© by Christa 29.03.2009

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © copyright for this tutorial belongs to me alone

The © for the translation belongs to Marlene 30.03.09

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 each individual designer

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

My thanks for the lovely material, for without it these pictures would not be possible

thank you Macha for the Tubes...

thank you Sharlimarfor the super mask

And to      for the Wordart

This tutorial was written with PSP 9

 

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Material

Plugins : HIER

AlienSkin Xenofex 2.0/ Constellation

Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow

DCspecial - TileBlendRough

Open all the material in PSP

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You may take this little figure    along for your orientation

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1.)

Open a new canvas 700 x 600 px transparent

Fill the canvas with white

Effects – plugins – Grapics Plus_Cross Shadow

Effects – Texture effects – Mosaic Antique

Colorize with the values of a dark color derived from you tube

Mine are

Hue – 250 and Saturation – 138

2.)

New raster layer – fill with the dark color – mine is #912b37

Apply Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow like above

Layers – new mask layer from image

Merge group

3.)

Copy your face tube – mine is macha_stylemadonna-060309

Paste as new layer – move into the middle of the mask

Take the eraser, and erase every thing of the tube, that is visible on the upper part of the mask

When you are satisfied – merge the layer down

Activate raster 1 – select all – modify – contract by 15 px

Activate the merged layer

Effects – plugins – Dcspecial_TileBlenRough

Selection – invert

Creater the following gradient – FG color White – BG color your dark color

Fill the layer

Effects 3D – inner bevel

Selection – invert – Effects 3D – cutout

0 /0 /100 /36 – black

Select none

4.)

Open the tube “ s233t2 – colorize with the selected values

Copy –paste as new layer – move it under the border at the upper edge, and to the right

See my picture

Effects 3D drop shadow 2 /2 /65 /10 black

Copy the text, included in the material, or use your own

Paste as new layer – select all – selection float – defloat – fill with the gradient

Effects 3D drop shadow – 2 /2 /65 /4 the dark color – repeat with -2 /-2

Select none

Add your watermark to your picture

5.)

Activate the group raster – get the freehand selection tool – Lasso – point to point

Select the face of the tube – about like this

Selection – invert

Effects – Plugins – Alien Skin Xenofex 2.0 Constellation

Selection – select none

Edit – copy all layers

Open the animation shop – paste as new animation

Back to PSP – undo select none – undo constellation

Redo constellation – click on random seed once

Select none

Edit – copy all layers

Back to the animation shop – paste after current frame

Back to PSP – undo select none – undo constellation

Redo Constellation – click on random seed once

Select none

Edit – copy all layers

Back to the animation shop – paste after current frame

Edit – select all – frame properties 25

You now save your picture as gif

 

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial

Sincerely Christa