Simple Drip Tag

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This tutorial is intended for beginners to learn how to create a drippy frame.  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 X2, 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!

Download  Eye Candy 4000 and install it into your plugins folder.

Download Flaming Pear Flood plugin and install it into your plugins folder.

Download and save the Simple Plugin into your plugins folder.

1.  Open up a photo that you wish to use that has a flower near the center (flowers work best, but you're free to experiment.

2.  Resize the image to NO bigger than 500 pixels.  Image > Resize

3.  Choose the lasso tool, set to point to point, and carefully left-click at various points along the flower, to select it.  When you make it around full-circle back to the beginning, right-click and the flower will be selected, like so.

4.  In the Layer Palette, right-click on the layer and choose Promote Selection to Layer.

5.  Select > Select None

6.  In the Layer Palette, click on the bottom layer.

7.  Effects > Plugins > Flaming Pear > Flood.  Apply these settings:  Horizon = 50, offset = 0, perspective = 57, altitude = 50, waviness = 40, color = black, complexity = 50, brilliance = 42, blur = 25, size = 0, height = 33, undulation = 40

8.  In the Layer Palette, click on the promoted layer (top).  With the lasso tool, carefully select the bottom petals.  I "cheated".  I carefully selected the top part of the petals and then circled around the bottom of the flower and right-clicked.

Then with the lasso tool, I left-clicked ONCE on the bottom petals, and the selection closed around the petals.

9.  Effects > Plugins > Eye Candy 4000 > Drip.  On the basic tab, set:  width = 15.35, Maximum = 40.32, spacing = 16.56, taper = 52, dribble = 31, random seed = 343.

10.  Apply the same plugin again, but change the width = 9.89 &  maximum = 74.50

11.  Selection > Select > All.

12.  Selection > Select > Float

13.  Selection > Defloat (takes away the second promoted selection layer)

14.  Right-click on layer and choose Promote Selection to Layer

(Now you might be asking but in step 12 we already had a promoted layer?  yes, that's true, but it was only temporary.  We would do our effect -- next step-- and when we got rid of the selection the temporary layer would automatically merge with the original layer.  Doing it the way we did makes the promoted layer a permanent layer, so it won't automatically merge when the selection disappears)

15.  Now drag the top layer below the second.  You should have the whole flower on top, and the middle layer should be the piece of the layer you just selected.

16.  Effects > Distort > Wave.  Amplitude = 10, wavelength = 25 on both.  Edge Mode = wrap.

17.  Change the Layer Blend mode to Soft Light.  (Ignore the xtra layer -- you should only have 3)

18.  Right-click on the top layer and choose Duplicate.  Then click on the 2nd layer from top.

19.  Adjust > Blur > Gaussian blur.  Radius = 10

20.  Slide the opacity of the blurred layer to 71%  This produces a glow around the flower

21.  Image > Add Borders.  Symmetric, size = 3, color = light color from photo

22.  Image > Add Borders.  Symmetric, size = 5, color = dark color from photo

23.  Image > Add Borders.  Symmetric, size = 2, light color

24.  Image > Add Borders.  Symmetric, size = 1, dark color

25.  Image > Add Borders  size = 2, symmetric, light color

26.  Image > Add Borders.  Size = 10, symmetric, dark color

27.  With the magic wand, select the dark border.  Effects > Texture Effects > Blinds.  Width = 5, opacity = 100, Color = black.  UNcheck Horizontal

28.  Image > Add Borders, symmetric, size = 2, light color

29.  Image > Add Borders, symmetric, size = 1, light color

30.  Image > Add Borders, symmetric, size = 2, light color

31.  Image > Add borders  symmetric, size = 45, dark color

32.  With the magic wand, select the dark border.  Effects > Plugins > Simple > left/Right wrap

33.  With the magic wand, select  the top border, hold the SHIFT key down, and select the bottom border.

34.  Effects > Texture Effects > Blinds.  Same settings as before

35.  Selection > Select All. 

Selection > Modify > Contract, contract by 45 pixels.

36.  Selections > Invert

37.  Effects > Plugins > Simple > Diamonds

38.  Selections > Invert

39.  Effects > 3D Effects > Drop Shadow,  apply these settings:   Vertical & Horizontal = 2, opacity = 60, blur = 5

40.  Apply drop shadow again, BUT change Vertical & Horizontal =  Negative 1

41.  Effects > Plugins > Eye Candy 4000 > Drip.  Width = 11.62, maximum = 29.78, spacing = 16.56, taper = 33, dribble = 31, random seed = 343

42.  Image  > Add Borders, symmetric, size = 2, color = light color

43.  Image > Add Borders, symmetric, size = 1, color= dark

44.  Image > Add Borders.  symmetric, size = 2, color = light

45.  Image > Add Borders.  symmetric, size = 10, color = dark

46.  With the magic wand, select the dark border

47.  Effects > Texture Effects > Blinds  Use same settings as before.

48.  Image > Add Borders.  symmetric, size = 2, color = light color

49.  Save this as a JPEG.  File > Export > JPEG Optimizer

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