blur background in corel paint shop pro 5

I found smoothness made a dramatic change to the finished image and it is worth looking for the 'sweet spot'.ġ4. Next is a number of options under the heading Image. For my image with narrow writing I used bevel No.9 width 3.ġ3. Choose a bevel shape and width - if your writing is broad a double bevel can work well. This tool is quite complex but once applied it's settings cannot be adjusted so you may want to make a copy of the Message and Outline layers before you start.ġ2. Select the Message layer and open the Effects>'3D Effects'>'Inner Bevel' dialogue. There will now appear to be an unchanged image of a sandy beach but in the Layers pallette you should have three layers - Background, Outline and Message.ġ1. You're finished with the original 'Writing' layer so make it invisible or delete it.ġ0.

Create another new layer (call it Outline) and paste into selection. Again switch to the beach layer and copy.Ĩ. Modify the selection with 'select selection borders', 'Outer only' and choose a width at least as thick as the text but doesn't overlap itself too much.ħ. Create a new raster layer (call it Message) and 'paste into selection'.Ħ. Switch to the beach (background) layer and click 'copy'.ĥ. (selecting non-writing and inverting while the tool is non-contiguous is an easy way of doing this).Ĥ. The optimum brush width will depend on the size of the photo and the finished size of the writing but for a message viewed at an angle I kept it fine, around 4 pixels.ģ.Using the Magic Wand select the writing.

Paint it above an area of sand but it doesn't matter where on the sand it goes as you will be moving it later. On a new layer (call it Writing) paint your message with a hard brush and any dark colour. Simulating Writing in Sand using the Inner Bevel Tool in PSP X:Ģ. This is what I came up with (also posted to your thread in the Corel PSP group). I didn't look to see if there's an existing tutorial, sorry, I just went ahead my own way. This was a very interesting challenge and since the idea appealed to me I spent some time messing around with it. Anyone have suggestions or link to tutorial that would teach this. I want it to look like it was drawn on the real sand at the beach.

I want to place a heart and some text inside the heart on a beach photograph.

Blur background in corel paint shop pro 5