Making Faded Background Stationery
These are instructions for PSP 7
It could be adapted to earlier versions
The stationery we are going to make will use these pictures
Right Click to save them
You will also need this mask
Save in your Mask folder in PSP
And FM Tile Tools found at this site
http://www.fantasticmachines.com
Download the free demo version into your plugin file and install
(instructions to do this are at the Fantastic machines site)
After you have done all this open PSP and we can start
Open the Castle and Lady graphics in PSP
Open a new transparent image 1000 x 350
Bring the Lady in the Window graphic to the foreground
Now go to masks, then to load from disk and open the fade edge mask
Your picture will now look like this
Now go to Edit and down to copy.
Then bring your blank transparent image to the foreground and
go do Edit and Paste as New Layer. Use the Mover tool
that will appear and
move the picture over to the far left
Now go to the Layer tool
and click on "Layer One"
Now bring the Castle picture to the foreground
Click on Effects then down to Plugins and find "FM Tile Tools" and find
"Seamless Tile".
Make sure that the vertical is unchecked
Now click on your styles button at the left and set it for Texture
(third block from the left)
Then select your Castle picture as the texture
Click on the flood tool
Flood your layer one with the castle texture and slide the opacity to about 42
Your picture will look like this
Then go to layers and then merge, merge all (flatten)
Then go back to Effects and down to Seamless Tile
Make sure the "Vertical" is checked this time
And there you have it.........
Castle Day Dreams
Then save as a jpg image
In Program files, common files, Microsoft shared, stationery
And will find it in your Outlook Express stationary, ready to make into stationery, using the tutorial link below.