Hide Tag

I wrote this tutorial on my own.  Any similarity to another tutorial is purely coincidental.  I claim the copyright to my tutorial. You are free to do whatever you please with what you make, but please do not take my tutorial.  Do not send the tutorial through email.  Only share my link.

This tutorial was created for some friends of mine who wanted to begin learning more about PSP.  It is intended for beginners to learn how to create a Turkey Dinner.  If you have any questions, please feel free to Email  me.

To do this tutorial you will also need Paint Shop Pro.  I wrote this with  Paint Shop Pro XI, but the steps may also be done in any version.  You may download a free trial at Corel.

Remember to save as a psp file often!

1.  Open a tube of your choice.  Image > Resize  Make sure the biggest side is no more than 400 pixels.

2.  Pick a light color from your tube to be the foreground color, and a dark color to be the background color.

3.  In the material Properties Palette, set the gradient to sunburst style, Repeats = 0, Horizontal & Vertical = 50. 

4.  Layers > new Raster Layer

5.  Drag the new layer to the bottom and fill with your gradient.

6.  Effects > Texture > Texture  Choose the Canvas Course texture, size = 45, smoothness = 0, depth = 1, ambience = 0, shininess = 0, color= white, angle = 315, intensity = 50, elevation = 30

7.  Selection > Select All.  Selection > Modify > Contract by 10 pixels

8.  Selections > Invert

9.  Effects > 3D Effects > Inner Bevel  Apply these settings:  Pie shape bevel, width = 13, smoothness = 16, depth = 20, ambience = 0, shininess = 0, color = white, angle = 315, intensity = 50, elevation = 30

10.  Effects > Texture > Fine Leather.  Apply these settings:  color = #c0c0c0, Angle = 0, blur = 15, transparency = 255, number of furrows = 20, length of furrows = 10

11.  In the Layer Palette, click on your tube layer.  Set the layer blend mode to Overlay, and slide the opacity to 71%.

12.  Right-click on the layer and choose Merge > merge Visible.

13.  Image > Canvas Size Add 100 pixels to the width and the height.  Be sure that the Placement is centered (bottom)

14.  Layers > new Raster Layer

15.  Drag this layer to the bottom.  Flood-fill with the gradient.

16.  Selections > Select All.  Selections > Modify > 25  Press Delete Key

17.  Effects > 3D Effects > Inner Bevel  Apply same bevel as before.

and the same leather settings as before

18.  Layers > New Raster Layer

19.  Choose the Pen tool.  Set it to bezier Mode.  UNCHECK Create on Vector, UNCHECK Connect Segments.  CHECK Show Nodes.  Width = 15.

20.  With the pen tool, draw in the straps that will connect the hide panel to the frame (see sample above).

21.  After drawing in all straps.  Selections > Select All.  Selections > Modify Selection > Contract by 10 pixels.

22.  Image > Crop to Selection

23.  On Strap layer-- Selections > Select All.  Selections > Float

24.  Effects > Texture > Fine Leather  Apply same settings as before

25.  Add any text you like and save it as a GIF:  File > Export > GIF Optimizer

To create the rocky background:

1.  Make a copy of the Hide tile

2.  Effects > Textures > Tiles.  Apply these settings:  Hexagon, 50, 32, 10, 40, 2, 24, 37, white, 202, 62, 26

3.  Effects > Image Effects > Seamless Tiling  Settings:  Mirror, Bidirectional, 0, 0, 50

4.  Save this tile as a JPEG.  File > Export > JPEG OPtimizer

 Please do not remove this tutorial from my site.  Share my url.