

© 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
