Download tutorials by:
...
.
GRAPHIC OVERLAPPING TECHNIQUE
HOOTY-TUT© aka Doyle Allen
2/04/03 IM format
For PSP 7
****************************************
Needed: PaintShopPro, some basic skills and
the ability to make a frame.
****************************************
1.Open up your image. Use one that has overhanging part(s) like the tiger graphic shown has its paws hanging below.
See the bottom of this page to snag a practice pic!
2.Shift+D (Duplicate the Graphic)
3.Close out the original graphic.
4.Right click on the word background in your
layer palette and promote to layer.
5.Left click
on
your layer palette.
(Adding a new raster layer)
6.Layers/Arrange/Move Down
7.Click on layer 1 on the layers palette to
activate it.(your graphic layer)
8. Select
your 
Selection
tool and set it to
rectangle in the Tool Options-Selection box
Feather=0 Antialias=checked
9. Click and drag from left top to bottom right
of your area (in this case, underneath the back paws)
See below:
Note:If you draw it wrong just right click to reset
and try again!
10.Right Click on the top blue border and select
copy.
11.Then click the delete botton on your keyboard.
(This will change your selected area to a
transparent area)
12.Right click on your work area outside of your
graphic and select Paste as New Image.
Note: Now we are going to remove the background area of the paws that we removed and in the transparent area will be filled with borders of a frame partially. Then we put the bare paws back with the graphic.
That is basically the plan and now the the execution.
13.Click on your new selection, the paws graphic
and let's work with it!
14.Left
click on
your layer palette.
(Adding a new raster layer)
15. Layers/Arrange/Move Down
16. Click on layer 1 on the layers palette to
activate it.(your graphic layer)
17.Select
your
Lasso
tool.
18.Click and drag starting from the top left paw
and down, under and up.
Cross over to the top left of the right paw over
the top of the graphic and back down to it.
Continue outlining the right paw in the same way
you did the left paw until you are at the top right
and finally release.
(LOL! Hope you didn't get cramps holding that
mouse button down!)
19.Ctrl+Shift+ i (= invert selection)
20.Click on the delete button on your keyboard.
(now only your bare paws should be showing on
the transparent background.)
21. Ctrl+D (= Deactivate marching ants)
Note:Zoom 
in for a better view and use your
eraser
to clean up any areas around the paws
that need to be
cleaned off.
22. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow
Vertical=2 Horizontal=2 Opacity=66 Blur=2.5
Color=Black
(Note:Now we are done with the paws for now)
23.Click on the blue border on your main graphic
to activate it. (The tiger and the cubs graphic)
24.Select
your 
Magic wand tool.
25.Click on the transparent bottom of the graphic.
26.Ctrl+Shift+ i (inverting the selection)
27. Image/Crop to Selection
28. Ctrl+D (Deactivating the marching ants)
Now we make or add a Frame but need to add
borders that are at least as wide as the paws
that we cropped out!
29. Hold your cursor over the small other
tranparent paw graphic. Look at the bottom
right of your PSP screen and you will see the
measurements of that graphic.
Note: Mine shows it is 74 pixels in height!
Remember that you will only need half of that width to equal it since you will be adding borders
of the same thickness on all the sides.
So I would need to build a thickness of about 37
to match it, or more if I just want a bigger frame.
(See Hooty-Tuts Basic Frame Technique if you
don't know how.)
________________________________________
WAITING (TICK-TOCK!) LOL
________________________________________
OK, now that you have built your frame a
little thicker than the cropped paws graphic we
can continue.
----------------------------------------------------------------
30. Right Click on the top of the blue border
around your smaller cropped paw graphic and
select COPY.
31. Right click on your Main graphic on the blue
border and select PASTE AS NEW LAYER.
Note: You can see that 2 things have changed.
One is the paws have appeared in the middle of
your graphic, the other is your 
Mover tool has
automatically activated!
Yes!! PSP is a mind reader too! LOL
32.Now left click on one of the paws and Drag then into the proper position.
Note:You may notice that they do not quite
mesh visually. We are going to fix that next.
33.Select
your
retouch
tool.
In the Tool Options-Retouch box use these
settings:
34. In the areas where the top of the paws join
with the graphic, multi-left click or click and
drag across the rough area where the are
joining.
(Oh so that's what soften does! Kewl eh'!)
Note: Careful, don't over do it! That looks bad
too!
35. Merge/Merge all (flatten)
36. Save as JPEG in your document files.
Congratulations! FINI
Hope you learned this technique alright. As most things are, the more times you do it .. the more familiar you become with it… the easier it becomes to do.
Again… I didn’t learn this from someone else’s tutorial.. but I know there must be a zillion of them out there. I learned this from having an inspired thought and playing around until I got the result that I was imagining to be possible and desirable. Probably seen someone else’s graphic that had done that and it got my wheels turning! Ha-ha
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Study! Learn! Create and most of all have FUN!
Hugs
Please don’t duplicate this tut and call it your own.
Visit some of my other web-sites at:
IMGallery.com & Hootystats.com
Right Click and save to your files
Artist unknown .. let me know if you know who it is please?!
.