© by Christa 17.02.2009

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © copyright for the tutorial is mine alone

The © for the translation belongs to Marlene 21.02.2009

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

The material offered, comes from tube exchange groups, and tube sites from the web

The © for the material belongs to the designer

2 Exclusive tubes from Margit

Thank you for allowing me to use your lovely material

Should I have, unknowingly, violated a copyright, I ask that you send me a mail

Thank you Guismo for the tubs

The tutorial was written with PSP9

 

 

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Material

Plugins : Here

Xero Porcelain XL : Here

Open all the material in PSP

Copy the gradient into the gradient folder

Place the mask into the mask folder

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You may take this little    figure along for your

orientation

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1.)

Open a new canvas 750x580 px, transparent

Fill with the gradient, or one of your own matching your tubes

Adjust - blur - Gaussian - blur - 35

2.)

New raster layer - fill with a dark color from your tubes - mine is - #400808

Layers - load mask from disk - find mask / nik-matter

Merge group

3.)

Copy - " calguismistep 1529 psp image " - paste as new layer - move it to the top edge

Copy MMcreation_003140_women psp image - paste as new layer

move it to the top right hand corner - set the opacity 24 % in the layer palette

Copy- "MMcreations_005149 woman psp image - paste as new image

move it to the bottom right

Effects - plugins - Xero Porcelain XL

Adjust - sharpness - sharpen

Merge all layers

4.)

Image - add border- 1 px in black - then 2 px in your dark color - select with the magic wand

fill with gradient with these settings

Effects - artistic effects - halftone

Selection - select none

5.)

Duplicate the image - resize to 90 % - all layers not checked

Adjust - sharpness - sharpen

Activate the original layer - selection - select all - modify - contract by 3 px

New raster layer - fill again with the gradient as above

Effects - plugins_Alf`s Border FX - Border Fade II

selection - select none

New raster layer - move to the top - export the text brush ~ sexy~funky~cool, into your custom brushes

find the brush and apply once - bottom right - using the gradient

Effects 3D - drop shadow - 1 / 1 /65 / 2 - using your dark color

Effects 3D - inner bevel -

Now add your water mark and save as jpg

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial

Sincerely Christa