Ocean View Tutorial
By Lana Hawke
February 2006


This image was created using Paint Shop Pro 8 but should be adaptable to other versions.
It has also been reduced for web viewing.

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To create this image you will also need the following:

My Gradient < Right click and select 'Save Target As' to get the lhgrad1.jpg
Save it in your images. Do not place it in the gradient or patterns folder.

MuRa Meister Perspective Tiling Plugin < Right click this link and select open in new window.
Download the file. Virus scan & unzip to its own folder.
You have the option to either cut & paste the plugin folder into one of the following folders:
C:\ My Documents\ My PSP Files \ Plugins (applies to 8, 9 & X versions) or
C:\ Program Files\ Jasc \ Paint shop Pro 7 \ Plugins
(Your PSP Preferences must be directed to see this folder to use the plugin.)
If you do not have the Plugin folder, create one at one of the above locations.

I'm hoping you have the two required .dll files, msvcrt10 & plugin,
either in your Win 98 Windows/System folder
or your 2000/XP Windows/System32 folder.
If not get them here. DLL's   ( 107kb )
These system files are required to use many of the filters and plugins in PSP.
Virus scan & unzip, if possible, directly to one of the above mentioned folder.

Ready?
Let's begin.

1. Create a new image: any size in pixels, on transparent raster layer,
16mill.24bit colour, 72 dpi/ppi.
The above image is 400 x 300 pixels.

2. Save the image as .pspimage and name it OceanView.

3. Open the gradient image.

4. Double click on the Material Palettes Foreground Display to open it:
Go to the Pattern Tab. Click on the arrow to display the patterns.
The gradient should be at the top of the list.
Click on it.
Adjust the Size to 100 and the Angle to 0.
Click ok.

5. Double click on the Material Palettes Background Display to open it:
Set the background to #ceb1a8
Click ok.

6. Close the gradient.

7. Select the Flood Fill tool and fill the layer Raster 1 with the gradient.

8. Select From the Menu> Effects> Image Effects> Seamless Tiling
and put in these settings.
Corner, Bi-directional, Curved, Horiz. 40, Vert. 25, Transition 87
Click ok.

9. Save your image.

10. Select From the Menu> Effects> Texture > Fur with these settings.
Blur 60, Length 20, Density 29, Transparency 137
Click ok.

11. Save your image.

12. Select From the Menu> Effects> Distortion > Wave with these settings:
Horiz. Amp: 99, Wave: 69
Vert. Amp: 2, Wave 44
Check Wrap.
Click ok.

13. Save your image.

14. Duplicate the Layer and rename it Sea.

15. Turn off Layer Raster 1 Visibility.
Clicking on  the eye in the Layer Palette and it will show an X.

16. On the Sea layer, Select From the Menu> Effects> Plugin >>
MuRa Meister's Perspective Tiling with these settings:
Perspective 100, Stretch 50, Centre 0, Height 50,
Offset X & Y =0, Crop & Crop Opacity =0
Colour should automatically be the background colour #CEB1A8.
Click ok.

17. Save your image.

18. Duplicate the Sea Layer and rename it Dunes.

19. On the Dunes layer,
Select From the Menu> Effects> Plugins >> MuRa Meister's Perspective Tiling
with the same settings as above.
Click ok.

20. Save your image.

21. Return to the Sea Layer

22. Select From the Menu> Adjust > Hue-Saturate > Colourize with these settings.
Hue 130 Saturate 70
Click ok.

23. Save your image.

24. Return to Layer Raster 1

25. Duplicate Layer and rename it Sky

26. Turn on the Visibility for the Sky layer.
click the X and it will disappear.

27. Move the Sky layer up to the top of all the layers.
Drag it up there or right click the layer and select Arrange >>'Bring to top'.

28. Still on the Sky layer, now at the top,
Select From the Menu> Adjust> Colour Balance> Automatic Colour Balance
with these settings:
Strength 72,  Temperature 9300, a checkmark in colour cast is optional.
Click ok.

29. Save your image.

30. Select From the Menu> Effects> Plugins >> MuRa Meister's Perspective Tiling,
with this settings change:
Perspective -100 (minus 100)
All else is the same as above.
Click ok.

31. Save your image.

32. Click on the Deform tool on the Toolbar and with your cursor, grab the bottom
anchor (that's the centred lower square box) a double arrow should appear,
and move the image up till its just a bit over the Sea layer.

33. Duplicate Sky layer and rename it HalfSky.
Turn off the visibility.

34. Return to Sky layer.

35. Select From the Menu> Adjust > Hue-Saturate > Colourize
with these settings.
Hue 130 Saturate 70
Click ok.

36. Save your image.

37. Return to HalfSky Layer and set the Opacity to 50 with the slider
or right click the layer and select properties and
adjust it in the popup window.
By default it is shown as 100 on the Layer Palette.

38. Save your image.

39. Merge all flatten.

40. Save your image via 'Save As' and add the letter m to the end of it.
This will give you and unmerged .pspimage file you can work with later
and a merged .pspimage file which can be processed.

41. Save your merged file as a .jpg via 'Save As'.
Select .jpg from the drop down list.
Click on Option
Move the Compression slider down to 1.
Click ok.
Click Save.
This is the final original image.

Wasn't that easy.

Hope you enjoyed it.
Have a wonderful day.

~O~Lana~O~

A Special Thanks goes out to Barbara T of PSPUG.org
for testing and helping me make the proper corrections to this tutorial.

Updated Feb 9th 2006.