KEEPSAKE ROSETTE 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 is the third 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 rosette 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 "kkrosplaquefiles" double click the folder then find "kkrosettestand.sel" highlight it then click "open". 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 "kkrosetteribbon.sel". Flood fill white and repeat inner bevel as fig 2 then deselect. Add a new layer, go to selections / load from disk and open "kkrosettefrill.sel". Flood fill white then go effects / 3D effects / inner bevel, apply as in fig 3.

Deselect then add a new layer. Go selections / load from disk and open "kkrosettefolds.sel". Flood fill with light grey then go effects / blur / blur more and deselect. Add a new layer and go selections / load from disk then open "kkrosettecentre.sel" Flood fill with light grey then go effects / 3D effects / inner bevel and apply as in fig 4.

Keep selected then go effects / 3D effects / drop shadow and apply as in fig 5.

Add a new layer then go selections / load from disk and open "kkrosettegoldrim.sel". Open the kkgolden.jpg, go edit / copy then close the kkgolden.jpg, now go edit / paste into selection, repeat inner bevel as in fig 2 then repeat drop shadow as in fig 5. Deselect then add a new layer. go selections / load from disk and open "kkrosettegoldbands.sel" now go edit / paste into selection, then go effetcs / sharpen / sharpen. repeat drop shadow as in fig 5 then deselect. Add a new layer then go selections / load from disk. Open "kkrosettephotoedge.sel" and keep selected. Open the photo you have minimised and go edit / copy then close the photo. Now go edit / paste into selection, go effects / sharpen / sharpen then repeat drop shadow as before. Deselect. Next go layers / merge / merge visible then image / flip. Go effects / 3D effects / inner bevel and apply as in fig 6.

That`s it... your own Keepsake Rosette Plaque! Save as tube, psp image or transparent gif and enjoy!