© by Christa 08.03.2009

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © copyright for this tutorial belongs to me alone

The © for the translation belongs to Marlene 09.03.2009

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

The material used here 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

Thank you so much for allowing me to use your 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 : HIER

Alien Skin_Xenofex 2.0_Constellation

Graphics Plus _ Cross Shadow

L&K Zitah

DragonFly Sinedots II

Xero Porcelain XL : HIER

Open all material in PSP – place the mask into the mask folder

Place the gradient into the gradient 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  800x600 px transparent

Fill the layer with black

Effects L & K_Zitah

Effects – plugins – DragonFly_Sinedot II – color used by me #d37575

You have to chose a matching one to your tube

Effects – Reflection Effects – Rotating Mirror

Now repeat Zitah with these settings

2.)

New raster layer – fill with the following gradient – or use one of your own

Layers – load mask from disk

Merge group – Effects – edge effects – enhance

3.)

Open the woman tube – Image resize – 80 % - copy – paste as new layer

Place it a little to the right like my picture – sharpen

Effects 3D – drop shadow 3 /3 /75 /25 / dark color from tube – mine is #b71e29

Repeat the shadow with -3 /-3

Effects – Xero Porcelain XL

4.)

Copy from the material a star – paste as new layer – Image resize

65 % all layers not checked – place it a little to the left and to the top edge

To the left of the tube

Orient it according to my picture – you might have to colorize it with a matching color

Layer duplicate – resize to 65 % - allayers not checked

Move it close to the first star – a little offset

Layer – duplicate - Image resize – 65 % - all layers not checked

Move it next to the second star – make sure you like the  way it looks

Now merge the layer down twice  - adjust – sharpen

5.)

With the magic wand click into the first large star – make sure all of the star is selected

Open the tube again – with the selection tool – rectangle – mark a small spot of the eye

Copy – new raster layer – move this layer down – paste into selection

Adjust – sharpen more – selection – select none

Now repeat this with the other stars, each time select a different part of your tube

It is not necessary to make a new layer each time

When you filled all the stars – merge the layers down til you have one layer of stars

Effects 3D – drop shadow – 3 /3 /75 /5 the same color as above

Duplicate this layer – Image mirror – merge down

6.)

Activate raster one – selection – select all – Image – crop to selection

Selection – select all

Image – resize – 90 % - all layers not checked

New raster layer – move into last place – fill with the gradient

Effects – Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow – standard settings

Selection – modify – contract by 4 px – selection invert – new raster layer

Move to first place – fill with black – selection – select none

7.)

Now add you text

Font : Dragowick size 36

FG color - #b71e29

BG color – the gradient

Effects 3D – drop Shadow – 1 /1 /75 /1 – white

Add your watermark on a new layer

8.)

Animation

Activate Raster 1

Effects – plugins – Alien Skin_Xenofex 2.0_Constellation

Edit – copy all layers

Open the animation shop – paste as new animation

Go back to PSP – undo Constellation – redo Constellation – click random seed once

Edit – copy all layers

Return to the animation shop – paste after current frame

Repeat this procedure one more time – ending in the animation shop

Edit – select all – set the frame properties to 15

Now you may save your picture as gif

I hope you liked the tutorial

 

Sincerely Christa

 

Ich hoffe euch hat das Tutorial gefallen.

 

 

LG Christa