Mirage Selections Tutorial
by Jo
Needed:
PSP - I used v9
Graphic of your choice. Almost square works
best.
Gold or Silver Pattern of your choice.
mirageselections3.pspimage Here
Plug Ins: Sybia Here
IM Letter Creator
1 - Open mirageselections3.pspimage. THIS WILL
LOOK BLANK BUT THE SELECTIONS ARE EMBEDDED
IN THE IMAGE. Windows/duplicate. Close
original
2 - Open graphic. Duplicate (Shift D) Close original.
3 - Choose light color from your graphic in foreground.
Choose darker color in your background. Set your
background to pattern and choose a gold or silver
pattern. Angle 0, Scale 100
4 - Copy and minimize graphic.
5 - Working on miragaselections3.pspimage.
Selection/Load/Save Selections/Load from Alpha Channel
Choose Selection 1 - Load
6 - Fill with silver or gold.
7 - Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel # 2
Width 5, Smoothness 16, Depth 4, Ambience and Shininess
0, Color white, Angle 315, Intensity 50, Elevation 30
8 - Deselect
9 - New Raster Layer Default Settings
10 - Selection/Load/Save Selections/Load from Alpha
Channel
Choose Selection 2 - Load
11 - Paste into selection (Graphic should still be copied)
12 - Lower opacity of this layer to 50 - Do not deselect.
13 - New Raster Layer
14 - Effects/3D effects/Cutout - H & V 2, Opacity
70, Blur 15
Repeat Cutout using H & V minus 2
15 - Deselect - Merge Visible
16 - New Raster Layer
17 - Selection/Load/Save Selections/Load from Alpha
Channel
Choose
Selection 3 - Load
18 - Fill with silver or gold.
19 - Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel # 2
Width 5, Smoothness 16, Depth 4, Ambience and Shininess
0, Color white, Angle 315, Intensity 50, Elevation 30
20 - Deselect
21 - New Raster Layer
22 - Selection/Load/Save Selections/Load from Alpha
Channel
Choose Selection 4 - Load
23 - Paste into selection (Graphic should still be copied)
24 - Lower opacity of this layer to 50 - Do not deselect.
25 - New Raster Layer
26 - Effects/3D effects/Cutout - H & V 2, Opacity
70, Blur 15
Repeat Cutout using H & V minus 2 - Deselect
27 - Close out merged Layer. Highlight top layer. Merge Visible. Reopen merged layer.
28 - New Raster Layer
29 - Selection/Load/Save Selections/Load from Alpha
Channel
Choose Selection 5 - Load
30 - Do Not Fill. Keep Selected.
31 - Effects/3D effects/Cutout - H & V 2, Opacity
70, Blur 15
Repeat Cutout using H & V minus 2
32 - Deselect
33 - New Raster Layer
34 - Selection/Load/Save Selections/Load from Alpha
Channel
Choose
Selection 6 - Load
35 - Do Not Fill. Keep Selected
36 - Effects/3D effects/Cutout - H & V 2, Opacity
70, Blur 15
Repeat
Cutout using H & V minus 2
37 - Deselect
38 - New Raster Layer, Layers/Arrange/Send to Bottom
39 - Selection/Select All
40 - Paste into Selection - Deselect
41 - Merge All
42 - Add border 5, dark color Symmetric checked
43 - Add border 15 White. Symmetric checked. Highlight border with magic wand.
44 - Paste into selection.
45 - Adjust/Blur/Gaussian 5
46 - Effects/Plug Ins/Sybia/Xaggerate 24-24-0-0-0-0-0-0
47 - Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel #2
Width 5, Smoothness 16, Depth 4, Ambience and Shininess
0, Color white, Angle 315, Intensity 50, Elevation 30
48 - Deselect
49 - Add border 25, Contrasting Color. Symmetric checked. Highlight with wand. Fill with Silver or gold pattern
40 - Texture/Testure Effects/Mosaic Glass - Default - Deselect
51 - Add Border 10, Dark color. Symmetric checked. Highlight with wand. Bevel same as above. - Deselect
52 - Resize to 400 x 400 or desired size.
53 - Save Header as jpg, optimized at 25%
Background
1 - Open new 200 x 200
2 - Selections/Select All
3 - Paste into selection
4 - Effects/Texture Effects/Mosaic Glass - Default. - Deselect
5 - New Raster Layer - Fill with light color
6 - Change Opacity to 50%
7 - Merge Visible
8 - Deselect
9 - Effects/Image Effects/Seamless Effects/ Default
10 - Save Background as jpg optimized @ 25%
11 - Assemble in Letter Creator
51 - Resize to 400 x 400 or desired size.
52 - Save Header as jpg, optimized at 25%
Background
1 - Open new 200 x 200
2 - Selections/Select All
3 - Paste into selection
4 - Effects/Texture Effects/Mosaic Glass - Default. - Deselect
5 - New Raster Layer - Fill with light color
6 - Change Opacity to 50%
7 - Merge Visible
8 - Deselect
9 - Effects/Image Effects/Seamless Effects/ Default
10 - Save Background as jpg optimized at 25%
11 - Assemble in Letter Creator
Thank you for Testing
Lynn, Shirley, Diane, PaulaC,
Beverly, Queenie, Kelly,
DarleneC, Bettie, Connie,
Jesse, Helga, KathyB
