© by Christa 25.03.2009

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © copyright for this tutorial belongs to me alone

The © for the translation belongs to Marlene 27-03-2009

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

The © copyright for the material belongs to the individual designer

1 Exclusive tube from Margit

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

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

thanks to Juttafor 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

Xero Porcelain XL : HIER

Photo Effex _ Scanlines : HIER

FM Tile Tools

Open all the material in PSP

Place the silver pattern into the pattern folder and the masks 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 720 x 630 px transparent

FG color - #f6e3e2 – BG color - #ad6e6d

Fill your canvas with the dark color

Effects – Plugin – Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow

Layer – duplicate – Image – resize

Selection – select all – selection float – selection defloat

Effects – Texture effects – Mosaic Antique

Keep the selection

2.)

New raster layer – fill with the following gradient

Layers – load mask from disk

Merge group

Effects – plugins – FM Tile Tools_Blend Emboss – use standard settings

Selection Modify – selection border

New raster layer – fill with the dark color – New raster layer

Fill with the silver pattern

Blend mode – Luminance Legacy – Adjust – sharpen – layer merge down

Effects 3D inner bevel

Effects 3D – drop shadow – 3 /3 /75 /10 black – repeat with -3 /-3

Select none – make this layer invisible – activate the layer with the mask

3.)

Open the jpg picture in PSP

Layers – load mask from disk

Merge group – copy – paste as new layer – move to the left middle

Effects 3D drop shadow -3 /3 /75 /1 black

Effects – Plugins - Xero Porcelain XL

4.)

Open the tube MMDesignz_Cr177159 – Image resize – 70 %

Copy – paste as new layer – move to the right side of your picture

Layer move down in the layer palette (see my picture )

Activate the selection tool – rectangle – select the middle part of the decreased layer

Selection invert – make sure tube layer is active – delete – select none

Use Xero Porcelain with the same settings as above

Drop shadow 1 /1 /65 /10 black

Activate the first layer in the layer palette

5.)

New raster layer – selection – select all – modify – contract by 4

Fill with the gradient – use cross shadow like above

Layers – load mask from disk

Merge group – call this layer  “Animation “

Effects Plugins – Photo Effex_Scanlines

Selection  - invert – new raster layer – fill with the silver pattern

Blend mode – Luminance Legacy – sharpen – use inner bevel as above

Select none

Effects 3d drop shadow 1 /1 /65 / 5 black – repeat with -1 /-1

Activate the layer called Animation – drop shadow 1 /1 /45 / 1 black

Repeat with -1 /-1

Xero Porcelain – use as above 2 times

Now you can make the border layer visible again

Make sure the layer is in first place – activate

Copy from the material “buttons psp image – paste as new layer

You might have to colorize them

6.)

Now write your text

Font : BuenaScript SSK – size 36

Use both of your colors – FG and BG

Drop Shadow -1 /1 /75 /1 black

Use inner bevel like above and Xero Porcelain

Add you watermark

7.)

Animation

Activate the layer called Animation

Effects – Alien Skin Xenofex 2.0_constellation

Edit – copy all layers

Open the animation shop – paste as new animation

Go back to PSP – undo Constellation

Redo constellation – click on random seed once

Edit – copy all layers

Back to the animation shop – paste after current frame

Repeat this procedure one more time

In the animation shop

Edit – select all – frame properties 15

You can now save your picture as gif

 

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial

Sincerely Christa