For this tutorial I have
included express tips at the beginning of each step, and included
detailed instructions for those just beginning with PhotoImpact.
If you have trouble understanding the express tips, use the detailed
instructions instead.
1. file/new/new image/400 X 300/white
background
Open a new canvas by
clicking on file new/new image.
Enter 400 for the
width, and 300 for the height.
Make sure you have
white checked in the box.
See the image. |
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2. Gradient fill tool,
two colors/blue, white
Click on the bucket fill tool, and
click the arrow in the corner so that the drawer
opens.
Click Gradient fill
tool.
Set your fill method to two-color, and choose two colors
for your card. I have chosen blue and white. To set up the colors,
just click on the color boxes, and choose a color. If you chose
either windows color picker or ulead color picker you will get a
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3. Drag a diagonal line across your
canvas.
Starting in the lower right corner
of your card, click and drag to the upper left corner. Release the
mouse button.
Your canvas is filled with a blue
and white gradient. |
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4. Fantastic machines
paint engine/preset flakes/ ok
Go to
effect/Fantastic machines paint engine.
Click the down
arrow beside <none> and scroll to find flakes. If you have
nothing in the preset box, click the randomize button until you get
a pattern with white flakes like this one. You can then save the
preset as flakes!
Click ok. |
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5. Effect/fm tile
tools/blend emboss/intensity 0.500
Go to effect/fm tile
tools/blend emboss. Leave everything default except alter the
intensity to 0.500. |
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6. stamp tool/add
stamp/pinkrose.ufo./scale 85
Unzip the rose ufo
to your favorite stamp folder.
Click on stamp
tool. Click the down arrow beside the deer, and click add
stamp.
Browse to the folder to which you
unzipped pinkrose.ufo, and click to select it. Click ok.
In
the attribute bar, click the field beside scale, and type
85.
If you are using a different stamp
or a tube, the scale may need to be different. |
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| 7. Toggle mask mode
on, stamp lower right corner, mask mode off.
Click on the mask mode
button. Your nice background will be covered with a whitish layer.
This is normal.
Click on the lower right corner of
your card. You will see the area where you stamped turn the color of
the background underneath. If you get the rose partially off screen
that is ok. We can fix that in step 8.
Click
the mask mode again to turn the mask off.
The
area where you just stamped is now surrounded by selection
lines. |
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8. Move selection if
needed/press delete key/right click none.
If your selection ended up
slightly off canvas, use the arrow keys to position it
correctly.
Your masked area will be filled
with the background color, so now is a good time to make sure it is
set on white, or any other color that you would like it to
be.
Press the delete key on your keyboard.
Right
click, and click none. |
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9. Right
click/all/right click convert to object./format/image size/selected
object/360 pix. width
Right click on your canvas, and
click all. Right click again, and convert to
object.
Go to format/image size, Click
selected objects, set the unit to pixels, and the width to
360.
Click ok. |
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10. format/frame and
shadow/edge frame/ gradient photo edge./all around
shadow
Go to format/frame and shadow.
Click the down arrow beside style and click edge frame. Click on the
gradient sample, and click on the box beside multiple colors. This
will open the Palette Ramp Editor, where you will be able to choose
your ramp. The thumbnails from which to choose are at the bottom.
Scroll through them until you find 08, the gold one. CLick ok out of
all the dialog boxes.
Right click on your object, click
shadow, click the button shown here and ok.
You have finished
the decoration for your card. |
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11. Path
tool/rectangle/border2, color of choice/ a little larger than your
card/send to back. Duplicate, send to back.
Click on the path tool,
and set the shape to rectangle, and the color to your choice., and
the mode to 3D round.
Click and drag
diagonally to outline a rectangle slightly larger than your card.
Set the border to 2, and the depth to -20 in the path panel box
which will pop up when you click the path tool.
Click
the pick tool and the send to back button. This is your card front.
Right click duplicate and again send to back. This is your card
back. |
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| 12. Text tool/gold
material 3d Chisel/ type text/ shadow x 1, y 2, transparency 0 soft
edge 0.
Click on the text tool and
then on your canvas. Type the text you wish to appear on your card,
using the font of your choice. Choose a gold preset from the easy
palette. Set the mode to 3D Chisel, and in the text panel, set the
border to 2. |
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Right click and click
shadow. Set the options as you see them
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13. Merge card front/
decoration and text. Transform/slant both parts opposite from each
other very slightly.
Click on the pick tool. Hold down
control while you click on the text, card front, and decoration.
Right click and merge as a single object.
Click on the
transform tool and in the attribute bar, click the arrow in the
corner of the resize button. When the drawer opens, click the slant
tool.
Point to the bottom center handle,
and move it to the left very slightly, just enough so you can see
the card back just a little behind the front.
Point
to and click on the card back in the small area where it sticks out.
Click on the center bottom handle and move it slightly to the
right. |
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14. Point to and click
on the card front. Right click and add a shadow.
Set
the options to x 3, y 0, transparency 60, and soft edge 5. Click
ok.
Center the card tops so they look correct.
Merge all and
save. |
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