© by Christa 06.02.2009

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © for the translation belongs to Marlene 19.02.2009

This tutorial may neither be copied nor offered for download at any other site

The material offered here comes from tube exchange groups and tutorial sites on the web

The © copyright belongs to the individual designer

If I, unknowingly should have violated a copyright, please notify me via Mail

Thank you for the lovely material, for without it these pictures would not be possible

Thank you - Guismo , Colombe , Veda , for the beautiful tubes.

This tutorial was written with PSP9

 

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Material

Plugins : Here

Xero Porcelain XL : Here

AlienSkin Xenofex 2.0/ Constellation

Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow

Open all your material in PSP - Open the font_ Duchess and minimize

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You may take this    little figure along for your

orientation

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1.)

Open a new canvas - 750x500 px, transparent

fill it with black

New raster layer - Selection - select all - copy the jpg image and paste into the selection

Selection - select none - Adjust - Hue + Saturation - clorize. Use the H - S from your color

Mine is

Effects - Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow

2.)

Open the tube cal_guis_03_06_2008_mist_bijou. psp image

Image - resize to 750px in width - all layers checked - copy - paste as new layer

Adjust - Sharpness - sharpen, - if need be, colorize

layer palette - rename this layer - animation

Open the tube - VPC_Jade Princess - psp image - Image - resize - 75 % - all layers checked

copy paste as new layer

Move it to the left side of your image - Adjust - sharpness - sharpen

Effects - Xero Porcelain XL

 

3.)

Activate raster 1 - Selection - select all - Image - crop to selection

New raster layer - move it into the top position

Effects - 3D - cut out

New raster layer - repeat - cutout

Activate raster 1 - Image - canvas size

New Raster layer - move into last place - Selection - select none

Fill with a gradient - a light color from your tubes for the foreground (mine is #4fbac6 )

and a dark color for the background ( mine #183a41

Use these settings and fill your cavas

4.)

New raster layer

Selection - select all - Copy - Decor_2_Dakara_Cpspimage - paste into selection

Selection - select none - in the layer palette - overlay

In the layer palette - activate the top layer

Copy - corner-pspimage - paste as new layer - you might have to colorize a bit

Copy - decor-pspimage - paste as new layer - move to the bottom middle

See picture above ; ( check your color, if need be colorize)

Now is the time to add your watermark and your text

My font: Duchess, size 72 - FG-color-you light color - BG the gradient

Effects - drop shadow / 1 / 1 / 75 / 0,00 - black

5.)

activate the layer called - animation

Effects - plugins - AlienSkin_Xenofex 2.0 - Constallation

Edit - copy all layers - Open the animationshop - paste as new animation

Go back to PSP - undo Constallation - go back to Constallation - click random seed once

Edit - copy all layers - animationshop - paste after current frame

Repeat this procedure one more time - pasting after each current frame

Edit - select all - set the frame properties to 15 and save your picture as gif.

I hope you liked the tutorial

Sincerely Christa