Creative Discovery in PaintShop Pro
Lesson 25


You will need this Lighthouse Image from Pixabay

You will also need this Image of a Witch in the Forest from Pixabay

Here are 2 Images to use for your 3rd part of this lesson if you are having trouble finding something
Rats Leaving the ship from Pixabay

Fantasy Fairy House from Pixabay

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. LIGHTHOUSE

Open your images in PaintShop Pro and Duplicate them and close the originals
Minimize the Witch in the Forest Image

Resize the Lighthouse by 35% & Sharpen
Go to Effects > Illumination > Sunburst
When the Sunburst window opens, if you do not have the preview panes open, then click on the triangle in the top left corner to open them.
Also tick the Preview on Image box in the top right corner


Once you open the preview panes - before and after windows - you will see a Cross or Plus sign on the Before box.
This is exactly where the light is in the After box.
You can grab the Cross in the Before box and more it to where you want the light (Still in the before box) - this is why we need these windows open.




Use the following settings
  • Colour - White
  • Light Spot Brightness - 25
  • Light Spot Horizontal - 78
  • Light Spot Vertical - 20
  • Rays Density - 50
  • Rays Brightness - 65
  • Circles Brightness - 45
Click OK


Add your own choice border to this - This is mine.


Save this as YourName-Lesson25a

2. WITCH IN THE FOREST

Bring up the witch in the forest image and Resize by 50 % - Sharpen
Go to Effects > Illumination > Sunburst

Use the following settings
  • Colour - #e1d7b5
  • Light Spot Brightness - 35
  • Light Spot Horizontal - 35
  • Light Spot Vertical - 14
  • Rays Density - 88
  • Rays Brightness - 88
  • Circles Brightness - 100
Click OK


Go to Effects > Illumination > Sunburst

Use the following settings
  • Colour - #e7d6ec
  • Light Spot Brightness - 35
  • Light Spot Horizontal - 61
  • Light Spot Vertical - 34
  • Rays Density - 60
  • Rays Brightness - 60
  • Circles Brightness - 100
Click OK


Crop the Image to encompass the two lights with the trees on either side of the image
With your Dropper tool pick a green from the image for the foreground box and a Cream from the Torch light for the background box

Form Gradient with those two colour - Use the Foreground Background Gradient
  • Radial
  • Angle - 45
  • Repeats - 12
  • Centre Point H - 50
  • Centre Point V - 50
  • Invert - Unticked
Click OK


Add Border of 2 Pixels in Black
Add Border of 2 Pixels in Green (Foreground box)
Add Border of 20 Pixels in Cream

Activate the magic wand with the following settings:-
  • Mode - Replace
  • Match Mode - RGB Value
  • Tolerance - 20
  • Contiguous - TICKED
  • Feather - 0
  • Anti-Alias-TICKED
  • Outside Selected
Click somewhere in the Cream Border
Flood fill with the Gradient
Go to Effects > Texture Effects > Weave
  • Gap Size - 2
  • Width - 5
  • Opacity - 50
  • Weave colour - Black
  • Gap colour - Black
  • Fill Gaps - TICKED
Click OK


Kaleidoscope - Use the default settings, but change the Number of petals to 4


Add Border of 2 Pixels in Green (Foreground box)
Add Border of 2 Pixels in Black
Deselect

Open the Gold Corners - Copy Layer 12 and Paste as a New Layer
Place it in the top Left corner inside the weave border
Sharpen

    Apply Drop Shadow
  • Vertical - 1
  • Horizontal - 1
  • Opacity - 65
  • Blur - 2
  • Colour - Black
  • Shadow on New Layer - Unticked
Click OK


Duplicate this layer & Mirror Horizontal
Close the Background Layer & Merge Visible
Duplicate this layer & Mirror Vertical
Merge Visible & Open the Background Layer

Save this as YourName-Lesson25b

3. OWN CHOICE

Now find your own image (I have supplied links to 2 images if you can't find any suitable ones)
Add as many sunbursts as you wish and also Add a Border
Save this as YourName-Lesson25c


LESSON REQUIREMENTS

  • Lighthouse (1 Sunburst) with your own Border - YourName-Lesson25a
  • Witch in Forest (2 Sunbursts) with my Border - YourName-Lesson25b
  • Your choice with a Border - YourName-Lesson25c
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