© by Christa 18.03.2009

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © copyright for this tutorial belongs to me alone

The © for the translation belongs to Marlene 20.03.2009

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

The material offered 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

My special thanks to her for letting me use her lovely material

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

1 Exclusiv Tube thank you Severine

1 Tube thank you DeniseWorisch

Maske thank you Cameron

This tutorial was written with PSP9

 

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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 font and minimize

Place the gradient into the gradient folder and the mask into the mask folder

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You may take this little figure    along for your orientation

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PUNKT : 1

1.)

Open a new canvas 800x580 – transparent

In the FG position – place the gradient bhw22

Adjust – Blur – Gaussian  blur – 25

Effects – Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow

2.)

New raster layer – open the pattern LWood in PSP

Find the pattern in the material palette

Fill the layer – Blend mode – hard light

Deactivate this layer – back to layer 1

Open and copy_calguislouvre41208 – paste as new layer

Blend mode – hard light

Activate the tool Lasso – Point to Point - select the area as shown in the screen

Duplicate this layer 2x – stay on the last copy

Efeects Plugins – Alien Skin Xenofex 2.0_Constellation

Make this layer invisible – activate the next layer – repeat Constellation

Click on random seed once – make this layer invisible

Now repeat this on the original layer – click on random seed

Leave this layer open – selection – select none

3.)

Activate the second copy with the eye closed – work from here

Open the tube “ 1477dwtubes

You will see a selection that I have made

This area has to be deleted once we are on the canvas

Selection  - select none – copy paste as new layer

Move to the bottom left

Now select the area on the tube with the lasso – point to point – delete – select none

Or you might want to use the eraser like I do most of the time

Blend mode – hard light

4.)

Open the tube MMDesignz_Cr166149 – Image – resize – 80 %

Copy – paste as new layer – move to the right bottom, and a little over the edge

Adjust – Sharpness – sharpen

Activate in your Tool Palette the symbol “ Change to Target “

With these settings

Now color the well with the brush until it is all one color

It should look like this

Now you may still have, next to the hand, a piece of the well, it bothered me, so I removed it

This is up to you

Adjust – Fill Flash Filter – use following setting

 

Effects 3D drop shadow – 2 /2 /65 /15 – black

5.)

Now activate raster 2 – make sure the eye is unblocked

This layer should be in first place in the layer palette

New raster layer – fill with the flowing gradient

Layers – load mask from disk

Merge group – Image resize

Drop shadow – 2 /2 /65 /5 – black

Effects 3D – inner bevel (select a matching color from your picture )

6.)

Activate raster 1 – selection – select all – selection modify – contract by 5 px

Selection – invert – new raster layer – move it to first place

Fill with the last used gradient

Plugins – Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow – use standard settings

Inner bevel – like above – selection – select none

Now activate the text tool and use the font shown

FG color #ebbe44

BG color  - the last used gradient

All letter size 48, except “ de “ this make size 30

Drop Shadow – 2 /2 /65 /5 – black

Inner bevel

6 /3 /3 /1 /2 /315 /50 /30 – color – white

7.)

Animation

Keep the eyes of the 2 duplicated layers locked – open only the

Original layer – Edit – copy all layers

Open the animation shop – paste as new animation

Back to PSP – make this layer invisible – open the eye of the next layer

Copy like above – in the animation shop – paste after current layer

Back to PSP – close the eye of this layer – open and activate the next one

Back to the animation shop – paste after current layer

Edit select all –save your picture as gif

 

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial

 

Sincerely Christa