Open the picture of yourself.
(I used a Black and white image,
you may need to set a coloured picture to greyscale)
Selection Tool set to Eclipse
Make a selection around your head.
Edit Copy.
Open your dollar image, duplicate and close the original.
again make a selection in the inner circle.
The cross marks the rough place to start your selection.
Layers, New Layer
Edit, Paste into Selection.
Your face is now literally In the Money!
Selections, select none.
Choose your colour to target tool.
If you are using psp7,
you can find this under your Retouch tool, middle tab on the tool options.
Colour your image with a colour taken from the dollar ~
I used the colour #757A6B.
Duplicate this layer.
Effects, Artistic, Black Pencil
Change the blend mode on your layer palette to Overlay.
Effects, Edge Effects, Enhance
Do this to both layers of your image.
On your Normal blend mode layer
Adjust, Brightness/Contrast
Layers, Merge Visible.
Layers, New Raster Layer and move to the bottom.
Effects, Plugins, Graphics Plus, Page Curl
Open a new Transparent canvas 550 x 550.
Flood fill this with Black.
Open your coins jpg, Edit, Copy
and paste as New layer onto your new canvas.
With your Lasso Tool , set to Freehand
Trace a rough edge around your coins to remove the straight edges.
Selections, Invert, then press Delete on your keyboard.
Copy and Paste as New Layer your Dollar image.
Duplicate your coins and move on top of the dollar layer.
Change the blend mode to Overlay on this layer.
Roughly Erase some of this layer to make the dollar stand out more.
On your dollar layer, select the freehand tool again
Draw around the edge of some of the coins
that your dollar overlaps and delete.
Effects, Distortion Effects, Wave
(If you are using psp 7,
this will be found under Geometric Effects)
New Layer for your text.
Use the following settings:
Selections, Select None
Inner Bevel
Effects, Distortion, Wave ~ same settings
Drop Shadow
Add your watermark!
All done..do you feel rich? lol
©SassySarah
11-11-04