Always Something To Remind Me Tutorial

All the supplies you will need can be downloaded here.

Plug Ins Needed For This Tutorial

FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - here

Penta - VTR2 - here

Mura's Seamless - Shadow - here

Xero - Porcelain - here

Xero - Mistifier - here

Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow - here

Adjust Variations - here

Simple - Top Left Mirror - here 

Always Something To Remind Me Tutorial

Open up all the materials and place them in the right places. Font to fonts, gradient to gradients,
images to psp file and so on. This tutorial was written for PSP 9.

1. Open a transparent image 640 x 480.

2. Go into your material properties and bring up the materials palette.

3. Foreground color #4a1010 or choose your own

4. Background color #843129 or choose your own

5. Flood fill your transparent image with your foreground color.

6. Layers - New Raster Layer

7. Materials Palette - Switch your colors

8. Brush - activate brush ww patry - still waiting and stamp at least 6 times all over background.

9. Effects - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - Settings - Default

10. Layers - Duplicate layer

11. Open image 2 - patry - always something to remind me - Edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Opacity - 40 - Move to the right upper corner of the background. Blend Mode - Luminance (Legacy)

12. Open image 3 - suzi - always something to remind me - Edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Opacity - 70 - Move to the right lower corner of the background and across the bottom.

13. Open image 4 - sbg - always something to remind me - Edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Opacity - 20 - Move to the left upper corner of the background.

14. Materials Palette - Move image 4 under image 3 in your materials palette.

15. Layers - New raster Layer.

16. Flood fill your transparent image with your background color. Opacity - 50.
Blend Mode - Soft Light.

17. Layers - New raster Layer.

18. Flood fill your transparent image with your background color.

19. Effects - Penta - VTR2 - Settings - Line Distance - 26, Line Width - 0, Contrast - 169, Ghost - 0.

20. Materials Palette - Opacity - 32. Blend Mode - Screen.

21. Layers - Merge All Flatten

22. Effects - Mura's Seamless - Shadow - Settings - Offset X - 132, Offset Y - 132, Color R - 255,
Color G - 0, Color B - 0, Effects - 255. Repeat.

23. Effects - Xero - Porcelain - Settings - Softness - 50, Strength - 128, Brightness - 128,
Red Channel - 255, Green Channel - 0 - Blue Channel - 0 - Repeat

24. Effects - Xero - Mistifier - Settings - Haziness - 130, Strength - 130, Red Mist - 255,
Green Mist - 0 - Blue Mist - 0

25. Layers - New raster layer

26. Text Tool - Balmoral LET - Size 36 - Stroke 0. Type Always something there and position it
in the upper left corner. - Layers palette - convert to raster layer. Color - sbg gold pattern.

27. Layers - New Raster Layer

28. Text Tool - Balmoral LET - Size 36 - Stroke 0. Type to remind me and position
it under the first line in the upper left corner. - Layers palette - convert to raster layer.
Color - sbg gold pattern.

29. Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - 1, Horizontal - 1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1, Color - Black
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen - Do this for both lines.

30. Layers - Merge All Flatten

31. Layers - Duplicate Layer

32. Layers - Merge All Flatten

33. Layers - New Raster Layer

34. Brush Tool - krw deco 6 - Settings - Size 225, Step 32, Density - 100, Rotation - 0, Opacity - 100,
Blend Mode - Normal, check continuous. Stamp twice on bottom right side of text. Color - sbg
gold pattern.

35. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

36. Layers - Duplicate

37. Image - Flip, Image - Mirror - Position above text on upper left side.

38. Layers - Merge All Flatten

39. Image - Add Border - 5 pixels. Flood - fill with sbg gold pattern.
Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - -1, Horizontal - -1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1, Color - Black -
Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - 1, Horizontal - 1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1, Color - Black

40. Effects - Penta - VTR2 - Settings - Line Distance - 26, Line Width - 0, Contrast - 169, Ghost - 0.

41. Effects - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - Settings - Default - Repeat.

42. Image - Add Border - 40 pixels. Magic wand - select border - Materials Palette - Pattern - select
sbg - border pattern texture. Flood Fill with sbg gradient sample.

43. Effects - Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow - Default Settings

44. Effects - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - Settings - Default

45. Effects - Mura's Seamless - Shadow - Settings - Offset X - 132, Offset Y - 132, Color R - 255,
Color G - 0, Color B - 0, Effects - 255.

46. Effects - Adjust - Variations - click on original pick and then click on darken once.

47. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

48. Selections - Select None.

49. Image - Add Border - 5 pixels. Flood - fill with sbg gold pattern.
Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - -1, Horizontal - -1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1, Color - Black -
Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - 1, Horizontal - 1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1, Color - Black

50. Effects - Penta - VTR2 - Settings - Line Distance - 26, Line Width - 0, Contrast - 169, Ghost - 0.

51. Effects - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - Settings - Default - Repeat.

52. Open image 5 - krw corner - always something to remind me. Edit - copy - paste as new layer.
Move into left upper corner.

53. Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - 1, Horizontal - 1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1, Color - Black
Adjust - Add Noise - Gaussian - 30 - Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

54. Effects - Simple filter - Top Left Mirror, merge - all.

55. Layers - Merge - merge all flat

56.To add your name go to font - Balmoral LET - size 24 - stroke 1 - anti-alias - smooth. Use the color
or pattern or gradient of your choice. Effects - 3D effects - drop shadow - settings: vertical 1 - horizontal 1 -
opacity 100 - blur 1 - color black. Adjust - Add Noise - Gaussian - 30 - Monochrome checked.
You can also use the text tool and add your own text. I used Balmoral LET font but you can use
whatever font you prefer. Color - sbg gold pattern.

57. Position your name in the bottom right area where you would like to have it. Adjust - Sharpness -
Sharpen.

58. Layers - duplicate

59. Layers - Merge all flat

60. Save your work. You're all done.

 

Credits
 
 
Mists by Sabrina Buck Graphics
 
Mists & Tubes by Suzi Sgai - ArtInfinity Tubes
 
Song Credit
Song is Always Something There To Remind Me by Naked Eyes.

Created December 5, 2006

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