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To get to the Gallery where your versions are :

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To make that work, you will need a picture of your choice.

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Click here to print the tutorial

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You can use my arrow to follow your work
Click on it and drag it all along the tutorial !

 

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Tutorial made with PSP 2018.

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1 - Open your picture in your PSP (scenery, portrait etc...)

2- Window / Duplicate

- Close your original picture and work on the copy.

3- Adjust / Hue and saturation / Colorize / Saturation at 0 (never mind what the figure is for the hue).

4- Adjust / Brightness and contrast / Brightness and Contrast / Brightness at 0 and contrast according to the contrast you want to get (45 for my image).

5- Effects / Artistic effects / Contours / Luminance 100 / Blur 10 / Detail 4 / Intensity 10 / Noir.

6- Activate your magic wand set as below :

- Beware : The box "contigue" mustn't be ticked as shown above !

7- With your magic wand, click on the darker part of your image (dark grey or black).

8- ADD A NEW RASTER LAYER.

9- With your flood fill tool, set as below, flood fill that selection with a dark colour of your choice, on that new layer.

- Selections / Select none.

10- In your layers palette, activate again the layer of your image (layer at the bottom of the pile).

- Select now the intermediate colour (average grey).

11 - ADD A NEW RASTER LAYER.

12- Flood fill that selection with a less dark colour of your choice, on that new layer.

- Selections / Select none.

13- In your layers palette, activate again the layer of your image (layer at the bottom of the pile).

- Select now the lightest colour (light grey).

14 - ADD A NEW RASTER LAYER.

15- Flood fill that selection with a light colour of your choice, on that new layer.

- Selections / Select none.

16- Add a border or a frame of your choice.

17- Save your work as a jpeg file.

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That's it !! You've done it !!

If you 've enjoyed doing my tutorial, it would be nice to write a few words in my guest book !

If you 've had the slightest problem, please, send me a mail so I can see to the problem.

Tutorial translated on the 16th of January 2019

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