© by Christa 27.03.2009

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © copy right for this tutorial belongs to me alone

The © for the translation belongs to Marlene 28.03.2009

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

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

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

Thanks Emma and Chani for the tubes..

This tutorial was written with PSP9

 

 

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Material

Plugins : HIER

Xero Porcelain XL: HIER

Fantastic Machines_Paint Engine

Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow

Copy the masks into the mask folder

The textbrush – export into to custom Brush

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You may take this little figure    along for your orientation

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1.)

Open a new canvas 750 x 580 px, transparent

Select a light FG color from your tube – mine is - #d5739b

And a dark BG color – mine is #341115

Fill your canvas with white – Effects – Plugins – Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow

Adjust – Hue and Saturation – colorize

The values of the light color ( I tend to set it a little lower than given by the index )

Effects Texture Effects – Mosaic Antique

2.)

New raster layer – select the standard brush – and find the brush that you exported

Apply with  your FG color – upper right – 2-3 times onto your picture

Copy “ fleur.couplle. – paste as new layer

Image – resize – 80 % - all layers not checked

Image – mirror – move it down to the lower right

Adjust – sharpen – Blend mode – hard light – colorize like above

Effects 3D drop shadow -2 /2 /65 /1 using the dark color

3.)

New raster layer – activate the custom brush again

Apply twice at the same height on the left side of the tube (see my picture )

Again with the light color

Open the tube “ essai.pspimage – make a copy and close the original

Copy – Image – resize 80 % - activate the tube layer

Layers - load mask from disk

Merge group – copy – paste as new layer

Move it to the left side in your picture – layers – duplicate – merge down

Adjust – sharpen

Layers, merge visible

Effects – Plugins – Xero Porcelain XL

4.)

Layers – load mask from disk

Merge group – new raster layer – move to last place

Fill with the light color – use Cross Shadow – like above

Layers merge visible

New raster layer – fill with following gradient

Selection – select all – modify – contract by 5 px – delete – selection invert

Apply Cross Shadow – select none

Layers merge visible

5.)

Image – resize to 90 % - all layers not checked – sharpen

New raster layer – move to last place – fill with the gradient

Adjust – Blur – Gaussian blur 25

Effects – Plugins –Fantastic machines_Paint Engine

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

Apply Cross Shadow – layers – load mask from disk

Merge group – Image resize – 95 % all layers not checked

Activate the raster reform tool

Match the mask to the middle picture – it should be exactly over the picture

Effects 3D drop shadow 2 /2 /65 /1 the light color – repeat with -2 /-2

Now add your text and your watermark

Font : Mon Amour Script Pro – size  30

FG the gradient – BG the dark color – write the word separate

Layers – convert to raster layer – drop shadow 1 /1 /65 /1 the light color

I arranged the words to my liking and merged them down

Effects – inner bevel

Adjust sharpen

Merge all layers

Add a border of 7 px in the dark color – save your picture as jpg

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial

Sincerely Christa