Check It Out

Check It Out

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Put the Daze texture in your PSP textures folder.
I used PSP8, but this will work in
PSP9 and PSP10 also.

Open your graphic in PSP. Duplicate and close
the original.

Selections - Select all
Selections - Modify- Contract by 31
Selections - Invert

Effects-3D Effects - Inner Bevel.
Use these settings.

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow.
Use these settings.
V & H = 1
O= 100
Blur = 5
color = black

Repeat the Drop Shadow, but change the
V & H to -1 (Minus 1)

Selections - Select none

Image - Resize
Resize to 85% using the bicubic resampling.

Resize again to 90%.

**The reason we resize twice is to preserve the quality
of the graphic. It is better to resize twice at small
amounts rather than resize once at a large amount.
Always use bicubic resampling unless otherwise
instructed. Otherwise you will be to Sharpen after
resizing. **

Anybody can use a flat graphic. Yours now has a beveled
frame around it, but you didn't have to build the frame.
Be creative!!!

Choose a color from your graphic for your
background materials box. I am using #CE8069.

With your graphic active, go to your layers palette, right click
on background and promote background layer.

Image - Canvas Size - and use these settings.

***You will notice I have chosen to make my background
20 pixels higher than the original graphic. This is just
how I like it. If you like the graphic to touch, make your
height the same as your graphic.***

Layers - New Raster Layer
Layers - Arrange - Send to bottom.

Flood fill the bottom layer with the color you chose.

Effects - Texture Effects - Texture - Daze01.
Use these settings.

See how easy that is to make gingham checks.
I bet you didn't even need this tut.

Highlight Raster 1

Layers-New Raster Layer

Apply your mark.

Layers -Merge - Merge All (Flatten)

Optimize and save as a .jpg.

Take it to Letter Creator and Create
an Incredible IncrediLetter.

Once again. In IM we don't make stats.
We make Letters or IncrediLetters.
OE uses stats.

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I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Any resemblance to another tutorial is
purely coincidental. It is a result of my own playing in PSP 8.

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