Members' Tutorials

XERO - ABSTRACTOR I love Pete's work, his plugins and his examples. His generosity is great and he's created a whole lot of plugins to work with PSP. I found this plugin to be interesting and fun. It will only work on a background layer.
	Original photo - Oregon Grape in bloom Duplicate photo twice and close the original. Choose either photo Effects > Xero > Abstractor using the settings below. Click Save in the screen and browse to your plugin folders > Xero and give the setting a name. You can use it as a preset for other images if you save it. Abstractor resets to defaults when PSP is closed.

	These are the results of applying the filter.
A sweet trick -- click on the layer icon in the Layer Pallet and hold your left button down, drag the layer icon to the top of the other image and drop it. In the example, the abstracted image (Image 3) is active and the background layer is highlighted in the layer palette. Drag and drop the icon onto Image 1. Saves time over Copy and Paste as New Layer.
	Reduce the opacity to 50% of the top layer. Play with it til you find results you like. Happy Abstracting! vetch