© by Christa 09.10.2008

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © copyright for this tutorial belongs to me alone 

The © for the translation belongs to Marlene 03.04.2009

This tutorial may neither be copied, nor offered for download, at any other site

The material used here, 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

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

thank you Emma and Nurso53 for the Tubes.

Thank you Juttafor the masks

This tutorial was written with PSP 9

 

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Material

Plugins : HIER

AlienSkin Xenofex 2.0/ Constellation

Photoshopfun II_Bud : HIER

Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow

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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 580 px transparent

FG color, a light color, mine #f6da17

BG color, a dark color, mine #671d77

Layers – fill with the light color

Plugins – Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow

Effects – Plugin – Photoshopfun II_Bud

2.)

New raster layer – fill with the dark color – use cross Shadow like above

Layers load mask from disk

Merge group

Open “ NS_278_0309 – Image – resize to 70 %

Copy paste as new layer – move onto the bottom of the mask

Like this

Layers – duplicate – activate the original – Effects – Texture Effects – Mosaic Antique

Activate the tube – apply the mask again on the tube

Merge group – Adjust – Sharpen

3.)

Copy “ femmepapillons_emma_310309

Paste as new layer – move to the left side

Adjust – sharpen

Effects 3D – drop shadow 1 /1 /65 /10 / - black – repeat with -1 /-1

Selection Tool – rectangle – select the inner area of the mask

Selection – invert – hit the delete button once – select none

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

Selection – select all

4.)

Image – canvas size

Effects 3D- drop shadow 3 /3 /65 /10 black – repeat with -3 /-3

Select none

New raster layer – move to last place

Fill with the following gradient

Apply – Cross Shadow like above

New raster layer – move to first place

Fill with the dark color – Apply Cross shadow – layers – load mask from disk

Merge group – rename this layer to Animation

Effects 3D –drop shadow 1 /1 /100 /1 – your light color

Activate raster 2 ( should be the last layer in the layer palette)

Selection – select all – Image – canvas size

Selection – invert – fill with the light color

Apply Cross shadow 2 x – with the last two sttings of 128/128 – the rest 50

Select none

5.)

Copy the bow (included in the material ) paste as new layer – top layer

Move it to the top right – you might have to colorize

Drop shadow – 1 /1 /100 /1 black

Now add your text – Font : FiresideChat NF – size 36

FG – gradient – BG the dark color

Drop shadow – 1 /1 /100 /1 black – repeat with -1 /-1 using the light color

Now add your watermark

6.)

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 the procedure one more time

Ending in the animation shop

Edit – select all – frame properties 20

Now save your picture as gif

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial

 

Sincerely Christa