"Not Quite What She Had In Mind"

One last graphic to make....the "Construction Worker's Diamond Plates" (needless to say, Mr. Bigexec's wife was not too happy when these came home with him, rather than the 24-piece stone-studded china set she was expecting). None the less, it's no doubt Mr. Bigexec has some plans for these. So....off to your Paint Shop Pro.

Make a new image with a white filled rectangle. In Blade Pro, apply the "diamond plate example" filter, and click "OK". Create a drop shadow to the new "diamond plate" then copy and paste a few more images of it along with the original. Merge all the layers.

In the menu, click "Image", "Rotate" and rotate the image to the left about 30 degrees. Here's The KROW's diamond plates:

"The Final Touches"

Now that you have all the images made for Mr. Bigexec's products, save the originals and you can then make other adjustments to them as you like. Remember, these will be going to the web, so you want to ensure you've compressed the images as small as you can, but still achieve the best look you can. As we talked about in our previous Modules, the .gif and .jpg compression tool that comes in your Paint Shop Pro is great for this!

"In Our Final Hours"

Now that you have a good "feel" for what Paint Shop Pro can do with Blade Pro, take time to create images of your own and applying your personal "look and feel" to your images. Between PSP and Blade Pro there are countless options and adjustments to make which can create a different image with every change!

Our upcoming (final) lesson will be chock full of extras. You'll learn how to make your OWN Blade Pro Preset and put them together to share your Presets for others to use in their Paint Shop Pro!

Thanks also goes to those who's Presets were used in this tutorial, all of which are available for you to download from the web.

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