© by Christa 15.04.2009

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © copyright belongs to me alone

The © for the translation belongs to Marlene 16.04.2009

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 MALVI PSP Jet , JHanna , Terry for the tubes.

This tutorial was written with PSP9

 

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Material

Plugins : HIER

FM Tile Tools Blend Emboss

Xero Improver

Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow

optik Verve Labs_Virtual Photographer : HIER

Open all the material, mask into the mask folder – open the font – minimize

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You may take this little figure    along for your orientation

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1.)

Open a new canvas 750 x 580 px transparent

FG color - #d5b5e7

BG color - #3d003f

Fill the layer with the dark color

Effects Plugin – Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow – standard

New raster layer – select all

Copy “ JHanna_48_bground – paste into selection – select none

Blend mode – Luminance Legacy – Plugin – FM Tile Tools_Blend Emboss – standard

2.)

Copy “ Kts_08_bhg_25copy – paste as new layer

Move to the left side – Blend mode – soft light

Copy “ Malvi407 – paste as new layer – move to the middle top

Blend mode – lighten – opacity 70 %

Open “ kTs_008040 – Image – resize – 85 % - copy

Paste as new layer – place it under the tube – middle top

Adjust – sharpen – colorize with a matching color from your picture

Mine is H : 211 – S : 76

Drop shadow -3 /3 /85 /25 with a little bit darker color than you FG color

Mine #a44fd5

Effects – Plugin – Xero_Improver 10 /10 /10

3.)

Copy “ Terry_Lilly_Jan07 – paste as new layer

Move to the left towards the bottom (see my picture )

Drop shadow as in point 2

Plugin Xero_Improver – use like above

Open the tube “ Jet-woman-purplehat-april2009 – Image – resize 85 %

Copy – paste as new layer – move to the right edge

Drop shadow as above and repeat Xero Improver

Merge all layers

4.)

Image – add border 2 px in your light color

Image add border – 30 px white – select with the magic wand

Fill with gradient

Selection invert – new raster layer – effects 3D – cutout 0 /0 /100 /35 your light color – select none

New raster layer – fill with the light color – apply Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow – intensity 50

Layers – load mask from disk

Merge group – drop shadow – 0 /0 /85 /1 / the dark color

Selection – modify – contract by 3 px – selection invert

New raster layer – move to first place – fill with the following gradient

Apply Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow

Select none

5.)

Now add your text

Font : CK Groovy size 30 – FG color the dark color – BG the gradient

Effects 3D – drop shadow – 1 /1 /85 /1 the light color

Now add your watermark

Merge all layers

Image  - resize 90 % - all layers checked – Adjust sharpen

Plugin – Optic Verve Labs_Virtual Photographer Regler by Effects 18 - 22

Save your picture as jpg

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial

 

Sincerely Christa