Mysterious WAYS

© by Christa 06.03.2010
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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My thanks for the lovely material, for without it these pictures would not be possible
thank you K@rine , M. Sandritter , Sahara for the Tubes
© All copyrights belongs to the original artists
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
Unlimited_Filter Factory Gallery Q_Gravity Blossom : HIER
Xero Bad Dream XL :HIER
Xero Improver
Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow
Eye Candy 5 Impact_Glass _ Glass_CG : HIER
Preset Glass_CG into Plugin Folder AlienSkin_Eye Candy 5_Impact_Glass
under Settings
Selection into the Selections 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 780 x 620 px transparent
FG gradient
BG dark color #834e22
Fill layer with BG Color
New Rasterlayer fill with gradient
Adjust Blur - Gaussian blur 20,00
Blend Mode - Hard Light

Step : 2
Effects Plugin - Unlimited 2.0_Filter Factory Gallery Q_Gravity Blossom
Selection - Load selection from Disk
Copy the Tube "M. Sandritter - paste as new Layer -
arrange to the right and to the top - Delete - everything what was visible
into the circle is deleted - Blend Mode - Soft Light

Step : 3
New Rasterlayer - fill with BG Color - Repart Gaussian Blur
Effects - Texture Effects - Mosaice Antique
New Rasterlayer - copy " Karine_dreams_Baroque_Beauty -
paste into a selection - Blend Mode - Hard Light
Adjust Plugin Xero Improver 10/10/10
New Rasterlayer - Effekte Plugin Eye Candy 5_Impact_Glass - Glass_CG
New Rasterlayer - Selection - Modify - expande to 10 px - fill with BG color
Invert selection - contract to 10 px - Delete
Deselect
Effects 3 D Effects Inner Bevel
Send Layer down
Layer 1,2,3 became invisible - Layer merge visible
All Layers visible again
Copy the round Image - paste as new Image - minimize
We need it later ...

Step : 4
Copy the second tube of Karine - paste as new Layer
Image Resize to 80 % - Image mirror -
Arrange to the left side - Send Layer down
Layer - Blend Mode - Soft Light
copy the Tube "" sa-ha-ra-a-19854951 -paste as new Layer
Send Layer to the top- repeat Resize -
Arrange to the right border
Adjust Plugin Xero Bad Dream XL
Merge all - Flatten

Step : 5
Image Add Borders 2 px black - copy
Image - Add Borders - BG Color
magic Wand - select the border - Tollerance and Feahter 0
Adjust Plugin Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow ( default 128/128 )
Edit - paste into a selection -
repeat Gaussian Blur 20,00
Repeat Inner Bevel - Effects Edge Effects Enhance more -
Edge Effects Enhance - Deselect
copy "borte.pspimage - paste as new Layer - colorize
Paste your Text and your Watermark as new Layer
Merge all - Flatten
Resize to 860 px withn

Step : 6 Animation
Open the minimized Image
Image Resize
Repeat Xero Improver 10/10/10 - copy -
paste as new Layer into your Image - arrange like this
Edit - copy all Layer - open the AniShop- paste as new Animation
back to PSP - Effects - Image Effects - Offset
copy all Layer - AniShop- Edit - paste after the selected Frame
back to PSP - repeat Offset
copy all Layer - AniShop - edit - paste after the selected
Frame - back to PSP - repeat Offset -

copy all Layer - AniShop - edit - paste after the selected
Frame - back to PSP - repeat Offset -

Copy all Layer - AniShop - paste after the selected Frame
Now you have 5 Image into the AniShop-
Edit - Select all- Animation - Frameproperties 85
Save your Image as a GIF

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial

Sincerely Christa
