This Tutorial is ©Angel Wolf, October 21, 2004.

Any similarities to this tutorial are purely coincidental. Please DO NOT take any part of this tutorial and claim it as your own and please DO NOT script this tutorial. I have spent hours on the creation of this tutorial for your enjoyment. I do hope that you enjoy doing it and I would love to see what you have created with it.

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Angel Wolf

Materials Used

JASC Paint Shop Pro Verion 8- Demo Here
NVR Border Mania- Demo Here
Extra Materials- Here
(Tubes used, Gradients used,Texture Fill)

~Extract the dbaw_goldgrad.PspGradient, dbaw_blackred.PspGradient, and dbaw_redgrad.PspGradient to your Gradients Folder~

~Extract dbaw_romance.pspimabe, musicnotes.pspimage, beads.pspimage, rose1.pspimage, rose2.pspimage, whitesparkle.pspimage, couple.pspimage and rosesfill.jpg to a folder of your choice~

**When you open the dbaw_balletdreams.pspimage, do not be alarmed at it being blank. You will be using the selections that were saved to the alpha channel. The Image is NOT empty!

Lets Get Started!!

1. Open  the dbaw_romance.pspimage and the rosesfill.jpg. Set your foreground to pattern and choose the rosesfill.jpg. On your dbaw_romance.pspimage fill with the rosesfill.jpg and name this layer background.

1. Set your foreground to dbaw_goldgrad gradient and background to dbaw_blackred gradient. On your dbaw_romance.pspimage, Selections- Select All-Contract by 30. fill with the dbaw_goldgrad gradient, selections- modify by 3 and fill with the dbaw_blackred gradient, keep selected.

2. Effects-Texture-Glass Mosaic with the following settings:(Deselect)

3. Effects- 3D- Drop Shadow: Vertical= 5, Horizontal= 5, Opacity= 100, Blur= 10.00, Color= #851717. Repeat this drop shadow changing vertical to -5, horizontal to -5.

4. On the same layer, Selections- Select All- Modify- Contract- by 72, flood fill with dbaw_goldgrad gradient. Selections- Modify- Contract by 3 flood fill with dbaw_redgrad gradient. Deselect.

5. Selections- Load/Save- from alpha channel- dbaw_romance1. flood fill with dbaw_goldgrad gradient, Effects- Textrue- Blinds with the following settings and deselect:

6.On the same layer, Selections- Load/Save- from alpha channel- dbaw_romance2, flood fill with dbaw_gold grad gradient. Effects- Texture- Blinds with the following settings and deselect:

7. Effects- 3D- Drop Shadow: Vertical= 7, Horizontal=, 7, Opacity= 100, Blur= 25.00 Color= Black.

8. Open the musicnotes.pspimage and copy, back to your work area, paste as a new layer.

9. New raster layer. Selections- Load/Save- from alpha channel-dbaw_romance3. Open your rose1.pspimage and copy. back to your work area, paste into the selection, Effects- 3D- Drop Shadow: Vertical= 5, Horizontal= 5, Opacity= 100, Blur= 15.00, Color= #8B3F3F, Deselect.

10. New raster layer. Selections-Load/Save-from alpha channel-dbaw_romance4. Open your rose2.pspimage and copy. Back on your work area, paste into selection. Effects- 3D- Drop Shadow: Vertical= 5, Horizontal= 5, Opacity= 100, Blur= 15.00, Color= #8B3F3F, Deselect.

11. Open the beads.pspimage, copy and back on your work area paste as a new layer and place as in the picture below:

12. Effects- 3D- Drop Shadow: Vertical= 7, Horizontal= 7, Opacity= 100, Blur= 10.00, Color Black.

13. New raster layer. Open the whitsparkle.pspimage, copy and paste as a new selection the the very center bead, and paste again as a new selection to the left and right beads. Deselect.

14. Open the couple.pspimage, copy and back on your work area paste as a new layer and place in the lower left part of the book (inner box). Effects- 3D- Drop Shadow: Vertical= 7, Horizontal= 7, Opacity= 100, Blur= 10.00, Color= 8B3F3F.

15. Layers-Merge-Merge flatten. Image-Plugins-NVR Bordermania-Frame2, only change the top two numbers to 3. Add border, symmetric of 3, color white. Grab your magic wand and select the white border, flood fill with dbaw_goldgrad gradient.

Your image is now complete. You can save it as it is or you can add text to it. The option is yours.

I do hope that you have enjoyed this tutorial.

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