© by Christa 10.04.2009

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © copyright belongs to me alone

The © for the translation belongs to Marlene 25.04.2009

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 Guismo and

and DeniseWorisch for the Tubes...

This tutorial was written with PSP9

 

 

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Material

Plugins : HIER

AlienSkin Xenofex 2.0/ Constellation

Impressionist : HIER

Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow

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

Font : open and minimize

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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

Light FG color - #dcb4e8

Dark BG color - #451553

Layer – fill with the dark color – Plugin – Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow

Effects – Plugin – Impressionist

2.)

New raster layer – fill with the light color

Apply CrossShadow – set the intensity to 20

Layers – load mask from disk

Merge group

3.)

Open the tube “ cal_guis_par_ghi_4 – Image resize to 90 %

Copy – paste as new layer – move it to the left edge – Adjust – sharpen

Adjust – Brightness and Contrast – clarify set at 4 – apply twice

4.)

Open “ flores2dworisch007 – Image resize to 85 % - copy

Paste as new layer – move to the bottom right

Adjust – Hue and Saturation – colorize

H : 203 – S : 152

Effects 3D drop shadow – 1 /1 /75 /3 your dark color - #451553

5.)

Open the tube “ Malvi703 – Image resize to 90 % - copy

Paste as new layer – move to the upper right hand corner

See my picture – all the way to the right edge – sharpen

Move that layer down by one – above the lady

Colorize like above – rename the layer “ Animation “

6.)

Activate raster 1 – select all – Image – crop to selection

Select all – Image – Canvas size

Selection invert – new raster layer – move to first place

Fill with following gradient

Apply Cross Shadow – standard – 128 /128 – repeat – selection invert

Effects 3D – cutout – 0 /0 /100 /35 the dark color – select none

Activate raster 1 again

7.)

Image – canvas size

New raster layer – move into last place – fill with the light color

Apply Cross Shadow – set intensity to 51

Plugin_Impressionist – use as above

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

Cross Shadow – standard

Layers – load mask from disk

Merge group – Layer – duplicate – Image resize to 95 %

All layers not checked – layer move down

Now write your text – layer in first place

Font : Calligraphie – write “ a special “ size 26 – then write KISS – size 48

Convert to raster layer – merge the text layers into one layer

Effects 3D drop shadow – 4 /4 /75 /3 the dark color as shadow color

Apply Cross Shadow – standard – and add your watermark

8.)

Activate the layer called “ Animation “

Effects – Plugin – Xenofex 2.0_Constellation

Edit – copy all layers

Open the animation shop – paste as new animation

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

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

Edit - select all – set the frame properties to 15

Now save your picture as gif

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial

 

Sincerely Christa