Simple Mask 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 SLS Tutorials.You may share your results of this tutorial through an Egroup, but do not share the Tutorial itself without written permission from SLS 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 Tube of your choice Masks Here No Outside Filters Used. Let's Begin: 1. File: Open your tube in PSP. 2. Pick a light color for your foreground and a dark color for your background. 3. Minimize your tube for later use. 4. Open a new transparent image 1024x550. 5. Flood fill with your dark color. 6. Layers: New raster layer. 7. Flood fill with your light color. 8. Load Mask from disk: Source Luminance: Checked Fit to canvas: Checked Invert transparency: Unchecked Hide all mask: Checked 9. Layers: Merge Group. 10. Effects: Edge Effects: Enhance. 11. Load Mask From Disk: Source luminance: Checked Fit to canvas: Checked Invert transparency: Unchecked Hide all mask: Checked 12. Layers: Merge Group. 13. Effects: 3D Effects: Drop Shadow: V&H: 4 Opacity: 50 Blur: 5 Color: Black Shadow on new layer: Unchecked 14. Maximize your tube. 15. Copy: Paste as a new layer. 16. Resize if needed, and position where you wish. 17. If using a non-misted tube add a drop shadow of your choice. 18. Layers: New raster layer: Add any text you wish and your watermark. 19. Layers: Merge visible. 20. Image: Canvas size: 1024x2000 Top middle arrow: Checked 21. Layers: New raster layer: Arrange: Send to bottom. 22. Flood fill with your dark color. 23. Layers: Merge all: Flatten. 24. Save with Jpeg Optimizer set at 25-28. 25. You're done! *Note* When you build your stationery in Letter Creator, if you don't want your text to scroll, make sure you hit the tile button. 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.