tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51563056269998537642024-03-14T02:08:32.489-07:00Valz TutorialzValeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054435011060464742noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156305626999853764.post-1826550221131776012012-03-21T06:02:00.000-07:002012-03-21T06:19:26.355-07:00Combining BlogsI am in the process of moving all of my "stuff" into one blog. I'm combining my tutz blog and my designing blog so that it is a) easier for me to post and b) easier for you to find. I don't have a lot of things that I make, so I couldn't see having two blogs anymore. I will be moving my tutz to klbdesignz.blogspot.com. Be sure to pop over there and follow me before this blog goes away in a week and a half or so.Valeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054435011060464742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156305626999853764.post-1747711517581102612012-03-19T16:22:00.000-07:002012-03-19T17:01:15.887-07:00Rainbow BrutalWhoot! I now have an exclusive tutorial posted at Creative Addictions. Here is the preview. Just click on the tag to take you to it. Check out the other tutorials and hey, join the group and enjoy the challenges and contests. It is a great group!<br />
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<br />Valeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054435011060464742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156305626999853764.post-40301245875748660282011-10-11T10:08:00.000-07:002011-10-11T10:08:04.892-07:00Fall Foliage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju8POi2lkTdoJmJw_2GM6wke63df-lljUo2MFapDzasXtL2B0TKYIuwnZc-d2glJoq_2Y9is6zDfb_Jh3-wuD1LFOqUs6e4G5GjyQ9VnhafF0vuXth9pnuRkbGJrRH1Z2RHPnKEWZazuHT/s1600/Fall+Foliage+Tutorial.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju8POi2lkTdoJmJw_2GM6wke63df-lljUo2MFapDzasXtL2B0TKYIuwnZc-d2glJoq_2Y9is6zDfb_Jh3-wuD1LFOqUs6e4G5GjyQ9VnhafF0vuXth9pnuRkbGJrRH1Z2RHPnKEWZazuHT/s320/Fall+Foliage+Tutorial.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This tutorial was written by Valerie Atwell on October 11, 2011. Any resemblance to another tutorial is purely coincidental. Please do not translate my tutorial or copy and present it as your own. Thank you to Vaybs for the beautiful Scrap kit that I used and to Insatiable Dreams for the awesome mask. This tutorial assumes that you have some working knowledge of Paint Shop Pro (PSP).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Needed:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">PSP (I am using version XI)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Photo of fall foliage</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Betsys Paradise Dream Scrap Kit by Vaybs (you can find it <a href="http://designsbyvaybs.blogspot.com/search?q=betsys+paradise">here</a>)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Mask 443 by Insatiable Dreams (you can find it <a href="http://insatiabledreams.net/Cat_s_Masks_too.html">here</a>)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Autumn Fairy Tube of Choice (I have used the awesome artwork of Katherine Barber. You just have a license to use her artwork. You can her artwork from <a href="http://www.upyourart.com/">UpYourArt</a>)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Font of Choice (I am using a free font called The Great Escape. You can download it <a href="http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=the+great+escape">here</a>)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Let's get started!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1. Find and open your tube. Minimize.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2. Find and open your photo. Shift + D on your keyboard to duplicate the photo. Close the original. Resize your photo to 800x600, resize all layers checked.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">3. Edit, copy. We will use the copy of the photo in a little bit.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">4. Layers, Load/Save Mask, Load Mask from Disk, 443InsatiableDreams, Source Luminance checked, Fit to Canvas checked, Invert Transparency <u>unchecked</u>, Hide All Mask checked. Click Load. Layers, Merge, Merge Group.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">5. Edit, Paste as New Layer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">6. Now to the scrap kit. Copy and paste as new layer, Frame (the red one). Resize by 65%, resize all layers <u>unchecked</u>. Adjust, Sharpness, Unsharp Mask with Factory Default settings.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">7. Grab your magic wand selection tool. Click inside the frame. Selections, Modify, Expand by 5.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">8. Activate your 2nd photo layer. Selections, Invert. Hit Delete on your keyboard. Selections, Select None. Apply Unsharp Mask.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">9. On frame layer, add drop shadow (2, 2, 80, 5, black). Add drop shadow again (-2, -2, 80, 5, black).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">10. Copy and paste your tube as a new layer. Resize it as needed. Duplicate the tube layer. Drag the bottom tube layer below the frame and add the first drop shadow above.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">11. On the top tube layer, use your eraser tool to erase the bottom part of the tube so that the frame is visible again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">12. Copy and paste butterfly (3). Resize by 60%. Add drop shadow. Apply Unsharp Mask. Move to the left side of the frame.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">13. Copy and paste decor (19). Image, Free Rotate, Right 90. Image, Mirror. Resize by 80%. Move to lower right corner of the frame. Add drop shadow. Apply Unsharp Mask.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">14. Copy and paste flower (6). Resize by 50%. Add drop shadow. Apply Unsharp Mask. Move to upper right corner of frame. Make sure it is below the top tube layer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">15. Copy and paste decor (2), (3), (4). Resize each by 60%. Do not apply a drop shadow, they already have one. Apply Unsharp Mask to each. Move to bottom of the frame in the middle and make sure they are under the ribbon layer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">16. Add the name that you want in the font and color of your choice. I used The Great Escape, Size 84, Foreground Black, Background #f0d188, Stroke Width 1.5. Apply drop shadow and move it to where it looks good on your tag.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">17. Image, Resize, 595x446 pixels, resize all layers checked.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">18. Add your copyright and license (if applicable).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">19. Save as a PNG. Your final result will have a transparent background.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To save as a PNG with a transparent background:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Click on the PNG Optimizer button on the toolbar (or File, Export, PNG Optimizer). Use the default settings.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You are done with your tag. Thanks for doing my tutorial! Come back again soon.</div>Valeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054435011060464742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156305626999853764.post-67650181468738583442010-03-29T16:38:00.000-07:002012-03-21T07:09:36.235-07:00Butterfly, ButterflyI used the awesome artwork of Suzanne Woolcott. To purchase a license to use her work, go to www.gorjussart.com. I also used an awesome mask by Zuzzanna, you can find her masks at <a href="http://www.zuzzanna.dk/">http://www.zuzzanna.dk/</a>. <br />
