
You will need:
Paint Shop Pro
Plugin - Filters Unlimited 2.0/Aged Film
Brushes of choice, or the ones I used from Gorjuss's website
here
(I used the Text brushes)
Images of choice. I'm using Siren's Secrets. Visit the
site
here
Okay, lets get started.
Open a new canvas 450 x 500, flood fill white.
Paste in your images as new layers. Using the selection
tool, freehand, feather set at 15, draw around the sections you
wish to delete, and hit delete until you are happy with what you
have left. Arrange your images, and lower opacity of them if
desired. When you are happy with what you have, crop and
merge visible.
Next go to effects/artistic effects/aged
newspaper with the following settings.

Next go to filters unlimited 2 and special
effects 1, aged film, and apply the following settings.

Go to Image/Add Border and using a dark colour
from your tag set at 5 pixels. Repeat, change the colour to
a light colour from your tag, pixels at 2. Repeat again,
using the dark colour set at 3 pixels.
You may go straight to adding your text at this
point and save it, or like me you can add a brush. With it
looking like aged newspaper I decided to used a faded text brush.
Add your copyright.
Now add your text. I'm using Times New
Roman set at 72, foreground as the light colour used on the
border, and the background as the dark colour, vector.
Stretch out to desired size. Convert to raster when you are
happy with it. Add a drop shadow as follows:

Save as a jpeg.

You are done. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
Please feel free to link to this
tutorial, and/or print it out for your own personal use, but DO
NOT copy it in ANY way to put on-line, pass out, or re-write
without my permission. Any resemblance to any other tutorial like
this is purely coincidental. Thank you. This tutorial was
written on the 29th July 2006 by Faerie Queen. |