© by Christa 24.01.2009

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © copyright for this tutorial belongs to me alone

The © for the translation belongs to Marlene 27.03.09

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

The material used comes from tube exchange groups, or tube sites from the web

The © copyright for the material belongs to the individual designer

1 Exclusive tube from Margit

My special thanks to her for allowing me to use her material.

Should I have, unknowingly, violated any copyright, I ask that you notify me via Email

 

This tutorial was written with PSP9

 

 

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Material

Plugins

Xero Porcelain XL : HIER

Graphics Plus Cross Shadow

Textur te38 – place into to your texture folder

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You may take this little figure    along for your orientation

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1.)

Open a new canvas 800x600 px transparent

Create the following  gradient, using these two colors

FG color #e8bf6d – BG color #823e11

Adjust  - Blur  - Gaussian blur – 30

Effects – Texture effects – Texture

2.)

Copy MMDesignz_Cr074139 – paste as new layer – leave as is – Opacity 84 %

Blend mode – Luminance Legacy

3.)

Copy MMDesignz_Cr076139 – paste as new layer - move to the right

( see my picture )

4.)

Copy MMDesignz_Cr072139 – paste as new layer

Move it to the left and a little bit up

Blend mode – hard light

Now take the eraser – with the following settings

Erase parts of the building from the torso of the lady

Make sure you have raster 2 active when you erase ( see print)

Once you have done so, it should look like this

Now activate your top layer again

5.)

Copy “ freedom_bird_cage_mar – paste as new layer

Hang onto the tree – behind the left tube

Open the tube “ V-BlackSwans Resting – Image resize – 65 % - all layers not checked

Copy –close the original – answer no to question if you want to leave the tube as is

Paste as new layer – move to the bottom left

Blend mode – Luminance Legacy – sharpen

Merge all layers

Effects – Plugins Xero Porcelain XL ( you may chose your own settings )

My example looks like this

6.)

Image add border 2 px in the dark color

Layers – duplicate – Image resize – 90 % smart size – all layers not checked – sharpen

Activate the original layer – selection – select all – selection modify

Contract by 2 px – use Gaussian blur 30

Effects Texture effects – Texture

Effects – edge effects enhance

Effects – Plugins – Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow

Selection – select none

7.)

Move the copy somewhat to the right of your canvas

Effects 3D – drop shadow 2 /2 /75 /10 black – repeat with -2 /-2

Copy the butterflies from the material folder – paste as new layer – move top right

Blend mode – hard light

Drop shadow 2 /2 /75 /0 black

Copy “ Stitches “ from the material folder – paste as new layer

Move to left edge as shown

Colorize with a matching color from your picture

Mine values are

Drop shadow – same settings as the last ones above

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Now open the scrap folder, that is included in the material

Select the letters for your text

Resize the letters by 15 % and paste them as new layers

Place them on the left side of the stitches, from top to bottom

When you have your text, make all layers, except the text layers, invisible

Merge the text layer visible

Again drop shadow as above

Blend mode – hard light

Don’t forget your watermark – save as jpg

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial

Sincerely Christa