Misting Tutorial

This tutorial assumes you have a working knowledge of PSP.
I used Version 9, but you can do this with any version.

 

This is my version of how I mist.

There are many different opinions as to how to mist.

 

Make sure to read the artist's permission.  Misting may not

be allowed.

 

Open the image you would like to mist.  I opened a Comteche photo

as an example.  It has a light gray background.

 

Click on the freehand tool.  I have my settings to it is to the left. 

It is easier to draw around an image using the freehand instead of point to

point.  I don't want mine straight.  Feather is set to 28, but you can change this

slightly.

 

 

 

After you have completely outlined your image, and before you right click to end.  It will look

like the example below.

 

 

Once you click to end, it will show the area larger as shown below.

 

 

 

Right click inside this area and clic on copy. 

 

Open a new image and flood fill with white or color of your choice. Misted

images look best on white, but that depends on the image, etc.

 

"X" out the white background layer for now.

 

Right click and paste as a new layer on your new image.  It will look like

the example below.

 

With this image we have the middle that needs to be outlined.  It will

look like the example below until you click to end it.

 

 

Once you have finished drawing the area, it will look like the image below.

Once you have ended, hit the delete key once.  On certain images you

may have to repeat clicking the delete key.

The image below shows the middle removed.

 

 

Remove the "X" to open the background and the example below is

what the finish tag looks like misted.