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1
Open
an image of your choice in PSP7 and select it, by clicking inside
the canvas. If you have a tube, with transparent background,
open this image in PSP, click "Copy"; open a new image,
transparent, bigger than the tube canvas and "Paste as
new selection". You will have enough space to work.
2
You must add,
now, an area around the image, that we will call "halo",
with the characteristics of our interest - to do that click
"Selections/ Modify/ Feather" and set an area, in
pixels, to apply the halo. In this example, I set 20 pixels.
3
Until this moment you were working in a only one Layer.
Now, with the image and the halo selected, add
a New layer and drag it under the previous one. This layer2,
recently added and dragged under the other one, will receive
the color treatment for the halo.
4
With the Flood Fill tool choose a "gradient"
of your preference and apply it on the image (you will see that
only the selection around the image will receive the gradient
color, once only that selection is active, in the layer2, that
was previously dragged under the layer1). Apply the color as
much as necessary to make it be well defined.
In our example I used: Linear gradient/ Red-Dark Green/ angle
226.
5
Return
to the layer1 and apply a Drop Shadow with a light tone in the
image, if you want to increase the halo definition. In our example
I configured: shadow color "white"/ 100 opacity/ 16
blur/ -16 vertical/ 11 horizontal. Apply it by three or four
times. See below, an another example, darkest, with only one
application of ligth shadow:
6
Cancel
the selection, add a new layer and drag it under the previous
ones - flood fill with a plain color (in our example "Black"),
Merge visible layers.
7
Cut the image
with the "crop" tool (double click inside the area
selected by the tool to "crop") and save it with the
extension you want (JPG, GIF).
Many
variations are possible, in several points of our "step
by step". Do it and...
Have fun!
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