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Tools needed to complete this tutorial:-

Paint Shop Pro 9

A graphic of your choice.

The graphic used for this tutorial is © Metal&Magic and is used with permission.

Filter Attack

1. Open the graphic of choice and resize to a suitable size.

2. In your layer palette, right click and promote background layer.

3. Right click again and duplicate.

4. Using your eye dropper chose a nice complimenting colour from your graphic for your background colour.

5. Effects, Plugins, Filter Attack and use the following settings:-

   

6. Effects, 3D Effects, Inner Bevel and use the following settings:-
   • Pie Bevel
     
   • Width:      8
     
   • Smoothness:      0
     
   • Depth:      2
     
   • Ambience:      0
     
   • Shininess:      2
     
   • Color:      White
     
   • Angle:      315
     
   • Intensity:      50
     
   • Elevation:      30

7. Make sure the bottom layer is the active layer by selecting it in your layer palette.

8. Effects, Plugins, Filter Attack and use the following settings:-

   

9. Effects, 3D Effects, Inner Bevel and repeat the settings used earlier.

10. Add a new raster layer and drag to the bottom.

11. Flood fill with the background colour.

12. Add a new raster layer and drag it to the top.

13. Add your watermark.

14. Merge all flatten.

15. Open a new 300 x 300 transparent image.

16. Flood fill with your background colour. Merge all flatten for your background.

    You can now take it into Letter Creator.

    
            

    

    
    
    
    

    

    
    
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