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EZ Scrolling Double Border
HootyTut© by Doyle Allen aka Hooty 4/25/04
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Both Borders will be visible on any
monitor that is set up at 1024 x 768
Screen Resolution.
What you need:
PSP
No plugins are used!
A large graphic at least as big as 800x600
It should be wider than it is in height.
A lot of detail will most likely get you the best results.
A lot of solid color areas will create dead spots which
you probably won’t like in the finished results.
Tip: This can be a cool way to make family
oriented stationery with any big photos
of your family that you may have.
1 Open your large graphic
2 Edit / Copy
3 File / New
Width = 1005, Height = 672 pixels, Transparent
The rest of the settings should already be default
and what we want to use.
Note: You might like to save these settings for any
future Scrolling stationery that you may want to do
in the future.
OK
4 You will need to select a solid Foreground color.
I would suggest that you use my setting the first time
just so you see how it all comes together at the end.
HTML = #F7F5DD
You can pick one using the Dropper Tool (E) and
choose one off your original graphic or any other method.
As you will see this will be the majority of the
background color which will need to be text friendly
when you use it as stationery.
I have found that tinted whites often give
the desired results.
Some of the testers had success using
double shaded gradients as the fill
although the shades were darker they
made their text a light shade and that works
too!
5 (F) Flood Fill Tool:
Fill layer with this solid color.
6 Layers / New Raster Layer
Tip! If you hold your shift key down you will avoid the
pop up box when you select New Raster Layer.
7 Ctrl + A (Selections/Select All)
8 Ctrl + Shift + L (Edit / Paste / Paste into Selection)
9 Ctrl + D (Selections / Select None)
10 Layers / Duplicate
11 (S)
Selection
Tool / Custom Selection
Click on the Custom Selection icon on your settings
bar up top.
Settings:
Left = 30, Top = 0, Right = 975, Bottom = 672
OK
12 Press Delete on your keyboard
Note: This will appear to do nothing but
actually it has removed the selected area
on this layer and now exposes the layer
underneath which looks the same. tee-hee
13 Change the Layer Mode on the Raster 2 layer from
“Normal” to “Overlay”
Possible last changes that you might
make at this part of the tutorial.
Play with the Opacity settings on both the
Color Fill Layer and Graphic layers until
you get a nice result that will be nice to
write on as a background.
Raster Layers 1 and 2.
You can change the color fill to other
colors to see if there is something you like
better too.
14 Layers / Merge / Merge Visible
15 Effects / Edge Effects / Enhance More
Note: Sometimes this can be used as a replacement
for FM Tiles Tool plugin Blend Emboss effect! Kewl!
16 Ctrl + Shift + i (Selections / Invert)
17 (F) Flood Fill Tool: Fill your borders.
This is what your small border edges are going to be after a little manipulation. So fill with whatever you want them to be.
This time I am using a gold pattern fill. You decide
for yourself what you would like.
Tip: If you have Match Mode = None, then both
borders will fill at the same time!
18 Selection / Modify / Contract = 4 OK
19 Ctrl + Shift + L (Edit / Paste / Paste into Selection)
We are pasting the graphic into the borders.
Alternatives that you might use would be
to fill with patterns of different sorts
instead or use a SBP preset etc.
Texture Effects/Blinds using Vertical and
changing the color to a little darker shade
of the same color looks cool too.
Seen some good results from just filling
with a solid color and skipping steps 21 &
22 too! Up to you...make it pretty!
20 Ctrl + Shift + P
(Selections / Promote selection to Layer)
21 Effects / Distortion Effects / Pixelate
Settings:
Block width = 75, Block height = 5
Of course symmetric is unchecked.
22 Effects / Edge Effects / Enhance
Repeat this step if you like the effect better
but with "Enhance More"!
You might want to zoom in to see what it
will look like at full size.
Ctrl + Alt + N (View/Zoom/Zoom to 100%)
Ctrl + Shift + A (View/Full Screen Preview)
23 Ctrl + Shift + P
(Selections / Promote selection to Layer)
24 Effects / 3D Effects / Cutout
Settings:
Vertical & Horizontal both at 2
Opacity = 100, Blur = 15, Color = Black
Fill interior with color Unchecked.
OK
25 Ctrl + D (Selections / Select None)
26 Layers/Merge/Merge All (flatten)
27 Add your watermark if you like and
Save as a jpg
Letter Creator Tip
Put your creation in on the Body Page, the tile feature should not be activated!
Margin Settings on the Body page:
Top, Left And Right should all be set at 30!
Remember to Watermark your creations!
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Approved by the HootyTutTestersGroup!
Thanks to all the great testers that help me to
make these tutorials as good as they are!
The testers are always a vital part of the end
results of what you end up using.
Special thanks to all the testers:
Here are some of the results from the testers!
Jacqueline, omi & Jynx also participated.
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