

© 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
