© by Christa 03.04.2009

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © copyright for this tutorial belongs to me alone

The © for the translation belongs to Marlene 15.04.2009

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

The material used 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

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

thank you Guismo and Angie and Manouche

Maggie for the tubes...

thank you for Wordart...

thank you Cameron for the Mask....

This tutorial was written with PSP9

 

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Material

Plugins : HIER

AlienSkin Xenofex 2.0/ Constellation

Xero Porcelain XL : HIER

Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow

DCspecial _ Rain

Distortions Filters_Twister : HIER

VM Natural _ Ripper

Open the material

Copy the pattern into the pattern folder

The mask – cameron247 - place into the mask folder

All other material open 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 650 x 450 px transparent

FG color – a light color – mine is #fbfbfb

BG color – black

Create the following gradient and fill the canvas

Adjust – blur – Gaussian blur 30

Effects – Plugin – Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow

Effects – Plugin – Unlimited 2.0 – Dcspecial_Rain

Effects – Plugins – Unlimited 2.0_Distortion Filters_Twister

2.)

Copy “REDLIPSWHISPER_KMD_image – new raster layer

Select all – paste into selection – select none

Colorize both values 0/0

Copy – T2009_angie253pspimage – paste as new layer – move to the left of

Soften the right side of the tube a little with the eraser

Copy the couple tube  “cal-guis-mistcouple “ paste as new layer

Move to the upper right – opacity 62 %

Copy Stemmed_Lilypsp – paste as new layer – move to the bottom right

New raster layer – fill with a dark color from your picture – mine is #c5c5c5

Blend mode – overlay – merge all layers

Colorize with both values at 0

Effects plugins – Xero Porcelain XL

Adjust – Brightness and Contrast – clarify – 4

Image – add border 1 px black

Minimize this image – we will need it later

3.)

New canvas – 800 x 550 px transparent

Fill with the light color # fbfbfb

Graphics Plus – use like above

Plugin Unlimited 2.0_Distortion Filters_Twister

New raster layer – select all – copy REDLIPS – paste into selection

Select none – colorize with both values at 0_opacity 56

New raster layer – fill with the gradient from above – Gaussian blur 30

Layers – load mask from disk

Merge group

Selection – Load and save Selection – load selection from disk

Hit the delete button once – new raster layer – let the selection stand

Now copy the minimized Image – paste into selection

Select none – Adjust – Sharpness – sharpen

Effects 3D drop shadow – 3 /3 /100 /10 black – repeat with -3 /-3

Place a shadow onto the mask layer – 1 /1 / 85 /1 black

4.)

Copy “ federn.pspimage – paste as new layer – leave the blend mode as is

Opacity 60 %

Copy “ Thaiss_tis-rses.pspimage – paste as new layer

Move to the left border ( see my picture )

Effects 3D drop shadow – 1 /1 /65 /5 black – opacity 86 %

Colorize again with both values at 0

Adjust – Fill Flash – apply twice

Copy “Maggie372.psp“ – paste as new layer

– image resize – 75 % - Adjust – sharpen

Move it to the left, next to the rose

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

Merger all layers – Image add border 1 px black

5.)

Select all

Image add border 15 px – your light color

Selection – invert – apply Cross Shadow like above

Selection – invert – drop shadow – 3 /3 /65 /5 black – repeat with -3 /-3

Select all – Image add border of 25 your light color – selection invert

Plugin – VM Natural_Ripper

Select none

Image add border 1 px black

Now is the time to make the image smaller if you like – to 800px

Adjust – sharpen

Effects Plugin – Xero Porcelain XL

6.)

New raster layer – fill with the silver pattern

Use Cross Shadow as above

Layers – New mask layer from image

Merge group

Drop Shadow – 1 /1 /100 /1 white

Apply Xero Porclain XL twice – with the last settings

Adjust – Fill Flash – Strength 4

Activate the eraser and carefully erase the mask parts that are visible on the hair of the tube

Add you text to your picture – drop shadow – 1 /1 /100 /1 white

Now add your watermark

7.)

Animation

Activate the layer called  - group raster

Effects – Plugin - Alien Skin Xenofex 2.0_constellation

Edit – copy all layers

Open the Animation shop – paste as new animation

Back to PSP – undo Constellation – Repeat 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 layer

Edit select all – frame properties 15

Now you may save your picture as gif

 

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial

Sincerely Christa