Seasons Greetings

© by Christa 27.11.2009
French
Italy
This tutorial was written and designed by me
The © copyright for this tutorial belongs to me alone
The © for the translation belongs to me and Petra
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The © copyright for the material belongs to each individual designer
Should I have, unknowingly, violated any copyright, I ask that you notify me via Email
My thanks for the lovely material, for without it these pictures would not be possible
thank you Devilsinside
for the Tubes
Petra S for Rahmen
This tutorial was written with PSP 9

My thanks to all the tutorial testers that test my creations
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Material 
Plugins : HIER
Xero Improver
Graphics Plus Cross Shadow
Filter Factory Gallery A_Kaleidoscope II
AAA Filters_AAA Framer : HIER
Material open , Gradient and Textur into the Folder to PSP
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You may take this little figure
along for your orientation
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Step :1
New Canvas 700 x 700 px transparent
FG color #70e270
BG Color Gradient or your own
Fill Layer with gradient
Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur 45,00
Effects Textur Effects Textur
Effects Imageeffects Seamless Tilling

Step : 2
Effects Textur Effects Mosaice Glass
New Raster Layer fill with FG Color
Layer - New Mask Layer from Image - merge group
Blend Mode - Overlay

Step : 3
New Raster Layer fill with gradient
Layer - New Mask Layer from Image - Merge group
Blend Mode - Hard Light
Activate your Selection Tool - Rectangle - select the middlepart of the Mask
Invert Selection
Copy your facetube - paste as new layer -
Move Layer down - Press delete - Deselect
With my Facetube - Adjust - Digital Noise Removal -
Adjust Xero Improver 10/10/10
Copy " Ni Rose Ni Mauve - paste as new layer -
Colorize to your color -
Drop Shadow 1 / 1 / 85 / 1,00 black
rpeat with negativ values
Merge all Layers

Step : 4
Image - Add Border - 20 px FG Color - Magic Wand- select the border
Effects Graphics Plus Cross Shadow ( default 128/128 )
Effects Plugin Filter Factory Gallery A_ Kaleidoscope II
Effects 3 D Effects Inner Bevel
Deselect - Image Resize to 750 x 606 px

Sharpen

Step : 5
Selectiontool Rectangle select the Innerpart of the Image without border
New Raster Layer -
Copy " Frame224_@Petra S.jpg
paste into a selection - Blend Mode - Hard Light
Invert selection - Activate your Backgroundlayer
Effects Plugin AAA Filters_ AAA Framer
Now set to your Color with Red, Green , Blue till it fits your colors
Copy the Text paste as new layer
Image Resize to 65 % all layers not chequed
Sharpen - Drop Shadow like above without negativ values
Paste your Watermark as new Layer
Merge all Layers and save as JPG

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial
Sincerely Christa
