Woven AV Lesson #10
The lesson was written for PSP7.04
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

Image finished         Image finished

Requirements for this lesson



Use the background and choose either the Male OR the Female Image - Right Click on them and save to where you keep your lesson images.


Female Image         Male Image        Background Image

Close your PSP7 and then Download, Unzip the Idecay Plugin/filter into C/Programfiles/jasc software inc/plugins/make a folder called idecay and extract the files into this folder.


Instructions

  1. Open the background and a Person Image in PSP.
  2. Go to Colours>increase colour depth to 16mill ( Ctrl + Shift + 0 ) ie:0 zero not capital O.
  3. Effects>Plugins>Idecay>Accident>nasty 98>OK.
    After Idecay filter         After Idecay filter
  4. Colours>Colorize> Hue 18; Saturation 71>OK.
    After colorize         After colorize
  5. Click on your Selection Tool> and on Tool Settings Pallette> Selection type Eclipse; Feather 26; Antialias Checked - Now -
    Holding cursor over the image look at the bottom bar on your workspace and on lefthand side you will see 2 numbers in brackets, when these numbers read (30,50) left click and holding down mouse button drag down and across a bit to the right until selection goes from top to bottom and covers about 1/2 of image, then let mouse button go. The Selection you have just made will spring outwards by the 26 pixels that you input into the feather section of the settings.
  6. Edit>Copy. ( Ctrl + C )
  7. Now click on the background image to make it the active image and Edit>Paste as new layer. ( Ctrl + L )
  8. Select your Erasor Tool>and on Tool Settings Pallette> Shape Round; Size 23; Hardness 24; Opacity 30; Step 25; Density 100; Build Up Checked - and erase the leftside of their face and eye (both eyes on female)
    You will notice when you do this that a black line will appear down the leftside of the image
    After person added and erasor tool applied         After person added and erasor tool applied
  9. Select your Mover Tool and left click on person face and holding down mouse button drag across to the left till the line disappears.
    After person moved to left         After person moved to left applied
  10. Layers>New Raster Layer.
  11. Select your Text Tool now and left click on your image in bottom left 1/4 where the lines show horizontal on the image> Styles/Stroke Null; Styles/Fill Solid colour and left click on colour swatch and change HTML Code to #B99981; Textures both Null; Kerning & Leading 0; Auto Kern Checked; Size 8; in capitals type your name in the enter text here panel; now in font name choose a Font that looks good and fits your name in position as per image below - ( I used Californian FB on the female one and Engravers MT on male one but you choose from your own selection of fonts for one you want to use.)>OK.
  12. While Marquee wriggling around the letters still hold cursor over name till a 4way arrow symbol appears and then left click and holding mouse button down place your name to where it is to sit.
  13. Selections>Select None ( Ctrl + D )
    My finished Image        My finished Image
  14. Add Your own little bit of magic.
  15. Layers>Merge>Merge All (Flatten)
  16. Time to go play and experiment with the things you have learned today.... Have fun .... woven