© by Christa 15.02.2009

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © copyright belongs to me alone

the © for the translation belongs to Marlene

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

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

The © for the material belongs to the individual designer

Should I have, unknowingly, violated any copyright, please send me a mail

Many thanks for the lovely material, for without it these pictures would not be possible

Thank you ©Nafas@pixelio.de + Sischu for tubes

This tutorial was written with PSP9

 

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Material

Plugins : here

AlienSkin Xenofex 2.0/ Constellation

VM Toolbox_Instant Tile

Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow

Xero Improver

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You may take this little    figure along for your

orientation

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Open all material in PSP, open the font and minimize

FG color ( light color ) mine - # c49280

BG color ( dark color ) mine - # 5f322f

1.)

Open a new canvas 650x450px transparent

fill with your dark color

Effects - plugins - Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow

2.)

New raster layer - fill with your light color

Layers - new mask layer - from image

Merge group - adjust - sharpness - sharpen

Effect - Reflection effects - rotating mirror

3.)

Copy the face tube " eve119.pspimage - paste as new layer

Move to the right - you may have to adjust the size a bit

Effects - plugins - Xero Improver

Open the tube "carneval_14292_Tbs.psp - Image - resize 80 %

copy - paste as new layer - move to the left of your picture ( slightly down )

Adjust - Hue and Saturation - colorize - with the H + S of your light color

Adjust - Sharpness - sharpen /place the copyright on this one

4.)

Make raster 1 active

Selection - select all - Image - crop to selection ( to insure a clean image)

Selection - select all - new raster layer ( move to the top )

Effects 3D - cut out - ( color - a dark one from you image )

Activate raster one again

Image - canvas size

Selection - modify - selection borders

New raster layer - move to the top

Fill with your dark color - new raster layer - fill with a gold pattern

Layer palette - luminance legacy - Adjust - sharpness - sharpen more

layer- - merge down

Effects - artistic effects - halftone

Effects - 3D - inner bevel

Selection - select none

5.)

New raster layer - move to last place and fill with following gradient

 

Use Graphics Plus with the standard settings ( all numbers are 50 except the last 2, the are 128 )

effects - plugins - VM Toolbox_Instant tile

Selection - select all - selection modify - contract by 6 px - selection invert

New raster layer - fill with the gold pattern - layer palette - luminance legacy

Adjust - sharpness - sharpen more / layer merge down

Now repeat the halftone and the inner bevel - selection - select none

6.)

Now you may add your text - my font is - Heisse Schokolade - size 48

Move the gradient into the BG solor spot - your FG color stays the same for the text

Effects - 3D - drop shadow / -3 / 3 / 85 / 5 / using your dark color / now add your watermark

7.)

Animation

Activate group raster 2 ( the mask layer )

Effects - plugins_AlienSkin_Xenofex 2.0_Constallation

Edit copy - all layers - open Animationshop - paste as new animation

Go back to PSP - undo -Constallation - repeat - Constallation - click on random seed once

copy all layers and in animationshop paste after current frame

Repeat this step one more time

Edit - select all - set the frame properties at 15

Now save your image as gif

I hope you like the tutorial

Sincerely Christa