Tiling Method:    Edge
    • Direction:    Vertical

    • All others stay the same.

  34. Effects, Image Effects, Seamless tiling and apply the following settings:-

    • Tiling Method:    Corner
    • Direction:    Vertical:

    • It will change the vertical offset and transition automatically.

  35. Click ok.

  36. In your layer palette, right click on this layer, and Promote background to layer.
    Lower the opacity to around 50%

  37. Merge all, flatten. Minimize for now.

  38. In your colour palette, change your foreground to pattern, and select the pattern that we've just made.

    • Angle:     0
    • Scale:     100

  39. Open the shadowed graphic that we made earlier.

  40. In your layer palette, right click and promote to layer.

  41. Image, canvas size.

  42. Make the width 1024, Make the length, the length of your graphic, and click on the left center arrow in the placement box.
    Make sure background is set to null.

  43. Effects, 3D effects, drop shadow and use the same settings as before:

  44. Close this layer off by clicking on the eye.

  45. Add a new raster layer and flood fill it with the pattern that we made.

  46. Layers, arrange, send to bottom, and now click on the eye again to open the top layer.

  47. Make sure you are on the top layer, and add a new raster layer, and add your watermark.

  48. Merge all flatten.

  49. Effects, plugins, FM Tile tools, Seamless tile with the following settings:-

    • Border Width:    0.195
    • Stretch Control:    0.195
    • Vertical:    Checked.
    • Click on apply.

    You can now save this and take it over to Letter Creator. Don't forget to tile the image.

    For those who don't know, Letter Creator is a product you get when you have IncrediMail as your mail program.



        


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