Blend Me Beautiful

This tutorial was written on 5th May, 2006, and is the sole property of Jo Sanderson. Any resemblance to another tutorial is strictly coincidental. You may text link only, and may print this out for your personal use. Any other usage requires my written permission first.

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Supplies

My zip of supplies (includes images and picture frame)

Xero Filters

Font

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Unzip your supplies and open images in PSP. If you don't have the picture frame already in your psp

you will need to install it. It's standard in psp-x but I'm not sure about earlier versions.

Open a new 700 x 500 transparent canvas

Set your foreground colour to #cad6d2

Set your background colour to #e0eae9

Select Gradient/Foreground Background/Radial. Angle = 0 Repeats 5

Flood fill your canvas

Copy and Paste the Alba1.jpg to your working canvas

With your selection tool. Freehand. Feather = 35 Smoothing 4

Trace around your first Jessica image like so

Selections/Invert and then hit the delete key

You should end up with something like this. Don't worry about any harsh edges - we will clean them up later

Drag this misted layer down and to the right to position

Complete the same process on each of the other 3 images, positioning them until you end up with something like this

If you have any harsh edges on any of the layers, use your erase tool to carefully clean them up.

X out your bottom gradient layer and Merge/Merge Visible.

Duplicate your blended layer, and making sure the top of the 2 is selected in the layer palette

Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur = 5

Using your eraser tool with the following settings

Carefully erase the blurred faces on the top layer til you have something like this

Layers/Merge All

Plugins/Xero/Improver/Portrait @ default settings

Plugins/Xero/Porcelain with these settings

Image/Picture Frame using psp frame

Making sure the picture frame is selected in the layer palette add the following drop shadow to it

Time to add your text. Foreground NULL Background White

Position it at the top left (see finished tag for reference)

Duplicate and position duplicate at bottom right (again see finished tag for reference)

Add the same drop shadow to both that you used above.

Merge All

Image/Resize/Bi-cubic. I did mine at 80% but its up to you.

Thankyou for doing my tut - hope you enjoyed it.

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