I've been asked repeatedly how I created gold (or silver) text -- and borders (frames) -- on various icons. Very cool, isn't it? (smile)

Believe it or not, it's really easy to do!

We'll learn how to create something that looks like this:

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This is a down-and-dirty version of the popular effect that makes a photograph look like a cartoon drawing. It works better with some photos than others, so you'll have to 'play' with it. And feel free to experiment with the various layers, blend modes and other settings to see what you can come up with ( Read more... )

It's very simple to create your own light textures -- also called light brushes and light images. (Generally you would save this and use it as an additional layer, rather than use it as a conventional PSP texture.)

Edit: I started by explaining the distortion/ripple method -- but I've also added the distortion/wave method. Both work quite nicely! ( Read more... )

Remember how we explored some of the wonderful uses of Selections in this tutorial?

Here I've used an image of John Smith, as portrayed by Colin Farrell in the movie "The New World."

Now we'll use that same basic concept to take this icon:

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One of the members of psp8_fun recently requested help creating a blend that was similar to one she'd seen...

Here's what we'll end up with doing this tutorial:

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With one simple method, you can create several different frames/borders for any image! It's both quick and easy to do.

You can start with an image like this:

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(If you've never made a picture tube before, you might want to try making a single image Picture Tube before attempting this. But even without prior experience, I believe you can do this tutorial!)

This is fairly simple to do, so let's just jump right in and give it a go!

You can potentially end up with something like this:


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BASIC Tutorial: Raster LayersLayers are often very scary to the beginning user of PSP ( Read more... )