© by Christa 05.02.2009

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © copyright for this tutorial belongs to me alone

The © for the translation belongs to Marlene 13.03.2009

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The © copyright for the material belongs to the individual designer

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This tutorial was written with PSP9

 

 

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Material

Plugins : HIER

Alien Skin_Xenofex 2.0_Constellation

Graphics Plus _ Cross Shadow

Unlimited 2.0_Tronds Filters_Star1

Unlimited 2.0_VM Toolbox_Tiler

Open all the material in PSP

Place the masks 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 700x580 px transparent

Select a light FG color – mine is #c4acda

And a dark BG color – mine is #64487e

Create the following gradient

Adjust – blur – Gaussian blur – 20

2.)

Effects – plugins_Unlimited 2.0_Trond Filters_ Star1

Effects – edge effects – enhance more

Effects Plugins_unlimited 2.0_VM Toobox_Tiler

Effects Plugins_ Graphics Plus_Cross shadow – intensity 52

3.)

Layers – load mask from disk

Merge group – Image – resize 80 % - all layers not checked

Move it a little to the right

4.)

Open the tube MMDesignz_Cr105149 – Image resize – 85 %

Copy – paste a new layer – move a little up and to the left – blend mode – lighten

New raster layer – fill with the dark color

Layers – load mask from disk

Merge group – effects 3D – drop shadow – 2 /-2 /100 /0 black

5.)

Open MMDesignz_Cr162149 – copy – paste as new layer

Move it to the right edge

Copy the butterfly – paste as new layer – place it on her hand

You might have to colorize to match your color

Now add your text – Font Coventry Garden

The first letter size 72 – the following size 36 – FG color the gradient – BG color the dark color

Effects 3D – drop shadow – 2 /-2 /85 /0 black

Add your watermark on a new layer

6.)

Activate raster 1 – Selection – select all – selection contract by 2 px

Selection invert – New raster layer – move to first place

Fill with the gradient ( repeats set at 7 )

Apply Cross Shadow as above

Effects 3D – inner bevel

Selection – select none – Activate raster 1 again

7.)

Effects plugins – Alien Skin_Xenofex 2.0_Constellation

Edit – copy all layers

Open the Animation shop – paste as new Animation

Return to PSP – undo Constellation – redo constellation click on random seed once

Edit copy all layers

Go back 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

You may now save your picture as gif

 

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial

 

Sincerely Christa