© by Christa 08.04.2009

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © copyright belongs to me alone

The © for the translation belongs to Marlene 24.04.2009

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

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

Thank you for all the material, for without it, these pictures would not be possible

thank you Kitty and Inspirational Designs for the tubes.

thank you DeniseWorisch for the Mask

This tutorial was written with PSP 9

 

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Material

Plugins : HIER

Brush Strokes_Angled Strokes : FILTER HIER komplett

Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow

Brush Strokes_Spatter

Xero Porcelain XL

Open all the material – place mask into mask folder – pattern into pattern folder

Gradient into the gradient folder

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You may take this little figure    along for your orientation

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1.)

FG color – white

BG color – a medium color from your tube mine - #b899cb

Open the worksheet from the material “ tut366@christa “

Colorize it to match your main tube

Mine – H : 196 – S : 61

Efects – edge effects – enhance

Effects – Plugin – Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow

2.)

Open the tube “ diamond woman “ copy – paste as new layer  move to the right

Adjust – sharpen

Effects – Plugin – FM Tile Tools_Blend Emboss

Copy “ SpiritDove_Misted – paste as new layer

Move to the left bottom edge – layer move down

Arrange the tube so that it fits into the half circle of the background picture

Blend mode – Multiply – FM Tile Tools – Blend Emboss

Take the eraser – activate the layer with the lady tube – and carefully erase some of the white shadow

( see my picture )

It should look like mine does next to the eye

Merge all layers visible

3.)

New raster layer – fill with the silver pattern

Selection – select all – modify – contract by 10 px – delete – selection invert

Colorize like above

Plugin – Brush Strokes_Angled Strokes

Selection invert – cutout – 0 /0 /100 /35 white – select none

Layers – merge visible

Image resize to 90 % - all layers not checked

4.)

New raster layer – move to last place - fill with following gradient

Adjust - Blur – Gaussian blur 10

Plugin – Brush Strokes_Spatter

Effects – edge effects – enhance more

Activate the merged layer – drop shadow

5 /5 /75 /25 white – repeat with -5 /-5

Effects – Plugin Xero Porcelain XL

5.)

New raster layer – move into first place – fill with the BG color

Layers – load mask from disk

Merge group - drop shadow 1 /1 /75 /1 black

Rename this layer “ Animation “

New raster layer – fill with the silver pattern

Select all – modify – contract by 10 px – delete – selection invert – colorize like above

Plugin – Brush Strokes_Angled Strokes

Select none – apply Xero porcelain XL like above

6.)

Apply the text

Font : Annabelle – size 48 – BG the following gradient, or a matching one to your tube

Effects 3D drop shadow – 1 /1 /75 /1 black – now repeat the shadow as follows

3 /3 /75 /5 a very dark color from your picture

Add your watermark as new layer

7.)

Animation

Activate the layer called animation

Adjust – Add and Remove Noise – add noise

Edit – copy all layers

Open the animation shop – paste as new animation

Back to PSP – undo noise – redo the noise – set to 30

Edit – copy all layers

Back to the animation shop – paste after current frame

Back to PSP – undo noise – redo noise - set to 40

Edit – copy all layers

Back to animation shop – paste after current frame

Edit select all

Save your picture as gif

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial

 

Sincerely Christa