This is a long tutorial that will be spaces over several threads. It is suitable for the 1st time user of Letter Creator, a programme that comes with the Incredimail. You will get 10 "tries" at making stat's for free before you will need to purchase the premium version of Incredimail
Scrap Love Stat
This tutorial was written by Fiona Pomfrett on November 5th 2006.
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is coincidental.
Do not copy and paste this tutorial anywhere on the net.
Scripting and translating of this tutorial is strictly forbidden.
If you have any problems please contact me
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For this tutorial you will need
:PSP - Any Version
:Animation Shop
:Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Constellation
:Heart Hangers from
Monti
:Scrap Papers from
Monti
Both Heart Hangers & Scrap Papers can be found under Scrap Kits, please read Monti's TOU before downloading anything.
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open 2 papers of your choice and a heart hanger of your choice, I used Monti_HeartBrushes and Monti_HeartsLight
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Resize the 2 papers using the settings below
Set the resolution to 72.000 BEFORE you change the other settings
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On the paper you want to use for your main background (I'm using Monti_HeartsLights)
Effects, Image Effects, Seemless Tiling, use these settings
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Set this paper as your foreground
Open a new canvas 1280 x 250, floodfill with the pattern
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Add a new raster layer (layers, new raster layer) flood fill with white
Lower the opacity of the white layer to about 48 or so
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Add another new layer. Grab your selection tool and choose Custom Selection
Set your custom selection as below
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Select your other paper and set it to your foreground, set the scale to 75
Add a new raster layer and floodfill the selected area with your other pattern
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Selections, selections none. Add a drop shadow to this layer
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Select your Heart Hanger and resize
Copy and paste your heart hanger as a new layer onto your canvas
Move the heart hanger so it's on the left side
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Select your magic wand, settings as below
Select in side the heart of your hanger
You may want to zoom in slightly
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Once you have selected the inside of the heart, duplicate the heart hanger layer twice, so you have 3 copies of it
Hide the 2 copies by clicking the eye on the layer palette and activate the original Heart Hanger layer
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Effects, Plugins, Xenofex 2, Constellation
Hide this layer and activate your middle copy, repeat the constellation but hit the random seed button
Hide this layer and activate your top copy, repeat the constellation but again hit the random seen button
Selections, Selections None
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Open up Animation Shop
Hide your 2 copies of the Heart Hanger, all other layers should be open
Edit, Copy Merged
Go to Animation Shop (AS), Edit, Paste as New Animation
Back to PSP, hide your original Heart Hanger layer, and open the middle copy, leaving your bottom layer as the activated layer
Edit, Copy Merged
Back to AS, Edit, Paste after current frame
Back to PSP, hide your middle layer and open your top layer, Edit, Copy Merged
Back to AS, Edit, Paste After Current Frame
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While still in AS, go to View, Animation, to see how your image looks
File, Save As a .gif file
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Open up Letter Creator
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On the Body Tab, in the top box under where it says Background, press Clear
Now click on Image, you will get a pop up box, look for where we saved the image too
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You will now have something like this
Still on the body tab, press Tile
This will tile your image across the entire letter
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Let's sort that text out, so it isn't covering our nice heart hanger on the left
Below Background (still on the body tab) you will see Text and Margins, these are what we need to set
Set your font to a font of your choice from the drop down menu, I used Verdana
Now choose the size of your font
You can now keep the color of your text as black as you can change it
To use a pre-defined color, click on Text Color
This is what your pre-defined color chart looks like
Or you can select Sample
Choosing this options, will give you a dropper tool that you can use to select a color from your letter
I used a grey from the Heart Hanger
Repeat the steps above with either pre-defined or sample color for you link color
To set the color for your signature, select one from the drop down menu, unfortunatly there are not many options
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Let's set the margins now
Set the Top margin to 10, this will leave a little gap at the top of the letter
Set the Left margin to about 150, so it is not covering the left tile
Set the Right margin to 10, your Margin area should look like this now
The next few steps are quick and easy
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Click on the header tab, and in both Header Background Color and Header Content and Layout, click Clear
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Click on the Left Tab, (we'll come back to the footer later)
Click on the Clear button in both sections
Now click the Right Tab and click thr Clear button in both sections
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Back to the Footer Tab
Press Clear in both sections
Now let's add out copyright
We need to credit ourselves and Monti for the scrap elements we used
This is what I do when I am copyrighting a letter
Letter by -Lol- (this is my copyright, remember try not to use the ? symbol as this will cause problems if you use artist's work
Scrap Papers & Heart Hanger ? Monti (we need to credit Monti for letting us use her work)
So add your copyrights to the footer in the space provided, remember to set the font and size so it matches the rest of our letter
I changed the size to 8, slightly smaller than used on the letter
We need to add some links now, if you have a website you might want to link your name to your site
Highlight your name
When the box pop's up, add the link to your website or maybe your email address
Now link Monti's name to her website the same way
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Go to the 3D Effects Tab
From the list choose an effect and set it to all the boxes by clicking the blue arrow, make sure all boxes are ticked
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Accross to the last box, Finish
Name your letter, this is your choice
Now you need to create a collection
I am using LPD Scrap Collection
Ignore the bottom options
Last 2 steps now, click the Save Project Button, click save, then click OK
Click Add to Incredimail, click OK
WOO HOO That's it...your letter is all done, well done, give yourself a pack on the back
To download the stat that I made click Here, this will automatically install into incredimail, you can then find it under LPD Scrap Collection
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