

© 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
