** Dimitri 8-8-2004 **

Lesson Dimitri

This lesson has been made in PSP8 with a standard setting.

Lisette and Karin have given me their approval to translate this tut into English for them. Thank you ladies! (((Hugs / Knuffel))), Croidin

This lesson is translated by Croidin for us , thank you so much Croidin for your work

Needed:

A vertical image (all the settings in this tutorial are for a vertical image, a horizontal one is NOT possible)

And lots and lots of filters :<))

Filter L&K Dimitri: here
Filter Neology Filter Pack – TV-mania: here (this is an executable file, place it separately in your folder ‘plugins’)
Filter Alf’s Power Toys: here
Filter Alf’s Border FX: here
Filter FM Tile Tools: here
Filter Eye Candy 3.1: here
Filter Xero – Serious Fog: here
Filter Simple: here

**This lesson was created to be used with a top scroll (on a notepaper in Outlook Express): here **

How to make it:

Open your image:

1. Resize, with these settings:

2. Enhance photo – Sharpen:

3.Image – Add borders, 40 with these settings:

*Click inside your image, with your right mouse button, to choose a dark color from your image with the pipette

4. Magic wand , and click inside your border

5. Effects – Plugins – Neology Filter Pack – TV-mania, with these settings:

6. Layer palette – click on your background layer and promote it to a raster layer

7. Effects – Plugins – LenK landsiteofwonders – L en K’s Dimitri, with these settings:

DO NOT DESELECT THE BORDER!!!

8. Effects – 3D effects – Buttonize, with these settings:

9. Selections – Select none

10. Image – Resize, with these settings (the width isn’t filled in because every image has different sizes and only the height counts on this lesson. Everyone will have a different size for width):

(If needed: sharpen, like you did before… “enhance photo – sharpen”)

11. Press the key combination Shift – D, to duplicate your created image.Put one of these two images aside for a while

Image 1:

In case your image is looking towards the left, when you look towards your screen, you will have to ‘mirror’ it first!!!!

12. Image – canvas size, with these settings:

On the option “placement”: press the left hand arrow, as in the preview

13. Choose two colors from your image: a light one for the foreground color and a dark one for the background

14. Magic wand, click on the transparent part of your image

15. Flood fill tool, fill with the light color

16. Selections – select none

17. Effects – Plugins – Alf’s Power Toys – Split distortion, with settings on 25

18. Magic wand, click on the background

19. Selections – Invert

20. Edit – copy

21. Open a new image with sizes 740 x 240, but first choose a gradient with these settings, and then remove the little vink on transparency (2nd image):

22. Effects – Plugins – Neology filter pack –

TV-mania, with same settings as point 5

23. Effects – Plugins – L en K landsiteofwonders –

L en K’s Dimitri, 80

24. Effects – Plugins – Alf’s Power Toys –

Mirror Offset, 128 and 128

25. Effects – Plugins – Alf’s Border FX – Border Checkers, with these settings:

26. Effects – Plugins – Alf’s Power Toys – Mirror Offset,

but with the vertical slide set to 0

27. Edit – Paste – Paste as new layer (the double, mirrored part of your 1024x300 image should still be in your puter’s memory)

28. Image – Resize, with the option ‘resize all layers’ NOT checked and height set to 220

29. Effects – Plugins – Eye Candy 3.1 – Perspective shadow, with these settings:

FIRST set it to ‘classic’, and THEN change the other settings

On the shadow color: click on the color, and put the dark color in that you chose earlier

30. Move tool, and move your image layer so it’s nicely in the middle of the bigger white part at the top of the background layer, and a little bit towards the top so the top of the image is in line with the bottom of the white blocks (as in the preview below):