Misty Border Tutorial
by Sherri © Black Rose
December 13, 2007
This is what we will be making.


The results of this tutorial can be used for Incredimail,Outlook Express and Web Pages

Supplies needed:
Paint Shop Pro 8
Simple Filter here
Tube I used here
Or Tube of your choice

1- Open your tube
push shift with D on your keyboard to duplicate it.
close the original image.

2- using dropper tool,pick color you would like to use for the background

3- Resize your tube
Settings:
Resize all layers= checked
Lost aspect ratio= checked Resample using= Bicubic
Width= 300 pixels
Height= Let it self adjust

4- Edit Copy

5- Image/Canvas Size
Settings:
Width: 1280
Height: Height of tube plus 50
Placement: Middle left arrow



6- Layers/New Raster Layer

7- Layers/Arrange/Send To Bottom

8-Using flood fill tool,fill with background color. Right click to fill

9-Selections/Select All

10-Edit/Paste/Paste into Selection

11-Effects/Plugins
Simple Quick Tile

12-Selections/Select None

13-Layers/New Raster Laster

14-Change your foreground color to white (#ffffff)

15-Using flood fill tool,fill with white (#ffffff)

16-On your layer pallette lower opacity to 70%

17- Effects/Simple Quick Tile

18-Layers/New Raster Layer
add your watermark,on your layer pallette lower opacity to 30%

19-Layers/Merge/Merge All (flatten)

20-File Export Jpeg Optimizer set compression value to: 20

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.
* A special thanks to my testers Phyllis ,Judy,Chris *

This is my own lesson and any resemblance to others are purely coincidental.