Mosaic Swirl IncrediMail Letter
Tutorial written by: Jody’s Incredimail Creations permission granted to share at www.missesbeehaven.com
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Tools You will Need:
- Corel Paint Shop Pro - Get it HERE
- A tube of your choice
- Plugin’s: Xenofex 1.0-Shatter & Eye Candy 3.1-Swirl
Step 1. Choose a light color & a dark color from your tube.
Step 2 . Duplicate your tube & close the original.
Step 3 . Resize tube to no more than 350×350 pixels if necessary. Sharpen once if you resized your tube.
Step 4. Edit/Copy.
Mosaic Swirl Header
Step 5. Open a transparent 350×350 image.
Step 6. Flood fill with your light color.
Step 7. Edit/paste as new layer.
Step 8. Layers/Merge/Merge visible.
Step 9. Effects/PlugIns/Xenofex 1.0/Shatter with these settings: 150, 50, 25
Step 10. Effects/Image Effects/Seamless Tiling with default settings
Step 11. Effects/Texture Effects/Mosaic Glass with these settings: 25, 25, 25, 0, 5, 35, Symmetric checked.
Step 12. Effects/PlugIns/Eye Candy 3.1/Swirl with these settings: 30, 15, 70, 40
Step 13. Edit/Paste tube as new layer Use the mover tool to place the tube where you want it.
Layers/Merge/Merge All Flatten
Step 15. Image/Add Border/ 1 pixel symmetric in your dark color
Step 16. Image/Add Border/ 5 pixels symmetric in white
Step 17. Using your magic wand select your border Flood fill with your light color
Step 18. Adjust/Add-Remove Noise/Add Noise with these settings: Uniform, 25%, monochrome checked.
Step 19. Effects/PlugIns/Eye Candy 3.1/Swirl with same settings as before
Step 20. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel with these settings: #7, 3, 20, 3, 0, 0, 315, 50, 30, white
Step 21. Selections/Select None
Step 22. Image/Add Border/ 1 pixel symmetric in black
Step 23. Selections/Select All
Step 24. Selections/Modify/Contract 7 pixels
Step 25. Effects/3D Effects/Cutout with the following settings: 1, 1, 50, 10, white
Step 26. Selections/Select None
Step 27. Add New Raster Layer and add your watermark
Step 28. Export as jpg with compression at 20.
Mosaic Swirl Background
Step 29. Open a 100×100 transparent image.
Step 30. Flood fill with your light color
Step 31. Adjust/Add-Remove Noise/Add Noise with the same settings as before
Step 32. Effects/PlugIns/Eye Candy 3.1/Swirl with the same settings as before
Step 33. Effects/Image Effects/Seamless Tiling with default settings
Step 34. Export at jpg with compression at
Step 35. Assemble in Letter Creator.
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Sandy Says:
This is a great tutorial I enjoyed making this and the end result is a stunning effect. Thanks for sharing this for us to see and do.
Posted on September 26th, 2007 at 3:17 pm