© by Christa 05.02.2009

This tutorial was written and designed by me

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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

Plugins - Photo Effex Scanlines: HIER

Open all the material in PSP

Place the gradient into the gradient folder – 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 the layer with this gradient

Adjust – blur – Gaussian blur – 40

Effects – art Media Effects – brush strokes

2.)

Copy the couples tube – paste as new layer

I resized mine to 70 % - sharpen

Move it to the left upper corner

Opacity – 38 % - blend mode – hard light

3.)

New raster layer – fill with the dark color – mine is #85256a

Layers – load mask from disk

Merge group

4.)

Copy  a laying down ladies tube, mine – Christin_Chr.015229

Copy raster 2 – paste as new layer – move it a little down to the edge

Just check my picture to see where to place it

Activate raster 1

Effects – Reflection – effects – Rotating Mirror – use the dark color

Take the magic wand – tolerance and feather 0 – click into both dark corner of your picture

Effects Plugins – Photo Effex_Scan Lines

Effects 3D – drop shadow - -2 /-2 /85 /10 using the light color #c4acda

Selection – select none

Activate the first layer

5.)

Copy from my material both parts of the bow – paste as new layer

Place it to the right, like shown in my picture

Colorize with the H - S of the dark color

Merge the top layer (bow) down

Effects 3D – drop shadow 2 /2 /85 /10 the dark color – repeat with -2 /-2

Activate raster 1 – selection – select all – Image – crop to selection

Selection – select all – selection Modify – contract by 20 – selection invert

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

Change the repeats in the  gradient to 1

Effects – Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow – intensity 50

Selection – invert – Effects 3D – cutout

0 /0 /100 /35 – color  #c4acda

Selection – select none

6.)

 

Copy the “ Randpspimage” paste as new layer

You might have to colorize with the H and S values of your color

Drop shadow – 1 /1 /85 /3 black

Now add the deco to the left hand corner

Add your text

My font : Bridgenorth, the first letter size 48, the rest size 26

Place the gradient as BG color, with the repeats set at 6

Drop shadow as above and add your watermark

7.)

Activate the mask layer

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

Return to the animation shop – paste after current frame

Repeat this procedure one more time

Ending in the animation shop – Edit – select all

Set your frame properties between 15-20

Now you can save your picture as gif

 

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial

 

Sincerely Christa