© by Christa 20.03.2009

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © copyright for this tutorial belongs to me alone

The © for the translation belongs to Marlene 21.03.09

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

The © copyright for the material belongs to the individual designer

2 Exclusive tubes from Margit

Thank you for allowing me to use your lovely material

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

1 Maske Jutta– thank you for your 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

Photoshopfun II_ bethanie : HIER

DragonFly_ Sinedot II

Open all you material in PSP

Place the mask into the mask folder – the gold pattern into the pattern folder

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You may take this little figure    along for your orientation

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1.)

Open a new canvas 750x560 px transparent

FG – the gold pattern furnished

BG color - #3f1f37

Fill the canvas with the dark color

Effects – Plugins – Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow – standard settings

Effects – Plugin – Photoshop II_bethanie

Plugins – DragonFly_Sinedot II

Effects 3d – Image effects - Seamless Tiling

2.)

New raster layer – fill with the gold pattern

Layers – load mask from disk

Merge group

Image – resize – 70 % - all layers not checked – Adjust – sharpen

Image – Free Rotate

Move to the right side edge

Effects 3D – drop shadow – 3 /3 /65 /1 – the dark color – repeat with -3 /-3

Tool palette – freehand selection (Lasso) point to point – select the inside of the mask

3.)

Copy MMDesignz_Cr144149 – paste as new layer

Move the tube so that it fits nicely into the mask – selection – invert

Hit the delete button – selection – select none – move the layer below the mask

Mask – merge down

Open MMDesignz_Cr153149 – Image – resize – 70 %

Copy – paste as new layer

Situate it to the left of the mask – layers – duplicate

Activate the original – Adjust – Blur – Gaussian blur 5

Activate the above layer again

4.)

New raster layer – fill with the gold pattern – selection – select all

Selection modify – contract by 4 – hit the delete button – selection – invert

Effects – Artistic Effects_Halftone

Selection – select none

Make raster 1 active – select all – Image – crop to selection

Image – canvas size

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

Use Cross Shadow like above

Selection –select all – modify – contract by 4 – invert

New raster layer – move into first place – fill with the gold pattern

Effects – Artistic Effects – halftone – use like above

Selection – select none

5.)

Copy - gold_decopspimage – paste as new layer

Move this layer above raster 1 – merge down

Activate the top layer again

Copy – gold_deco2pspimage – paste as new layer

If you like you may now add a text

Paste your watermark as new layer

6.)

Animation

Activate raster 1

Effects – Plugins – Alien Skin Xenofex 2.0_Constellation

Edit – copy all layers

Open the Animation shop – paste as new animation

Back to PSP – undo the Constellation

Redo Constellation – click on random seed once

Edit – copy all layers

Back to the animation shop – paste after current frame

Repeat the procedure one more time

In the animation shop – edit – select all – frame properties between 15-20

Then save your picture as gif

I hope you liked the tutorial

 

Sincerely Christa