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Ok, you passed "Lake
Applets tutorials" with flying colors and now you're dying to create
overlays like the one above, right? If so, welcome to "Lake Applets
"Overlay," This tutorial will hopefully help you
create this very cool effect using my method and the graphics
program "Paintshop Pro 7." There are other methods of creating
overlays that may be better or worse than mine, but this method
works for me and hopefully for you.
Before we begin, you should be familiar with the basic lake
applet. If you have never created a lake applet before, you may want
to take my basic course, Lake
Applets tutorials. You'll need to have the graphics program Paintshop
PRO and some basic knowledge of it. I use PSP 5.0 for all of my
overlays and I'll try to explain each procedure as thorough as
possible as we proceed step by step. Other versions of PSP will
work, but some actions may be slightly different. I've never used
PSP 3 or 4 or any other graphics programs for my overlays, so I'm
afraid I won't be much help as to the differences. To tryout a free
trial version of PSP, go to their home page and check it out.
Ready to learn? I've broken the tutorial up into four steps and
used "screenshots" to show and explain what to do. I hope it helps.
Good Luck!! |
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What is an
Overlay? Cropping, and selecting the transparent
color. |
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"Cutting"
out the water. |
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Retouching
the image. |
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Image
alignment, setting transparency, and putting it all
together. |
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