Repair old photo

I am pleased with the way this turned out. I took the old damaged photo of my father and restored it using various retouch tools and layer blends in Paint Shop Pro.

Here is a tutorial link to restore old photo's

Flowers

Scrap kits often have flowers in them, Vector Drawn and hand painted.
Preset shaped flowers are also used and added to doodles, or used to create Patchwork flowers.
Preset Shapes can also be used to make Paper, Cardboard, Tissue, Fabric, Denim, Gingham, Glass, and Faux felt and sticker flowers. Beads and stitching can be added.




How about creating a Flowery Frame or flower textured paper or ribbon?
Filters are applied to make them look like glass or some kind of jewel or charm.
Real flowers are also photographed and then tubed.
Sometimes a texture is added to make them look like fabric.


This is a little inspirational nudge to challenge you to see what kind of flowers you can create.


I am hoping to see many beautiful bouquets! Share them if you want to on our Facebook page!

Old Fashioned Slide Mounts

Polaroid Tutorial Link

Polaroid Frame tutorial from Coral Discovery Centre

Note From Pat

If you are making your single slides for a printable scrap page - try making them at least 3.5 inches x 3.5 inches at 300 pixels per inch.

The round one in the middle has no tutorial - it is simply a preset circle, and a circle cut out, a rounded rectangle duplicated and flipped and merged, duplicated and rotated 45 degrees - and repeated to complete the circle of frames to make your own "viewmaster" type of slide. Here is my mini tut on the Viewmaster type slide, I hope it is clear and easy to understand.

Viewmaster

Calendar page using a script

Create a Calendar Page
using script from Joske (for personal use only)
be sure to read instructions given at the download link

Valentine Candy Hearts

I made these hearts each on 600 x 600 canvas using Paint Shop Pro
see circle and heart on background of this image
using a preset shape heart
Various candy type colours
Arial Font 22 points
Eye Candy Extrude - experiment with settings
Add Noise

Example Fonts to use - Helvetica, Arial, Futura

Sans-serif fonts

Example messages

Sweethearts are small heart-shaped candies sold around Valentine's Day. Each heart is printed with a message such as "Be Mine", "Kiss Me", "Call Me", and "Miss You". Sweethearts are made by the New England Confectionery Company, or NECCO. A similar type of candy is sold in the UK under the name Love Hearts. NECCO manufactures nearly 8 billion sweethearts a year.
Sweethearts are now available in a variety of assortments to choose from including chocolate, tart, and smoothie flavors.

Easy Paper Patterns

Tutorial Note:

Using Project Dogwaffle 1.2 (Freeware) which you can download here

PURE EXPERIMENTATION
1) Download the Freeware
2) Scan for Viruses
3) Paint a random picture using the brush and various settings
4) Save as .bmp so that you can open it in Paint Shop Pro
5) Open in Paint Shop Pro and save as .jpg
6) Make a paper using Effects / Image Effects / Seamless tiling

Your creations are yours to do with as you please
This is merely an idea to spark your creativity!

Staple

Staple made with the help of the tutorial by Shawna - Here

Metal and Gel Flower

Metal and Gel Flower



Make some fun elements for your scrap pages - Let's see what you can create!

Look at this tutorial to help you
Rhonda's Digital Designs

Digital Scrapbook Element Tutorial Needles

Above is my result of the needles elements made using the following tutorial.

Make some fun needles and threads using this tutorial as a guide

http://pspbuddies.com/pspTutor/CSGreen/needle/needle.html

See Shawna's tutorial to make thread here

Create a CD in Paintshop Pro XI

Create a CD in Paintshop Pro XI
©PCArt 22 September 2008




To create this representation of a CD you will need
the UnPlugged Tools - CD Shader - Plugin available HERE

Open New Canvas 13cm x 13cm
Transparent
300pixels per inch
Foreground / Background / Colour White
Preset Shapes Ellipse Vector and Anti-alias checked
Hold Shift Key down to maintain shape
Draw out a circle from top left corner of canvas to bottom right corner (to fit canvas)
Object Align Centre in Canvas
Convert to Raster
Selections Select All Float Defloat
Effects / Plugins / UnPlugged Tools / CD Shader
Selections Select None This will be your bottom layer.

Duplicate First Layer Resize 40% (all Layers Unchecked) This is your Second Layer
Duplicate Second Layer Resize 90% (all Layers Unchecked) This is your Third Layer
Duplicate Third Layer Resize 95% (all Layers Unchecked) This is your Fourth Layer

Go back to your Second Layer
Adjust Brightness 0 Contrast 41

Go to your Fourth layer
Adjust Brightness 0 Contrast 41

Go to your First layer
Select white centre with the magic wand and delete this area on all layers.

Go to your top layer and select inner circle with the magic wand
add a new layer fill selection with white and apply CD Shader
Selections Modify Contract by 12 and delete.

Merge Visible
Adjust Hue Saturation Lightness
Hue 243 Lightness 6 Saturation 0

Add Label or decorate or colorize.
Play around with brightness and contrast.
Experiment with your settings.

Hope you have fun with this easy tutorial.
PCArt