© by Christa 23.04.2009

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © copyright belongs to me alone

The © for the translation belongs to Marlene 24.04.2009

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

1 Exclusive tube from Christine

Thank you so much for letting me use your material

1 Tube thank you Guismo for the Tube

Scrapmaterial thank you Syriana

This tutorial was written with PSP

 

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Material

Plugins : HIER

Alien Skin_Xenofex 2.0_Constellation

Graphics Plus _ Cross Shadow

Unlimited 2.0_FunHouse_Loom

Xero Porcelain XL : HIER

Pen all your material

Place the pattern zilverbeans – into the pattern folder

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You may take this little figure    along for your orientation

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1.)

Open a new canvas 800 x 580 px transparent

Pick a dark color out of your tube as the FG color – mine is #273018

A light color as your BG color – mine is #a8bb8a – fill the canvas with the light color

Effects – Plugin  - Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow – set the intensity to 63 – leave the rest as is

Effects – Plugin – Unlimited 2.0_Fun House_Loom

Effects – edge effects – enhance

New raster layer – fill with the following gradient

Layers – new mask layer from image

Merge group – layer duplicate – effects – image effects – seamless tiling

Effects – artistic effects – Hot Wax Coating

2.)

Copy “ Christin_Chr.049239 – paste as new layer

Move to the left – Blend mode – soft light

Merge all layers visible

Effects – Plugin - Xero Porcelain XL

Image – resize to 90 % - all layers not checked

Adjust – Sharpness – Unsharp Mask

Selection – select all – selection float – defloat – modify – selection boders

New raster layer – fill with the following gradient

Apply Cross Shadow as above

New raster layer – fill with pattern_zilverbans – angle 0 – scale 100

Blend mode – Luminance Legacy

Layer merge down

Selection invert – watch that everything is selected

Effects 3d – cutout – 0 /0 /100 /36 the dark color

Select none

3.)

New raster layer – move to last place – fill with the last gradient

Adjust – Blur – Gaussian blur 45

Repeat Xero Porcelain – repeat Funhouse_Loom

Effects – edge effects – enhance

Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow – as above

4.)

New raster layer – move to first place – select all

Open “ Bulles.png from the scrap kit by Syriana – Image resize to 700 px width

Copy – paste into selection – select none

Image resize to 80 % - move the tube just as I did in my picture

Blend mode – Luminance Legacy – opacity 70  - sharpen

Copy “ calguisportrait1149 – paste as new layer – Image mirror

Image resize – to 89 % - all layers not checked – move to the right

Effects 3D – drop shadow – 5 /12 /100 /25 the dark color

Apply Xero Porcelain on the tube

5.)

Activate the last layer

Select all – modify – contract by 4 px – invert

New raster layer – move into first place – fill with the last  gradient

New raster layer – fill with pattern_zilverbeans – blend mode – Luminance Legacy

Layer – merge down – select none

Now you can write your text – or use the one from the material

Add your watermark

5.)

Animation

Activate the layer with the balls – Adjust – Add noise

Edit – copy all layers

Open the animation shop – paste as new animation

Back to PSP – undo noise – redo the noise 25

Edit – copy all layers

Back to the animation shop – paste after current frame

Back to PSP – undo noise – redo noise 35

Edit – copy all layers

Back to the animation shop – paste after current frame

Edit – select all – and now save your picture as gif

 

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial

Sincerely Christa