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***Please read the general rules after the Tutorials

 

Tutorials Posted So Far:

Please check for replaced tuts. 

 
Week 3 ... Muted Seamless Background 
Week 4 ... Using the crop tool and clone brush ... a d/load from Darlene not available on the net.  To download......click here!! 
 
Week 5 ... Picture Tubes- How to export, how to separate, and the easy snowglobe.. (Sorry, this isn't working )
 
Week 6 ... The Paint Brush Tool ..
 
Week 7 ... Exporting Tubes and using Layers (Part 1 has been replaced)
Part 2 ..   http://www.angelfire.com/wv/jacindaspage/Layers.html

Week 8 - Simple Masks 

http://dixielady.com/tutorials/mask/Mask1.html  

Week 9 - Cutting Out

Part I :   
 Part II :   

Week 10 - 

Part 1 - Creating a Seamless Border & Background  

http://members.xoom.com/my1heart/tutorial_section/borderedbackground_hw.html

Part  2 - Creating a Pleated/Stepped Border Edge 
 

Week 11

Creating an Elliptical Frame http://www.laker.net/mari/tutorials/ellipticalframe/ellipticalframe1.html

Week 12

A mask tutorial done by Nanette http://members.xoom.com/NanetteH/masks_tutorial.htm

 

Week 13

Creating Christmas Ornaments 

Cutout Effects

Week 14

Create a Christmas Greeting http://www.netins.net/showcase/heartland/ClassicDesigns/2P5xmas.html

Insert Picture Framing http://members.tripod.com/bren_carissa/inset_picture.html

Creating a Divider Bar http://website.lineone.net/~stationerytuts/psp6tuts/dividerbar/dividerbar.html

Creating a Spiral Effect Divider Bar http://www.fortunecity.com/westwood/carbon/392/spiral.html

Prepared Divider Bars http://home.gallatinriver.net/~morris/PSPTutorials/Bar-Lines/Bar-Lines.htm

Week 15

Text on a Path
http://loriweb.pair.com/psp6vtext.html
Making and creating Frames 
http://www.designsbydonna.com/frame/frame.html

Week 16 

Texturizing

http://www.fortunecity.com/westwood/carbon/392/texturizing.html

Week 17

Masked Edges (replaced)

http://members.xoom.com/tubes/masks/maskdem1.htm

Tutorial #18 Part A - Creating Gold Text: 
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Cabin/6995/GoldText.htm

Tutorial #18 Part B - Using Layers to create a textured and colourised image:
http://loriweb.pair.com/l-colorize.html

Week 19

A corner stationery

http://www.crosswinds.net/~heartstrings/tutorial_section/corner_stat1.html

Week 20

The last tutorial is an improved way of creating stationery
border sets with ruffled edges and the author is Nanette.

http://members.xoom.com/NanetteH/rufflededgestutorial.htm

These are some of the tutorials for "Newbies".  We do hope you have enjoyed learning more about making stationery! ;o)
You can find the next set of tutorials at:  http://www.bearzcave.com




Some General Rules:

     Having respect for those who have to pay for downloading time, we are requesting that no music or scripting be used. And please use plain text with no signatures.  

     If you make stationery for showing us what you've made then you can use Outlook Express to make the File to display it in Outlook so you can send it as a Newsgroup Message.  Microsoft gave us, with Outlook Express 5, a Stationery Wizard which is accessed via the little Down Arrow right next to the New Mail button on the Outlook Toolbar.

If you go to Nanette's Place she has kindly invited everyone to have a look at her tutorial on how to use the Wizard.  Nanette has also got loads of stationery and other "How to" advice that is worth a read Click on this URL http://members.xoom.com/NanetteH/   and go to the Tutorials.  We have taken the liberty (with her kind consent of copying in the words) her instructions how to use the Wizard.

"Using the Outlook Express 5 Stationery Wizard".     

This is the quickest way to make stationery files that can be saved in any folder.  To find the wizard, open up Outlook Express.  Select the message button on the tool bar, and more messages.  The box that pops up has a button on it that says "create new".

Click that button and follow the instructions,  one note, on the first page after you find your stationery graphic file.. you will see a box that says Tile image, make sure you select Vertical tile so that your entire page has your background on it. Otherwise it will appear with just one strip at the top of the page.  After you do that select next, and follow through with each step.  It will automatically move your graphics file and stationery file to your stationery folder.  But you can move them through Windows Explorer to any folder you wish after they have been created.
 One of the questions we get asked is how big do we make a stationery image.
This is rarely mentioned in Tutorials.

Assuming we are going to start with an image on the left side of the
stationery page we then have the rest of the page on which to write and display any other background features.  The standard size of the viewing screen resolution of our computers is the deciding factor.  Most folks will not have brand new computers and so will have slightly older design Monitors and Graphics cards but the newer models are currently designed to have standard resolution (the clarity and density of the viewable screen) set at 1024 x 768 pixels, older machines will be at 800 x 600 pixels.

If we made our stationery 800 pixels wide we would, if we were viewing with the larger resolution miss seeing 224 pixels . . . . this would come up as a white strip along the right side.  So as a standard most folks tend to make their stationery 1024 pixels wide.  More is okay but no-one sees it unless they are very rich and have even higher resolution Monitors/Graphics Cards.  Thus 1024 is the width to go for.

As to height there is no hard or fast rule but the lower the height the
smaller the stationery image file size.  Outlook repeats the stationery down the visible screen so the way to make it is  as small as is possible to include the height of your side image.  In other words if you have an image you want to show us that is say 200 pixels wide and 300 pixels high we would be aiming at a background of 1024 wide and a minimum of 300 high.  Now we come to the actual size of the side image we want to show the world.   As I have said we want an image to show off and then we want some space to write upon . . . . . . . . most of us do not open our messages up full window and assuming that Outlook displays the message (as viewed) from left to right you want to see the image and have about twice the width again  or more to read the words . . . . . thus the norm for side image width is 200 pixels leaving you 400 or more in a minimized window to have available for the written word - of course the larger the image width the less the
available writing space so it is only a rule of thumb and not set in
concrete . . .

     Feel free to ask any questions.  If we have the answers we'll be happy to answer them.

Have a great time!!

 

 

 

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