© by Christa 01.03.2009

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © copyright for this tutorial belongs to me alone

The © for the translation belongs to Marlene

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

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

The © copyright for the material belongs to the individual designer

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Many thanks for letting me use your lovely material

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This tutorial was written with PSP9

 

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Material

Plugins : Here

Alien Skin_Xenofex 2.0_Constellation

Unlimited 2.0_Tronds Filters_Weirdoo Too : Here

entpacken in Unlimited 2.0

Xero / Porcelain XL : Here

Open all your material in PSP

Place the mask into the mask folder – Open the font – minimize

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You may take this little figure    along for your

orientation

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1.)

Open a new canvas 800x 580 px transparent

FG color - #b587bc – light color

BG color - #491943 – dark color

Fill your canvas with the following gradient

Adjust – Gaussian blur 25

 

2.)

New raster layer – fill with your dark color

Effects – Plugins – Unlimited – Trond filter_Weirdo Too

Layer palette – blond mode – soft light

 

3.)

Copy the tube – Museum_Cavern_Matte – paste as new layer

Move it to the top – blend mode – Luminance Legacy

Copy = macha – fleurabeille – 210209 – paste as new layer – leave the tube where it is

Open the tube – B52 – face – transparent_03_09 – Image resize – 65 %

Copy – now close the original – answer no to the change – paste as new layer

Move it to the left –( look at my picture) blend mode – soft light

Now use the eraser with these settings

Erase everything from the wings of the bee

 

4.)

Open the tube – Fun_56FFB09 – Image – resize to 50% - copy – close the original

Paste as new layer – into the upper right hand corner

Effects 3D drop shadow – 5 /5 /65 /15 your dark color

Effects – Plugins – Alien Skin_Xenofex 2.0_ constellation -3-100-3-0-100-75

Chek mark by – Keep original image

 

5.)

New raster layer – fill with the light color

Layers – load mask from disk

Merge group – drop shadow – 1 /1 /65 /1 light color

 

6.)

Copy - MMDesingz_Cr152149 – paste as new layer

Image – resize – 89% - all layers not checked – move to the right hand bottom corner

I also used - digital camera noise removal

Effects -  3D drop shadow – 5 /5 /65 /15 the dark color – repeat shadow -5 /-5

Adjust – Sharpness – sharpen

 

7.)

Now you may add your text or a text brush

My font is – Madisonian – make the first letter size 72 – and the rest size 36

FG color dark – BG color light

Drop shadow – 3 /3 /65 /6 – the dark color

Adjust – Sharpness – high pass sharpen

Now place you watermark and merge all layers visibly

Selection – select all – New raster layer – Effects 3D cutout –( the dark color for shadow color)

Selection – select none – merge all layers

 

8.)

Image – add border - 2 px light color – 2 px dark color – 2 px light color

Now use Xero Porcelain to your liking – my settings are as follows

Now you can save your picture as jpg

 

I hope you had as much fun as I did, making this tutorial

 

Sincerely Christa