This tut was written for PaintShop Pro9 

Supplies needed PSP and the Photo below

Right click and Save to your Hard Drive

Ok, lets get started!

Open the photo in PSP.

1. Open a new image 600 x 400.

 I like plenty of room to work in :-)

2.  Copy and paste the photo on to the new image and centre it.

3.  X out the bottom layer.

4.  Grab your Freehand lasso selection tool

and make a jagged line down the middle of the photo

5.  Promote the selection to layer.

6.  Step back to the layer underneath and delete that half of the photo.

7.  Select none.

8.  You now have 2 halves of a photo, duplicate each side.

You should now have 5 layers and your layer palette should look like this.

9.  Now the fun begins!! OK, counting the layers from the bottom, click on the 2nd layer, X out layers 3, 4 and 5

10.  Select All/Float then De-Float, now hit the Delete key and then flood fill with white.

11. Select your move tool and touch the white fill, (this will allow the white part of the photo to move when you tap the right direction arrow)

Tap the right arrow 4 times on your direction arrows on your keyboard. This is the effect we want.

Ok,  un-X layer 3 and  merge the photo layer and white layer for the right side.

12. Now repeat this on layers 4 and 5 only going to the left when you move the white layer. You will need to arrange the 2 halves to look like this below.

 Nearly finished :-) Now all we have to do is rotate a little.

 13.  now go to Image/Free Rotate and these are the settings I used.

and you should now have this.

14. Now all that is left to do is put a shadow on each halve of the photo. These are the settings I used

on the left side -2, -2, 60, 7

and on the right side 2, 2, 60, 7

Shadow colour #4A2D24

now you can merge the 2 halves together.

15. Un-x your bottom layer,  go to your material palette and click on Pattern, you should see something like this, click on the view with most coverage and flood fill your bottom layer

16. lower the opacity of this layer to 34 and hit it with your favourite mask.

All that is left to do now is merge all and add your text.

Font that I used is called Advertiser, and can be found near the

bottom of the page HERE

Hope you have enjoyed this tut.

Please feel free to print this tutorial, for your own personal use, but do not copy it in any way to post on-line, pass through email groups, or re-write and claim as your own. 

Any resemblance to any other tutorial like this is purely coincidental.

This tutorial was written on the 22nd September 2006. 

© Edna