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This tutorial was written August 26, 2007 by Valerie Atwell and assumes that you have some working knowledge of Paint Shop Pro.<br />
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What you need:<br />
Mask of your choice<br />
Tube of your choice<br />
Font of your choice<br />
My Scrapkit <a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/369719902/Pink_Butterflies.zip">HERE</a><br />
Open a 500x500 transparent canvas. Open the pink_black tile and minimize for now.<br />
Go to your background palette, choose the pink_black tile in your patterns with these settings:<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://images9.fotki.com/v450/photos/1/1644661/8597422/ss1-vi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" nt="true" src="http://images9.fotki.com/v450/photos/1/1644661/8597422/ss1-vi.jpg" width="212" /></a></div>Floodfill your canvas with the pattern.<br />
Then apply your mask by going to Layers, Load Mask from Disk, Invent transparency checked.<br />
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Add a new raster layer and floodfill with a neutral color, I used #c0c0c0. <br />
Resize this new layer by 60% with resize all layers unchecked.<br />
Open the Butterfly Ribbon in the scrap kit. Copy and paste it as a new layer on your canvas. Resize the ribbon by 61%. Move it to the right side of the gray square. Revmove any extra ribbon with your eraser tool.<br />
Duplicate the ribbon layer, then image, mirror.<br />
Deselect the background mask layer. Layers, merge, merge visible. Then rotate your square to the left by 25.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://images9.fotki.com/v449/photos/1/1644661/8597422/ss4-vi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" nt="true" src="http://images9.fotki.com/v449/photos/1/1644661/8597422/ss4-vi.jpg" width="256" /></a></div>Open the Butterfly Text from the scrap kit. Copy and paste it onto your canvas. Resize by 75%, all layers unchecked. Rotate it to the left by 25. Move it to the top of the gray ribbon "paper" (see my sample for placement).<br />
Apply this drop shadow.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://images17.fotki.com/v295/photos/1/1644661/8597422/ss5-vi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" nt="true" src="http://images17.fotki.com/v295/photos/1/1644661/8597422/ss5-vi.jpg" width="262" /></a></div>Open the Pink Flower Beads. Copy one set of the beads and paste it as a new layer. Move it to the right side of the tag. Resize by 80%. Apply the same drop shadow as before.<br />
Now, copy and paste your tube as a new layer. Apply your favorite drop shadow. Add the copyright and your watermark.<br />
Now add your text (I used a pink color from the ribbon). Rotate it to the left by 25 and drop it under the tube layer. Apply the drop shadow from the Butterfly text or your choice of drop shadow.<br />
Save as a .jpeg and you are done! <br />
Thanks for doing my tutorial.<br />
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Tutorial ©Valerie Atwell 2007Valeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054435011060464742noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156305626999853764.post-86016765484627538962010-03-29T15:49:00.000-07:002010-03-29T16:48:47.481-07:00Be My Valentine<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This tutorial was written January 11, 2006 by Valerie Atwell, all rights to it belong to me. Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental. You may link to it or print it for personal use, but you MAY NOT claim it as your own.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I used the awesome artwork of Barbara Jensen. To purchase a license to use her work, you may go to <a href="http://www.eroticartistgallery.com/">http://www.eroticartistgallery.com/</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My Supplies <a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/369715642/BeMyValentineSupplies.zip">HERE</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Paint Shop Pro</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Animation Shop</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">No outside filters required</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Unzip the gradient into your gradients folder, your tube into your tube folder, the font into your font folder, the mask into your mask folder and the brushes into your brush folder.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Open your tube in PSP and minimize. Open your font and minimize.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Open a new canvas 500x500, transparent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Set your foreground to black. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Floodfill the bottom layer with black.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Go to layers, load saved mask, choose the following:</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Open up your tube (I used a legs tube, you can use the tube of your choice and adjust the instructions accordingly).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Go to edit, copy and paste as a new layer in your canvas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Resize if needed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">On your layer palet, lower the opacity of the layer to 80%.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If you want you can apply the same mask settings as above. Layers, merge group.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Go to adjust, hue/saturation, colorize these settings:</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://images20.fotki.com/v527/photos/1/1644661/8597301/ss3-vi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" nt="true" src="http://images20.fotki.com/v527/photos/1/1644661/8597301/ss3-vi.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Grab your paint brush tool, choose HeartAccent1 010.</span></div>Size 197, Default settings for the rest<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Apply your brush to the upper left corner of your mask.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Go to layers, duplicate, then image, mirror.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Move this heart brush to the bottom right corner of your mask.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Go to layers, new raster layer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Grab your paint brush tool with HeartAccent1 011.</span><br />
