© by Christa 02.11.2008
translated ©Marlene 15.02.2009

This Tutorial is dedicated to Lady Raven

* Lady Raven...Margit`s * Supermoderator *

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © Copywright for the tutorial is mine alone

The © for the translation belongs to Marlene

the tutorial may not be copied nor offered for download at any other site

The material offered is either from tube exchange groups, or tube sites from the web

The © for the material belongs to the designer alone

2 exclusive tubes from Margit

A special thanks to her for allowing me to use her lovely material.

Should I have unknowingly violated a copyright, please let me know by mail

Thanks for the beautiful material, for without it, these pictures would not be possible

This tutorial was written with PSP 9

 

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Material

Plugins

Xero Porcelain (my version) here

Xero / Improver

Graphics Plus

FM Tile Tools / Blend Emboss

Mura`s Meister Filter / Cloud

1 female tube, 1 background picture, and a deco tube for the right side of the picture

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you may take this little figure with you

with left mouse button depressed, for your orientation

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Open all the material in PSP, copy and close the original

Open a new canvas of 800x620px, transparent

FG color # e0e5e5

BG color # 0b4443

Create the following gradient and fill the canvas

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian - blur 35

New raster layer - selection - select all - copy the jpg into the selection

selection - select none

Adjust - Hue and Saturation - colorize with the H: and S: of the dark color

Open MMDesigns_nov08_003 pspimage / Image - resize - 80% - check mark in all layers.

Activate raster1 of this image (tube)

Layers - load/safe Mask - load Mask from Disk

Merge group - duplicate the layer - layer palette - merge down

duplicate again - merge down (with this tube it was nessesary, if you use your own, it may not be )

Copy, close the original,( answer no to the question if you want to save the changes to the file)

paste as new layer onto your canvas

Adjust - Hue/Saturation - clorize-same settings as above

Effects / plugins / Xero - Improver /10 /10 /10

Open "MMDesignz_Cr050128.pspimage - copy the layer with the tree.

Paste as new layer - Image - mirror - move to the right, a little to the top.

Move this layer below the image of the female tube

Adjust / Hue and saturation / colorize / same settings as above

Copy the layer of the raven - paste as new layer -move it to the lower right hand corner

see example above - make sure that some of the grassy brush is showing

Colorize as above

FM Tile Tools / Blend Emboss / standard / on both layers

Activate the eraser with the following settings

soften the edge on the right hand side of the female tube

Merge all layers

Effects - plugins - Adjust / Variations - let your taste be your guide

Effects - plugins - Xero / Porcelain with these settings ( you can only get these settings if you use my version of Xero )

Download Xero above

Image - add border - 2px - in white - select with the magic wand

fill with a silver pattern

Effects - plugins - Graphics Plus / Cross Shadow - standard / Selections - select none

layers, change to background layer

Image - resize - 90 % - all layers not checked - sharpen

New raster layer - move to last place.

Effects - plugins - Mura`s Meister - Cloud - choose another light color from your picture in the 2. block

use a darker color in the last color block

Effects - edge effect - enhance / now once / enhance more

Now write your text and add your watermark on a new layer

Merge all layers - Image - add border of 2 px in white / select with the magic wand

Fill with the silver pattern

Effects - Graphics Plus / Cross Shadow / use standard - Selection - select none

Edit - copy

Open your Animationshop - and paste as new animation

Duplicate you picture until you have 3 layers - edit - select all

Open the Flonkelster1 ph.mng in the Animationshop

Edit - select all - edit copy - go back to your picture and paste it on the first frame

Do not let go of the Flonkelster until you have it at the right place ( see above )

You can repeat it as often as you like and place the animation where you like

Now you can check your Animation - under - view animation

If you like what you have done, save it as a gif

I hope you had fun with this tutorial

Sincerely Christa