© by Christa 30.01.2009

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © copyright for this tutorial is mine alone

The © for the translation belongs to Marlene 20.02.2009

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

The material offered comes from tube groups, or tube sites from the web

The © copyright belongs to the individual designer

1 Exclusive tube from Margit

I want to thank her for the lovely material

Should I have, unknowingly, violated any copyright, I ask that you let me know via E-mail

This tutorial was written with PSP9

 

 

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Material

Plugins: Here

Grphics Plus_Cross Shadow

AlienSkin_Xenofex 2.0_ Constellation

Open all your material in PSP, place the masks into the mask file

Font used : DJB My Dear Marsha – open and minimize

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You may take this little figure    along for your

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1.)

Open file “ hg@christapspimage – this will be your canvas

Find a fitting female tube – extract a light color for the FG and a dark one foe the BG

Now color the canvas to match your tube

2.)

Open the body tube – colombe – copy – paste as new layer, move to the right of your canvas

Colorize with the H and S of your light color

Mine is H : 196 – S : 156

Layer palette – opacity 28 %

3.)

New raster layer – fill with your dark color

Layers – load mask from disk – find Vix_mask217

Merge group

Effects – Plugins – Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow

Effects 3D – drop shadow - 1 / 1/ 80 / 0 – using your light color

Move the mask up bit and a little to the right – Sharpness – sharpen – rename the layer “mask “

4.)

Open MMDesignz_Cr066139 – copy the layer – Gruppe Kopie – copy and paste as new layer

Image mirror – move to the left of your canvas

I duplicated the tube once and merged it down

Now take the eraser, size 80 and erase anything from the face of the tube that should not be there

5.)

Copy the tube roses – paste as new layer -  move to the lower left hand corner

Colorize to match your color – Adjust – Sharpness – sharpen

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

This insures clean and straight edges

Selection – select all – Image – canvas size

New raster layer – Cutout

Repeat with  -7 / -7

Selection – select none

6.)

New raster layer – move to last place – fill with gradient – linear 45 – repeats 5- invert checked

Adjust – blur – Gaussian – blur – 35

Effects – texture effects – Mosaic Glass

Effects – Plugins – Cross Shadow

7.)

New raster layer, move to first place and fill with your dark color

Layer – load mask from disk - +NKMASK31

Merge group

Selection – select all – fill with you light color – Selection modify – contract by 5 px

Hit the delete button once – selection invert – apply Cross Shadow like above

Effects 3D – inner bevel

 

Selection – select none

8.)

Now make the layer called “ mask “ active

Write your text – I wrote every word single – Font :  DJB MY DEAR MARSHA – SIZE 36

Effects – drop shadow  1 / 1/ 80 / 0 using your dark color

Move the word into the triangle of the mask – now merge down 3 times, so that the text is fused with the mask

Now add your watermark

Activate the mask layer again

Effects – Plugins Alien Skin_ Xenofex_ Constallation

Edit copy all layers

Open animationshop – paste as new animation

Back to PSP undo Constallation – redo it click on random seed once – back to the animationshop

Paste after current frame

Repeat this step one more time – then go to Edit – select all – frame properties 20

Save your Animation as gif

I hope you liked the tutorial

Sincerely Christa