I resized that flower by 50% two times and now it looks like this… I use the following settings-I change the tab from pixel to percentage-I find it easier to resize using a percentage, lock your aspect ratio and make sure that resize all layers is NOT checked, or you will resize your entire canvas not just your desired element. Krystal’s flower is a little big for the canvas…so I’m going to have to resize that beautiful bloom I then paste the element as a new layer on my template canvas. If you want to follow the template exactly-which I never do btw…you need to browse to where your kit is and open the element of your choice…it will look like this…at this point I copy the element as seen in the photo On to adding elements which thank goodness is not so detailed and much easier. You will repeat the above steps for each paper area on your template…I used a simple template by Janet as an example as to not overwhelm you with layers-but the same steps work for any template if it has 10 layers or 50.
There is an action that does this for you-but I find that I hate it because I scrap 8X8 and it was written for 12X12 scrappers, it left a lot of overlap along the part of the template you can’t see which played havoc with my shadows. Now hit delete on your keyboard and BAM! this is what you have now… Make sure you are on the correct layer in your layer palette-check out the graphic below-You should be on the layer of paper you just pasted. Now-invert that defloated selection…as seen below Next Defloat that same selection…check it out-you will have marching ants around the selection only at this point-the area you want the paper to actually be.Īt this point I copy the paper that I’m going to use in this selection and add it as a new layer to the template. Then float the selection:here is your visual Make sure that the shape layer is selected in the layer palette on the right side of your program. To do that I open the paper of my choice in PSP-resize it to 8X8 and do the following steps in order. Then paste it as a new layer above the guide paper in the templateĪnd now this is what I have-my template with the main bg paper in place and ready to go.
My paper is open in PSP (and resized to 8X8), I copy it The Next three visuals are my steps in adding the bg paper… That is an easy step because it won’t need to be cut at all. The next thing I do is pick a Background paper-I open that in PSP and resize as well- I drop that onto the bottom layer above the guide paper in the template. Here is what my screen looks like at this point.
I toss out the TFF and PNG files that are included in most template sets. I should also mention that the only file extension that is recognized in PSP is PSD format. I open up the template and immediately resize it because I scrap 8X8 and most templates are 12X12. OK the first thing you need to do when using a template in PSP is navigate to the folder that your template is in-I do this using the Widows viewer as opposed to the Browse feature that is standard in PSP-I find it easier since my files are kept according to a very regimented system.
There are things about it that I love and things about it that I don’t love so much-but overall I’ve been happy with the upgrade from X2. I have been using PSP X3 for about 5 months now. I stared with 9 and have upgraded periodically through the years. I have been scrapping with some version of PSP since I started scrapping.
If you have any questions please feel free to PM me here through the forum-I will attempt to help you as much as I can.
I want to preface this tutorial by saying that I am NOT a tutorial writer-I feel like I’m leaving a ton out and not teaching you as well as you should be taught.