I'm your VENUS

© by Christa 15.03.2009

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © copyright for this tutorial belongs to me alone

The © for the translation belongs to Marlene 15.03.2009

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

The material used, comes from tube exchange groups, or tube sites from the web

My Thanks to all the designers of said material

The © copyright for the material belongs to the individual designer

1Exclusive tube from Margit

Thank you so much for letting me use your lovely material

Should I have, unknowingly, violated any copyright, I ask that you notify me via Email

1 Tube thank you Emma + Coline for the Tubes

Juttathank you for the super masks

This tutorial was written with PSP 9

 

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Material

Plugins : HIER

Alien Skin_Xenofex 2.0_Constellation

Graphics Plus _ Cross Shadow

Open all the material in PSP – open the mask tde_38 and minimize

Place the other 2 masks into the mask folder

Copy the selection into your selection folder

The gradients, place into the gradient folder

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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

For the FG use a Gradient

BG color – a dark color – mine is #6e0d06

Fill the canvas with your dark color

Effects – Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow

2.)

New raster layer – fill with the following gradient

Layers – load mask from disk

Merge group

Effects – Image effects – Seamless Tiling

3.)

New raster layer – fill with the gradient – invert not checked

Layers – New mask layer from image

Merge group

Effects 3d drop shadow – 1 /1 /65 /0 – black

Selection – load selection from disk

New raster layer – move under the mask layer

Copy “tube fille  no 512” – paste into the selection

Adjust – Sharpness – sharpen – selection – select none

Activate the top layer – merge down

4.)

Copy the tube “ rose1_emma_080309 – paste as new layer

Move it to the right top ( see screen )

Blend mode – soft light

Effects 3D – drop shadow 1 /1 /65 /0 – black – repeat with -1 /-1

5.)

Open tube MMDesignz_Cr167149

Image – resize 80 % - paste as new layer

Sharpen – move to the left side

New raster layer – fill with following gradient

Blend mode – soft light

Merge visible

Image – resize 90 % - all layer not checked

New raster layer – move to last place – fill with the dark color

Cross Shadow – use like above

Activate the merged layer

Selection – select all – selection float – selection defloat

New raster layer – Effects 3D – cutout

New raster layer – repeat cutout with -4 /-4 – selection – none

6.)

Merge all layers – new raster layer – fill with the last gradient from point 5

Layers – load mask from disk

Merge group – drop shadow – 1 /1 /35 /0 – black

Copy the text from the material – paste as new layer

Move it to the bottom right – drop shadow

1 /1 /65 /0 my color #2ed000

Add your watermark – and if you wish you may now resize your picture

If you make it smaller – don`t forget to sharpen

7.)

Animation

Activate the mask layer – effects Plugins Alien Skin Xenofex2.0_constellation

Edit – copy all layers

Open the animation shop – paste as new animation

Back to PSP – undo Constellation

Redo Constellation – click on random seed once

Edit copy all layers – back to the animation shop

Paste after current layer

Repeat this procedure one more time

In the animation shop – edit – select all – frame properties 15

Now you may save your picture as gif

Here is an example of the tut without animation

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial

 

Sincerely Christa