Out of Sight

For this tutorial you will need the materials in the zip file below.

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This tutorial was written using PSP2020 Ultimate. To work this tutorial, it is assumed you have some working knowledge of Paint Shop Pro. Unzip the Materials in a folder you will create on your desktop called Out of Sight. Duplicate the tubes and use the duplicates to work with. Close out the originals to keep them from getting deleted. Place the Diamonds.bmp in your PSP Files/Patterns folder. Save your work often. No plugins were used in this tutorial.

Use the bookmark below to mark your place along the way.

1. In Materials Palette set the Foreground color to #b6c0c0, Background color to #4c5451.

2. New/New Image 1086px wide X 854px Height. CTRL+A.

3. Open 2021-05-26_183224.jpg. Copy/Paste into Selection. CTRL+D.

4. We are going to remove the Egret from the image using our Object Removal Tool. You may remove it however you please but using the Removal tool is interesting.

5. From the tool bar, select the Image Removal Tool. Older versions of PSP may not have this feature. In this case, I will include a finished layer for you to use.

6. Go to Object Remover in tool bar/Selection mode - select object (a part of the Egret) to remove. I did portions of her in sections rather than all at once. Next to the selections mode you will see the square source mode. Clicking on that will give us a large square which we can resize/move using its nodes to select what we want to replace within our selected object section.

7. Click on the check mark to Apply. CTRL+D to deselect. The space where the Egret was does not have to be perfect, just similar as we will be putting other images on top of this layer.

8. Continue these steps until all of the Egret is gone and you have a sea scene. Here is mine.

9. Effects/Texture Effects/Mosaic-Glass. OK.

10. Effects/Edge Effects/Enhance.

11. Open 2021-05-26_183224.jpg.

12. Image/Resize/Resize by 45%/Resize all layers checked.

13. Copy/Paste as New Layer on working image.

14. Effects/Distortion Effects/Lens Distortion.

15. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow. Vertical -17, Horzontal -24, Opacity 34, Blur 46, color #000000.

16. Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen.

17. Move top right corner of Egret image to top of working image at 610px.

18. Duplicate. Image/Resize/Resize by 78%/Resize all layers unchecked.

19. Pull duplicated Egret below the first Egret.

20. Duplicate. Image/Mirror. Mirror Horizontal.

21. Pull duplicated third Egret to right side overlapping others . See placement below.

22. Open ArasLady.pspimage. Using your Free Hand Selections tool, go around the top of her floral head flowers as seen below. Copy. CTRL+D.

23. Paste as New Layer. To turn flowers to the left use Pick Tool and Nodes. Press M on keyboard to Deselect.

24. Pull flowers down between Raster 2 and Copy of Raster 2. Place flowers between the first and second Egret image.

25. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow. Vertical -17, Horzontal -24, Opacity 34, Blur 46, color #000000.

26. Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen.

27. Return to top layer/highlight to continue.

28. From ArasLady.pspimage, using the same settings as in Step 22, draw a line around these second set of flowers as seen below. Copy. CTRL+D.

29. Paste as New Layer on main image.

30. Image/Free Rotate/Rotate 90 Degrees Left.

31. Image/Mirror. Mirror Horizontal.

32. Move flowers to bottom of image.

33. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow. Vertical -17, Horzontal -24, Opacity 34, Blur 46, color #000000.

34. Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen.

35. From ArasLady.pspimage, Copy/Paste as New Layer on main image.

36. Image/Resize/Resize by 110%/Resize all layers unchecked. Repeat resize.

37. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow. Vertical -17, Horzontal -24, Opacity 34, Blur 46, color #000000.

38. Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen.

39. Move lady to right side of image, placing her straight bottom at main image bottom border.

40. Go back to ArasLady.pspimage. Using same settings as before, select one flower as shown here.

41. Copy. Go back to main image and Paste as New Layer.

42. Using thePick Tool with Nodes, place flower on the right shoulder.

43. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow. Vertical -17, Horzontal -24, Opacity 34, Blur 46, color #000000.

44. Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen.

45. Image/Add Borders/Add 5px border, Symmetric checked, color #b6c0c0.

46. Image/Add Borders/Add 7px border, Symmetric checked, color #4c5451.

47. In Materials Palette, select Patterns. Choose diamonds.bmp pattern

48. Using the Magic Wand, select the 7px border.

49. Layers/New Raster Layer. Flood fill with Diamond pattern.

50. Effects/Edge Effects/Enhance. CTRL+D.

51. (Optional) Image/Resize/Resize by 90%/Resize all layers checked to make image smaller.

52. Apply your name or watermark if you wish. Save as .png or .jpg file.

Thank you Pam for once again checking my work. It is much appreciated.

If you are going to use this tutorial for stationery, cards or place the tutorial/tag on another site, I would appreciate you contacting me for permission, giving Arasimages credit for the original tutorial and if possible, a link back to my site. Thank you.