Creative Discovery in PaintShop Pro
Lesson 21

You will need these 3 images for this lesson. I have zipped them up for you.
Lesson 21 Zip File


First - Wait for the Video player to load
Then - You need to watch the video before doing lesson below - it has a lot more important information and explanations for you
You may do the lesson as you watch the video though
Also - Click the full screen button on the player to watch it full screen or you may not see all of the settings properly



1. ADD BORDER TO GREY IMAGE

Open your images and Duplicate them - close the originals
Minimize the children and the scenery image - We are going to work with the Grey image first

Click on the Add Border OR Image > Add Borders


Right Click on the colour box and choose white
Now place 3 in one of the boxes and Tick the Symmetric Box and 3 will appear in all boxes.


Click OK ( press the Enter key on your keyboard)

Add Border
Right Click on the colour box and choose Black
Now place 4 in one of the boxes and keep Symmetric Ticked (Keep this ticked for the whole lesson)
Click OK or press Enter

Add Border & choose White - Now place 2 in one of the boxes
Click OK / Enter

Add Border & choose Black - Now place 5 in one of the boxes
Click OK / Enter


Save this as YourName-Lesson21a

2. ADD BORDER TO CHILDREN

Bring up the image of the Children
Activate your Dropper Tool and Pick a Rust colour from her bow at the back of her dress for the Foreground box.
Yellow X in the image below

Pick a Cream colour from her skin around the shoulder area for the Background box.
Green X in the image below


Add a Black border of 1 pixel
Add a Cream border of 2 pixels (Right click and choose the background colour)
Add a Rust border of 2 pixels (Right click and choose the foreground colour)
Add a Cream border of 2 pixels
Add a Rust border of 4 pixels
Add a Cream border of 8 pixels

Click on the Magic Wand - It is in the Same Fly out menu as the Selection Tool


    Use the following settings:-
  • Mode - Replace
  • Match mode - RGB Value
  • Tolerance - 20
  • Contiguous - TICKED
  • Feather - 0
  • Anti-Alias - TICKED
  • Outside Selected
You may need to zoom in for this part - Hover over the image and you will have a cross
Place this over the last Cream border you added and Left click - You have now selected this whole cream border.
Go to Patterns in the Materials Palette and locate the goldgrad1 pattern

~ Angle - 0
~ Scale - 100
Click OK

Flood Fill the cream border with the Gold pattern & Deselect

Add a Rust border of 2 pixels
Add a Cream border of 2 pixels
Add a Rust border of 2 pixels


Save this as YourName-Lesson21b


3. ADD BORDER TO SCENERY

Bring up the Scenery Image
Resize this image by 65% and Sharpen
Activate the Dropper Tool - Choose a dark blue from the lower right side - place this in the foreground box
Choose a very light blue from one of the pillars for the background box.
Pick where the yellow dots are in the image below


Add a Dark Blue border of 2 pixels
Add a Lighter Blue border of 3 pixels
Add a Dark Blue border of 4 pixels
Add a Lighter Blue border of 15 pixels

Activate the Magic Wand and select the last light blue border
Now click on the pattern in the Materials Palette
Grab the slider in the Material Properties when it opens and drag it to the top - circled in yellow in the image below
Check the Image number you are working on and find the same one in the Material Properties - outlined in red below
Click on that one in the Material Properties - I would click on Image2

~ Angle - 0
~ Scale - 50


Click OK
Flood Fill the Light Blue Border with this pattern & Deselect


Add a Dark Blue border of 4 pixels
Add a Lighter Blue border of 3 pixels
Add a Dark Blue border of 2 pixels
Add a Lighter Blue border of 20 pixels

Activate the Magic Wand and Select the Last light blue border
Flood Fill with your image pattern
Click on Kaleidoscope
Click on the Default Settings
Click OK & Deselect

Add a Dark Blue border of 4 pixels
Add a Lighter Blue border of 3 pixels
Add a Dark Blue border of 2 pixels


Save this as YourName-Lesson21c


LESSON REQUIREMENTS

  • Grey Image with Black and white border - YourName-Lesson21a
  • Children Image with Cream & Rust border - YourName-Lesson21b
  • Scenery Image with Pattern border - YourName-Lesson21c
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