Dreaming
The lesson was written for PSP X
by Woven
The Bold writing are the keyboard shortcuts for each action.You may or may not need to have the [ F lock ] on your keyboard activated for these to work

Finished Dreaming Image


Requirements for this lesson
Right Click on image below and save for use in the lesson.
Provided Image
Image courtesy of www.babyanimalz.com/

Also download the supplies .zip file and install the gradient (only if using a previous version to PSPX) into My Documents/PSP Files/Gradients - and the corner picture tube into My Documents/PSP Files/Picture Tubes.

Let's Frame our Dreaming Duo
  1. Open the above image (or one of your choice) in PSP.
  2. Duplicate your image ( Shift + D ), then close the original this preserving it in original state.
  3. Select your Dropper Tool from left menu ( E ) - Left click on a light area to select a colour for your foreground colour and Right Click on a dark area to select your background colour.
    For this exercise I used Foreground colour HTML code #dcf1fb and for the background #5c879a.
  4. On top menubar click on Image>Add Border>2; symmetric Checked; right click on the colour swatch and select a colour not in your image>OK.
  5. On left menubar click on Magic Wand>Mode Replace; Match Mode RGB Value; Tolerence 0; Use all layers Unchecked; Feather 0; Antialias Checked; Inside> and Click inside the border you just made.
  6. Go to Materials Pallette and left click on Foreground colour swatch>select gradient>Angle 45; Repeats 0; Invert Unchecked; Style Linear; centre point horizontal and vertical 50>Click on colour swatch and select Metal Steel gradient>OK>OK.
  7. Select Flood Fill Tool ( F ) and Left click inside the new border to Floodfill the border you made with metal steel gradient.
  8. Effects>Inner Bevel>Bevel #12; Width and Depth 2; Smoothness, Ambience and Shininess 0; Angle 315;Intensity 50; Elevation 30>OK
  9. Selections>Select None ( D )
  10. On top menubar click on Image>Add Border>5; symmetric Checked; right click on the colour swatch and select the dark colour you selected before It will be in bottom lefthand corner of the popup>OK.
  11. Image Add Border>Change size to 2; rest of settings same>select light colour>OK
  12. Magic Wand>settings as before>Click inside new border.
  13. Select Flood Fill Tool ( F ) and Left click inside the new border to Floodfill the border you made with metal steel gradient.
  14. Effects>Inner Bevel>Bevel #12; Width and Depth 2; Smoothness, Ambience and Shininess 0; Angle 315;Intensity 50; Elevation 30>OK
  15. Selections>Select None ( D )
  16. Image Add Border>Change size to 10; rest of settings same>select light colour>OK
  17. Magic Wand>settings as before>Click inside new border.
  18. Go to Materials Pallette and left click on Background colour swatch>select radial>Angle 90; Repeats 11; Invert Unchecked; centre point horizontal and vertical 50>Left Click on the gradient swatch and select foreground/background>OK.
  19. Select Flood Fill Tool ( F ) and Right click inside the border you made to Floodfill the border you made with radial gradient.
  20. Effects>Art Media Effects>Brush Strokes>Softness 5;Length 12; Density 43; Brush - Bristles 157; Width 4; Opacity 73; Lighting 102; Right click on the colour swatch and select the Colour Light you chose at beginning>OK.
  21. Selections>Select None ( D )
  22. Image>Add Borders size 2; and select a colour not in your image>OK.
  23. Magic Wand>settings as before>Click inside new border.
  24. Select Flood Fill Tool ( F ) and Left click inside the new border to Floodfill the border you made with metal steel gradient.
  25. Effects>Inner Bevel>Bevel #12; Width and Depth 2; Smoothness, Ambience and Shininess 0; Angle 315;Intensity 50; Elevation 30>OK
  26. Selections>Select None ( D )
  27. Image>Add Borders size 2; and select a colour not in your image>OK.
  28. Magic Wand>settings as before>Click inside new border.
  29. Select Flood Fill Tool ( F ) and Left click inside the new border to Floodfill the border you made with metal steel gradient.
  30. Effects>Inner Bevel>Bevel #12; Width and Depth 2; Smoothness, Ambience and Shininess 0; Angle 315;Intensity 50; Elevation 30>OK
  31. Selections>Select None ( D )
    dreaming1
  32. Image Add Border>Change size to 10; rest of settings same>select dark colour>OK
  33. Image Add Border>Change size to 10; rest of settings same>select light colour>OK
  34. Magic Wand>settings as before>Click inside new border.
  35. Select Flood Fill Tool ( F ) and Left click inside the new border to Floodfill the border you made with metal steel gradient.
  36. Effects>Inner Bevel>Bevel #12; Width and Depth 2; Smoothness, Ambience and Shininess 0; Angle 315;Intensity 50; Elevation 30>OK
  37. Selections>Select None ( D )
  38. Image Add Border>Change size to 10; rest of settings same>select dark colour>OK
  39. Magic Wand>settings as before>Click inside new border.
  40. Effects>Inner Bevel>Bevel #2; Width 5 and Depth 4; Smoothness, Ambience and Shininess 0; Angle 315;Intensity 50; Elevation 30>OK
  41. Selections>Select None ( D )
    dreaming2
  42. Layers>New Raster Layer.
  43. On Left menu select your Picture Tube Tool ( I )
  44. Then on the Tool Pallette Settings scroll to the cornerwoven1 Tube to activate it.
  45. Leave settings all default and make sure size is 100% in this instance.
  46. On your image Left click in top right quarter of your image to place the tube there.
  47. Select you Move Tool from left menu ( M ) and move the corner tube to the top right of image as image below.
    Image after adding Corner Tube
  48. Layers>Duplicate
  49. Image>Mirror ( Ctrl + M )
  50. Layers>Merge>Merge Down.
  51. Layers>Duplicate
  52. Image>Flip ( Ctrl + I )
  53. Layers>Merge>Merge Visible.
  54. Layers>New Raster Layer.
  55. Add your watermark.
  56. Layers>Merge>Merge All.
    Finished Dreaming Image

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