Size 197, Default settings for the rest<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">epeat the same steps as above.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Deactivate (turn off) your mask layer and your tube layer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Go to layers, merge visible.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Duplicate your heart layer 2 times.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">First heart layer:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Go to adjust, add/remove noise, add noise.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Make sure uniform is ticked and use these settings:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Repeat steps as above with 45% noise.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Third heart layer:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Repeat steps as above with 40% noise.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Go back to your first heart layer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Adjust, add/remove noise, noise.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Make sure random is ticked at 50%.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Second heart layer:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Same as above 60%</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Third heart layer:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Same as above 55%</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Set your background gradient to the following:</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Set your foreground to black.</span></div><div align="center"><a href="http://images9.fotki.com/v450/photos/1/1644661/8597301/ss8-vi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" nt="true" src="http://images9.fotki.com/v450/photos/1/1644661/8597301/ss8-vi.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Now, grab your text tool with these settings:</span><br />
Size 96, Stroke 1, Default settings for the rest<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Type your text. With your font, you have to use all caps.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Go to layers, convert to raster layer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Duplicate your text layer twice.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Apply your noise settings as you did with the heart layers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">At this time, you should add your copyright and watermark.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">IMPORTANT!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">DO NOT RESIZE YET!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">WE WILL RESIZE IN ANIMATION SHOP.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Open your Animation Shop.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Deactivate the top 2 text layers and the top 2 heart layers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Go to edit, copy merged.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Over to Animation Shop.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Edit, paste as new animation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Deactivate first layers of each and activate second layers of each.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In AS, edit, select all (or cntrl + A on the keyboard).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This will activate all of your frames.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tutorial ©Valerie Tutorials 2005-2007</span>Valeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054435011060464742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156305626999853764.post-8382231272781167072010-03-27T13:42:00.000-07:002012-03-21T06:35:48.284-07:00Kat Scratch Fever<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This tutorial was written May 7, 2006 by Valerie and is the sole property of Valzs Tutz. Any resemblance of this tutorial to any other tutorial on the web is purely coincidental. You may text link or print my tutorial for your personal use ONLY. Any other usage requires my express written permission. This tutorial assumes you have working knowledge of the Paint Shop Pro program and can be done in any version.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What you need: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My supplies </span><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/368911471/Kat_Scratch_Fever.zip"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">HERE</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Place the masks in your mask folder and the pattern in your patterns folder.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Don't forget to save your work often. One tip is to save it as a .pspimage at first then save periodically. Also, if you plan to make this for more than just yourself, rename your font layer (right click on the font layer and choose rename) with the name of your font. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Open your font and minimize it. Open your tube and minimize it as well.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Open a 600x500 transparent canvas. Floodfill it with the pattern.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Add the copyright information for your tube and your own watermark.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now the name on the tag, use the font of your choice. For my font, I used a size of 100. Add your drop shadow from before or any other effects you want.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Resize it, remember to check Resize All Layers and make sure Bicubic is selected when you resize.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Save As a jpeg and you are DONE!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thanks for doing my tutorial!!</span>Valeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054435011060464742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156305626999853764.post-62987889970618072852010-03-26T15:28:00.000-07:002010-03-26T15:33:11.778-07:00Tutorials by ValHey! I decided to put some of my early tutorials on here. I have several new friends that are learning to PSP, so I thought I would dust them off and share them. I hope to have some new ones done sometime soon. These are simple and will teach a beginner some basic functions of PSP. I wrote them in 7 and 9, but they can be used for newer versions too. Have fun!Valeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054435011060464742noreply@blogger.com0