Lesson 5: How to use a script!

Yes Scripts can be intimidating! Especially if you are new to PSP. I personally love them and have a few of my faves out there. I hope this makes sense!

Supplies: PSP any version, I use 11

Script I used a freebie from HERE


NOTE:

Here's how I start out :

Open your folder where your script is you want to use. I do NOT load my scripts to the script folder in My PSP files, only because it bogs down my PSP and I have more control over what I'm doing.

In the folder you will see many things. Selections, the script anything  else that is needed to run it. Copy the selections in your script folder. THen pop over to your MY PSP FILES folder. Note: Mine is in my documents, it's not IN the program folder on the hard drive. Weird I know lol. 

Then Paste the selections into the sections folder. Sometimes there will be picture tubes, textures or patterns that need to be copied over to their respective folders as well. Real simple just copy and paste! :)

Then go back to where your script is that you want to use. Double click on the script and there you go...a pop up screen shows up in PSP. Follow the prompts and there you got it! Congrats :D Follow the instructions, merge THEN save :)

Once you've done that, your done with  your first script! Congrats!

Lesson 4: How to use a template

Of course a lot of us use templates wit our tags. Here I'm going to show you how to use a template, a simple way. The next lesson I'll show you how to use templates another way.

Firs things first, you need this template here: http://www.deliciousscraps.com/2011/01/new-free-commercial-use-scalloped-heart.html

make sure you leave her some love!

-Have your color palette open! You will notice that I usually work with the palette open on both sides of my PSP. This works better for me.

Next you are going to open your template in PSP....make sure you open the PSD or PSPIMAGE. We need to be able to work with the layered version.

So once you open the template in PSP this is what you will see:

Now we're going to colorize each layer. Using your MCB (manual corection button, refer to paper lesson).

Once you hit the MCB, a window comes up asking you what you want to change the color to. Move the window to the side a little like I have so you can see which layer you are working with. Right now it should be the scalloped heart layer.  Move your mouse so it hovers over the scalloped edge and the dropper tool comes up. What we're going to do is "pick up" that color. Click on it and it will pick it up. The top colored box in your window will now change to that color. On the bottom color box, click it and choose the color you want to change it to. Click ok.

 

Next you are going to repeat that process with the next layer. Remember to pick up the original color of the template! Just like before

So now we're going to do the same thing for the next layer. Remember to pick up the color and drop in a new one!

Now the fun part!!! We're going to do some "shading" to make it pop out and look a bit more three dimensional.

Go to your scalloped later and duplicate it twice. you should now have three of them.

-NOTE I forgot to duplicate it for the third time in my screen shot. Essentially this is what it looks like

Close off the top one and on the middle one, go to effects>3d effects>cutout

Once you do that this window will pop up with whatever the default is:

We're going to change that! This is where you can have fun changing the settings to get the desired depth you want. Move the window to the right a little so you can see it better. on the color window, click it and change the color to just a few shades darker than the one you had originally chosen. This is going shadow it a bit and give it more depth. You can play with the offset settings, or you can choose mine. Totally up to you!

Open up the top scalloped layer. You are going to repeat this process but remember to do the opposite numbers on the offset you did before. For example if you did 5 and -5 before you are now going to do -5 and 5.

Now you are going to move up to the next layer. Duplicate the heart twice so now you have three layers. Close off the top heart layer

We're going to follow the same process as before! Again you can either choose my settings or mess with it on your own.

Open up the top heart layer and repeat:

Duplicate the top heart layer twice, so you now have three. Close off the top one:

 

We're going to repeat the process again, remember to use a color a few shades darker than your original!

Last layer! Open the top layer and repeat:

 

In the end this is what I came up with! Pretty cool huh? Just a little bit of shading and contrast can take a simple template into a whole new direction!

Have fun and use your imagination!

Lesson 3: How to use an overlay

Here we go! working on papers can be really fun. There are so many things you can do! For this lesson, I want you to use this overlay I've provided. Get it HERE *note this overlay was made by me. If you use it in your kits please credit me!


One of the main tools you will be using is the Manual Color correction button. Follow the steps in the screen shot below!

When you are satisfied with how your overlay looks save it as a jpeg file. Saving as a jpeg will take up less room in your file folder. Just a small tip there :)

I hope you have found this lesson useful!