How to Create a Banner With PSP9

First off, if you do not have Paint Shop Pro, the full version, you may want to invest in it first.

Now, onto the good stuff.

Here are the images you will be using:

Step One

Open your PSP9 (after you download it if you're downloading it) and open a new document (File > New). Set the width to 500px and the height to 200px and the background should be white.

Step Two

Take the white-flower image and past it three times (or once and then duplicate twice) into your new document. Blend the three images together, so it should look something like this:

Step Three

Take the birdcage image, and paste it as a new layer (edit > paste > paste as new layer). Now click on your eraser tool, click on the circle and set your settings to mine: size: 55, hardness: 43, step: 32, density: 100, thickness: 100, opacity: 57. Now carefully erase the image, only leaving behind the bird cage, you can make it messy it doesn't really matter. When you're done, move it to the left, and a little down. Set the opacity to 50. It should look like this:

Step Four

Now you're going to choose your image. I'm using Emma Watson, but you can use whoever you want. Paste it as a new image (Edit > Paste > Paste as new image) and then click on the lasso tool (Freehand selection tool). Its green and is the fifth icon on the bar. Once there, click the dropdown button and use the point-to-point tool. Set your settings according to mine: mode: add, opacity: 10, smoothing: 10. Now carefully click around the person so it should look like this:

Tip: Do not rush when doing this, take your time, if you have to, zoom in. When you're finished, make sure you connect the two lines.

Okay, now that you've done that, hold Ctrl + x and then press Ctrl + v That should create a new image with your person in it. It should look like this:

Step Five

Paste your photo into your previous document with the background, and move it to your liking. I put my photo to the close right of the bird cage. Now take your second photo, I'm using the EmmaWatson2 photo, and repeat step four on it. Then paste it onto your document, and move it to the right of the first image. Then proceed to click on your eraser tool, and change the opacity to 35. Then erase away the dress of EmmaWatson2 if you're using that photo blending it into EmmaWatson1 to look like this:

Step Six

Now paste the icon textures under the two images (paste as new layer > move it down twice on layer panel). Double click on the layer in the layer panel so the properties pops up, and set it to soft light. Erase the image in the places you don't like it, so it should look somewhat like this:

Step Seven

Now we're going to begin the coloring. Create a new raster layer (layers > new raster layer) and fill it with #300707 set to exclusion at 20%. Create another new raster layer (layers > new raster layer) and fill it with #616EBE set to normal at 12% opacity. Create another new raster layer (Layers > New raster layer) and fill it with #E0DED7 set to multiply at 15% opacity.

Create one last raster layer (Layers > New raster layer) and fill it with #D6B281 set to multiply at 11% opacity. It should now look similar to this:

Step Eight

Create a new raster layer and fill it with #051037 on exclusion with an opacity of 100%. Go to Layers > New adjustment layers > Levels and in the RGB input put 26 - 1.3 - 231. It should look similar to this:

Step Nine

Go to Layers > Lew adjustment layers > Color balance. Do this:

SHADOWS: 0 0 -39
MIDTONES: 0 +11 -16
HIGHLIGHTS: 0 0 +40

Step Ten

Go to Layers > New adjustment layers > Color balance and in the midtones put +24, -32, -14. Then go to channel mixer and put under Reds: +100, 0, -32. Set this layer to 26 in Opacity. Then go to channel mixer and put under Reds +122, -20, -22 and under Greens +10, +78, +6. Set this layer to 50 in Opacity.

Step Eleven

Now go to Layers > Merge > Merge all. You can add any text you want, I used JaneAusten for the top line, and Arial for the bottom line.

Your final image should look something like this:

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial!

Please credit to me if you use this tutorial in any way shape or form. Thanks.