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Tutorial Date
March 7, 2001
This tutorial has been translated into Dutch, available HERE. Special
thanks to Marga for the translation.
Remember back in grade school, having a wonderful time taking all the crayons
you owned and coloring every square inch of a piece of paper only to color over the whole thing in black? Do you
also remember how exciting it was to have a beautiful design pop out from all
that black when you took a toothpick and scratched through the surface? Well, this is just
as fun as it was back then only you don't have to clean up all that black crayon mess!
This tutorial uses PSP 6 and can be done in 7 as well and requires a basic
knowledge of PSP. You only need two items which are available
in a zip file HERE These are my two selections for this project and
they need to be placed in you "Selections" folder in PSP. If you don't have a Selections folder, you
can make one.
Step 1. Open a new image 300x300 with a white background.
Step 2. Set your background color to white and your foreground color to black.
Step 3. Flood fill your image using the following settings: Linear gradient, Cyan-Magenta-Yellow
preset or theses 3 settings (cyan=0,255,255 magenta=255,0,255 yellow=255,255,0) Opacity=100 and Tolerance set
to 200.
Figure 1
Step 4. Add a new layer and change the fill style to "solid color" and fill with black.
Step 5. Load my "Scratch Art Corners" selection by going to "selections", "load from disk" and browse to your
selection folder. Using the eraser tool with these settings
Figure 2
make sure layer 1 is selected and start "scratching" over the selection so that the color underneath
shows through. Now, you don't have to get this perfect, if you leave a tiny bit of black
showing it looks more like a real scratched art piece, I mean, wasn't it hard to remove
all the black crayon without ripping the paper? You always ended up with
some small specs of black no matter how hard you tried to brush them off. Deselect when you're all done.
Figure 3
Step 6. Load my "Scratch Art Tulips" selection. Follow the same steps as above for scratching
out the tulips. Deselect.
Step 7. Merge all layers visible, go to "image", "add borders" with the following settings:
Figure 4
Step 8. Use the magic wand to select the white border and flood fill with the same linear gradient, do not
deselect! Go to "image", "effects", "mosaic-antique" with the following settings:
Grid settings: Columns and rows both at 50, symmetric=checked
Mosaic settings: Tile opacity=70, Grout width=2, Grout opacity=50
Figure 5
Step 9. Then go to "image", "effects", "inner bevel" with these settings:
Bevel settings: width=8
Image settings: smoothness and depth both =8, Ambience=0, shininess=40
Light settings: color=white, angle=315, intensity=50, elevation=30
Figure 6
Deselect. And here is the final image:
Isn't that fun?! I hope you enjoyed the tutorial.
Thank you so much for this award, it means so much to me :)
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