Look Of Needlepoint Topper This tutorial is copyrighted to the Tut writer Sharon of SharEl Tutorials. This Tutorial may not be placed on any Website without written permission from SharEl Tutorials.You may share your results of this tutorial through an Egroup, but do not share the Tutorial itself without written permission from SharEl Tutorials.The graphics used in this tutorial were from the WWW or shared through email groups. If you are the artist and copyright holder of these graphics please let me know so I can either give you proper credit or remove them from my tutorial, whichever you wish me to do. Any supplies needed for any of my tutorials will have a link to get them. Wherever possible I use free filters for my tutorials and there will be a link to get them too. If I use an artist's work for my tutorials I will have the proper credit given to them along with a link to their site.If you use my supplies and there is a link to the artist, please put a link on your creation also. I believe in giving credit as they did the art, I only created a stationery with it. Supplies Needed: PSP Trial Version Here A Graphic of your choice(Needs to be wider than higher) 20-20 Mask A Bottom Edge mask of your choice Plugin Filter: Cybia: Screenworks Here Let's Begin: 1. File:Open your graphic in PSP. 2. Duplicate and close original. 3. Resize to a height of no more than 350, width will self adjust. 4. Edit: Copy then minimize for later use. 5. Pick a color from your graphic for your background. 6. Open a new transparent image 1024x400 or 1280x400, whichever you prefer. 7. Select all. 8. Edit: Paste into selection. 9. Select none. 10. Adjust: Blur: Gaussian Blur: Radius: 15 11. Plugin: Cybia: Screenworks with these settings: Fine Rule Transparency Mode: 20 12. Maximize your graphic. 13. Layers: promote Background layer. 14. Load 20-20 Mask from disk Source luminance: Checked Fit to canvas: Checked Invert transparency: unchecked Hide all mask: Checked 15. Layers: Merge group. 16. Plugin: Cybia: Screenworks: Same settings as before. 17. Edit: Copy: Paste as a new layer and position where you want it. 18. Layers: Merge Visible. 19. Load Bottom Edge Mask from disk: Source luminance: Checked fit to canvas: Checked Invert transparency: Checked Hide all mask: Checked 20. Layers: Merge Group 21. Effects: 3D Effects: Drop Shadow with these settings: V&H: 3 Opacity: 50 Blur: 10 Color: Black Shadow on new layer: Unchecked 22. Layers: New raster layer: Add text if you wish and your watermark. 23. Image: Canvas size: 1024x2000 Top middle arrow: Checked *Note* This is just a guideline. You can make the width 1280 if you wish. 24. Layers: New raster layer: Arrange: Send to bottom. 25. Flood fill with your color. 26. Adjust: Add noise: Uniform: Checked Noise: 5 Monochrome: Checked 27. Layers: Merge all: Flatten. 28. Save with Jpeg Optimizer set at 25-28 and you're done! *Note* In Letter Creator if you don't want your text to scroll, you need to be sure to check tile when you put the letter together. Please link this Tutorial back to:"http:\\slstutorials.com Thank you for trying my tutorial! Back This webpage created for SLS Tutorials on 3-30-08.