KEEPSAKE HEART PLAQUE Your Photo on a heart shaped "china" plaque.

Paint Shop Pro Tutorials by Karen

My father and I used to have a little home based business, glazing photo`s onto china collectors items. I still have some of the ones we made for our "samples" display, and when looking at them the other day, thought how nice it would be to do something similar in PSP. So I have photographed them and hope to be able to digitally recreate them, then write tutorials so others can make them too!. This heart plaque was very popular with members of a fan club I used to run, featuring one of my original photo`s of our favourite superstar, Cliff Richard...(as above.) This is the second tutorial in the planned series, I hope you like it!... Before we begin you will need my files... CLICK HERE to download and unzip into your selections folder. You will also need your own photo and my golden fill, right click and save into a folder of your choice. Ready?... let`s create our heart plaque!

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I hope you enjoyed this tutorial which is written for PSP V 7 but should work in other versions.

Open your photo in psp, use your selections tool set at square, antialias 0, feather 0. Drag the mouse around the main part of the photo to select a square area. (This is important because if you leave the photo oblong, when placing into the selection on the plaque, it will be out of proportion.) Go edit / copy / edit / paste as new image. Minimise (click minus (-) sign at the top.) also open"kkgolden.jpg"... and minimise as well. Start a new image as in fig 1.

Go layers / new raster layer / ok. Now go selections / load from disk... browse to find the folder "kkhrtplaquefiles" double click the folder then find "kkhrtplaquebase.sel" highlight it then click "open". Flood fill with white then go selections / select none. Add a new layer (layers / new raster layer / ok) Go back to selections / load from disk, and open "kkhrtplaque.sel" Flood fill with white then go effects / 3D effects / inner bevel, and apply as in fig 2.

Deselect ( selections / select none) then add a new layer as before. Go back to selections / load from disk and open "kkhrtplaquegoldrim.sel". Keep selected and open the "kkgolden.jpg" which you have minimised (click on the "restore" icon, top left on the minimised file)- go edit / copy. You can close the fill- now  go edit / paste into selection, still keeping selected, go effects / 3D effects / inner bevel, apply as in fig 3.

Keep selected and go effects / 3D effects / drop shadow and apply as in fig 4.

Repeat the drop shadow, but change the horizontal and vertical offsets to minus 2 (-2) Add a new layer as before, go back to selections / load from disk and open "kkhrtplaquephotoedge.sel". Open the photo you have minimised, go edit / copy. Close the photo. next go edit / paste into selection, keep selected. Repeat the drop shadow steps as before, but change the vertical and horizontal offsets to 1 and -1 accordingly, then deselect. Go layers / merge / merge visible. Now go image / flip, and go effects / 3D effects / inner bevel and apply as in fig 5.

Set your selections tool as in fig 6.

Drag the mouse to draw a rectangle across the bottom of the "base" as in fig 7.

Then click inside the selection to select the base bottom as in fig 8.

Deselect then go selections / load from disk. Open "kkhrtplaqueridge.sel" and keep selected. Now go effects / 3D effects / outer bevel and apply as in fig 9.

Deselect then go effects / 3D effects / outer bevel and apply as in fig 10.

Deselect and save as psp image, transparent gif or tube... That`s it, your own keepsake heart plaque!